A critical aspect of semiconductor manufacturing is the design and analysis of material handling and production control polices to optimize fab performance. As wafer sizes have in...
The distribution of possible future losses for a portfolio of credit risky corporate assets, such as bonds or loans, shows strongly asymmetric behavior and a fat tail as the conse...
The paper introduces a new model for shipment date quoting with potential applications in E-commerce. First, a customer sends to the vendor a request for an item advertised at a c...
In this paper we describe a methodology that includes the complementary use of simulated annealing and response surface methodology (RSM). The methodology was developed for analys...
Assembly lines with closed loop parallel lanes have the potential to continue to be productive when individual stations breakdown. A requirement in such parallel lane systems is t...