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The job shop scheduling problem is an important and applicable optimization problem and has been attracted by many researchers in recent decades. A huge amount of applications of job shop scheduling problem in industries and services has been found yet. During the last decade, the sequence dependent setup time constraint has been considered in many researches, but with respect to the knowledge of authors, very few of these researches have considered the inseparable setup. Furthermore, few of them have considered the release date assumption. In this thesis, the classical job shop scheduling problem and the inseparable sequence dependent setup time and release date constrained problem have... 

Hub location problem arises where the flow has to be routed between a set of origins and destinations, but direct links between all nodes are impossible or too costly. In these situations, e.g. transportation and communication systems, hubs serve as transshipment points to collect, transfer, and distribute the flow. In hub location allocation problem, hubs are located and non-hub nodes are allocated to them. In this thesis, two different models of capacitated multiple allocation hub location problem are discussed. In the first model, flow collection of hubs from non-hub nodes and in the second model, sum of flow collection and distribution of hubs from/to non-hub nodes is addressed. The... 

Facility layout problem (FLP) is one of the classical problems that concern with planning for the placement of facilities. Two dimensional layout problem is one of the special layout problems that involves with the arrangement of facilities in non predefined shape. For solving the FLP, a number of information such as dimensions of facilities, relations between facilities, governing constrains etc., are required. But in the most research works, it has been assumed that the required information is precisely known. In this thesis, we challenge this assumption considering the size (length and width) of facilities as bounded variable parameters. In order to make the problem solvable in the sense... 

Recently, the multi-level and multi-facility industrial problem in supply chain management (SCM) has been widely investigated. Supply chain network design (SCND) is one of the most important strategic decisions in supply chain management. The problem is an important management problem in SCM and aggregates the strategic and tactical and operational level of supply chain planning. The supply networks comprise a number of manufacturing sites, a number of warehouses and distribution centers of unknown locations to be selected from a set of potential locations, and finally a number of customer zones at fixed locations. The system is modeled mathematically as a mixed-integer linear programming... 

Supply networks are often faced with disruptions that hampered the flow of goods, and have brought irreparable consequences. In this thesis, we evaluate the robustness of three echelon scale free supply chain networks consist of manufacturers, distributers and retailers from the perspective of complex network topologies and investigate the effect of assortativity and disassortativity level on the robustness of scale free supply networks. For this purpose, we use the degree preserving rewiring approach in order to increase and decrease assortativity and disassortativity of scale free networks. Then we use metrics in order to investigate the robustness and flexibility of supply networks and... 

Efficient location of health centers is an essential decesion in healthcare strategic planning. Nowadays constructing multi-service health centers is highly paid attention because of multiple nature of most diseases. Concentrating patients' medical services in one center prevents them from traveling to different parts of cities, especially in mega cities. In this research we have developed a mathematical model for the location of multi-service health centers assuming probabilistic demand and service time. Medical services are divided in three groups: normal, emergency and preventive. Since patients may be referred to another service after recieving a service by doctors' order, health system... 

Today, considering the challenges that have been raised around fossil fuels and energy consumption in recent years, efforts have been made to reduce as much as possible the number of vehicles that are personal or single-passenger on the streets. For this purpose, a concept called travel sharing has been proposed in online platforms and businesses, where travelers can travel part or all of their journey with other travelers, but pay less money. The purpose of this research is to solve the problem of allocation and accessibility of passengers and cars in travel-sharing systems. To move in this direction, we have used mathematical programming tools and designed online algorithms to solve this... 

Last decade witnessed a virtual explosion of information about customers and their priorities. This information gives some potentials to companies that increase their revenues, especially when new technologies make the possibility of changing prices with low costs. Simultaneously, companies had large development in dynamic management of supply chain in both internal operations of companies and their communications. Although pricing decisions have some effects on operations, but integration of operations and marketing are very common subjects in science and business. In this thesis, we consider the integration of dynamic pricing and ordering in a supply chain. Then, we present a dynamic... 

Train scheduling is a significant issue in the railway industry in recent years because it has an important role in railway infrastructure. In this paper, the timetabling problem of a multiple tracked railway network is discussed. More specifically, a general model with specific attention to “Tehran Metro” is presented here in which a set of operational and safety requirements are also considered. The model handles the trains overtaking in a station and innovatively considers the capacity of stations. An objective function is to minimize the total travel time. The problem is NP-hard so the real size problem cannot be solved in acceptable amount of time. In order to reduce the processing time... 

