1.An Overview of Decision Policies for Production Networks -- 2.Modeling and Control of Manufacturing Systems -- 3.The Ongoing Challenge for a Responsive Demand Supply Network: The Final Frontier-Controlling the Factory -- 4.WIP-Oriented Dispatching in Complex Manufacturing Facilities --...

In two volumes, Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art Handbook examines production planning across the extended enterprise against a backdrop of important gaps between theory and practice. The early chapters describe the multifaceted nature of...

In two volumes, Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art Handbook examines production planning across the extended enterprise against a backdrop of important gaps between theory and practice. The early chapters describe the multifaceted nature of...

We present a new hybrid approach to interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization that uses a partial preference order to act as the fitness function in a customized genetic algorithm. We periodically send solutions to the decision maker (DM) for her evaluation and use the resulting...