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Analytic Models for When and How to Expedite in Make-to-Order Systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-11)
Expediting is defined as using overtime or subcontracting to supplement regular production. This is usually done when the number of backorders has grown to be unacceptably large. In this paper, we consider analytic models ...
A Pareto Model for OLAP View Size Estimation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-04)
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. ...
System Design and Implementation of a National Image Registry for Orthopaedic Oncology Image Management, Research and Teaching
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-12)
Orthopaedic oncology is highly dependent on imaging studies to diagnose and treat patients. However, many types of bone tumors are rare creating a lack of teaching and research cases. We have developed a system to locally ...
Expected move request waiting times in single-device, polling-based material handling systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
We present an analytical approach to approximate the expected waiting times of move requests (customers) served by a single handling device (server) that operates according to the First-Encountered-First-Served (FEFS) rule, ...
A Modeling Approach to Maintenance Decisions Using Statistical Quality Control and Optimization
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-06)
Maintenance concerns impact systems in every industry and effective maintenance policies are important tools. We present a methodology for maintenance decision making for deteriorating systems under conditions of uncertainty ...
Scheduling operations on parallel machine tools
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-05)
We introduce unique scheduling problems that arise for multiple spindle machine tools. The ability of these machines to perform simultaneous operations on more than one part creates constraints that are not found in the ...
Essays on Population Learning Dynamics and Boundedly Rational Behavior
(2009)
This dissertation contains four essays about evolutionary learning dynamics and the quantal response model of bounded rationality in game theory.
The first essay examines the use of single-agent and representative-agent ...