Journal: Computers and Operations Research

Found 2748 papers in total
Tool capacity planning in semiconductor manufacturing
2003,
The demand for distinct wafer types in semiconductor manufacturing is an explicit...
Visualizing group decisions in the analytic hierarchy process
2003,
Over the past 25 years, the analytic hierarchy process has been applied by groups of...
Decision counseling for men considering prostate cancer screening
2003,
One in six men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes; and the risk of dying...
Capacity expansion for a loss system with exponential demand growth
2003,
We study a loss system to forecast the demand for capacity based on the forecast...
FACOPT: a user friendly FACility layout OPTimization system
2003,
The facility layout problem is a well-researched one. However, few effective and user...
An algorithm for an inventory model with inventory-level-dependent demand rate
2003,
In 1990, Datta and Pal discussed an infinite time-horizon deterministic inventory...
A global optimum search algorithm for the joint replenishment problem under power-of-two policy
2003,
In this study, we perform theoretical analysis and derive a global optimum search...
Computation of bounds for transient measures of large rewarded Markov models using regenerative randomization
2003,
In this paper we generalize a method (called regenerative randomization) for the...
A genetic algorithm with a mixed region search for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem
2003,
This paper presents a genetic algorithm to solve the asymmetric traveling salesman...
Allocation of service time in a two-server system
2003,
Consider a two-server first-come-first-served queueing model where servers are...
A cross-border transportation system under supply and demand constraints
2003,
In this study of a transportation problem of an electronic manufacturer in Hong Kong,...
An integrated dispatching model for rail yards operations
2003,
Rail yards dispatcher must determine (1) how cars are transferred from one inbound...
Branch and peg algorithms for the simple plant location problem
2003,
The simple plant location problem is a well-studied problem in combinatorial...
Location models for airline hubs behaving as M/D/c queues
2003,
Models are presented for the optimal location of hubs in airline networks, which take...
Measuring the effect of a new point of sale system on the performance of drugstore operations
2003,
A new electronic point of sale (POS) system was deployed by a Hong Kong...
Staff scheduling at the United States Postal Service
2003,
The purpose of this paper is to present a full-scale model of the tour scheduling...
Models for a family of products with shelf life, and production and shortage costs in emerging markets
2003,
Many industrial products have very short life cycles as well as shelf-life...
An integrated multi-lot-size production inventory model for deteriorating item
2003,
The integration of production and inventory model is one of the key factors of...
Performance analysis and buffer allocations in some open assembly systems
2003,
This paper considers a finite capacity fork–join queueing model for open...
Parallel machine earliness and tardiness scheduling with proportional weights
2003,
In this paper we study the problem of scheduling n jobs with a common due date and...
Single hoist cyclic scheduling with multiple tanks: A material handling solution
2003,
A hoist controlled by a computer is widely used for moving electroplates which are...
Using multi-layered perceptron networks to design a production scheduling system
2003,
This paper investigates the application of artificial neural networks to the problem...
A multi-population genetic algorithm to solve multi-objective scheduling problems for parallel machines
2003,
In this paper we propose a two-stage multi-population genetic algorithm (MPGA) to...
A linear programming based algorithm for the data association problem in multitarget tracking
2003,
In this work we present a linear programming (LP) based approach for solving the data...
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