Browsing Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering by Title
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An Analytical Performance Management Framework Enabiling Enterprise Strategy Management
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)Performance management has gained noticeable interest from both researchers and executive in the past two decades. Financial measures are no longer a primary emphasis for researchers and executives. One of the most popular ... -
ANALYZING COLLABORATION IN FOOD ASSISTANCE NETWORKS USING AGENT-BASED MODELING
(2019-08-05)To address the issue of food insecurity, many small independent agencies, known as food pantries, collect and distribute donated food to food-insecure clients. However, the supply of donated food varies significantly from ... -
The Application Of Discrete-event Simulation For Demining Strategy Evaluation
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-08-08)Teams of mobile autonomous robots have been proposed for the detection and clearing of landmines. Several competing strategies for automated mine detection have been proposed. This paper will discuss the development of a ... -
APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS IN THE WELL DELIVERY PROCESS TO IMPROVE RISK, OPPORTUNITY, AND COST ASSURANCE
(2023-07-06)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 08/01/2024** Oil and Gas (O&G) well drilling is risky and expensive. The cost of drilling is typically underestimated, and there is little understanding of the certainty ... -
Assessing the impact of Principal Component Analysis on accurately predicting melanoma diagnosis applied on different classification models
(2019-11-26)With huge amounts of data at our disposal in the medical field, mathematical models are built to diagnose diseases. This study focuses on melanoma because it’s the type of skin cancer that accounts for most deaths, up to ... -
Assessing Values-based Sourcing Strategies in Regional Food Supply Networks: An Agent-based Approach
(Policy Studies Organization, 2015)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The recent increase in demand for regionally produced food has resulted in a need for more efficient distribution methods. To connect regional food producers and ... -
BIDDING ENABLED INVENTORY REDISTRIBUTION IN A RETAIL NETWORK
(2021-05-09)This research aspires to develop a systematic approach to minimize the demand and supply gap of products and product expiration in a feasible way. Inventory replenishment policy, uncertain customer demand, and forecast ... -
Branch-and-Cut-and-Price Methods For Logistics Problems With Limited Risk
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)There exist many uncertainties in a logistics system, such as unknown demand, unsteady fuel cost, machine breakdowns, and accidents to name a few. Logistics management is difficult because logistics managers must solve a ... -
Build-to-order Supply Chain Efficiency Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis
The Build-to-Order supply chain (BTO-SC) is one agile supply chain that has received great attention in research and industry. Flexibility and responsiveness in mass customization has become a major objective of many ... -
CAPACITY FADE OF VALVE REGULATED LEAD ACID & LITHIUM IRON PHOSPHATE BATTERIES THROUGH HIGH RATE, PULSED LOADS
(2016-05-11)Electrochemical energy storage has become more power and energy dense in recent years. Many applications demanding energy storage operate in a pulsed manner. The most common chemistries considered for use in these applications ... -
CNT Reinforced Epoxy Foamed And Electrospun Nano-fiber Interlayer Systems For Manufacturing Lighter And Stronger Featherweight Composites
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)Multiple works have been performed in improving carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites especially in terms of strength so delamination, which is the major defect in laminated composites, is prevented. Nevertheless, ... -
Constraint Optimal Selection Techniques (COSTs) For A Class Of Linear Programming Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-17)This dissertation describes two classes of Constraint Optimal Selection Techniques (COSTs). An algorithm of each type is developed for solving nonnegative linear programming problems. In addition, geometric interpretations ... -
Constraint Optimal Selection Techniques (COSTs) For Linear Programming
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2012-07-25)Simplex pivoting algorithms remain the dominant approach to solve linear programming (LP) because they have advantages over interior-point methods. However, current simplex algorithms are often inadequate for solving a ... -
Convex Versions Of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines And Implementations For Complex Optimization Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) provide a flexible statistical modeling method that employs forward and backward search algorithms to identify the combination of basis functions that best fits the data. In ... -
Corporate Environmental Performance Rating Methodology
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-07-19)Environmental issues are becoming increasingly important to all kinds of stakeholders and companies themselves, not only for cost avoidance due to regulations, laws, cleanup costs, litigations, controversies, etc, but to ... -
Data Mining Based Threshold Development For Novelty Detection
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)The objective of this dissertation is to develop thresholds for novelty detection with applications to statistical process control (SPC). SPC is a widely used technique for improving process and product quality. The ... -
Data Mining-driven Approahces For Process Monitoring And Diagnosis
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)The objective of this dissertation is to develop a new set of efficient process monitoring and diagnostic tools through their integration with data mining algorithms. Statistical process control (SPC) is one of the most ... -
DATA SCIENCE APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH AN SOCIAL CARE
(2018-12-04)Health and social care are areas of concern worldwide nowadays. Chronic diseases such as cancer and social problems such as tobacco consumption are leading risks of deaths in many countries, and preventive efforts are ... -
A Data-Integrated Simulation-Based Optimization Approach For Nurse-Patient Assignment
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-17)This research develops a novel data-integrated simulation to evaluate nurse-patient assignments (SIMNA) based on a real data set provided by Baylor Regional Medical Center (Baylor) in Grapevine, Texas. Tree-based models ... -
A Design And Analysis Of Computer Experiments-based Approach To Approximate Infinite Horizon Dynamic Programming With Continuous State Spaces
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)Dynamic programming (DP) is an optimization approach that transforms a complex problem into a sequence of simpler sub-problems at different points in stage. The original DP approach used Bellman's equation to compute the ...