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Formulation Of Lean Six Sigma Critical Business Processes For Manufacturing Facilitites
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-04-22)
The author desired to create a method organizing the concepts from Lean, Six Sigma, critical business processes, and simplifying the usage of these concepts to identify Lean Six Sigma Critical Business Processes. Inspired ...
A Robust Cooperative Localization System For A Heterogeneous Team Of Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-19)
This dissertation presents an organic approach to the cooperative localization problem by sequentially solving the problems of sensor calibration, multi-sensor fusion filtering, and cooperative localization. Successful ...
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 ...
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 ...
New Equilibria For Noncooperative Games
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-08-08)
In this dissertation we present an alternative to the Nash Equilibrium (NE), which is regarded as the fundamental solution concept in game theory. An NE provides a solution in which no player can improve his payoff by ...
Integrated Nurse Staffing And Assignment Under Uncertainty
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-17)
One of the major problems in the United States health care system is a shortage of nurses. Baby boomers and an increasing elderly population are the main reasons for a rapidly growing demand for nurses. Besides the decline ...
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 ...
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 ...