Journal: Naval Research Logistics

Found 1212 papers in total
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Optimal stopping in software testing
2003,
In this paper we address the problem of how to decide when to terminate the...
Scheduling of depalletizing and truck loading operations in a food distribution system
2003,
This paper studies a scheduling problem arising in a beef distribution system where...
Scheduling patients in an ambulatory surgical center
2003,
This paper presents a deterministic approach to schedule patients in an ambulatory...
Using hybrid metaheuristics for the one-way and two-way network design problem
2002,
A network with traffic between nodes is known. The links of the network can be...
Applying Lanchester's linear law to model the Ardennes campaign
2001,
In modern warfare, many believe the decisive factor in winning a battle is seizing the...
Optimal switchover times between two activities utilizing the same resource
2002,
The ‘gold-mining’ decision problem is concerned with the efficient...
Optimal service rates of a service facility with perishable inventory items
2002,
In this paper we optimally control service rates for an inventory system of service...
Note on ‘Deterministic inventory lot-size models under inflation with shortages and deterioration for fluctuating demand’ by Yang et al.
2002,
In a recent paper Yang et al . extended the lot-size models to allow for inflation and...
On the availability of R out of N repairable systems
2002,
An R out of N repairable system consists of N components and operates if at least R...
A self-adapting genetic algorithm for project scheduling under resource constraints
2002,
This paper deals with the classical resource-constrained project scheduling problem...
Warranty reserves for nonstationary sales processes
2002,
Estimation of warranty costs, in the event of product failure within the warranty...
Designing a screening experiment for highly reliable products
2002,
Within a reasonable life-testing time, how to improve the reliability of highly...
Inventory control under substitutable demand: A stochastic game application
2002,
Substitutable product inventory problem is analyzed using the concepts of stochastic...
A new importance sampling Monte Carlo method for a flow network reliability problem
2002,
The exact evaluation of the probability that the maximum st -flow is greater than or...
The multiplicative representation for multiple objectives optimization with an application for arms procurement
2002,
Multiple Objectives Optimization is much seen in combination with linear functions and...
A risk function for the stochastic modeling of electric capacity expansion
2001,
We present a stochastic optimization model for planning capacity expansion under...
On the use of second-order descriptors to predict queueing behavior of Markovian arrival processes
2002,
The contributions of this paper are the following: We derive a formula for the IDI...
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