Unquestionably it is considered that macroeconomic policy consists of two major components, the achievement and also the action of which depend, as a matter of fact, on the macroeconomic policy achievement: monetary policy and fiscal policy. Although they reckon that the core stabilisation...

The loading problem in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) consider several different manufacturing settings and objective functions but some crucial aspects of FMS environments, such as flexible process plans (FPP), have not yet received adequate attention. FPPs are vital in coping with...

Design of hub-and-spoke networks or the hub location problem is one of the most important problems in operational research and has many applications in different areas of transportation, logistics, and telecommunications. In this paper, a relatively new version of the single allocation hub...

Wind has been recognized as one of major realistic clean energy sources for power generation to meet the continuously increased energy demand and to achieve the carbon emission reduction targets. However, the utilisation of wind energy encounters an inevitable challenge resulting from the nature...