The coordination of just-in-time production and transportation in a network of partially independent facilities to guarantee timely delivery to distributed customers is one of the most challenging aspect of supply chain management. From a theoretical perspective, the timely production/distribution can be viewed as a hybrid combination of planning, scheduling and routing problem, each notoriousl...

CLOUD environments offer low-cost computing resources as a subscription-based service. These resources are elastically scalable and dynamically provisioned. Furthermore, new pricing models have been pioneered by cloud providers that allow users to provision resources and to use them in an efficient manner with significant cost reductions. As a result, scientific workflows are increasingly adopt...

Software dynamic translation is the alteration of a running program to achieve a specific objective. For example, a dynamic optimizer uses software dynamic translation to modify a running program with the objective of making the program run faster. In addition to its demonstrated utility in dynamic optimizers, software dynamic translation also shows promise for producing applications that are a...

In this paper, it is shown that all programmes of all television channels can be modelled as an interval graph. The programme slots are taken as the vertices of the graph and if the time duration of two programme slots have non-empty intersection, the corresponding vertices are considered to be connected by an edge. The number of viewers of a programme is taken as the weight of the vertex. A se...

Globalization and outsourcing make the concept of Just-In-Time manufacturing a very attractive solution for cutting production costs and bringing new products to the market as early as possible. However, this has a deep impact on traditional production planning. Time-slots at the appropriate production units must be allocated for each manufacturing stage of a product. This reservation occurs in...

The parallel machine, distinct due date, early/tardy machine problem closely models the situation faced by ‘Just-In-Time’ (JIT) manufacturers. This paper develops a new method of finding good quality solutions to this scheduling problem by using the neural network. A model for training neural network to sequencing the jobs has been developed based on the vector representation of the early/tardy...

This paper investigates three scheduling algorithms and three inventory control policies to evaluate their effect on the system performance measures using computer simulation. The model chosen is a flow-shop type, computer assembly plant. Analysis is conducted on two scheduling measures (summation of process time and tardiness) and two inventory control measures (ordering cost and holding cost)...

We present new results for the transition to the continuum of an initially bound quantum particle subject to a harmonic forcing. Using rigorous exponential asymptotics methods we obtain explicit expressions, as generalized Borel summable transseries, for the probability of localization in a specified spatial region at time t. The transition to the continuum occurs for general compactly supporte...

Advanced Resources Planning hits the bottom of what we know as aggregate planning. This approach differs from other approaches in the way that it explicitly recognizes the stochastic nature of manufacturing systems. Therefore it is an ideal high level tuning and planning tool which can be used in various planning environments like MRP, ERP, JIT, Load Oriented Planning, Theory of Constraints, Fi...