In many automated manufacturing environments, particularly flowlines and flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), machines are arranged along a straight material handling track with a material handling ...

When confronted with a decision, humans regularly make judgments based on recent events or information that can be easily recalled. This is known as the availability heuristic. Says Kahneman, "The ...

When something in your vicinity happens, you know right away if it is good or right. When the traffic light on a busy road is red, you know not to cross and when it is green you can cross, but still ...

With excellent maneuverability, low operating costs and flexible deployment capabilities, UAVs have demonstrated significant application value in areas such as environmental monitoring, disaster ...

In my last two entries on this site, I discussed biases and heuristics. I wrote about them separately because I had plenty to say about both, which, for anyone who knows me, is not a surprise. What I ...

About 40 years ago Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky made some wonderful discoveries. They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, ...

Combinatorial optimisation problems, typified by tasks such as scheduling, routing, assignment and various knapsack variants, pose formidable challenges due to their exponential solution spaces and NP ...