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There is a significant interest in harnessing the available flexibility that exists on the demand side of the distribution energy systems by implementing energy storage or demand response programs. Appropriate choices regarding technical design parameters, involvement of flexibi…

Increasing demand from a growing customer base is forcing companies to have the quickest response among competitors at the lowest cost. The rise of such customers requires on-hand inventory to meet the demand. Without proper management, the firefighting actions to meet rush orde…

An approach for nonlinear integer programs based on a dual genetic algorithm is developed. It has a wide range of applications which includes planning, operational and design problems. This approach consists of relaxing some selected constraints of the integer program in questio…

The research reported in this thesis considers the classical combinatorial optimization problem known as the Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP). Since the mid 1970's researchers have been developing solution approaches for this particular type of problem due to its importance …

Material handling in cross-dock is a relevant class of scheduling problems in distribution centers in which inner transhipment decisions need to be considered in addition to the processing order of trucks. The problem has applications in distribution centers where operators manu…

The growing increase in the size and scope of offshore wind farms motivates the need for industry to have access to mathematical tools that reduce costs by efficiently performing daily operations and maintenance activities. Key offshore activities require the transportation of t…