The conventional assumption that quality is an attribute of a product is misleading, as the attributes required for quality will depend on how the product is used. Quality of use ...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. The main reasons for batching are avoidance of set ups and/or facilitation of material handling...
Effective supply chain distribution network design needs to consider various performance dimensions and product characteristics. Recently, researchers have begun to realize that t...
The typical inventory routing problem deals with the repeated distribution of a single product from a single facility with an unlimited supply to a set of customers that can all b...
The Gene Ontology (GO) project (http://www.gene ontology.org/) provides a set of structured, controlled vocabularies for community use in annotating genes, gene products and seque...