Country: United States

Found 17049 papers in total
Optimal stopping in software testing
2003,
In this paper we address the problem of how to decide when to terminate the...
Job release control using a cyclic schedule
2002,
In just-in-time inventory management in any manufacturing setting, the general idea...
A study of the utilization of capacity constrained in drum–buffer–rope systems
2002,
Goldratt, the originator of the Theory of Constraints, maintains that only the...
Practice-focused research issues for scheduling systems
2002,
Scheduling research has had relatively little impact on manufacturing practice, yet...
Scheduling hybrid flowshops in printed circuit board assembly lines
2002,
We treat a three-stage hybrid flowshop for the production of printed circuit boards (...
The effectiveness of the longest delivery time rule for the flow shop delivery time problem
2003,
In the flow shop delivery time problem, a set of jobs has to be processed on m...
Using Lagrangean relaxation to minimize the weighted number of late jobs on a single machine
2003,
This paper tackles the general single machine scheduling problem, where jobs have...
Minimizing weighted earliness and tardiness penalties in single-machine scheduling with idle time permitted
2002,
In this paper, a single-machine scheduling problem with weighted earliness and...
A branch-and-price algorithm for a hierarchical crew scheduling problem
2002,
We describe a real-life problem arising at a crane rental company. This problem is a...
An index policy for a stochastic scheduling model with improving/deteriorating jobs
2002,
We consider stochastic scheduling models which have the natural character that jobs...
Adopting a plurality vote perspective
2002,
For three-alternative positional voting and decision methods, it is shown how to...
Implementing a distribution-network decision-support system at Pfizer/Warner–Lambert
2002,
We constructed a decision-support system (DSS) to help the distribution network of...
Assessment of cost uncertainties for large technology projects: A methodology and an application
2002,
Large projects, especially those planned and managed by government agencies, often...
Telephone call centers: Tutorial, review and research prospects
2003,
Telephone call centers are an integral part of many businesses, and their economic...
A general model of heterogeneous system lifetimes and conditions for system burn-in
2003,
Burn-in is a technique to enhance reliability by eliminating weak items from a...
Determination of burn-in parameters and residual life for highly reliable products
2003,
Today, many products are designed and manufactured to function for a long period of...
Reliability bounds for the New Better than Used in Expectation distributions
2002,
In this paper, we study upper and lower bounds on the reliability in new better than...
A bidirectional heuristic for maximizing the net present value of large-scale projects subject to limited resources
2003,
We consider the scheduling of large-scale projects to maximize the project net present...
A numerical analysis of capacitated postponement
2002,
Customer satisfaction can be achieved by providing rapid delivery of a wide variety of...
Scheduling with tool changes to minimize total completion time: A study of heuristics and their performance
2003,
The machine scheduling literature does not consider the issue of tool change. The...
Improving car body production at PSA Peugeot Citroën
2003,
In 1998, following a change in top management, the new CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën...
Papers per page: