This paper formulates an optimal design model for assembly/disassembly manufacturing networks. The objective is to maximize production rate subject to a total cost constraint. Machines are chosen from a list of products available on the market, and sizes of the buffers are chosen within a...

The paper presents a simulation–optimization modeling framework for the evacuation of large-scale pedestrian facilities with multiple exit gates. The framework integrates a genetic algorithm (GA) and a microscopic pedestrian simulation–assignment model. The GA searches for the optimal...

In this paper we address the issue of vendor managed inventory (VMI) by considering a two-echelon single vendor/multiple buyer supply chain network. We try to find the optimal sales quantity by maximizing profit, given as a nonlinear and non-convex objective function. For such complicated...

The classical game theoretic resolutions to Selten’s Chain Store game are unsatisfactory; they either alter the game to avoid the paradox or struggle to organize the existing experimental data. This paper applies co-evolutionary algorithms to the Chain Store game and demonstrates that the...

Process optimization is of utmost importance for a correct management within any industrial field and especially within the energy and carbon intensive ones. Increasingly stringent regulations aiming at reducing the environmental impact force the companies to lower their CO2 emissions while...