3GPP work on the Evolution of the 3G Mobile System started with the RAN Evolution Work Shop, 2 3 November 2004 in Toronto, Canada. The Work Shop was open to all interested organizations, members and non members of 3GPP. Operators, manufacturers and research institutes presented more than 40 contributions with views and proposals on the evolution of the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network...

In this paper a new approach is presented to solve multi-objective production scheduling and rescheduling problems. Furthermore the relationship between production goals and heuristic solving methods in an extended flexible flow shop environment is also investigated. We define production goals by specifying objective functions and apply special production constraints for the extended flow shop ...

This paper studied the flow shop scheduling problem under machine availability constraints. The machines are subject to flexible preventive maintenance activities. The nonresumable scenario for the jobs was considered. That is, when a job is interrupted by an unavailability period of a machine it should be restarted from the beginning. The objective is to minimize the total tardiness time for t...