We consider a multi-attribute outsourcing economy where both price and delivery date are relevant decision factors. In the economy, there is an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) who needs multiple items to be delivered on the predetermined delivery dates and suppliers who are capable of delivering some or all of the items. We first show that there exists a competitive equilibrium in this ec...

The single machine scheduling problem with two types of controllable parameters, job processing times and release dates, is studied. It is assumed that the cost of compressing processing times and release dates from their initial values is a linear function of the compression amounts. The objective is to minimize the sum of the total completion time of the jobs and the total compression cost. F...

In practical problems, in addition to the processing time of job, impact required for delivering service customers on cost is also considered, i.e., delivery time, where job a simple linear function its starting time. This paper considers past-sequence-dependent times (which can be referred as psddt) studied objectives three types due windows (common, slack and different windows). serves minimi...

stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. all of the words in lexicon regardless of the apparent structure and the number of their syllables have their own stress. given that the regularities governing stress assignment in persian depend on the type of lexical category and that persian speakers have a tendency to assign stress at the end of words, the goal of the presen...

intentional assignment of entitlements (as opposed to debts) is a legal institution which is based on the possibility of separation of entitlements from the personality of creditor and of its assignment to a third party. in the voluntary assignment of entitlements, the creditors may assign their rights to a third party. after long discussions, voluntary assignment of rights has been accepted in...