IIE Transactions articles from February 2006

IIE Transactions archives from February 2006

Dual-role factors in data envelopment analysis.
February 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was developed by Charnes et al. (1978) to serve as a mechanism to evaluate the relative efficiencies of a set of similar decision-making units. A vast literature has grown out of this...

A principal-components approach to assign confidence intervals in steady-state simulation.
February 1, 2006... 1. Introduction and statement of the problem Analysis of the output data from a steady-state, discrete-event simulation model is one of the important components of simulation studies. Managers and systems analysts are usually interested in...

An ascending price procurement auction for multiple items with unit supply.
February 1, 2006... 1. Introduction In this paper, we study a class of supply chain problems in which an original equipment manufacturer (henceforth referred simply as the manufacturer) wants to procure a set of indivisible items from a set of suppliers. In...

An exact solution procedure to determine the optimal dispatching times for complex rail networks.
February 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Rail companies are striving to maintain a regular and reliable train service in order to compete with alternative modes of freight transportation. To achieve this, a common but expensive strategy is to increase the physical...

An efficient exact procedure for the analysis of the state-dependent polling model.
February 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Polling models are used to model and analyze systems in which one or more servers attend to requests arriving at multiple service centers by polling (visiting) them in a pre-specified manner. Polling models are used to...

Combining cost-based and rule-based knowledge in complex resource allocation problems.
February 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Many operational problems that arise in practice offer sufficient complexity that it is difficult or impossible to completely model all the issues that are needed to produce realistic behaviors. The problem of optimizing...

Optimizing gas-lift production of oil wells: piecewise linear formulation and computational analysis.
February 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Perhaps one of the largest economic sectors, the oil industry has been investing heavily in research and development of more efficient production processes, mainly to cut costs and thereby maximize profit. Advanced...

Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming Jennie Si, Andrew G. Barto, Warren Buckler Powell and Don Wunsch (Eds.) Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004, 672 pages, ISBN 047166054X In the modern world, we see more and more examples...