Country: Switzerland

Found 927 papers in total
Heuristic methods for arranging blades to minimize rotor unbalance
1993,
Rotor unbalance in turbomachinery is minimized by allocating rotor blades to specific...
Guaranteed approximation of Markov chains with applications to multiplexer engineering in ATM networks
1994,
Discrete Markov chains are applied widely for analysis and design of high speed ATM...
Optimal layout of tree networks using Genetic Algorithms
1993,
Two alternative Genetic Algorithm methods for the optimal selection of the layout and...
Maximum entropy flows for single-source networks
1993,
This paper was prompted by growing evidence that Shannon’s measure of...
G-networks: A unifying model for neural and queueing networks
1994,
The paper surveys results concerning a new stochastic network that was developed, and...
Optimal bounding of curves by continuous piecewise linear functions
1993,
This paper presents a numerical method to solve a class of optimization problems which...
A global approach for nonlinear mixed discrete programming in design optimization
1993,
Most current nonlinear mixed discrete programs can only find locally optimal...
A Bayesian interpretation of the linearly-constrained cross-entropy minimization problem
1993,
Both the linearly-constrained minimum cross-entropy (LCMXE) method and the Bayesian...
Mixed-discrete nonlinear optimization with simulated annealing
1993,
A global optimization algorithm for solving mixed-discrete nonlinear optimization...
A methodology for stochastic optimization of multiple response simulation models
1993,
Simulation has become one of the most popular tools for the design and analysis of...
Travel times in queueing networks and network sojourns
1994,
The paper first describes expected values of sojourn times for semi-stationary (or...
A survey of product form queueing networks with blocking and their equivalences
1994,
Queueing network models have been extensively used to represent and analyze resource...
Entropy maximisation and queueing network models
1994,
Over recent years it has become increasingly evident that ‘classical’...
Pseudo-cyclic policies for multi-queue single server systems
1994,
In this paper the authors evaluate the waiting time performance of cycle-time guided...
Numerical computation of response time distributions using stochastic reward nets
1994,
The authors consider the numerical computation of response time distributions for...
Bounding the performance of tandem queues with finite buffer spaces
1994,
The authors consider a queueing system with three single servers in tandem with two...
Upper and lower bounds for the waiting time in the symmetric shortest queue system
1994,
In this paper the authors compare the exponential symmetric shortest queue system with...
Towards better multi-class parametric-decomposition approximations for open queueing networks
1994,
Methods are developed for approximately characterizing the departure process of each...
Approximate analysis of a Gordon-Newell like non-product-form queueing network
1994,
This paper is tutorial in nature. It demonstrates how a particular heuristic extension...
A decomposition approximation method for multiclass BCMP queueing networks with multiple-server stations
1994,
Closed multiclass separable queueing networks can in principle be analyzed using exact...
Stochastic bounds for a polling system
1994,
In this note the authors consider two queueing systems: a symmetric polling system...
Effects of service disciplines in G/GI/s queueing systems
1994,
Transient extremal properties of some service disciplines are established in the...
Local balance in queueing networks with positive and negative customers
1994,
This paper investigates to what extent a recently developed new product form result...
Geometric equilibrium distributions for queues with interactive batch departures
1994,
Gelenbe et al. consider single server Jackson networks for queues which contain both...
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