Abstract Changes of climate, population growth, extended droughts, water scarcity, and
sustainability considerations are amongst the concerns that stress more than before the …

Inventory classification is a fundamental issue in the development of inventory policy that
assigns each inventory item to several classes with different levels of importance. This …

Based on the situation of the construction and software industry, this paper presents a multi-
skilled human resource scheduling model which considers the skill and the salary of the …

In the era of globalization, integrated planning for production, workforce and capacity are the
key factors for attaining success in any industry. This paper develops a mathematical model …

In recent years, the existence of some challenges in the water industry has led organizations
to design and implement various solutions. This paper seeks to propose a methodology to …

Multi-objective programming became more and more popular in real world decision making
problems in recent decades. There is an underlying and fundamental uncertainty in almost …

It has been always critical and inevitable to select and assess the appropriate and efficient
vendors for the companies such that all the aspects and factors leading to the importance of …

Populations, flows and manpower hours are considered in the manpower planning problem.
The objective is to project the structure of the categories with actual conditions that satisfy …

The project selection problem is considered as one of the most imperative decisions for
investor organizations. Due to non-deterministic nature of some criteria in the real world …

In this research, a dynamic programming-based approach is deployed to model and solve
the manpower allocation problem for warehouses. The authors specifically evolve the …