In this study, we focus on assembly line balancing and worker assignment problem, where multiple production lines are executed by a shared pool of workers with varying skills and having absenteeism issues. We developed two ...

We investigate the one-dimensional variable-sized bin-packing problem. This problem requires packing a set of items into a minimum-cost set of bins of unequal sizes and costs. Six optimization-based heuristics for this ...

While the EU’s impact on member and non-member states has been well researched, we have much less understanding of how Europeanization processes give way to de-Europeanization, a widespread phenomenon of the past decade. ...

This study represents a decomposition heuristic approach for simultaneous lot sizing and scheduling problem for multiple product, multiple parallel machines with secondary resources. The motivation of the study comes from ...

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Data Description Measures of Choice Concentration Methodology Results Interpreting θ Decomposing the Effects of Time, Number of Decisions and Concentration Preference Conclusion.

The emergence of inexpensive 2.5D depth cameras has enabled the extraction of the articulated human body pose. However, human hand skeleton extraction still stays as a challenging problem since the hand contains as many ...

Limited luminous flux per wafer area of light emitting diodes (LEDs) for high power solid state illumination causes some packaging real estate issues. This problem can be tackled with laser diodes (LDs). At high current ...

In this research work, a wideband metamaterial-inspired circularly polarized antenna array is designed. The designed antenna array has a low radar cross-section (RCS) but high gain. The basic element of the planar array ...