Метод сетевого программирования разработан для получения точных решений или верхних (нижних) оценок задач многоэкстремальной (в частном случае – дискретной)...

The process life-cycle assessment (LCA) method has a crucial problem such that the LCA system boundary is freely decided by LCA practitioners, which consequently leads to truncation error and underestimation of life-cycle emission. This paper focuses on clustering methods (eigenvalue...

Two methods of reducing the risk of disruptions to distribution systems are (1) strategically locating facilities to mitigate against disruptions and (2) hardening facilities. These two activities have been treated separately in most of the academic literature. This article integrates facility...

A new methodology of making a decision on an optimal investment in several projects is proposed. The methodology is based on experts’ evaluations and consists of three stages. In the first stage, Kaufmann’s expertons method is used to reduce a possibly large number of applicants for credit....

Motivated by an application in rail car maintenance, we study a variant of makespan-minimizing flexible job shop scheduling with work centers (FJc). In standard FJc a work center contains parallel machines, i.e. any machine in the work center is accessible whenever idle. In our variant, a work...