This paper presents the results of a simulation study of a typical flexible manufacturing system that consists of seven machining centres, a loading and an unloading area, and six different part types. Owing to the existence of identical machining centres, the part types have alternative routings (their number varies between two and eight). One of the objectives of this work is to show how the ...

This paper proposes a methodology to limit the variations in generation cost in a power system under normal and contingent state using Differential Evolution (DE) optimization technique keeping consumer welfare in view. The aim of this proposed methodology is to minimize the deviations of generation cost, during contingency, from a preferred value by rescheduling of the generation with a contro...

Resource allocation could be influenced by various dynamic elements, such as the skills of engineers and the growth of skills, which requires managers to find an effective and efficient tool to support their staffing decision-making processes. Rescheduling happens commonly and frequently during the project execution. Control options have to be made when new resources are added or tasks are chan...

Transmission congestion management is one of the critical and important tasks of the system operator. Transmission line congestion is considered to be more important as it may initiate the cascading outages which forces the system to collapse. This paper presents a transmission congestion management (CM) algorithm by optimal rescheduling of active powers of generators using firefly (FF) algorit...