: New semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities use Front Opening Unified Pods (FOUPs) as a common unit of wafer transfer. Since the number of pods is limited due to high costs, a...
A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is designed for rapid adjustment of production capacity and functionality in response to new market conditions and new process technolo...
We consider a combination of the capacitated vehicle routing problem and a class of additional loading constraints involving a parallel machine scheduling problem. The work is mot...
Karl F. Doerner, Guenther Fuellerer, Richard F. Ha...
: Slow Intelligence Systems are general-purpose systems characterized by being able to improve performance over time through a process involving enumeration, propagation, adaptatio...
Shi-Kuo Chang, Emilio Zegarra, Chia Chun Shih, Tin...
A common theme in the marketing literature is the acquisition and retention of customers as they trade-up from inexpensive, introductory offerings to those of higher quality. We e...