1. Preface

   • Rainer Burkard
   • Toshihide Ibaraki
   • Maurice Queyranne

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2. Concurrent operations assignment and sequencing for particular assembly problems in flow lines

   • Alessandro Agnetis
   • Claudio Arbib

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3. The aircraft rotation problem

   • Lloyd Clarke
   • Ellis Johnson
   • Zhongxi Zhu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 46

4. Hitting or avoiding balls in Euclidean space

   • Yves Crama
   • Toshihide Ibaraki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 64

5. Optimization of nuclear reactor reloading patterns

   • E. de Klerk
   • C. Roos
   • J.E. Hoogenboom

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 84

6. Skeleton-based facility layout design using genetic algorithms

   • Hugues Delmaire
   • André Langevin
   • Diane Riopel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 104

7. A variation of the generalized assignment problem arising in the New Zealand dairy industry

   • L.R. Foulds
   • J.M. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 114

8. A new single model and derived algorithms for the satellite shot planning problem using graph theory concepts

   • Virginie Gabrel
   • Alain Moulet
   • Vangelis Th. Paschos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 134

9. A dynamic programming algorithm for single machine scheduling with ready times

   • Sylvie Gélinas
   • Francois Soumis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 156

10. Cost optimization for the slitting of core laminations for power transformers

    • A. Gerstl
    • S.E. Karisch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 169

11. Scheduling a two-stage hybrid flow shop with parallel machines at the first stage

    • J.N.D. Gupta
    • A.M.A. Hariri
    • C.N. Potts

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 191

12. Vehicle scheduling on a tree with release and handling times

    • Yoshiyuki Karuno
    • Hiroshi Nagamochi
    • Toshihide Ibaraki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 207

13. Minimizing the number of robots to meet a given cyclic schedule

    • Vladimir Kats
    • Eugene Levner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 226

14. DGAP - The Dynamic Generalized Assignment Problem

    • Konstantin Kogan
    • Avraham Shtub

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 239

15. Optimal level schedules for mixed-model, multi-level just-in-time assembly systems

    • Wieslaw Kubiak
    • George Steiner
    • Julian Scott Yeomans

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 259

16. A parametric approach for maximum flow problems with an additional reverse convex constraint

    • Takahito Kuno

    OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 276

17. A mixed-integer model for solving ordering problems with side constraints

    • Francesco Maffioli
    • Anna Sciomachen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 297

18. Queues with switchover - A review and critique

    • Wanda Rosa-Hatko
    • Eldon A. Gunn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 322

19. Rolling horizon scheduling in a rolling-mill

    • L. Stauffer
    • Th. M. Liebling

    OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 349

20. Shop scheduling problems under precedence constraints

    • V.A. Strusevich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 377

21. A modeling approach to a JIT-based ordering system

    • Norio Watanabe
    • Shusaku Hiraki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 403