Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...

An approach to nonlinear constrained mathematical programming problems which makes use of a second order derivative is presented. By using a second order modified objective function method, a modified optimization problem associated with a primal mathematical programming problem is constructed. This auxiliary optimization problem involves a second order approximation of an objective function co...