Harker Patrick T.

Patrick T. Harker

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Found 28 papers in total
Coordinating supply chains with competition: Capacity allocation in semiconductor manufacturing
2004
This paper, motivated by the experiences of a major US-based semiconductor...
Capacity sizing in the presence of a common shared resource: dimensioning an inbound call center
2003
This paper studies a capacity sizing problem for service systems where capacity is...
Ranking decision-making units with infeasible super-efficiency data envelopment analysis models
2002
It has been suggested in the data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature that it is...
Competition and outsourcing with scale economies
2002
Scale economies are commonplace in operations, yet because of analytical challenges,...
Modeling a phone center: Analysis of a multichannel, multiresource processor shared loss system
2001
This paper presents a model for the study of operations at an inbound call center. The...
Computing performance measures in a multi-class multi-resource processor-shared loss system
2000
This paper develops methods to compute performance measures in a specific type of loss...
Case-based reasoning for repetitive combinatorial optimization problems, Part II: Numerical results
1997
This paper presents numerical results from the application of a case-based reasoning...
Case-based reasoning for repetitive combinatorial optimization problems, Part I: Framework
1996
This article presents a case-based reasoning approach for the development of learning...
Continuation method for nonlinear complementarity problems via normal maps
1999
In a recent paper by Chen and Mangasarian a class of parametric smoothing functions...
Measuring aggregate process performance using the analytic hierarchy process
1999
When one undertakes a benchmarking study, it is quite typical to collect performance...
Predicting on-time performance in scheduled railroad operations: Methodology and application to train scheduling
1998
In previous work, the authors developed an analytical line delay model for analyzing...
Predicting on-time line-haul performance in scheduled railroad operations
1996
This paper considers the problem of predicting on-time performance on a partially...
A continuation method for monotone variational inequalities
1995
This paper presents a continuation method for monotone variational inequality problems...
A nonsmooth Newton method for variational inequalities, I: Theory
1994
This paper presents a modified damped Newton algorithm for solving variational...
A nonsmooth Newton method for variational inequalities, II: Numerical results
1994
This paper presents the results of extensive computational testing of the modified...
Real-time scheduling of freight railroads
1995
This article presents a model for the optimization of freight trains schedules that is...
Services and technology: Reengineering the railroads
1995
In the service-sector, productivity improvements due to technology investments are...
Pricing of track time in railroad operations: An internal market approach
1994
This paper presents a computable equilibrium model of an internal market for track...
Generalized Nash games and quasi-variational inequalities
1991
A generalized Nash game is an n- person noncooperative game with nondisjoint strategy...
A penalty function approach for mathematical programs with variational inequality constraints
1991
The problem of solving a mathematical programme with variational inequality or...
Globally effective questioning in the analytic hierarchy process
1990
A drawback in the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is the effort required...
Two moments estimation of the delay on single-track rail lines with scheduled traffic
1990
A substantial literature exists on the estimation of the delay function for a...
Tactical scheduling of rail operations: The SCAN I system
1991
This paper presents an overview of a decision-support model for the tactical...
Finite-dimensional variational inequality and nonlinear complementarity problems: A survey of theory, algorithms and applications
1990
Over the past decade, the field of finite-dimensional variational inequality and...
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