Journal: Annals of Operations Research

Found 3339 papers in total
Alternative formulations of mixed integer programs
1988,
We study the formation of mixed-integer programming (MIP) constraints through the...
Analysis and evolution of basic strategies in investment planning for modern flexible technologies
1988,
Investment decisions for new technologies still contain a comparatively high degree of...
Knowledge-based manpower planning
1988,
The capacity performance of knowledge-based systems differs essentially from the one...
Rigid and flexible automation for manufacturing systems: Characterizing economically-reasonable investments
1988,
As flexible manufacturing technology has become available across a broad range of...
Measurement of loading and operations flexibility in flexible manufacturing systems: An information-theoretic approach
1988,
An information-theoretic approach is applied for measuring the flexibility in flexible...
A fuzzy multiobjective programming algorithm in decision support systems
1988,
Multicriteria analysis is one of the analytical functions in the problem processing...
Design rules of flexible assembly and inspection cells
1988,
Every leading institution and manufacturing company in the world is dealing with some...
ESPFAS-A prototype expert system for technological planning in robot-based flexible assembly systems
1988,
This paper describes an application of expert systems to the area of technological...
Stochastic design optimization of asynchronous flexible assembly systems
1988,
This paper presents the application of the stochastic quasigradient method (SQG) of...
Asymptotic marginal independence in large network of loss systems
1987,
Network models in which each node is a loss system frequently arise in telephony....
Allocating a joint setup in a multi-cell system
1988,
Consider a manufacturing system consisting of multiple cells; each cell processes a...
Impact of flexible machines on automated manufacturing systems
1988,
Although the problem of scheduling dynamic job shops is well studied, setup and...
An efficient method to determine the optimal configuration of a flexible manufacturing system
1988,
A frequently encountered design issue for a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is to...
Machine utilizations achieved using balanced FMS production ratios in a simulated setting
1988,
Stecke has developed mathematical programming approaches for determining, from a set...
Integrated production scheduling in large-scale flexible electronic parts manufacturing
1988,
This study reports the development of a production scheduling system for the...
Optimal dynamic routing in Flexible Manufacturing Systems with limited buffers
1988,
An optimal routing policy is obtained for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) with...
A supervisory control paradigm for real-time control of flexible manufacturing systems
1988,
Most of the current academic flexible manufacturing system (FMS) scheduling research...
Scheduling project networks with resource constraints and time windows
1988,
Project networks with time windows are generalizations of the well-known CPM and MPM...
Transform-free equations for the stationary waiting time distributions in the queue with Poisson arrivals and bulk services
1987,
The paper studies a queue with Poisson arrivals and a bulk service rule with two...
An empirical extension of the M/G/1 heavy traffic approximation
1987,
Numerical evaluation of waiting time distributions for M / G /1 systems is somewhat...
Approximating nonstationary Ph(t)/M(t)/s/c queueing systems
1987,
Nonstationary phase processes are defined and a surrogate distribution approximation...
Decomposition approximation of queueing-network control models with three structures
1987,
We devise a decomposition approximation method for a general branching queueing...
A sequential technique for the control of traffic intensity in Markovian queues
1987,
A sequential parameter control technique previously introduced by the author is...
An application of interactive analysis and computer graphics in stochastic modeling
1987,
This paper will describe the application of an interactive queueing network analyzer...
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