Found 97029 papers in total
An analysis of customer satisfaction with waiting times in a two-stage service process
1990,
A purely operational approach to providing customer service measures the speed of the service in terms of...
Enhancing the customer contact model
1990,
Most services are provided in the presence of the customer. In most service operations, the customer is...
Nondeterministic polling systems
1991,
A nondeterministic polling system is considered in which a single server serves a number of stations. The...
Dynamic simulation of mobile robot navigation in warehousing environments
1991,
This paper deals with the graphic simulation package developed to simulate mobile robots working in...
Three-dimensional packing-Solution approaches and heuristic development
1991,
Computer solutions to three-dimensional packing problems typically involve the application of one or more...
Modelling the effects of traffic congestion on JIT
1991,
Increasing traffic congestion in many parts of the world threatens to disrupt the reliable transport...
The pallet packing problem for non-uniform box sizes
1991,
The authors consider an important problem in the design of material handling systems in a flexible...
Probabilistic routing problems in the plane
1991,
Probabilistic routing problems are generalized versions of deterministic routing problems with explicit...
The national model of Sweden
1991,
National agricultural systems are highly independent, and yet major policy options exist at the national...
Improving sea food consumption of the poor in Chile
1991,
This paper describes a research study done to determine if a sea food product can be developed to increase...
Effects of the diffusion of computational methods in the Brazilian agriculture: The use of data processing in dairy cooperatives
1991,
In recent years Brazil has seen a wide dissemination of the so called scientific methods within the...
An application of mixed-integer linear programming to the solution of the manure problem in the Netherlands
1991,
In the Netherlands there is a serious manure problem. New legislation restricts the application of manure....
The impact of risk attitude on the optimal compensation plan in a multi-product situation
1991,
This paper examines the role of uncertainty and risk in determining the optimal commission rates a company...
The optimization of the collections and deliveries of the Irish Postal Service
1991,
The logistical problems associated with the collection and delivery of mail by a national postal service...
Community operational research: Thinking globally whilst acting locally
1991,
This paper consider the elements of the ‘crisis’ in operational research which has been...
Policy-oriented impact assessment of climatic variations
1991,
IIASA organized a Task Force Meeting (held in late June 1986) to undertake a policy-oriented assessment of...
Dynamic vehicle scheduling: An expert systems approach
1991,
The dynamic vehicle scheduling problem for a shipper involves managing transport of freight originating at...
Environmental prospects for the next century: Implications for long-term policy and research strategies
1991,
This report examines environmental prospects for the twenty-first century, and then suggests some...
Interregional air pollutant transport: The linearity question
1991,
This report contains extended abstracts from an international meeting held in Budapest, Hungary. Its main...
Scenarios for socioeconomic development for studies of global environmental change: A critical review
1991,
This study (1)critically reviews existing studies of global trends in population, agriculture, and energy...
The industry technology life cycle: An integrating meta-model?
1991,
This report attempts to answer a rather deep question: To what extent can ‘pure’ economics...
Optimal growth paths with exhaustible resources: An information-based model
1991,
This theoretical paper is a contribution to the basic theory of economic growth. It provides for an...
Self-organization in biology and economics
1991,
This report reviews some of the basic relationships between energy, entropy, order, and information,...
Convergence of multiperiod equilibrium calculations, with geomatric distributed lag demand
1991,
With distributed lags, demand is a function of the price in both the current and earlier periods. The...
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