Four heuristic algorithms are developed for solving the generalized version of tardiness flow shop problems. We consider the generalized tardiness flow shop model with minimization of the total tardiness as its performance measure. We modify the concept of cost over time (COVERT) for the generalized version of the flow shop tardiness model and employ this concept for developing four algorithms....

This paper investigates a discrete-time impatient customer queue with Bernoulli-schedule vacation interruption. The  vacation times and the service times during regular busy period and during working vacation period are assumed to follow geometric distribution. We obtain the steady-state probabilities at arbitrary and outside observer's observation epochs using recursive technique. Cost analysi...

This paper addresses the Vehicle Routing Problem with Delivery Time Cost. This problem aims to find a set of routes of minimal total costs including the travelling cost and delivery time cost, starting and ending at the depot, in such a way that each customer is visited by one vehicle given the capacity of the vehicle to satisfy a specific demand. In this research, a hybrid metaheuristic approa...

The ampacity of submarine cable circuits is strongly influenced by heat transfer in the marine environment surrounding cable. It has been demonstrated previous work that for high permeability sediments convective can play a significant roleusing both bespoke two dimensional models and experimental investigations [T. J. Hughes, 2016, C. Emeana, 2016]. This paper introduces one model which capabl...