Browsing Mechanical & Industrial Engineering by Publisher "Palgrave Macmillan Ltd."

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    • A branch-and-price algorithm for the two-stage guillotine cutting stock problem 

      Mrad, M.; Meftahi, I.; Haouari, M. ( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2013 , Article)
      We investigate the two-stage guillotine two-dimensional cutting stock problem. This problem commonly arises in the industry when small rectangular items need to be cut out of large stock sheets. We propose an integer ...

    • MIP models for minimizing total tardiness in a two-machine flow shop 

      Kharbeche, M.; Haouari, M. ( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2013 , Article)
      We propose compact mixed-integer programming models for the NP-hard problem of minimizing tardiness in a two-machine flow shop. Also, we propose valid inequalities that aim at tightening the models' representations. We ...

    • Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning 

      Ghoniem, Ahmed; Ali, Agha Iqbal; Al-Salem, Mohammed; Khallouli, Wael ( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2017 , Article)
      The FIFA World Cup, comprising sixty-four matches spanning an entire month, has, in recent years, been attended by about three million spectators of which over half a million are visitors requiring lodging. Planning lodging ...

    • Solving a large-scale crew pairing problem 

      Erdoğan, Güneş; Haouari, Mohamed; Matoglu, Melda Örmeci; Özener, Okan Örsan ( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2015 , Article)
      Airline companies seek to solve the problem of determining an assignment of crews to a pre-determined flight schedule with minimum total cost, called the Crew Pairing Problem (CPP). Most of the existing studies focus on ...