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In recent years, assembly line design methodologies have included the possibility of sharing tasks between stations. These approaches increase throughput, improving workload balance among Sharing operations can support management lines with task redundancy. The redundancy two consecutive stations improves robustness to unforeseen events. A control policy that allocates shared adjacent is crucia...

location-allocation is a combinatorial optimization problem, and is defined as non deterministic polynomial hard (np) hard optimization. therefore, solution of such a problem should be shifted from exact to heuristic or meta heuristic due to the complexity of the problem. locating medical centers and allocating injuries of an earthquake to them has high importance in earthquake disaster managem...

Adopting classic redundancy-based fault-tolerant schemes in highly dynamic distributed computing systems does not necessarily result in the anticipated improvement in dependability. This primarily stems from statically predefined redundancy configurations employed within many classic dependability strategies, which as well known may negatively impact the schemes' overall effectiveness. In this ...