Researchers have emphasized that different factors have to be considered when discussing the flexibility of a single machine and that of a group of machines. The present research focuses on proposing methods for measuring machine-group flexibility, which is an extension of the model for...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the relationship between financial development/investor protection and corporate commitment to sustainability is related to social contagion, neighborhood effect, and community effect. Design/methodology/approach – The study...

This paper presents a simulated annealing based heuristic approach for the team orienteering problem with time windows (TOPTW). Given a set of known locations, each with a score, a service time, and a time window, the TOPTW finds a set of vehicle tours that maximizes the total collected scores....

Typically international airports have features quite distinct from those of regional airports. We discuss the process of developing a Decision Support System, and appropriate mathematical models and algorithms to use for making gate allocation decisions at an international airport. As an...

Wealth Management (WM) is an advanced type of financial planning that provides high net worth individuals (HNWI) and families with private financial services, such as asset management, banking, estate planning, investment management, and legal resources. The goal of WM is sustaining and growing...