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Found 17049 papers in total
Modeling tradeoffs in three-dimensional concurrent engineering: a goal programming approach
2005,
This paper proposes a goal-programming modeling approach to address three-dimensional...
Product Chain Decision Model (PCDM): a decision support modelling methodology for supply chain, product and process design decisions
2005,
While there is considerable pressure to improve the operation of supply chains, their...
Optimal return policy and modular design for build-to-order products
2005,
A build-to-order product gives the firm the opportunity to customize the product to...
Dynamic assortment with demand learning for short life-cycle consumer goods
2005,
This is an extended abstract of a paper that was a finalist in the Manufacturing and...
Stay or switch? An organizational behavior and management science joint classroom exercise
2002,
We use a simple probabilistic decision problem as the basis for a three-hour exercise...
Decision rings: Making decision trees visual and non-mathematical
2002,
The decision tree is widely used to represent and solve decision problems. Because it...
Teaching modeling in management science
2001,
The heart of Management Science is not the science of optimization or simulation, but...
The moral impotence of contemporary experts
2004,
Technological growth in developed and developing countries in the 20th century has...
When parametric sensitivity analysis is not enough
2001,
This article addresses the issue of structural vs. parametric sensitivity analysis in...
Teaching management science with spreadsheets: from decision models to decision support
2001,
The 1990s were a decade of enormous change for management science (MS) educators....
Causes of the decline of the business school management science course
2001,
The business school management science course is suffering serious decline. The...
Blitzograms – interactive histograms
2001,
This is an interactive paper to discuss the use of interactive graphics in statistical...
Integrated spreadsheets into a case-based MBA quantitative methods course: real managers make real decisions
2000,
In discussing how the availability of spreadsheet technology has impacted our required...
Exact likelihood inference for the exponential distribution under generalized type-I and type-II hybrid censoring
2004,
Chen and Bhattacharyya considered a hybrid censoring scheme and obtained the exact...
Teaching business statistics with Microsoft Excel
2000,
This article discusses the use of Excel in the introductory course in statistics in...
Discriminating between the Weibull and log-normal distributions
2004,
Log-normal and Weibull distributions are the most popular distributions for modeling...
Bivariate models from univariate life distributions: a characterization cum modeling approach
2004,
Bivariate life distribution models are of importance for studying interdependent...
The case for a standard model description for process simulation
2005,
Over the past forty years, simulation and process modelling has progressed from a new...
Supply chain simulation tools and techniques: a survey
2005,
The main contribution of this paper is twofold: it surveys different types of...
Business process modelling using discrete-event simulation: current opportunities and future challenges
2005,
Competitive pressures and global business trends urge many organisations to radically...
Spreadsheets as a tool for teaching simulation
2000,
Simulation can be a difficult subject to teach, as most commercial software requires...
Discrete-time queues with generally distributed service times and renewal-type server interruptions
2004,
In this contribution, we investigate a discrete-time single-server queue subjected to...
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