Circular economy has been a rapidly growing interest in the manufacturing industry. The concept of 4D printing-enabled active disassemblyis touted as a non-destructive approach with less to no human intervention, which allows multiple elements to be disassembled simultaneously with fewer...

Scheduled Caste in India is a most backward group, they are economically, socially, and politically poor people. Most of the people situated in below poverty line. So, the central and state government to provide various schemes and offers for that people. The financial institutions also to...

Poor scheduling and operations management can be very costly for clinics. There is a trade-off between the preference of patients for short waiting times and the preference of facilities for minimal idle times of medical staff. In outpatient scheduling, the common practice of assigning time...

A classic production line for mixed models with a fixed cycle time is transformed into a flow shop by removing the time restrictions at the work stations. In the new production line, the Heijunka concept of Just in Time manufacturing is applied, imposing on the sequences of products that they...

Home health care companies provide health care services to patients in their homes. Due to increasing demand, the provision of home health care services requires effective management of operational costs while satisfying both patients and caregivers. To this end, this paper proposes a...

We study last-mile delivery problems where trucks and drones collaborate to deliver goods to final customers. In particular, we focus on problem settings where either a single truck or a fleet with several homogeneous trucks work in parallel to drones, and drones have the capability of...

Batch processing is a common production approach used in a number of industries. In this work, we consider modeling approaches for performanceevaluation of system with batch processing and sequence-dependent setup times (between each job) on a single machine with Poisson arrivals....

Harmony search algorithm (HS) cannot always avoid being trapped in local optima, and several local search algorithms have recently been used to overcome this limitation by searching the neighborhood of some solution for improved ones. However, how local search affects the performance of HS has...

Real-life problems are complex because they are typically made up of several sub-problems interacting. These interactions establish an interdependent relationship in which the quality of one partial solution impacts the quality of other partial solutions. Recently, a new benchmark known as the...

Train scheduling is a critical activity in rail traffic management, both off-line (timetabling) and on-line (dispatching). Time-Indexed formulations for scheduling problems are stronger than other classical formulations, like Big-M. Unfortunately, their size grows usually very large with the...