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Found 17049 papers in total
Scheduling in robotic cells: Classification, two and three machine cells
1997,
This paper considers the scheduling of operations in a manufacturing cell that...
Two-machine open shops with renewable resources
1997,
In open shops with renewable resources, an operation may require additional resources,...
Lot streaming in job-shop scheduling
1997,
The issue in Lot Streaming is how to split lots into sublets in order to improve the...
Data envelopment analysis and assurance regions for assessing small business development center efficiency and unique projections
1996,
The University of Houston (UH) Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) were...
Exact and approximation algorithms for the tactical fixed interval scheduling problem
1997,
The Tactical Fixed Interval Scheduling Problem (TFISP) is the problem of determining...
Modeling service-time distributions with non-exponential tails: Beta mixtures of exponentials
1999,
Motivated by interest in probability density functions (pdfs) with nonexponential...
Minimizing makespan in a class of reentrant shops
1997,
We study the problem of scheduling a chain-reentrant shop, in which each job goes for...
Ready-time scheduling with stochastic service times
1997,
A frequently encountered scheduling problem is to determine simultaneously a material...
Data mining by decomposition: Adaptive search for hypothesis generation
1999,
Data mining methods search large databases for interesting patterns that may lead to...
Cyclic scheduling in a stochastic environment
1997,
Cyclic or periodic schedules can be implemented in a job shop where demands for...
Conditions for quantile process approximations
1999,
Csörgö and Révész introduced a condition on the density of a...
Dynamic scheduling rules for a multiproduct make-to-stock queue
1997,
This paper develops a simple but effective heuristic policy for a stochastic...
Cyclic scheduling of identical parts in a robotic cell
1997,
We consider a robotic flowshop in which one type of product is to be repeatedly...
Hydrodynamical limits for epidemic models
1998,
Hydrodynamical limits of a spatial epidemic model are studied through the...
Rendezvous search on the line with more than two players
1997,
Suppose n blind, speed one, players are placed by a random permutation onto the...
An algorithm to calculate transient distributions of cumulative rate and impulse base reward
1998,
Markov reward models have been used to solve a wide variety of problems. In these...
Matrix-geometric invariant measures for GI/M/1 type Markov chains
1998,
Necessary and sufficient conditions for an irreducible Markov chain of G/M/1 type to...
Pricing of European options when the underlying stock price follows a linear birth–death process
1998,
This investigation considers a possible approach to price options if the underlying...
The market share impact of service failures
1999,
This paper develops a simple but powerful model that relates service...
Ergodicity conditions and Cesàro limit results for marked point processes
1998,
In Palm theory it is very common to consider several distributions to describe the...
Resource allocation to improve service quality perceptions in multistage service systems
1999,
Service quality improvement has become an imperative in today's service firms. In this...
Shot noise weighted processes: A new family of spatial point processes
1998,
This paper proposes a new family of spatial point processes defined by their density...
Measurement of multiple sites in service firms with data envelopment analysis
1999,
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has become an increasingly popular method to measure...
Point process models for self-similar network traffic, with applications
1998,
Self-similar processes based on fractal point processes (FPPs) provide natural and...
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