Planning & scheduling has made some amazing progress in the past 20 years, a period when numerous site engineers felt that utilizing formal planning was unnecessary to everyday operations and a period expending diversion. ...

Sugarcane industry in Egypt goes back to the year 710 AD. Cane plantations are concentrated in the area of Upper Egypt. The total amount of cane cultivated in Upper Egypt is about 16 million tons per year. There are eight ...

Genetic algorithms (GAs) and simulated annealing (SA) are two important search methods that have been used successfully in solving difficult problems such as combinatorial optimization problems. Genetic algorithms are ...

This study investigates whether the necessary preconditions for applying a citizen-centered approach exist in the relationship between Egyptian citizens abroad and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (represented by diplomatic ...

Classi cation is a central problem in the elds of data mining and machine learning. Using a training set of labeled instances, the task is to build a model (classi er) that can be used to predict the class of new ...

Wastewater containing heavy metal constituents are mainly generated from industrial processes, such as electric battery manufacturing, lead smelting and glass industry. Heavy metals are very dangerous and carcinogenic due ...

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the Afghan government's relationship with the Pashtun communities affects the group's acquiescence and support, thereby creating a less belligerent and more stable environment. ...

Agile manufacturing is concerned with thriving in prevailing market conditions by quickly introducing new or modified products. This research deals with the scheduling of an agile manufacturing system (AMS), which performs ...

Al-Ghazālī's name and his book Iḥyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn are attached to self-purification, which is an essential part in the religion of Islam. This study does not seek to analyze all the details of al-Ghazālī's program to purify ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gained considerable hype both on practical and academic plateaus in recent decades. While, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in specific have been active in their quest to offer alternative ...