In this study, a mixed model flow line sequencing problem with two objectives is considered. Mixed model flow line (MML) is known to be a special case of production lines where products are transported on a conveyor belt, and different models of the same product are inter-mixed to be assembled on the same line. We have focused on product-fixed, rate-synchronous lines with variable launching. Ou...

In today’s competitive market, those producers who can quickly adapt themselves todiverse demands of customers are successful. Therefore, in order to satisfy these demands of market, Mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) has an increasing growth in industry. A mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) is a type of production line in which varieties of products with common base characteristics are assembled o...

Assembly line balancing has been a focus of interest to academics in operation management for the last decades. Despite diverse research works in this field, many problems still remained unsolved. Given the importance and attractiveness of the mixed product parallel lines balancing problem and the importance of the human factor in the development process and also very few studies in relation to...

Specification and implementation of flexible humancomputer dialogs is challenging because of the complexity involved in rendering the dialog responsive to a vast number of varied paths through which users might desire to complete the dialog. To address this problem, we developed a toolkit for modeling and implementing task-based, mixedinitiative dialogs based on metaphors from lambda calculus. ...

Assume that binary rank-dependent expected utility (subjective expected utility is a special case) holds for gains and losses separately and that a commutative binary operation of joint receipt on consequences and gambles is linked to binary gambles via the rational property of segregation. This implies that utility U of joint receipt is either itself additive or is an exponential transformatio...