Despite the importance of the management of inventory in industrial scheduling applications, there has been little research that has addressed reasoning about inventory directly as part of a scheduling problem. In this paper, we represent inventory, inventory storage constraints, and inventory production and consumption in a constraint-directed scheduling framework. Inventory scheduling is then...

The CAP Inventory (Form VI; Milner, 1986) is a 160-item, paper and pencil questionnaire that was originally designed to provide an estimate of parental risk in suspected cases of child physical abuse. The CAP Inventory is now used as a risk screening tool in a variety of assessment situations. The CAP Inventory has a third-grade reading level. Respondents are instructed to respond to each item ...

The CAP Inventory (Form VI; Milner, 1986) is a 160-item, paper and pencil questionnaire that was originally designed to provide an estimate of parental risk in suspected cases of child physical abuse. The CAP Inventory is now used as a risk screening tool in a variety of assessment situations. The CAP Inventory has a third-grade reading level. Respondents are instructed to respond to each item ...

Association Rules revealed by association rule mining may contain some sensitive rules, which may cause prospective threats towards privacy and protection. A number of researchers in this area have recently made efforts to preserve privacy for sensitive association rules in transactional databases. In this paper, we put forward a heuristic based association rule hiding algorithm to get rid of t...

This study is devoted to discrete sizing optimization of truss structures employing an efficient discrete evolutionary meta-heuristic algorithm which uses the Newton gradient-based method as its updating scheme and it is named here as Newton Meta-heuristic Algorithm (NMA). In order to enable the NMA population-based meta-heuristic to effectively explore the discrete design space, a term contain...

Nowadays, many distribution networks deal with the distribution and storage of perishable products. However, distribution network design models are largely based on assumptions that do not consider time limitations for the storage of products within the network. This study develops a model for the design of a distribution network that considers the short lifetime of perishable products. The mod...

The Coors warehouse scheduling problem involves nding a permutation of customer orders that minimizes the average time that customers' orders spend at the loading docks while at the same time minimizing the running average inventory. Search based solutions require fast objective functions. Thus, a fast low-resolution simulation is used as an objective function. A slower high-resolution simulati...