Browsing Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Material Flow Control In A Sequence Dependent Job Shop Via Order Release And Dispatching Mechanisms
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)Material flow control on the shop floor involves the release and dispatching of orders to meet customer due dates, while minimizing operating costs. The early release of orders to the shop floor does not necessarily ensure ... -
Sequential Frameworks For Statistics-based Value Function Representation In Approximate Dynamic Programming
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)Dynamic programming (DP) was derived by Bellman in 1957 as a mathematical programming method to solve multistage decision problems. The DP concept has great potential, but it only can solve small problems exactly under ... -
Sealing And Lamination Of Microfluidic Devices
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)A difficult problem facing microfluidic manufacturing of devices remains that often material requirements force device designers to choose materials that are difficult to bond, seal or enclose. Examples of these materials ... -
Designing Multi-objective Reverse Logistics Networks Using Genetic Algorithms
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)Reverse logistics (RL) involves management of activities that include collection, sort/storage, transportation, recovery, disposal and re-distribution. The product return process is more complicated than forward logistics ... -
Software Capacity Planning: A Methodology For A Portfolio Of High Technology Product Development Projects
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)High technology product development projects make extensive use of engineering software during the product development process. The suite of engineering software tools deployed during product development represents a ... -
Functional Data Analysis For Environmental And Biomedical Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)Vast amounts of data are being generated due to the development of sensing technology. Among those, one of the common types of data usually found in various discipline is the functional data. Because the functional data ... -
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 ... -
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing With Limited Risk
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)Due to safety and uninhabitable surrounding environments, long range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become an increasingly popular option in both scientific and military applications. With troubling oil prices, a ... -
Performance Evaluation In Reverse Logistics With Data Envelopment Analysis
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)Good reverse logistics design can save cost, increase revenues, and gain competitive edges over the rivals. Design of the optimized reverse supply chain model is a very important task to help enterprises save cost and gain ... -
Environmentally-Conscious Supply Chain Design in Support of Food Security
(SCM, 2010-01)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper seeks to design food supply chain structures that can provide food security for every person in the world while supporting long-term environmental ... -
Integration Of Data Mining Algorithms And Control Charts For Multivariate And Autocorrelated Processes
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)The objective of this dissertation is to integrate state-of-the-art data mining algorithms with statistical process control (SPC) tools to achieve efficient monitoring in multivariate and autocorrelated process. Process ... -
Methodology To Forecast Product Returns For The Consumer Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)Reverse logistics has gained much attention in recent years. It is becoming a value added area of a supply chain network day by day. For enterprises, it has therefore become essential to manage the reverse flow of materials ... -
Unsupervised Data Mining Methods For Functional Data Analysis And Feature Selection
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)The objective of this dissertation is to develop new unsupervised data mining methods for functional data analysis and feature selection. Unsupervised learning is a modeling process that facilitates the extraction of ... -
Novel Nonparametric Control Charts For Monitoring Multivariate Processes
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)The objective of this dissertation is to develop novel nonparametric control charts to effectively monitor and diagnose multivariate processes with a minimal set of modeling assumptions. Statistical process control (SPC) ... -
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 ... -
Adaptive Pain Management Decision Support System
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-03-03)Pain management is an international health issue. The Eugene McDermott Center for Pain Management at the University of Texas Southwestern MedicalCenter at Dallas conducts a two-stage interdisciplinary pain management program ... -
Mixed Integer Programming Models For Selecting Ground-level Ozone Control Strategies
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-07-14)Under the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1990, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was required to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common air pollutants that are considered harmful to public ... -
Mathematical Optimization Techniques For Managing Selective Catalytic Reduction For Coal-fired Power Plants
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-07-14)Coal is one of the most important energy sources in the U.S. However, it is also one of the biggest air polluters where the major emissions generated from coal combustion are oxides of nitrogen (NOx). NOx leads to ozone ... -
Time Depedent Queuing Models Of The National Airspace
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-07-14)Air transportation in the US system has dramatically changed in the past few decades. The National Airspace System (NAS) has increasingly become congested. A high volume of air traffic demand is one of the major challenges ...