Ten Italian globe artichoke clones belonging to the Romanesco typology were characterized in the western coastal area of Italy (Cerveteri, Rome), using a combination of morphological (UPOV descriptors), biochemical (HPLC analysis), and molecular (AFLP, ISSR, and SSR markers) traits. Significant differences among clones were found for many of the quantitative and qualitative morphological traits...

The problem of scheduling n jobs with a large common due date on a single machine is addressed. The objective is to minimize the jobs’ total earliness and tardiness. In this paper, sequence-dependent setup times are considered, which makes the problem NP-Hard. Therefore, exact algorithms are very unlikely to optimally solve large problems within reasonable computational time. A Simulated Anneal...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2011.08.019 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +98 111 2197584; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (V. Kay com (I. Mahdavi), [email protected] (G In most deterministic scheduling problems job processing times are considered as invariable and known in advance. Single machine scheduling problem with controllable proces...

The current requirements of many manufacturing companies, such as the fashion, textile, and clothing industries, involve production multiple products with different processing routes short life cycles, which prevents obtaining deterministic setup times. Likewise, several industries present restrictions when changing from one reference to another in system, incurring variable sequence-dependent ...

Scheduling problems involving both earliness and tardiness costs have received significant attention in recent years. This type of problem became important with the advent of the justin-time (JIT) concept, where early or tardy deliveries are highly discouraged. In this work we examine the flowshop scheduling problem with no storage constraints and with blocking inprocess. In this latter environ...

We study a problem of scheduling a maintenance activity on a single machine. Following several recent papers, the maintenance is assumed to be deteriorating, that is, delaying the maintenance increases the time required to perform it. The following objective functions are considered: makespan, flowtime, maximum lateness, total earliness, tardiness and due-date cost, and number of tardy jobs. We...

In this paper, we consider the slack due-window assignment model and study a single machine scheduling problem of linear time-dependent deteriorating jobs and a deteriorating maintenance activity. The cost for each job consists of four components: earliness, tardiness, window location and window size. The objective is to schedule the jobs and to assign the maintenance activity and due-windows s...