Nowadays, Resource Capacity Management (RCM) is one of the main challenges for industries which have a limited capacity to meet the demands. Revenue Management (RM) is a technique that controls the supply, improves the quality of Capacity Management and maximizes the revenue. Supplying the products and services to different groups of customers is a decision making problem.While the classic RM techniques take into account only the expected revenue, preferences of decision makers strongly affect the results. In this study, utility theory has been proposed because the healthcare industries are usually nonprofitable and they are not highly focused on the revenue gained by their products and... 

The location problem is one of the main topics at the strategic level. This problem is investigated along with many areas such as network design and path covering problems. Routing between source and destination nodes is done in such a way that maximizes traffic coverage and reduces costs as much as possible. Routing problems are considered in goods distribution areas and urban transit systems. Goods distribution from set of cross-docks can help to reduce costs and improve resource efficiency. So, this topic is considered in this research and a suitable model is proposed. Defining and developing of the road and rail transportation networks are main topics in urban traffic management which... 

Graph Labeling is one of the most active initiatives in graph theory which was introduced in the early 1960’s. One of the most prominent kind of labeling in literature is magic-type labeling inspired by defining magic numbers and magic squares. It also encompasses various types. Total edge magic labeling of Graph G, is a bijection f from V(G)∪E(G) on the set of {1,2,…,|V(G) |+|E(G) |}, on this condition that the summation of each edge label and its vertices’ labels is constant for all edges. Since introducing total edge magic labeling, numerous researches is done that mostly are dedicated to prove mathematical theorems and depicting a whether a distinct graph is magic or not. Therefore, it... 

The focus of this research is to present a model to verify the acceptance of projects with time and cost dependency on the usage of equipments. Decision on these projects is based on a dynamic programming in which at each stage, the profit of available projects in this stage, equipment value and the best choice of future stage are decision keys. In other words, after the completion of a project, it should be decided between doing a project or selling the equipment and leaving the remaining projects. For each projects, there is a product network that includes projects jobs and operations. After accepting projects, equipments of the projects will not be renewed and the usage of the equipments... 

Around 20 to 50 percent of the operation costs occurs in manufacturing is related to facility layout. Efficient design would reduce these costs by 10 to 30 percent. Facility layout consists of design of material handling system and plant layout. Design of material handling system includes determining, the flow network and locations of Pick-up and Delivery stations which are defined regarding to the kind of material handling equipment. Today, Automated Guided Vehicles are considered as the basic material handling equipment due to their potentials in production planning and controls, high safety and flexibility and low expenses.
In this thesis, we first discuss the design of the shortest... 

Einstein's general theory of relativity is an admirable successful and unifier geometrical modeling among concepts of space, time and gravity. This theory along with special theory of relativity made a massive change in our physical view and this, especially in its historical context, has deep and interesting consequences in man's philosophical viewpoint which can be studied. Some parts of this thesis relates to these consequences. Some of these interesting consequences may be hidden by computional or mathematical viewpoint and often these equations do not contain enough intuition. in one part, we provide a formulizatin of Einstein's equaion that is intuitional which can be translated in... 

Bitumen ageing is one of the principal factors causing the deterioration of asphalt pavements. Ageing is a complex process that is affected by different parameters.With the rapid growth of modified binders in road paving applications over the past twodecades, it is important to study the ageing properties of these binders. A number of laboratory methods are used tosimulatethe bitumenageing at various stages of the production and service of hot mix asphalt.Recent studies have shown that Superpave testing protocol does not fully address the ageing of modified binders. To study the ageing properties of modified binders, three different types of binder modifiers, plastomer, elastomer, and ground... 

Warm mix asphalt has received considerable attention over the past decade particularly due to its potential environmental benefit such as lower energy consumption and emission, its ability to be placed at lower ambient temperatures making it a suitable material for areas with short construction season. There are three warm mix asphalt (WMA) techniques are available; organic additive, foaming, and chemical additive. This study examined Sasobit, a micro crystalline wax which is an organic additive. The concentrations tested were 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 percent of the base binder. A PG 64-22 asphalt binder from an Iranian refinery (Tehran refinery) was used as the base binder. Superpave binder... 

In the first part, a novel electrochemical sensor based on nanocellulose-carbon nanoparticles (NC–CNPs) nanocomposite film modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) is developed for the analysis of metoclopramide (MCP). The electrochemical behavior of MCP was investigated on the surface of the modified electrode using cyclic voltammetry (CV). Characterization of the surface morphology and properties of NC/CNPs was carried out by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Effective experimental variables, such as scan rate, pH of the supporting electrolyte, drop size of the casted modifier suspension and accumulation...