Flexible Job Shop Optimization with Simulated Annealing

In this paper, a Simulated Annealing (SA) implementation for a Flexible Job Shop Problem (FJSP), with change-over time, is presented. <br/> This implementation is compared to a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) optimization, to compare performances. <br/> The SA algorithm starts with creating the first schedule with Global Selection. <br/>...

Nourishment strategies for the Ameland Inlet

Sea level rise poses challenges to the tidal inlet systems of the Wadden Sea, including the barrier islands. If no measures are taken, the shorelines of the islands will retreat and the basins may drown. In the Ameland Inlet, the Boschplaat at the eastern tip of Ameland and Bornrif at the western tip of Terschelling are currently shrinking. <br/...

Local Government Responses to the Emergence of Social Citizen Platforms

Digital platforms have worldwide transformed the way citizens organise themselves to address public issues, resulting in social citizen platforms that affect traditional forms of public service delivery. Simultaneously, governments seek a smaller, partner-level role in public service delivery. Governments therefore both have an interest in...

Designing a tool for agile management in advisory firm X

The FinancialServices(FS) industry of advisory is inter- ested in the agile methodology and its practices. There are two reasons for this interest: first of all their clients, banks, are interested in these methods for their process management. Second, in order to keep up with the competition they need be up to date with new methods and...

Entering RDM

Central station for the RDM area, being energy neutral and made of materials