the reliable operation of spillways, in emergency as well as normal conditions, is one of the vital components in dam safety. free or uncontrolled overflow spillways are the most reliable choice however. they usually impose higher construction cost and /or results in wasting a considerable amount of water or live capacity of the reservoirs. employing fuse gates might be a way of reconciling dam...

A. Determined the exact structure of the asymptotic optimal solution value of the VRP with capacity and time window constraints and used it to develop a new and efficient algorithm. In Bramel and Simchi-Levi (1996) we have characterized the asymptotic optimal cost of the VRP with Capacity and Time Window constraints. This characterization enabled us to understand the algorithmic structure requi...

This paper investigates the impact of freezing the master production schedule (MPS) in multi-item single-level systems with a single resource constraint under demand uncertainty. It also examines the impact of environmental factors on the selection of MPS freezing parameters. A computer model is built to simulate master production scheduling activities in a multi-item system under a rolling tim...

This article investigates the capacity problem of an integrated remote wireless sensor and satellite network (IWSSN) in emergency scenarios. We formulate a general model to evaluate the remote sensor and satellite network capacity. Compared to most existing works for ground networks, the proposed model is time varying and space oriented. To capture the characteristics of a practical network, we...

Whereas in the absence of capacity constraints the Cournot outcome is the unique coalition-proof supply function equilibrium outcome, the presence of capacity constraints may enlarge the set of equilibrium outcomes. Interestingly, if capacities are sufficiently asymmetric the new equilibrium prices are below the Cournot price. These results have important implications for merger and privatizati...

We discuss the traditional hierarchical approach to production planning and scheduling, emphasizing the fact that scheduling constraints are often either ignored or considered in a very crude way. In particular, we point out that how sheduling is carried out is part of the capacity constraints on the lotsizes. Usual methods to handle capacity in theory or in practice are reviewed. Finally, we p...

We address the question: What is the best way to construct a mesh overlay topology for multimedia content distribution, such that the highest streaming rate can be achieved? We model overlay capacity correlations as linear capacity constraints (LCC) and propose a distributed algorithm that constructs an overlay mesh which incorporates heuristically inferred linear capacity constraints. Our simu...

Complete row and column symmetry breaking in constraint models using the lex leader method is generally prohibitively costly. Double lex, which is derived from lex leader, is commonly used in practice as an incomplete symmetrybreaking method for row and column symmetries. Double lex is based on a rowwise canonical variable ordering. However, this choice is arbitrary. We investigate other canoni...

introduction water quality refers to the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of water. it is a measure of the condition of water relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species and or to any human need or purpose. it is most frequently used by reference to a set of standards against which compliance can be assessed. the most common standards used to assess water quality...

Wardrop [1] introduced the famous user equilibrium principle for traffic network, which is a scalar equilibrium principle. Smith [2] investigated that a Wardrop's user equilibrium flow is equivalent to the solution of a class of variational inequalities when the travel cost function is a scalar function. Recently, many researchers have proposed equilibrium models based on multicriteria consider...