A scheduling system is proposed and developed for a special type of flow shop. In this flow shop there is one machine at each stage. A job may require multiple operations at each stage. The first operation of a job on stage j cannot start until the last operation of the job on stage j-1 has finished. Preemption of the operations of a job is not allowed. The flow shop that we consider has anothe...

Various optimization problems associated with the optimal control of distributed parabolic systems with time delays appearing in boundary conditions were studied recently by Wang (1975), Knowles (1978), Kowalewski (1988; 1990a;1990b; 1998; 1999; 2001), Kowalewski and Duda (1992) and Kowalewski and Krakowiak (2000). In (Wang, 1975), optimal control problems for parabolic systems with Neumann bou...

We introduce and motivate several variants of the bin packing problem where bins are assigned to time slots, minimum maximum lags required between some pairs items. suggest two integer programming formulations for general problem: a compact one stronger formulation with an exponential number variables constraints. propose branch-cut-and-price approach that exploits latter formulation. For this ...

in this paper, a nonlinear volterra-fredholm integral equation of the first kind is solved by using the homotopy analysis method (ham). in this case, the first kind integral equation can be reduced to the second kind integral equation which can be solved by ham. the approximate solution of this equation is calculated in the form of a series which its components are computed easily. the accuracy...

in this paper, we present a method for solving the rst kind abel integral equation. in thismethod, the rst kind abel integral equation is transformed to the second kind volterraintegral equation with a continuous kernel and a smooth deriving term expressed by weaklysingular integrals. by using sidi's sinm - transformation and modied navot-simpson'sintegration rule, an algorithm for...