Journal: Naval Research Logistics

Found 1212 papers in total
The single-machine absolute-deviation early-tardy problem with random completion times
1996,
The authors consider sequencing n jobs on a single machine subject to job completion...
Using multiple searchers in constrained-path, moving-target search problems
1996,
The search theory open literature has paid little, if any, attention to the...
The vehicle-routing problem with delivery and back-haul options
1996,
This article considers a version of the vehicle-routing problem (VRP): A fleet of...
A fast infiltration game on n arcs
1996,
Starting from a safe base, an Infiltrator tries to reach a sensitive zone within a...
The Individual Station technique for the analysis of cyclic polling systems
1996,
Polling systems are used to model a wide variety of real-world applications, for...
Inventory models of future supply uncertainty with single and multiple suppliers
1996,
The authors consider order-quantity/reorder-point inventory models where the...
On the value of information in dynamic production/inventory problems under forecast evolution
1996,
This article explores how total system costs and inventory positions are affected when...
Scheduling workers in a constricted area
1996,
A generalization of the equi-partitioning problem, termed the 2D-Partition Problem, is...
Adaptive search for solving hard project scheduling problems
1996,
In this article the authors propose a new heuristic solution technique for...
Minimizing quality control costs for laboratory instruments using information delays
1996,
This paper proposes the use of a cost-based statistical process control system for...
Compound Poisson approximation in systems reliability
1996,
The compound Poisson ‘local’ formulation of the Stein-Chen method is...
A compound measure of dependability for systems modeled by continuous-time absorbing Markov processes
1996,
The Markov analysis of reliability models frequently involves a partitioning of the...
Cyclic scheduling in flow lines: Modeling observations, effective heuristics and a cycle time minimization procedure
1996,
In this paper the authors address the cyclic scheduling problem in flow lines. They...
Scheduling jobs that are subject to failure propagation
1996,
A single machine is available to process a collection of stochastic tasks. Processing...
Simultaneous optimization of efficiency and performance balance measures in single-machine scheduling problems
1996,
n independent jobs are to be scheduled nonpreemptively on a single machine so as to...
Optimal control of continuous-time terminal-value birth-and-death processes and airline overbooking
1996,
Consider a continuous-time airline overbooking problem that relates to a single-leg...
Multilinear extensions and quotients of simple games
1996,
Studied here is the problem of evaluating the formation of coalitions in cooperative...
Ripples, complements, and substitutes in generalized networks
1996,
The authors extend the qualitative theory of sensitivity analysis for minimum-cost...
Combination setwise-Bonferroni-type bounds
1996,
The paper considers three classes of lower bounds to P(c)=p(X 1 •c 1 ,...,X n...
Detection of minimal forecast horizons in dynamic programs with multiple indicators of the future
1996,
Many sequential planning problems can be represented as a shortest path problem in an...
A lost sales (S-1,s) perishable inventory system with renewal demand
1996,
This article analyzes a one-to-one ordering perishable inventory model with renewal...
A simple approximation for a multistage capacitated production-inventory system
1996,
The authors develop a simple approximation for multistage production-inventory systems...
Recursive evaluation of order-up-to-S policies for two-echelon inventory systems with compound Poisson demand
1996,
The authors consider an inventory system with one warehouse and N retailers. All...
The equivalence of general set-covering and implicit integer programming formulations for shift scheduling
1996,
In a recent article the authors demonstrated that implicit optimal modeling for shift...
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