Ever since the times of Henry Ford up to today's industry 4.0 era, flow-oriented assembly
processes, where an assembly line conveys the workpieces from workstation to workstation …

Line balancing belongs to a class of intensively studied combinatorial optimization problems
known to be NP-hard in general. For several decades, the core problem originally …

Mass production system design is a key for the productivity of an organization. Mass
production system can be classified into production line machining a component and …

Assembly optimisation activities occur across development and production stages of
manufacturing goods. Assembly Sequence Planning (ASP) and Assembly Line Balancing …

Assembly line balancing (ALB) deals with how tasks are assigned in an assembly line to
reach the required production rate and to optimize goals. Tasks in assembly line are …

Assembly line balancing is to know how tasks are to be assigned to workstations, so that the
predetermined goal is achieved. Minimization of the number of workstations and …

The joint optimization of production scheduling and maintenance planning has a significant
influence on production continuity and machine reliability. However, limited research …

Marketers must constantly decide how to implement word-of-mouth (WOM) programs, and a
well-developed decision support system (DSS) can provide them valuable assistance in …

Project selection is a complex decision making process that is influenced by multiple and
often conflicting objectives. The complexity of the project selection problem is due to the high …

Many decision-making processes in our society involve NP-hard optimization problems. The
largescale, dynamism, and uncertainty of these problems constrain the potential use of …