Organisations have encouraged the use of group working over the past 10 years. However this has led to social and cultural upheaval in some organisations. In addition new technolo...
This paper presents preliminary work done on simulationbased optimization of a stochastic material-dispatching system in a retailer network. The problem we consider is one of dete...
This article presents an optimization method used at the electric-motor design. The goal of the optimization was to find the geometrical parameter values that would generate the r...
Recent work on the location of perinatal facilities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro resulted in the development of an uncapacitated, three-level hierarchical model. An impor...
A well known industry application that allows controllable processing times is the manufacturing operations on CNC machines. For each turning operation as an example, there is a n...