Software industry is gaining momentum due to profound impact on the productivity of the various tasks. Typically software development life cycle includes, development activity and post release activities. The post release activities cover software maintenance and support. It is inevitable to deny the significance of software maintenance and support activities due to fairly a large size of the s...

We establish the context of maintenance outsourcing of mission critical applications by Fortune 500 organizations. We present the results of empirical studies that were conducted at Syntel, a NASDAQ listed application management and e-business solutions company, on 46 software maintenance projects that belonged to various lines of business on the IBM mainframe platform using an automated data c...

Most production scheduling problems, including High-Variety, Low-Volume (HVLV) scheduling problems assume that machines are continuously available. However, in most actual situations, machines become unavailable during certain periods when preventive maintenance (PM) is scheduled. In this paper, a HVLV scheduling problem is proposed while considering machines availability constraints. Each mach...

Maintenance is important to manufacturing process as it helps improve the efficiency of production. Although different models of joint deterioration and learning effects have been studied extensively in various areas, it has rarely been studied in the context of scheduling with maintenance activities. This paper considers scheduling with jointly the deterioration and learning effects and multi-...