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Found 17049 papers in total
A Little's result approach to the service constrained spares provisioning problem for repairable items
A Little's result approach to the service constrained spares provisioning problem for repairable items
1997,
A set of identical machines are deployed to meet a known and constant demand. If a...
Vendor selection with bundling: A comment
Vendor selection with bundling: A comment
1999,
In a recent article by Rosenthal, Zydiak, and Chaudhry, a mixed integer linear...
On the relationship between inventory costs and variety benefits in retail assortments
On the relationship between inventory costs and variety benefits in retail assortments
1999,
Consider a category of product variants distinguished by some attribute such as color...
Simulating project work processes and organizations: Toward a micro-contingency theory of organizational design
Simulating project work processes and organizations: Toward a micro-contingency theory of organizational design
1999,
The Virtual Design Team (VDT) extends and operationalizes Galbraith's...
Process planning for aluminum tubes: An engineering-operations perspective
Process planning for aluminum tubes: An engineering-operations perspective
1996,
Metal-forming operations such as extrusion, drawing, and rolling offer many...
Strategic valuation of investment under competition
Strategic valuation of investment under competition
1999,
The most serious problem with the widely used discounted-cash-flow (DCF) methods of...
Predictive dialing for outbound telephone call centers
Predictive dialing for outbound telephone call centers
1999,
In the late 1980s, I used queuing and simulation to invent predictive dialing, a...
Profits and productivity
Profits and productivity
1999,
In this study we consider the linkage between productivity change and profit change....
Customer satisfaction for financial services: The role of products, services, and information technology
Customer satisfaction for financial services: The role of products, services, and information technology
1999,
In this paper, we study the drivers of customer satisfaction for financial services....
Process variation as a determinant of bank performance: Evidence from the retail banking study
Process variation as a determinant of bank performance: Evidence from the retail banking study
1999,
This paper explores the relation between retail banks' branch-based processes and...
Operations, quality, and profitability in the provision of banking services
Operations, quality, and profitability in the provision of banking services
1999,
We develop a framework for combining strategic benchmarking with efficiency...
Innovations in financial services, relationships, and risk sharing
Innovations in financial services, relationships, and risk sharing
1999,
Relationships between intermediaries and their customers have become increasingly...
Organizational form and efficiency: The coexistence of stock and mutual property-liability insurers
Organizational form and efficiency: The coexistence of stock and mutual property-liability insurers
1999,
This article introduces a new approach, cross-frontier analysis, for estimating the...
Profitability and marketability of the top 55 US commercial banks
Profitability and marketability of the top 55 US commercial banks
1999,
Utilizing recent developments in data envelopment analysis (DEA), this paper examines...
Optimal service and arrival rates in Jackson queueing networks
Optimal service and arrival rates in Jackson queueing networks
2000,
In this paper we present an algorithm for solving a class of queueing network design...
A decomposition theorem for polling models: The switchover times are effectively additive
A decomposition theorem for polling models: The switchover times are effectively additive
1996,
We consider the classical polling model: queues served in cyclic order with either...
Scheduling a make-to-stock queue: Index policies and hedging points
Scheduling a make-to-stock queue: Index policies and hedging points
1996,
A single machine produces several different classes of items in a make-to-stock mode....
Fire simulations in the Everglades landscape using parallel programming
Fire simulations in the Everglades landscape using parallel programming
1996,
Fire can significantly influence vegetation patterns in the Everglades. Unfortunately,...
Queue-length distribution for the discriminatory processor-sharing queue
Queue-length distribution for the discriminatory processor-sharing queue
1996,
In this paper, we study a multiple class discriminatory processor-sharing queue. The...
Monotone labelings in polygonal tilings
Monotone labelings in polygonal tilings
1996,
Labeling the vertices of a finite sequence of polygonal tilings with fewest...
Using product profiling to illustrate manufacturing–marketing misalignment
Using product profiling to illustrate manufacturing–marketing misalignment
1999,
In their July-August 1998 (IAOR 68306) article, Hill, Menda, and Dilts described...
Cooperative multiobjective decision support for the paper industry
Cooperative multiobjective decision support for the paper industry
1999,
We built and deployed a decision-support system for scheduling paper manufacturing and...
Industry clockspeed: Measurement and operational implications
Industry clockspeed: Measurement and operational implications
1999,
We argue that industries and industry segments are characterized by a clockspeed that...
A production line that balances itself
A production line that balances itself
1996,
In ‘bucket brigade’ manufacturing, such as recently introduced to the...
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