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WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Solving volume and capacity planning problems in semiconductor manufaturing: A computational study
In this paper, we suggest a linear programming formulation that allows for solving volume and capacity planning problems in semiconductor manufacturing systems. We assume a genera...
Christoph Habla, Lars Mönch
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A systems engineering process supporting the development of operational requirements driven federations
This paper proposes a systems engineering process utilizing the conceptual artifacts of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) describing platform independent views of models to capt...
Andreas Tolk, Thomas G. Litwin, Robert H. Kewley
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Demand forecast of semiconductor products based on technology diffusion
Demand forecast plays a critical role to determine capital investment for capacity planning. Given the involved uncertainties and long lead-time for capacity expansion, semiconduc...
Chen-Fu Chien, Yun-Ju Chen, Jin-Tang Peng
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Analyzing dispensing plan for emergency medical supplies in the event of bioterrorism
To prepare for the event of bioterrorism, which could spread contagious disease such as anthrax, plague, smallpox, or tularemia to public, local governments in the United States a...
Young M. Lee
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Large deviations perspective on ordinal optimization of heavy-tailed systems
We consider the problem of selecting the best among several heavy-tailed systems using a large deviations perspective. In contrast to the light-tailed setting studied by Glynn and...
Jose Blanchet, Jingchen Liu, Bert Zwart
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A simulation based approach for dock allocation in a food distribution center
This research endeavor focused on the warehouse receiving process at a large food distribution center, which comprises of trucks with goods reaching the destination warehouse, unl...
Balagopal Gopakumar, Suvarna Sundaram, Shengyong W...
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling and simulation of integrated intelligent systems
Complex systems consist of a large number of entities with their independent local rules and goals, along with their interactions. The effect of these properties tends to produce ...
Yongchang Li, Michael Balchanos, Bassem Nairouz, N...
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Simulation analysis of semiconductor manufacturing with small lot size and batch tool replacements
Long cycle times in semiconductor manufacuring represent an increasing challenge for the industry and lead to a growing need of break-through approaches to reduce it. Small lot si...
Kilian Schmidt, Oliver Rose
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Service-Oriented-Architecture based framework for multi-user virtual environments
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an application framework used for creating complex enterprise systems by integrating distributed services. The SOA standards are primarily f...
Xiaoyu Zhang, Denis Gracanin
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Mathematical programming representations for state-dependent queues
Discrete-event dynamic systems with feedback, where the behavior of the system depends on the system state, are difficult to model due to the uncertainties and dependencies of sys...
Wai Kin Chan, Lee W. Schruben