During the last two decades, integrated production-distribution problems have attracted a great deal of attention in operations research literature. Within short period, large number papers been published and field has expanded dramatically. The purpose this paper is to provide comprehensive review existing literature by classifying models into several different categories based on multiple cha...

Modern business environment focuses on improving the operational efficiency of supplier, retailer and customers through integrating their inventory. Although a smoothly running integrated inventory system is ideal, the reality is to deal with imperfectness in transportation. In actual production environments, inventory items are not perfect and defectiveness occurs in random process.  In this p...

This article presents the animated visual 3D programming language SAM (Solid Agents in Motion) for parallel systems specification and animation. A SAM program is a set of interacting agents synchronously exchanging messages. The agent’s behavior is specified by means of production rules with a condition and a sequence of actions each. Actions are linearly ordered and execute when matching a rul...

Manufacturing Industry as an important part of European and Swedish economy faces new challenges with the daily growing global competition. An enabler of overcoming these challenges is a rapid transforming to a valuebased focus. Investment in innovation tools for production system development is a crucial part of that focus which helps the companies to rapidly adapt their production systems to ...

Hybrid analytic and simulation models are used in solving complex problems in a variety of domains, but are less commonly used in production system design. This paper reviews hybrid approaches and their applications, proposes a new hybrid modeling class, and illustrates a cost function for selecting analytic or simulation modeling approaches via a problem solving process. To illustrate the new ...

abstract present study used translog cost function for determining break point of paddy farms. requested data set include inputs’ prices and quantities, and production amounts had been acquired from 500 rice farmers of guilan province at 2009. model used in this study is seemingly unrelated regressions (sur). the results showed that labor and pesticides had the highest and lowest share of produ...

Orthoimage and orthomosaic production has traditionally been a sequential process with many steps. With digital photogrammetry a part of the steps have been automated, but still the process requires a lot of operator effort. Now that digital cameras are entering the market and the number of images to be processed is increasing there is a clear need to automate the whole workflow as much as poss...

This paper reports on a real-world application addressing the coordination between cross functionality of marketing and production. We focus on the critical issues of this interface, namely: capacity planning and long-range to medium range sales forecasting, production shortterm scheduling and short-range sales forecasting. We present a case study concerning the development of a decision suppor...