In many automated manufacturing environments, particularly flowlines and flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), machines are arranged along a straight material handling track with a material handling ...

We consider a single item periodic review inventory problem with random yield and stochastic demand. The yield is proportional to the quantity ordered, with the multiplicative factor being a random ...

Heuristic evaluation and usability testing are two of the most established methods to evaluate software for usability. When in doubt, one is the winner. Assessing the ease of use of a software is ...

Description: Design and development of heuristic problem-solving systems. The emphasis is on the development of general data representations, heuristics, and problem-solving strategies that can be ...

Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...

Graham Kendall has received funding from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to conduct research into hyper-heuristics. Deep Blue gained world-wide attention in 1997 ...

If you’re an 80s person like me, heuristics might make you think of that British band that sang "Sweet Dreams are made of This." That’s Eurythmics, not heuristics! Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky ...