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Total quality management and business process re-engineering: lessons for maintenance management
Total quality management and business process re-engineering: lessons for maintenance management
2000,
Competitive pressures on manufacturing organisations have obliged them to look at all...
On the time-dependent occupancy and backlog distributions for the GI/G/∞ queue
On the time-dependent occupancy and backlog distributions for the GI/G/∞ queue
1999,
We consider an infinite server queueing system. An examination of sample path dynamics...
Constrained service reliability under stochastic demand
Constrained service reliability under stochastic demand
2000,
Boronico considers the determination of ex ante service reliability in a price-taking,...
A Laplace transform representation in a class of renewal queueing and risk processes
A Laplace transform representation in a class of renewal queueing and risk processes
1999,
For a class of renewal queueing processes characterized by a rational...
Setups in polling models: Does it make sense to set up if no work is waiting
Setups in polling models: Does it make sense to set up if no work is waiting
1999,
We compare two versions of a symmetric two-queue polling model with switchover times...
Measuring research quality: Peer review 1, citation indices 0
Measuring research quality: Peer review 1, citation indices 0
2000,
This short note adds to the debate on the most effective way in which to measure...
A BMAP/SM/1 queuing system with Markovian arrival input of disasters
A BMAP/SM/1 queuing system with Markovian arrival input of disasters
1999,
Disaster arrival in a queuing system with negative arrivals causes all customers to...
On the transient delays of M/G/1 queues
On the transient delays of M/G/1 queues
1999,
A recent study on the GI/G/ 1 queue derives the Maclaurin series for the moments of...
Large buffer asymptotics for the queue with fractional Brownian input
Large buffer asymptotics for the queue with fractional Brownian input
1999,
In this paper, a strong asymptotic estimate for the queue content distribution of a...
Bounds for the total variation distance between the Binomial and the Poisson distribution in case of medium-sized success probabilities
Bounds for the total variation distance between the Binomial and the Poisson distribution in case of medium-sized success probabilities
1999,
In applied probability, the distribution of a sum of n independent Bernoulli random...
On a single server queue with negative arrivals and request repeated
On a single server queue with negative arrivals and request repeated
1999,
There is a growing interest in queueing systems with negative arrivals; i.e. where the...
Input control and dispatching rules in a dynamic constant work-in-process flow-shop
Input control and dispatching rules in a dynamic constant work-in-process flow-shop
2000,
The purpose of this paper is to study the input control and dispatching rules that...
Master production scheduling in capacitated sequence-dependent process industries
Master production scheduling in capacitated sequence-dependent process industries
2000,
Traditional approaches to planning and control of manufacturing (MRPII) focus on...
Evolutionary algorithms for flowshop sequencing with non-unique jobs
Evolutionary algorithms for flowshop sequencing with non-unique jobs
2000,
Sequencing problems are difficult combinatorial problems because of the extremely...
‘Aversion dynamics’ scheduling when the system changes
‘Aversion dynamics’ scheduling when the system changes
2000,
Real schedulers are observed to avoid scheduling rare and expensive jobs immediately...
Heuristics for minimizing total weighted tardiness in flexible flow shops
Heuristics for minimizing total weighted tardiness in flexible flow shops
2000,
Consider a flexible flow shop with s stages in series and at each stage a number of...
Parallel machine batching and scheduling with deadlines
Parallel machine batching and scheduling with deadlines
2000,
In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling n independent jobs non-preemptively...
A large step random walk for minimizing total weighted tardiness in a job shop
A large step random walk for minimizing total weighted tardiness in a job shop
2000,
We consider a job shop with m machines. There are n jobs and each job has a specified...
Decomposition methods for reentrant flow shops with sequence-dependent setup times
Decomposition methods for reentrant flow shops with sequence-dependent setup times
2000,
We consider the problem of scheduling a reentrant flow shop with sequence-dependent...
Non-bottleneck machines in three-machine flow shops
Non-bottleneck machines in three-machine flow shops
2000,
The paper deals with the classical problem of minimizing the makespan in a...
Resource augmentation in load balancing
Resource augmentation in load balancing
2000,
We consider load balancing in the following setting. The on-line algorithm is allowed...
New algorithms for related machines with temporary jobs
New algorithms for related machines with temporary jobs
2000,
We consider the on-line problem of assigning temporary jobs to related machines. In...
Applying extra-resource analysis to load balancing
Applying extra-resource analysis to load balancing
2000,
Previously, extra-resource analysis has been used to argue that certain on-line...
Fairness in parallel job scheduling
Fairness in parallel job scheduling
2000,
This paper introduces a new preemptive algorithm that is well suited for fair on-line...
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