In recent years, some attention has been driven to modeling, simulation, and optimization
techniques capable of representing and improving discrete event systems. These …

Simulation optimization is a tool commonly used as a decision-making support system on
industrial problems in order to find the best resource allocation, which has a direct influence …

Despite substantial research on job shop scheduling (JSS), there is a gap owing to the lack
of a unified framework that considers exact, heuristic, and metaheuristic methods for JSS …

Timely and reliable delivery is becoming a more important factor for manufacturing
companies since customer satisfaction becomes the paradigm of world class manufacturers …

This work deals with the significant aspects of a simulation based experimental study of two
shop floor control polices: order review/release (ORR) and dispatching rules for scheduling …

Computer simulation is one of the tools that is often used to support activities related to the
management of the production process. Computer simulation allows for the analysis of the …

Furniture manufacturing is getting more and more competitive due to shorter product life
cycles and ever-increasing customer demand. As a result, furniture manufacturers often …

In healthcare services, where human health is the primary concern, the principle of''doing it
right the first time''is paramount. Waste and constraints in service delivery processes can …

This paper deals with stochastic Job-shop with random processing times where the
objective is to find schedules robust enough in order to minimize the total completion time of …

A university canteen is a queueing system characterised by non-stationary time of arrival
with limited resources where the arrival rate is time dependent and has different pattern of …