4 papers
Resource-dependent process times in hybrid flexible flowshops
Ioannis Avgerinos, Ioannis Mourtos, Dimitrios Papathanasiou +1
The effect of resource allocation on manufacturing motivates us to examine a scheduling variant that is of practical significance yet remains overlooked. We examine a Hybrid Flexib…
Pickup & Delivery with Time Windows and Transfers: combining decomposition with metaheuristics
Ioannis Avgerinos, Ioannis Mourtos, Nikolaos Tsompanidis +1
This paper examines the generalisation of the Pickup and Delivery Problem that allows mid-route load exchanges among vehicles and obeys strict time-windows at all locations. We pro…
A decision support system for optimised industrial water management
Stavros Vatikiotis, Ioannis Avgerinos, Stathis Plitsos +1
Water scarcity and the low quality of wastewater produced in industrial applications present significant challenges, particularly in managing fresh water intake and reusing residua…
One Benders cut to rule all schedules in the neighbourhood
Ioannis Avgerinos, Ioannis Mourtos, Stavros Vatikiotis +1
Logic-Based Benders Decomposition (LBBD) and its Branch-and-Cut variant, namely Branch-and-Check, enjoy an extensive applicability on a broad variety of problems, including schedul…