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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 ...
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 ...
Functional Data Analysis For Environmental And Biomedical Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Vast amounts of data are being generated due to the development of sensing technology. Among those, one of the common types of data usually found in various discipline is the functional data. Because the functional data ...
Integration Of Data Mining Algorithms And Control Charts For Multivariate And Autocorrelated Processes
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)
The objective of this dissertation is to integrate state-of-the-art data mining algorithms with statistical process control (SPC) tools to achieve efficient monitoring in multivariate and autocorrelated process. Process ...
Data Mining-driven Approahces For Process Monitoring And Diagnosis
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The objective of this dissertation is to develop a new set of efficient process monitoring and diagnostic tools through their integration with data mining algorithms. Statistical process control (SPC) is one of the most ...
Sequential Frameworks For Statistics-based Value Function Representation In Approximate Dynamic Programming
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)
Dynamic programming (DP) was derived by Bellman in 1957 as a mathematical programming method to solve multistage decision problems. The DP concept has great potential, but it only can solve small problems exactly under ...
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 ...
Software Capacity Planning: A Methodology For A Portfolio Of High Technology Product Development Projects
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)
High technology product development projects make extensive use of engineering software during the product development process. The suite of engineering software tools deployed during product development represents a ...