n cutting stock problems, after an optimal (minimal stockusage) cutting plan has been devised, one might want to further reducethe operational costs by minimizing the number of setups. A setupoperation occurs each time a different&...

In this paper, we address the irregular strip packing problem (or nesting problem) where irregular shapes have to be placed on strips representing a piece of material whose width is constant and length is virtually unlim...

In this paper, we present Social Network-based Education (SNE) and Learning Factory (LF) as emergent forms of education and training, including their application for the field of Quality Management. This novel learning method has some&#x...