Evaporation is a key operation in many industries and its optimization is required for the efficient management of water and energy within the process. During the operation, dissolved solids settle on the heat exchange ...

In the last years, the operational research on scheduling problems has been moving away from rigorous optimization approaches into solution strategies being capable of returning practical and fast solutions for large-scale ...

Unemployment insurance transfers should balance the provision of consumption to the unemployed with the disincentive effects on the search behavior. Developing countries face the additional challenge of informality. Workers ...

Con el fin de mejorar los niveles de competitividad, las empresas de manufactura y de servicio están obligadas a la implementación constante de procedimientos formales que les permitan optimizar sus procesos. En ese ...

This work considers an NP-Hard scheduling problem that is fundamental to the production planning of flexible machines, to cutting pattern industries and also to the design of VLSI circuits. A new asynchronous collective ...