We study inventorymanagement problemswhere demands are revealed incrementally and procurement decisionsmust bemade before the demands are realized. There are no probabilistic distributions nor nontrivial bounds to characterize demands. We consider two cost minimization problems: (1) perishable products with lost sales and (2) durable products with backlogged demand. In both problems, costs are ...

A procedure is presented that synthesizes fractional crystallization separation processes to obtain pure solids from multi-component solutions. The method includes a procedure to generate a network flow model to identify alternative process designs for fractional crystallization. The main advantage of this systematic procedure with respect to other reported procedures is using non-equilibri...

There are many cases that a nonlinear fractional programming, generated as a result of studying fractional stochastic programming, must be solved. Sometimes an approximate solution may be sufficient enough to start a new process of calculations. To this end, this author introduces a new linear approximation technique for solving a fractional chance constrained programming (CCP) problem. After i...