Semiconductor manufacturing is an essential area of modern industry. Its yield is influenced by a wide variety of different factors, among them machining precision as well as scheduling and processing concerns. To minimize the amount of faulty products, the semiconductors are examined at several...

Each organization has limited resources and in order to better accomplish a higher external demand, the managers are forced to outsource parts of their contracts even to concurrent organizations. In this concurrent environment each organization wants to preserve its decision autonomy and to...