Browsing Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering by Issue Date
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Process Modeling System For Press Cure, Closed-cavity Tooled Thick Composites
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-10-11)Thick structural composite parts often use press curing with closed-cavity tooling for achieving dimensional tolerances. A commonly encountered defect for these parts is fiber waviness, whick limits its structural strength. ... -
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline Based Framework For Statistically Parsimonious Adaptive Dynamic Programming
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-10-11)Central to Dynamic Programming (DP) is the `cost-to-go' or `future value' function, which is obtained via actually solving the Bellman's equation and central to Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) is the use of an ... -
The Equivalence And Generalization Of Optimization Criteria
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-10-11)In this dissertation we first show that existing optimization criteria are equivalent to the maximization of a real-valued function in a one-dimensional Euclidean space. The criteria are said to be scalar equivalent. All ... -
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 ... -
Multivariate Modeling For A Multiple Stage, Multiple Objective Green Building Framework
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)Green building is a sustainable concept to reduce environmental impact. Decision–making for green building is a complex task. A multi–stage green building framework will guide future development of a comprehensive multiple ... -
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, ... -
Using An AHP/ANP Hybrid Methodology For Freight Transport Networks Selection Towards Sustainable Transportation
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)The selection of an effective transportation network for the transport of container freight is one of the most important factors in supply chain and logistics planning. The current transport networks, hub-and-spoke and ... -
Models For Evaluation Of Supply Chain Risk With Application To Healthcare Management
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)Over the past two decades, supply chain management has come to be a key component of organization competitiveness and effectiveness. In the same period, most organizations have put a great deal of effort into improving ... -
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 ... -
Adaptive Dynamic Programming For High-dimensional, Multicollinear State Spaces
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)Dynamic programming (DP) is a mathematical programming method for optimizing a system changing over time and has been used to solve multi-stage optimization problems in manufacturing systems, environmental engineering, and ... -
Optimizing Load Control For A Residential Microgrid In A Collaborative Environment
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)This research is aimed to develop an analytical model for a Residential Microgrid under a collaborative environment. In order to maximize profit, Collaborative Consumption (C.C) as a community-based social agreement has ... -
Evaluation Of Quality And Sustainability Incentives To Optimize The Indonesian To The United States Crude Oil Supply Chain
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)The New York Times explained that the United States increased its dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia by more than 20 percent last year (Krauss 2012). The United States of Energy Information Administration (U.S. EIA) stated ... -
A Sustainability Based Framework To Make A Strategic Outsourcing Decision For Warehouses In The Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)Over the course of last decades, sustainability matured from an abstract concept to an important source of corporate legitimacy. Supply chain management plays an important role in shaping and framing sustainability, due ... -
New Approach For Minimizing Human Errors In Hospital Operating Rooms By Using RFID Alerting Systems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)Patient safety is an increasing concern in health care due to the fact the increasing number of medical errors. Most fatal medical errors happen in hospital operating rooms. This research proposes a unique approach that ... -
Development Of Optimal Decision Model For Multi-system Process Capability Improvements Through A Personnel Environment And Integration (PEI) Framework Utilizing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)This research describes a framework that minimizes uncertainty and risk in lead time and excessive costs associated with multi-automating systems in very complex and dynamic environments. Further, by seeking to reduce risk ... -
Optimization Models For Leishmaniasis Control: A Case For Bihar, India
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-22)Leishmaniasis, is a family of infectious diseases, which mostly affects poor and developing countries. The highest prevalence and mortality rate of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) the world over occurs in Bihar state of ... -
Parametric Cost Estimation Model For Microchannel Bonding Process Based On Activity Based Costing
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-22)The microchannel bonding process was developed to decrease product size and improve product performance. As the microchannel bonding process has moved from research to industrial manufacturing, it has become increasingly ... -
Global Optimization Of Nonconvex Piecewise Linear Regression Splines
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-22)Global optimization has been applied to a wide variety of science and engineering design problems. Although numerous global optimization techniques have been developed and studied for decades, when used for complex systems ... -
Variants Of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS): Convex vs. Non-convex, Piecewise-linear vs. Smooth And Sequential Algorithms.
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-23)Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) is a statistical modeling method used to represent high-dimensional data with interactions. It uses different algorithms to select the terms to be included in the approximation ... -
Scalar Equilibria For N-person Games
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-23)In this dissertation we develop a scalarization approach for one-shot, n-person games by defining the notion of Scalar Equilibria. We first show that existing solution concepts can be represented as Scalar Equlibria. For ...