This paper studies the problem of scheduling open shops with no intermediate buffer, called no-wait open shops under makespan minimization. No-wait scheduling problems arise in many realistic production environments such as hot metal rolling, the plastic molding, chemical and pharmaceutical,...

The pressuring need to reduce the import of fossil fuels as well as the need to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions in Europe motivated the European Commission (EC) to implement several regulations directed to building owners. Most of these regulations focus on increasing the number of energy...

This paper presents a multi-period auction for a day-ahead pool-based electricity market in which consumer payment for energy is minimized under uniform pricing. This optimization problem has been recently characterized as a non-separable, non-linear, mixed-integer, and combinatorial problem for...

The guaranteed service model (GSM) computes optimal order-points in multi-echelon inventory control under the assumptions that delivery times can be guaranteed and the demand is bounded. Our new stochastic guaranteed service model (SGSM) with Recourse covers also scenarios that violate these...

This paper presents a comprehensive unified model for planning the retrofit of power plants with carbon capture (CC) technologies and the subsequent carbon dioxide (CO2) source-sink matching. The planning horizon is divided into time intervals that are not necessarily of equal duration, but...