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Quality Function Deployment (QFD) processes in an integrated quality information system
(Elsevier, 1989)
A general design of an integrated total quality information system involving the Quality Function Deployment process is proposed in this paper. Data flow diagram is used to illustrate the structure of the information system. ...
Time-average and asymptotically optimal flow control policies in networks with multiple transmitters
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-10)
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 ...
Optimal Pricing and Admission Control in a Queueing System with Periodically Varying Parameters
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-07)
We consider congestion control in a nonstationary queueing system. Assuming that the arrival and service rates are bounded, periodic functions of time, a Markov decision process (MDP) formulation is developed. We show under ...
A Reach and Bound algorithm for acyclic dynamic-programming networks
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-08)
Node pruning is a commonly used technique for solution acceleration in a dynamic-programming network. In pruning, nodes are adaptively removed from the dynamic programming network when they are determined not to lie on an ...
Performance evaluation for systems of pooled machines of unequal sizes: Unbalancing versus balancing
(Elsevier, 1989-09-05)
This research explores the appropriateness of unbalancing the workload per machine in certain types of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) configured as pooled machines of unequal sizes. Studies are conducted to examine ...
Random Demand Satisfaction in Unreliable Production–Inventory–Customer Systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-02)
A method for calculating the probability of customer demand satisfaction in production–inventory–customer systems with Markovian machines, finite finished goods buffers, and random demand is developed. Using this method, ...
Models and model value in stochastic programming
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-12)
Finding optimal decisions often involves the consideration of certain random or unknown parameters. A standard approach is to replace the random parameters by the expectations and to solve a deterministic mathematical ...
Flexible automation investments: A problem formulation and solution procedure
(Elsevier, 1994-12-22)
In this paper, a multi-period replacement model, based on a mixed integer nonlinear programming formulation, is developed for flexible automation investments. The model takes into account the costs, benefits and effective ...
Control of manufacturing networks which contain a batch processing machine
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-11)
We consider the control of a batch processing machine which is part of a larger manufacturing network of machines. Systems consisting of a batch processing machine and one or more unit-capacity machines in tandem are ...