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Developing a Feedback System for Work Units: A Field Experiment in Structural Change
(Sage Publications, 1980)
This study examines the effects of introducing an ongoing feedback system into 10 branches of a Midwestern bank. The feedback system was designed to facilitate collaborative control and problem solving in the branches and ...
Computational experience with a backtracking algorithm for solving a general class of precedence and resource-constrained scheduling problems
(Elsevier, 1990-11-06)
In this paper computational results are presented with a very general, yet powerful backtracking procedure for solving the duration minimization and net present value maximization problems in a precedence and resource-constrained ...
A simple proof of a primal 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 simpler proof of the result of Tsuchiya and Muramatsu on the convergence of the primal affine scaling method. We show that the primal sequence generated by the method converges to the interior ...
Competing against an in-house supplier
(Elsevier, 1989-08)
A not uncommon situation in industrial marketing is for an outside supplier to find itself competing against an in-house supplier. Knowing how to compete against an in-house supplier is of importance because industrial ...
Dreams: Where human resource development is headed to deliver value
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007)
No abstract.
Measuring the hedonic and utilitarian sources of consumer attitudes
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-04)
It has been suggested theoretically that consumer attitudes have distinct hedonic and utilitarian components, and that product categories differ in the extent to which their overall attitudes are derived from these two ...
Stochastic scheduling of parallel queues with set-up costs
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-12)
We consider the problem of allocating a single server to a system of queues with Poisson arrivals. Each queue represents a class of jobs and possesses a holding cost rate, general service distribution, and a set-up cost. ...
Analysis of the volatile combustion products of vinyl plastics
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1969-02)
The extensive use of plastics for insulation and building materials has created interest in the possible toxicity of their combustion products. Three poly(vinyl chloride) homopolymers, a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate ...
Tooling adjustment strategy for acceptable product quality in assembly processes
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-11)
This paper develops an approach to minimize the number of process tooling adjustments and deliver an acceptable fraction of non-conforming products based on given product quality specification limits in assembly processes. ...
An overview of lexicographic choice under uncertainty
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-12)
This overview focuses on lexicographic choice under conditions of uncertainty. First, lexicographic versions of traditional (von Neumann-Morgenstern) expected utility theory are described where the usual Archimedean axiom ...