Military systems have many components, such as garrisons, border guards, and industries with a large population that may be affected by disasters. Garrisons, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities in military systems are needed to reduce human casualties. However, these facilities may not have...

Purpose: Nowadays finding reliable suppliers in the global supply chains has become so important for success, because reliable suppliers would lead to a reliable supply and besides that orders of customer are met effectively. Yet, there is little empirical evidence to support this view, hence...

We consider an open shop scheduling problem with setup and processing times separately such that not only the setup times are dependent on the machines, but also they are dependent on the sequence of jobs that should be processed on a machine. A novel bi-objective mathematical programming is...