This paper develops Order Acceptance for an Integrated Production-Distribution Problem in which Batch Delivery is implemented. The aim of this problem is to coordinate: (1) rejecting some of the orders (2) production scheduling of the accepted orders and (3) batch delivery to maximize Total Net Profit. A Mixed Integer Programming is proposed for the problem. In addition, a hybrid meta-heuristic...

The data redistribution problems on multi-computers had been extensively studied. Irregular data redistribution has been paid attention recently since it can distribute different size of data segment of each processor to processors according to their own computation capability. High Performance Fortran Version 2 (HPF-2) provides GEN_BLOCK data distribution method for generating irregular data d...

The integrated problem of production and distribution scheduling is relevant in many industrial applications. Thus, many heuristics to solve this integrated problem have been developed in the last decade. Most of these heuristics use a sequential working principal or a single decomposition and integration approach to separate and solve subproblems. A heuristic using a multi step decomposition a...

At cross docking terminals incoming deliveries of inbound trucks are unloaded, sorted, moved across the dock and nally loaded onto outbound trucks, which immediately leave the terminal towards their next destination in the distribution chain. Accordingly, a cross dock is a consolidation point in a distribution network, where multiple smaller shipments can be merged to full truck loads in order ...

The process of distributing and coordinating parallel workloads across many computation or storage nodes is a hard scheduling optimization problem. Furthermore, in distributed systems where nodes require monetary incentive-based payment schemes to schedule workloads efficiently and fairly, or a central coordinator might not have enough information to make the best system-wide decisions, framing...

Scheduling based on load balancing is a very big riddle in Cloud computing. Various techniques are available to optimize cloud scheduling so as to effectively utilize the cloud resources and thereby improving the response time of the users. Users on request for resources to execute their job, providers either allocate them a new Virtual Machine (VM) or an ideal existing Virtual Machine or sched...