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This paper describes models that estimate the cost and time of sheet metal punching when nesting (batching) orders. These models help decision-makers plan production and evaluate the impact of changing the nesting policy. ...

In this dissertation the basic techniques for designing more sophisticated adaptive array systems are first developed. Then several systolic architectures based on numerically stable and computationally efficient algorithms ...

This dissertation addresses for the first time the integrated problem of designing the manufacturing shop layout concurrently with its material handling system. Specifically, this study provides a method to derive shop ...

The motivation of this thesis is to perform research in the arena of discrete tradeoff analysis. There are two fundamental aspects to the problem domain to be be studied. The first involves modeling the manner in which the ...

The guided random search techniques, genetic algorithms and simulated annealing, are very promising strategies, and both techniques are analogs from physical and biological systems. Through genetic algorithms, the simulation ...

This paper describes a two-space genetic algorithm that finds solutions to minimax optimization problems. The genetic algorithm maintains two populations and searches both simultaneously. Each individual is evaluated with ...

The importance of the manufacturing shop design in the successful operation of a production system is well known and as a result, significant research has been devoted to this area. This paper reviews important literature ...

As part of the ongoing research in operations research, new reschedulingalgorithms are constantly being invented. Until now, however, the testingand analysis of these algorithms was unstandardized. The method forcomparing ...

We study the convergence properties of the projected stochasticapproximation (SA) algorithm which may be used to find the root of an unknown steady state function of a parameterized family of Markov chains. The analysis ...

In semiconductor manufacturing, run-to-run (RtR) control is paid moreand more attention. In this paper a set-valuedRtR control scheme is introduced. Different from conventional RtR controlmethods, the set-valued method ...