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A Methodology For Evaluating The Performance Of Reverse Supply Chains In Consumer Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Enterprises around the world are employing reverse supply chain practices to generate profit making opportunities while meeting new regulations. As a result of the rapid progress in technology the product lifecycles are ...
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 ...
Robust Airline Fleet Assignment
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
The fleet assignment model allocates the fleet of aircraft types to the scheduled flight legs in the airline timetable published 90 days prior to the departure of the aircraft. The objective is to maximize profit. While ...
Statistical Modeling Approach To Airline Revenue Management With Overbooking
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
A Revenue Management (RM) method in the airline industry plays a very important role in maximizing revenue under various uncertainty issues, like customer demand, the number of seats to be maintained in inventory, the ...
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 ...
The Development Of A Design Ontology For Products And Processes
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This research develops a methodology called, Design Knowledge Acquisition Process (DKAP) for creating ontology of product and process design using IDEF5 and to develop a consistency matrix for checking accuracy of captured ...
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 ...
Methodology For Reverse Supply Chain Design In Consumer Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Reverse Logistics (RL), the art and science of moving goods typically from the end consumer towards the upstream end of supply chains, has been the subject of many strategic meetings in organizations today. This is attributed ...
System And Method For The Pooling Of Sterile Product
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-10-08)
This dissertation defines an automated system and method for removing the tops from individual sealed bottles and pooling the small volumes of liquid contained in each bottle together in a collection container while ...
Statistics-based Approaches To Stochastic Optimal Control Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This dissertation develops practical approaches to stochastic optimal control problems in the absence of linear system transition functions, quadratic cost functions, and/or Gaussian random disturbances. In such type of ...