This paper proposes a new inventory control system called the inventory/distribution plan (IDP) control system for a one-warehouse/multi-retailer supply chain. In the IDP control system, a proposed mixed-integer linear programming model is solved to determine an optimal IDP that controls the...

Security inspections are becoming a commonplace activity in locations ranging from airports to museums and shopping malls. Theses inspections can result in significant operational costs to a facility and to entry delays for the individuals being inspected. In this paper we focus specifically on...

University timetabling is an NP-hard problem, which means that the amount of computation required to find solutions increases exponentially with problem size. Timetabling is subject to hard constraints that must be satisfied in order to produce feasible timetables and soft constraints, which are...