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On the Introduction of an Agile, Temporary Workforce into a Tandem Queueing System
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-10)
We consider a two-station tandem queueing system where customers arrive according to a Poisson process and must receive service at both stations before leaving the system. Neither queue is equipped with dedicated servers. ...
Latent class metric conjoint analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-07)
A latent class methodology for conjoint analysis is proposed, which simultaneously estimates market segment membership and part-worth utilities for each derived market segment using mixtures of multivariate conditional ...
Evolutionary diffusion: internal and external methods used to acquire encompassing, complementary, and incremental technological changes in the lithotripsy industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-11)
This study links theories concerning methods that firms use to acquire technology with theories concerning types of technological change. We place particular emphasis on interorganizational relationships. We predict that ...
Where do capabilities come from and how do they matter? A study in the software services industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-01)
Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the notion of capabilities as an important source of competitive advantage. This recognition has, in turn, placed emphasis on the question of where and how these capabilities ...
Economics, Psychology, and Social Dynamics of Consumer Bidding in Auctions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
With increasing numbers of consumers in auction marketplaces, we highlight some recent approaches that bring additional economic, social, and psychological factors to bear on existing economic theory to better understand ...
Discrete and Continuous Representations of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Choice Modeling
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-08)
We attempt to provide insights into how heterogeneity has been and can be addressed in choice modeling. In doing so, we deal with three topics: Models of heterogeneity, Methods of estimation and Substantive issues. In ...
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 ...
Base-stock control for single-product tandem make-to-stock systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Chapman and Hall ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-01)
In this paper, we consider a multiple-stage tandem production/inventory system producing a single product. Processing time at each stage is assumed to have a general stationary processing time distribution. The cost of ...
Machine utilizations achieved using balanced FMS production ratios in a simulated setting
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-12)
Stecke [21] has developed mathematical programming approaches for determining, from a set of part type requirements, the production ratios (part types to be produced next, and their proportions) which maximize overall ...
Real-time scheduling of an automated manufacturing center
(Elsevier, 1989-05-25)
This paper investigates the dynamic scheduling of an automated manufacturing workcenter at which jobs are processed in batches, and there is a constant changeover time between batches of different part types. The primary ...