Meticulous project planning is pivotal for ensuring successful project outcomes, with strategic decision-making being a core component of this process. Among these decisions, selecting the right contractor is of paramount ...

The challenge of monitoring and controlling processes where the response variable follows a Poisson distribution, rather than a normal distribution, is addressed in this paper. The significant impact of outliers on model ...

This paper aims to design an integrated green supply chain by considering several drivers of resiliency for perishable products. Supply chain resiliency seeks to prevent the chain from moving toward unfavorable conditions ...

gas distribution projects in Iran between 2015 and 2020. A series of predictive models have been reviewed and evaluated for delay risk prediction such as k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) Regression, Regression Trees (RT), Support ...

This paper addresses the open shop scheduling problem, considering parallel machines within each stage and integrating job transportation times between stages, independent of job specifics. In this scheduling problem, all ...

During pandemics and epidemics, healthcare systems may respond quickly to massive increases in demand by establishing surge capacity in facilities. However, adding new resources may not be the most effective approach. Given ...

In statistical process control applications, the quality of certain processes or products can be accurately described by either a univariate or multivariate distribution. Nonetheless, in certain instances, the quality of ...

Supply chain coordination deals with the joint efforts of supply chain parties and making optimal global decisions, which in turn can improve the overall performance and efficiency of the entire supply chain. In many cases, ...

This paper attempts to monitor the mean vector of multivariate processes using a wavelet-based model. In the case of monitoring several related technical specifications, wavelet approach is an attractive contribution to ...

Flexible job-shop scheduling problem (F-JSP) is an expansion of the job shop scheduling problem (JSP) which allows an operation to be fulfilled by any machine among a set of accessible machines at each stage. This paper ...

The present work compared input- and output-based integrated principal component analysis-data envelopment analysis (PCA-DEA) approaches. The approach minimizing the number of decision-making units (DMUs) identified as ...

The need to produce highly reliable products is essential for the survival of many industries in today's world. Consequently, one of the main quality characteristics of products is their lifespan or reliability. The ...