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Evaluation and derivation of process plans in turning
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1996-05)
The objective of this paper is to formalize process planning selection to minimise the total processing time and the total number of processing steps. The study is performed by defining the processes and part description ...
Integrating facility location and production planning decisions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
We consider a metric uncapacitated facility location problem where we must assign each customer to a facility and meet the demand of the customer in future time periods through production and inventory decisions at the ...
Call Center Staffing with Simulation and Cutting Plane Methods
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
We present an iterative cutting plane method for minimizing staffing costs in a service system subject to satisfying acceptable service level requirements over multiple time periods. We assume that the service level cannot ...
Planning and scheduling approaches to operate a particular FMS
(Elsevier, 1992-09-25)
This paper contains a detailed description of a thirteen machine COMAU FMS for a company in Torino, Italy. The monthly and daily problems that need to be addressed and the approaches that are suggested to operate this ...
Modeling and compensation of geometric errors in simultaneous cutting using a multi-spindle machine tool
(Springer-Verlag, 2006-01-18)
A volumetric error compensation method for a machining center that has multiple cutting tools operating simultaneously has been developed. Due to axis sharing, the geometric errors of multi-spindle, concurrent cutting ...
The primal power affine scaling method
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-12)
In this paper, we present a variant of the primal affine scaling method, which we call the primal power affine scaling method. This method is defined by choosing a real r >0.5, and is similar to the power barrier variant ...
A microcomputer based decision support tool for assigning dock doors in freight yards
(Elsevier, 1990)
This paper addresses issues at the shipping/receiving dock of a shipping company, where trucks come in from venders, get their shipments unloaded and reloaded onto trucks going to the customers. The assignment of dock doors ...
Feedback stabilization of control systems described by a class of nonlinear differential-algebraic equations
(Elsevier, 1990-07)
A theoretical framework for the stabilization of control systems defined by a class of nonlinear differential-algebraic equations is established. Assumptions are stated which guarantee that the nonlinear differential-algebaric ...
Load planning for shipments of low density products
(Elsevier, 1990-01-25)
This paper presents a complex computer-based heuristic procedure for sizing customer orders and developing three dimensional load diagrams for rail and truck shipment of low density products. This heuristic procedure was ...
A survey of solution techniques for the partially observed Markov decision process
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-12)
We survey several computational procedures for the partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP) that have been developed since the Monahan survey was published in 1982. The POMDP generalizes the standard, completely ...