Given the importance of production planning and control in the design of flexible services and manufacturing systems, scheduling problems with interfering jobs are much-needed optimization tools to ...

Abstract: Optimization algorithm based on Pareto dominant strategy has been widely used in solving multi-objective optimization problems. However, the inappropriate search scope and dominance ...

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Houmous and non-alcoholic beer have been added to a list of items used to measure how quickly prices are rising in the UK, as healthier habits influence consumer spending. A big shake-up to the data ...

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