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...

In this paper, we present a high-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme, coupled with a high-order fast sweeping method, for solving a dynamic continuum model for bidirectional flow. We first review the dynamic continuum model for bi-directional flow. This model is composed of a coupled system of a conservation law and an Eikonal equation. Then we present the first-order Lax-F...

This research proposes a novel indicator-based hybrid evolutionary approach that combines approximate and exact algorithms. We apply it to a new bi-criteria formulation of the travelling thief problem, which is known to the Evolutionary Computation community as a benchmark multi-component optimisation problem that interconnects two classical NP-hard problems: the travelling salesman problem and...

One of the most fundamental components of healthcare system on each country is blood supply chain management. This chain is comprised of two significant components including collecting donor’ bloods and supplying blood’s products. The main purpose of this paper is to concentrate on supplying blood products and present a novel constrained bi-objective mathematical model for a two-echelon blood s...

This paper presents several methodological and algorithmic improvements over a state-ofthe-art dynamic programming algorithm for solving the bi-objective {0, 1} knapsack problem. The variants proposed make use of new definitions of lower and upper bounds, which allow a large number of states to be discarded. The computation of these bounds are based on the application of dichotomic search, defi...

Supplier selection and material procurement planning are the most important issues in supply chain management. This decision is complicated when the buyers face with discount price schemes. In real situation, each supplier may apply different methods such as different types of discount schedules and various types of payment in order to increase market share. In this situation, buyers try to sel...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of study was to prospectively evaluate the diagnostic performance of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging in the differentiation of malignant lesions from benign ones in patients with BI-RADS 3-4 microcalcifications detected by mammography. MATERIALS AND METHODS 93 women with 100 microcalcifications had undergone breast MRI from June 2010 to July 2013. Subsequently, 91 r...