Advanced Planning Systems (APS) have become an important tool for manufacturing and production companies that require a specific system to optimize production, logistic, material and human resources, etc. with the goal of ...

The implementation of Advanced Planning Systems (APS) software may offers to Supply Chain Management (SCM) planning and optimization functionalities to industrial processes. A complete assessment of APS implementation ...

Small and medium-sized organisations (SMO) often need to optimise their operations to improve their effectiveness in a competitive world. Advanced planning systems (APS) emerged to provide optimal operations in several ...

A smart grid is an electric power system with high levels of automation, dispersed generation, intelligent monitoring, and control; however, because the distribution networks in operation today do not have these characteristics, ...

This paper examines the new National Education Plan (Law n.o 13,005/2014), emphasizing the aspects that it applies to the external large-scale assessments and to the educational quality. It was established, from the analysis, ...

Objective: To assess whether medical orders within Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms reflect patients' preferences for care at the end of life. Design: This cross-sectional study assessed the ...

This volume on Advances in Energy System Optimization contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers related to the 2nd International Symposium on Energy System Optimization (ISESO 2018). The symposium was held at Karlsruhe ...

This paper discusses the current trends and defies associated with productionscheduling, both from an industrial and academic perspective. First, the new challengesthat appear in the context of globalized and competitive ...