This paper addressed a Flexible Job shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) with the objective of minimization of maximum completion time (Cmax) which job splitting or lot streaming is allowed. Lot streaming is an important technique that has been used widely to reduce completion time of a production system. Due to the complexity of the problem; exact optimization techniques such as branch and bound alg...

To the best of our knowledge, there is no method in the literature to find the fuzzy optimal solution of fully fuzzy critical path (FFCP) problems i.e., critical path problems in which all the parameters are represented by LR flat fuzzy numbers. In this paper, a new method is proposed for the same. Also, it is shown that it is better to use JMD representation of LR flat fuzzy numbers in the pro...

improvement of one trait on its own will affect the performance of other traits because ofgenotypic correlations between traits. index selection is one of the tools used by plant breedersto overcome this problem. the purpose of this paper is to evaluate selection indices developedfor improving grain yield in rice (oryza sativa l.). forty-nine rice genotypes were cultivated attonekabon rice rese...

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) have been designed as general purpose optimization methods. GAs can be uniquely characterized by their population-based search strategies and their operators: mutation, selection and crossover. In this paper, we propose a new crossover called multi-step crossover (MSX) which utilizes a neighborhood structure and a distance in the problem space. Given parents, MSX succes...

An activity network is an acyclic graph with non-negative weights and with a unique source and destination. A project consisting of a set of activities and precedence relationships can be represented by an activity network and the mathematical analysis of the network provides useful information for managing the project. In a traditional activity network, it is assumed that an activity always be...

The dogleg severity is one of the most important parameters in directional drilling. Improvement of these indicators actually means choosing the best conditions for the directional drilling in order to reach the target point. Selection of high levels of the dogleg severity actually means minimizing well trajectory, but on the other hand, increases fatigue in drill string, increases torque and d...

A new method for finding fuzzy optimal solution, the maximum total completion fuzzy time and fuzzy critical path for the given fully fuzzy critical path (FFCP) problems using crisp linear programming (LP) problem is proposed. In this proposed method, all the parameters are represented by triangular fuzzy number. The fuzzy optimal solution of the FFCP problems obtained by the proposed method, do...

The maximum mean weight cycle problem is well-known: given a digraph G with weights 9 c :E(G) → R, 3nd a directed circuit in G whose mean weight is maximum. Closely related is the minimum balance problem: Find a potential :V (G) → R such that the numbers 11 slack(e):= (w)− (v)− c((v; w)) (e= (v; w)∈E(G)) are optimally balanced: for any subset of vertices, the minimum slack on an entering edge s...