One could not learn swimming without entering into the pool. Same is applicable on the success of any developmental programme. It is doubtful to eliminate the underdevelopment of rural India without the active participation of rural folk and local level administration. After the 73rd Constitutional Amendment; states have started to generate the local level participation and essential infrastruc...

Managing a nuclear power plant (NPP) calls for evaluation and trading off the conflicting objectives of safe operation and economic burden. The reduction of NPP risk is strongly correlated to the reduction of NPP safety systems unavailability. The application of the probabilistic safety assessment in order to reduce safety systems unavailability is one of the prime goals in the nuclear safety a...

Through an industrial application, we were confronted with the planning of experiments where human intervention of a chemists is required to handle the starting and termination. This gives rise to a new type of scheduling problems, namely problems of finding schedules with time periods when the tasks can neither start nor finish. We consider in this paper the natural case of small periods where...

The nuclear power plants risk reduction by application of the probabilistic safety assessment is one of the main focuses of the nuclear safety today. The goal is the reduction of the unavailability of the nuclear power plants safety systems. On the other hand, the world NPP fleet is ageing fast. Equipment ageing has gradually become a major concern in the nuclear industry since the number of sa...

Research on non-regular performance measures is at best scarce in the deterministic machine scheduling literature with machine unavailability constraints. Moreover, almost all existing works in this area assume either that processing on jobs interrupted by an interval of machine unavailability may be resumed without any additional setup/processing or that all prior processing is lost. In this w...

Multi-skilled resources have brought more flexibility to resource scheduling and been a key factor in the research of resource-constrained project problems. However, existing studies are mainly limited deterministic problems neglect some uncertainties such as breakdowns, while availability may change over time due unexpected risks COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this paper focuses on multi-skille...

The ubiquitous availability of wireless networks has opened new possibilities for individuals to learn from each other in open learning spaces like cities. Therefore, the changed learning environment must be understood by e-learning systems and technological facilities must be provided for knowledge sharing and construction. Such systems need to be pedagogically sound, yet adaptive to altered m...