Scheduling and sequencing operations, as a decision making process, plays an integral role in most manufacturing and producing systems as well as most services environments. Scheduling is especially important in the field ...

The forthcoming study provides a strategic decision making model that addresses the operational and social costs of environmental pollution resulting from the operation of such a supply chain network for sustainable supply ...

Identification of the change point in panel data leads practitioners to focus on the time when really a change takes place in the cross sectional data. Identification of the time helps one to provide a more realistic ...

A set of different parts are produced by robotic cells as cyclic and each part requires a ‎number of tools on each machine in order to be completed; if the tools required for the part are not ‎available in tool magazine ...

The cost of design and building industrial systems is greatly affected by determining the exact number of machineries and human resources, consequently allowing to achieve a higher level of efficiency and productivity. ...

Drugs and vaccines supply chains are totally different than supply chain of other relief items. Therefore, there is a need for using appropriate control tools at post-disaster phase for controlling communicable diseases ...

In the present study, the abusive of some doctors from trusting a patient to earn the more financial benefits is investigated using the Markov chain and Zero-Determinant (ZD) strategy. When someone gets sick and visits a ...

This paper proposes a new mixed-integer mathematical formulation for the multi-objective multi-skilled resource-constrained project scheduling problem. The objectives of the proposed model are to minimize the make-span and ...

Correct prediction of economic growth in the long-term policy planning and sustainable development, plays an important role. One of the major issues in the forecast time series is methods to identify patterns to control ...

The problem of production planning and Maintenance is one of the most important decision in production industries and because of their interaction, it is necessary to be studied simultaneously. These two problems are ...

In recent decades, due to the importance of the water issue and increased tendency to calculate the amount of runoff from precipitation, development and implementation of appropriate methods for predicting the precipitation ...

Steel Supply Chain using Direct Reduction Method (DRI) includes all activities from supplying iron ore, concentrate, pellet, sponge iron and finally delivering the ultimate commodities to the steel production units. Different ...

In this paper, A two-tier supply chain, including a producer and a retailer is studied, taking into account motivational policies under conditions such as consumer environmental awareness that leads to the preference for ...