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Integrated maintenance and production control of a deteriorating production system

Iravani, Seyed M. R.; Duenyas, Izak - 2002

We consider a make-to-stock production/inventory system consisting of a single deteriorating machine which produces a single item. We formulate the integrated decisions of maintenance and production using a Markov Decision Process. The optimal dynamic policy is shown to have a rather complex...

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A Pareto Model for OLAP View Size Estimation

Nadeau, Thomas P. - 2003

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) aims at gaining useful information quickly from large amounts of data residing in a data warehouse. To improve the quickness of response to queries, pre-aggregation is a useful strategy. However, it is usually impossible to pre-aggregate along all...

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Three Essays on Resource Allocation: Load Balancing on Highly Variable Service Time Networks, Managing Default Risk via Subsidies and Supplier Diversification, and Optimal Hotel Room Assignment.

Caudillo Fuentes, Luz Adriana E. - 2010

The first essay considers a service center with two stations in accordance with independent Poisson processes. Service times at either station follow the same general distribution, are independent of each other and are independent of the arrival process. The system is charged station-dependent...

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Creating Effective Global Virtual Teams: A Transactive Memory Perspective.

Oguntebi, Joy O. - 2009

utilizing team knowledge and it represents formations of collective memory within small groups. Within the knowledge management …

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Graphical user interfaces in an engineering educational environment

Depcik, Christopher; Assanis, Dennis N. - 2005

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are being increasingly used in the classroom to provide users of computer simulations with a friendly and visual approach to specifying all input parameters and increased configuration flexibility. In this study, the authors first describe a number of software...

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Time-average and asymptotically optimal flow control policies in networks with multiple transmitters

Bournas, Redha M.; Beutler, Frederick J.; Teneketzis, … - 1992

We consider M transmitting stations sending packets to a single receiver over a slotted time-multiplexed link. For each phase consisting of T consecutive slots, the receiver dynamically allocates these slots among the M transmitters. Our objective is to characterize policies that minimize the...

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An aspiration-level interactive model for multiple criteria decision making

Lotfi, Vahid; Stewart, Theodor J.; Zionts, Stanley - 1992

A simple, eclectic approach for solving discrete alternative multiple criteria decision problems is presented. It is based on the concept of the level of aspiration, and draws on ideas of various researchers. It assumes that the user has a set of alternatives with each alternative having a score...

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Supplier dependence and innovation: a contingency model of suppliers' innovative activities

Kamath, Rajan R.; Liker, Jeffrey K. - 1990

The management of innovation is a complex task and the management of suppliers' innovative activities is especially so …

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Manufacturing technology policy and deployment of processing innovations

Ettlie, John E. - 1988

This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm environment was significantly correlated with pioneering...

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Supply Risks and Asymmetric Information.

Yang, Zhibin - 2009

In the extant supply-risk management literature, most research assumes the manufacturer is as knowledgeable about … management under asymmetric information about supply disruption risk.In the first essay, we consider a supply chain with one ….In the second essay, we study the manufacturer's supply-risk management when it has a dual-sourcing option, that is, there …

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