This paper constructs a model with a dependent setting where the time between two claim occurrences determines the distribution of the next claim size. We derive the exact expression of the survival probability for the exponentially distributed claim sizes. For the generally distributed claim...

The lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem plays an important role in modern industry. This paper addresses this problem with the objective of minimizing the total weighted earliness and tardiness penalties and then proposes a simple but effective iterated local search (ILS) algorithm. In...

Minimax problems can be approached by reformulating them into smooth problems with constraints or by dealing with the non-smooth objective directly. We focus on verified enclosures of all globally optimal points of such problems. In smooth problems in branch and bound algorithms, interval Newton...

Process planning and scheduling are two of the most important functions in the manufacturing system. Traditionally, process planning and scheduling were regarded as separate tasks performed sequentially, where scheduling was implemented after process plans had been generated. However, their...