Browsing Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering by Author "Rogers, Jamie"
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A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CO2 EMISSION BETWEEN GASOLINE, ELECTRIC, AND HYBRID VEHICLES: A WELL-TO-WHEEL PERSPECTIVE USING AGENT-BASED MODELING
Rahman, Mdmamunur (2020-08-18)Road transports in the U.S. are almost entirely dependent on the consumption of fossil fuel. This high dependency on fossil fuel is significantly contributing to carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, one of the leading Green House ... -
ANALYZING COLLABORATION IN FOOD ASSISTANCE NETWORKS USING AGENT-BASED MODELING
Mostafa, Joyita; 0000-0001-8431-0396 (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 ... -
Build-to-order Supply Chain Efficiency Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Hamdan, Maysaa M.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 ... -
Corporate Environmental Performance Rating Methodology
Sankaranarayanan, Arunapprakasini (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 ... -
Designing Multi-objective Reverse Logistics Networks Using Genetic Algorithms
Yimsiri, Sanya (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 ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM TO SUPPORT INTERVENTION IN NEWBORN HEALTHCARE
Lane, Holly E; 0000-0002-2039-8576 (2017-11-27)One of the most vulnerable populations in healthcare is the newborn infant. As hospitalization for childbirth is the largest cause for entry into a healthcare facility, the population of newborns each year is extensive as ... -
Evaluating The Impact Of A Shared Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Model To Minimize Counterfeit Drugs, Diverted Drugs, And Drug Shortages
Choi, Jae Bong (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)The pharmaceutical supply chain in the United States of America (USA) is getting complicated and is often not controllable due to a globally open market, increasing online market, and many illegal activities. Consumers who ... -
Inventory Pooling In Petroleum Upstream Logistics Network
Al Jedaie, Sulaiman Hamad (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)The petroleum industry is heading toward the era of efficiency and cost reduction. Oilfield service companies have to raise their efficiency to stay competitive. This dissertation explores the efficiency issues facing an ... -
Material Flow Control In A Sequence Dependent Job Shop Via Order Release And Dispatching Mechanisms
Gentile, Francesco (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 ... -
MATHEMATICAL MODELING APPROACHES IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS
Gharehyakheh, Amin; 0000-0002-6948-538X (2020-05-19)Access to high quality and safe food is vital for sustainable development in societies. Perishable foods lose a major portion of their quality after harvesting until the consumption point due to poor storage and distribution ... -
Methodology To Forecast Product Returns For The Consumer Electronics Industry
Potdar, Amit (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 ... -
Models For Evaluation Of Supply Chain Risk With Application To Healthcare Management
Zeng, Ford Guangfu (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 ... -
Multi-objective Evaluation Of Dynamic Facility Layout Using Ant Colony Optimization
Chen, Gary Yu-Hsin (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-04-22)The Dynamic Facility Layout Problem (DFLP) deals with changes of facility layout throughout time. As an extension to Static Facility Layout Problem (SFLP), it has gathered increasing interests lately. Facility layouts are ... -
Performance Evaluation In Reverse Logistics With Data Envelopment Analysis
Tonanont, Ake (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 ... -
Performance Evaluation of Median U-Turn Intersection for Alleviating Traffic Congestion: An Agent-Based Simulation Study
Rahman, Mamunur; Zhou, Yuan; Rogers, Jamie (2019)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In recent years, urban mobility has become a big concern for Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh, due to severe traffic congestion. At-grade signalized intersections ... -
Predicting the Performance of Cryotherapy for Wart Treatment Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Rahman, Mamunur; Wang, Shouyi; Zhou, Yuan; Rogers, Jamie (2019)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Warts are non-cancerous tumors that can appear on the top layer of skin of different parts of the human body. For the treatment of warts, cryotherapy, a method of ... -
Risk Assessment and Analysis of Pharmaceutical Industry due to Recalls
Rao, Sowmya Dinamani (2017-05-04)In the past five years, there have been 5900 recalls of drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which created distraught consumers and shareholders of pharmaceutical companies. In addition, recalls cause ... -
Using An AHP/ANP Hybrid Methodology For Freight Transport Networks Selection Towards Sustainable Transportation
Graham, Andrea M. (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 ... -
Wart Treatment Decision Support Using Support Vector Machine
Rahman, Md. Mamunur; Zhou, Yuan; Wang, Shouyi; Rogers, Jamie (MECS (http://www.mecs-press.org/index.html), 2020-02)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Warts are noncancerous benign tumors caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The success rates of cryotherapy and immunotherapy, two common treatment methods for ...