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Found 17049 papers in total
Job scheduling and management of wearing tools with stochastic tool lifetimes
2007,
The problem of scheduling jobs using wearing tools is studied. Tool wearing is assumed...
Analysis of reactive deadlock-free scheduling in flexible job shops
2007,
Reactive scheduling is a procedure followed in production systems to react to...
A dynamic heuristic-based algorithm to part input sequencing in flexible manufacturing systems for mass customization capability
2007,
In the increasingly competitive global markets, enterprises face challenges in...
Operational flexibility quantification in a make-to-order assembly system
2007,
Manufacturing flexibility is becoming a fundamental production objective, along with...
Economic and strategic perspectives on investing in RMS and FMS
2007,
The evolution of manufacturing systems, according to changing internal and external...
Dynamic flexibility metrics for capability and capacity
2007,
In production environments, such as Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs), the...
A modular control design method for a flexible manufacturing cell including error handling
2007,
This paper introduces a new modular control design method for a cell controller with...
Impact of ramp-up on the optimal capacity-related reconfiguration policy
2007,
This paper presents an optimal solution, based on Markov decision theory, for the...
A modeling approach for evaluating capacity flexibilities in uncertain markets
2007,
The flexibility of production capacities is a means for coping with the challenges in...
Assessing capacity scalability policies in Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) using system dynamics
2007,
This paper presents a model for assessing different capacity scalability policies in...
Incremental medians via online bidding
2008,
In the k -median problem we are given sets of facilities and customers, and distances...
Itô–Skorohod stochastic equations and applications to finance
2004,
We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for a class of Itô–Skorohod...
Complete analysis of MAP/G/1/n queue with single (multiple) vacation(s) under limited service discipline
2005,
We consider a finite-buffer single-server queue with Markovian arrival process (MAP)...
Transient analysis of a fluid queue driven by a birth and death process suggested by a chain sequence
2005,
We analyse the transient behaviour of a fluid queue driven by a birth and death...
Using factorization in analyzing D-BMAP/G/1 queues
2005,
We demonstrate how one can use the factorization property to derive the queue-length...
A finite capacity bulk service queue with single vacation and Markovian arrival process
2004,
Vacation time queues with Markovian arrival process (MAP) are mainly useful in...
Multiobjective duality with ρ–(η, θ)-invexity
2005,
Under ρ–(η, θ)-invexity assumptions on the functions involved,...
An approximation algorithm for the capacitated arc routing problem
2008,
In this paper we consider approximation of the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem, which...
Recursive smoothers for hidden discrete-time Markov chains
2005,
We consider a discrete-time Markov chain observed through another Markov chain. The...
Comparing fundamentals of additive and multiplicative aggregation in ratio scale multi-criteria decision making
2008,
Additive and multiplicative aggregations of ratio scale preferences are frequently...
Mass customization of travel packages: data mining approach
2007,
This article employs a mass customization strategy to design travel packages that...
On a multidimensional oil exploration problem
2005,
This paper is concerned with optimal strategies for drilling in an oil exploration...
Long memory and structural breaks in the Spanish stock market index
2008,
It is well known that the Spanish stock market index (IBEX 35) exhibits unit roots....
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