Abstract: Competitive facility location problems involve two different firms competing for customers, each aiming to increase its market share. Typically, there exists a hierarchy between the firms ...

Learn how to solve problems using linear programming. A linear programming problem involves finding the maximum or minimum value of an equation, called the objective functions, subject to a system of ...

This paper introduces the Julia programming language as a dynamic, cost-effective, and efficient framework for implementing structural analysis packages. To achieve this, the finite element method was ...

Abstract: An actual hybrid flow shop scheduling (HFSS) problem with operation skipping is investigated from the steelmaking continuous casting (SCC) process, which plays a vital role in the productive ...