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The Art Of Microchannel Molding In Microscope Glass Slides
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 11-28-12)This research is an effort to develop a new process by combining engineering principles with the history of glass art molding to develop clear micro-level test features in glass, for bio-medical and drug experiments dealing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Multi-objective Evaluation Of Dynamic Facility Layout Using Ant Colony Optimization
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Dynamic Multiple Stage, Multiple Objective Optimization Model With An Application To A Wastewater Treatment System
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-08-08)Decision-making for complex dynamic systems involves multiple objectives. Various methods balance the tradeoffs of multiple objectives, the most popular being weighted-sum and constraint-based methods. Under convexity ... -
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 ...