The Steiner tree problem aims to determine a minimum edge-weighted tree spanning a given set of terminal vertices from a given graph. As a popular model for numerous practical applications, the problem has been the object of two important competitions (the 11th DIMACS Challenge in 2014 and the...

The current schedule management practices by the Korean Engineer, Procure, Construct companies are unsustainable. These companies are, on average, experiencing margin losses as high as -7.2%, mainly attributed to expensive construction acceleration or significant delay liquidated damages (DLDs)...

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been in existence since the Seminal work of Newell and Simon (1956), it still represents one of the significant breakthroughs that offer the opportunity for digital transformation and automation across a wide variety of industries. As defined by Colosimo et...

Algorithmic management has a clear potential to reduce time spent at work by increasing efficiency in task allocation and performance, and by replacing some forms of human labour. As a result it should, in theory, advance the implementation of working time reduction policies. Automation of...

In this paper, we investigate optimization of an aircraft maintenance routing problem (AMRP), which is currently a hot research topic in the air transport industry. The optimization of AMRP can help airline companies improve their management capacity and operational efficiency. However, there...

Overall energy efficiency is crucial for green production and carbon dioxide emission, especially for energy-intensive industries such as steel making. To deal with unrelated parallel machine scheduling for steelmaking-continuous casting that is the bottleneck and energy-intensive process, this...

We consider a periodic-review single-product multi-echelon inventory problem with instantaneous replenishment. In each period, the decision-maker makes ordering decisions for all echelons. Any unsatisfied demand is backordered, and any excess inventory is carried to the next period. In contrast...