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MANSCI
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Using Scheduled Ordering to Improve the Performance of Distribution Supply Chains
We study a supply chain with one supplier and many retailers that face exogenous endcustomer demands. The supplier and the retailers all try to minimize their own inventory-relate...
Lucy Gongtao Chen, Srinagesh Gavirneni
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WSC
2007
15 years 14 days ago
A comparison of scheduling approaches for a make-to-order electronics manufacturer
In this paper, we compare two scheduling procedures designed to minimize setup costs for a make-to-order electronics manufacturing. While setup costs are important, quick response...
Susan K. Heath, Douglas J. Morrice
SOSP
2001
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Anticipatory scheduling: A disk scheduling framework to overcome deceptive idleness in synchronous I/O
Disk schedulers in current operating systems are generally work-conserving, i.e., they schedule a request as soon as the previous request has finished. Such schedulers often requ...
Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel
EAAI
2006
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14 years 10 months ago
Applications of artificial intelligence for optimization of compressor scheduling
This paper presents a feasibility study of evolutionary scheduling for gas pipeline operations. The problem is complex because of several constraints that must be taken into consi...
Hanh H. Nguyen, Christine W. Chan
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Opportunistic alignment of advertisement delivery with cellular basestation overloads
This paper is motivated by two observations: (1) cellular network operators are actively exploring advertisement delivery as a new means of revenue generation, and (2) cellular ba...
Ravi Kokku, Rajesh Mahindra, Sampath Rangarajan, H...