When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a "do-si-do" ...

Dynamic optimization and optimal control problems form the backbone of numerous applications in engineering, economics and the natural sciences. These methodologies involve determining a time-varying ...

Two dynamic programming approaches for treating sequencing problems-one proposed by Schrage and Baker and the other by Lawler-are discussed in the context of an assembly line balancing problem. A ...