Biocompatible and hard coated surface of 316L steel can be synthesized using the carbon nanotubes (CNT) suspended-EDM process. This research focuses on the influence of CNT on the treated 316L steel properties for the biomedical application and develops a relationship between the process...

This paper studies the impact of consumers' individual attitudes towards load shifting in electricity consumption in an electricity market that includes a single electricity provider and multiple consumers. A Stackelberg game model is formulated in which the provider uses price discounts over a...

The growth in online shopping and third-party logistics has caused a revival of interest in finding optimal solutions to the large-scale, in-transit freight consolidation problem. Given the shipment date, size, origin, destination, and due dates of multiple shipments distributed over space and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new look at solving the national nursing shortage problem by discussing new approaches to minimize the impact of nursing miss‐utilization and or miss‐allocation. Design/methodology/approach – Among the approaches explored is the...

We propose two alternative mathematical modeling approaches for the problem of finding a preemptive schedule that minimizes the total cost of tardiness for a set of jobs on a single processor under variable workload requirements. The first model follows from the conventional scheduling approach...