Many scheduling problems in practice involve rescheduling of disrupted schedules. In this study, we show that in contrast to fixed processing times, if we have the flexibility to control the processing times of the jobs, we can generate alternative reactive schedules considering the manufacturing cost implications in response to disruptions. We consider a non-identical parallel machining enviro...

Abstract: This paper analyzes optimal monetary policy under precommitment in a state-dependent pricing (SDP) environment. Under SDP, monopolistically competitive firms are allowed to endogenously change the timing of price adjustments. I show that this endogenous timing of price adjustment alters the tradeoff and the cost of inflation variation faced by the monetary authority in comparison to t...

Information Assurance (IA) is of growing concern to the field of distributed systems. However, IA cannot be considered in isolation, as it interacts with Quality of Service (QoS); in the presence of limited resources, the security mechanisms employed for IA (e.g., firewalls, antivirus, encryption) usually adversely affect QoS levels delivered by a system. The system therefore needs to make a tr...

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak deeply impressed supply chains in different aspects. In response to this unexpected situation, chain managers have decided recover and reinforce their chains. Considering the expanse of these decisions, project management principle tools seems inevitable successfully manage transformation from before post-pandemic (SCs). study, problem time–cost tradeoff is extend...

The problem of optimal HI disturbance rejection while tracking uncertain constant or sinusoidal reference commands is considered. The internal model principle is used to ensure that the tracking error approaches zero asymptotically. Necessary conditions are given for controllers that minimize an HI disturbance rejection cost plus a worst-case integral square tracking error for transient trackin...

This study aims to develop a Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) method, the Best-Worst Tradeoff which draws on underlying principles of two popular MADM methods (the Method (BWM) and Tradeoff). The traditional procedure, is based axiomatic foundation multi-attribute value theory, considers ranges attributes, but decision-makers/analysts find it hard check consistency paired comparisons when...