Computer executable modelling approaches have significant roles to play inenabling decision making in dynamic manufacturing organisations especiallyin relation to engineer its Production Planning and Control (PPC) system. Inorder to understand the system prior to selection of any PPC...

The increasing cost/price pressures on Australian dairy farmers mean that they will need to increase on-farm productivity by producing more milk per ha from home-grown forage. Since there is a limit to the potential yield from pasture an innovative intensification system that integrates pasture...

There is a substantial body of evidence highlighting the importance of the social determinants of health in shaping the health of urban populations in Canada. The low socio-economic status of marginalized, disadvantaged, and precarious populations in urban settings has been linked to adverse...

Waterlogging and secondary salinization have become a serious problem in the canal irrigated areas of arid and semi–arid regions worldwide. In this study, a unique and simple technique was evolved in which a linear programming (LP) optimization model was first developed that allocates...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a generic framework for hybrid (integrated deployment of system dynamics and discrete event simulation) simulation which can be applied in the healthcare domain. Design/methodology/approach – As hybrid simulation in an organisational context...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact on customer service of amalgamating two production/distribution facilities in a blood distribution network, located in the Maritime region of Canada, into a single production facility and a satellite distribution facility....

Shrimp culture areas and production of the Mekong Delta cover about 60 percent of the total shrimp areas and production of Vietnam. Especially, the Delta contributes about 80 percent of the total shrimp production for export. Rapid development of the shrimp industry is raising a number of...