With the growth in customers’ demand diversification, mixed-model U-lines (MMUL) have acquired increasing importance in the area of assembly systems. There are generally two different approaches in the literature for balancing such systems. Some researchers believe that since the types of models can be very diverse, a balancing approach without simultaneously sequencing of models will not yield...

Proper planning of assembly lines is one of the production managers’ concerns at the tactical level so that it would be possible to use the machine capacity, reduce operating costs and deliver customer orders on time. The lack of an efficient method in balancing assembly line can create threatening problems for manufacturing organizations. The use of assembly line balancing methods cannot balan...

Assembly lines are special kinds of production systems which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity commodities. In many practical manufacturing systems, configuration of assembly lines is fixed and designing a new line may be incurred huge amount of costs and thereby it is not desirable for practitioners. When some changes related to market demand occur, it is wo...

assembly lines are special kinds of production systems which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity commodities. in many practical manufacturing systems, configuration of assembly lines is fixed and designing a new line may be incurred huge amount of costs and thereby it is not desirable for practitioners. when some changes related to market demand occur, it is wo...

Abstract The aim of this article is to investigate two new classes quaternions, namely, balancing and Lucas-balancing quaternions that are based on numbers, respectively. Further, some identities including Binet’s formulas, summation Catalan’s identity, etc. concerning these also established.

Introduction 1 Workload Characteristics of Internet Services 2 Web Applications 3 Streaming Applications 4 Taxonomy of Load-Balancing Strategies 4 Load Balancing in the Server, the Network, and the Client Sides 4 State-Blind versus State-Aware Load Balancing 5 Load Balancing at Different Network Layers 5 Server-Side Load Balancing 5 DNS-Based Load Balancing 5 Dispatcher-Based Load Balancing 7 S...

The purpose of this paper is to extend a new balancing and ranking method to handle uncertainty for a multiple attribute analysis under a hesitant fuzzy environment. The presented hesitant fuzzy balancing and ranking (HF-BR) method does not require attributes’ weights through the process of multiple attribute decision making (MADM) under hesitant conditions. For the rating of possible alternati...