IIE Transactions articles from July 2005

IIE Transactions archives from July 2005

Hospital-wide reactive scheduling of nurses with preference considerations.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction The growing gap between the supply of nurses and the demand for their services is one of the many factors bidding up the cost of healthcare. In many countries, the situation is now at the point where the rules for good...

Production and distribution policy in a two-stage stochastic push-pull supply chain.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction Traditional supply chain strategies are often categorized as either push or pull strategies. Probably, this stems from the manufacturing revolution of the 1980s, in which manufacturing systems were divided into these...

The tradeoff between sampling and switching: new sequential procedures for indifference-zone selection.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction Ranking-and-Selection (R & S) procedures based on the indifference-zone formulation have been proposed to select the simulated system with the largest or smallest mean performance from among a finite number of alternative...

Empirical Bayes forecasting methods for job flow times.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction The flow time of an order (a job) in a system is the difference between the release time of the job into the system and the departure time of the job from the system. In a manufacturing environment a job's flow time,...

Relationships among some univariate distributions.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction An understanding of probability concepts is necessary if one is to gain insights into systems that can be modeled as random processes. From an applications point of view, univariate probability distributions provide an...

A pseudo-random number assignment strategy for the estimation of quadratic metamodels.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction Simulation models are often used to select alternatives to system designs. A model of a simulation model, referred to as a metamodel, can be used to explore the functional relationships between the mean response of a...

On the time-window fulfillment rate in a single-item min-max inventory control system.
July 1, 2005... 1. Introduction Timely order fulfillment is a ubiquitous customer service criterion in the manufacturing and distribution sectors. This criterion is commonly measured by the time-window fulfillment rate, which is defined as the percentage...

Static and Dynamic Neural Networks.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Static and Dynamic Neural Networks Madan M. Gupta, Liang Jin and Noriyasu Homma Wiley-Interscience and IEEE Press, Hoboken, NJ, 2003, 700 pages, ISBN 0-471-21948-7 Soft computing is an important branch of study in the area of...

Virtual Reality Technology, 2nd edition.
July 1, 2005... Virtual Reality Technology, 2nd edition Grigore Burdea and Philippe Coiffet Wiley-IEEE Press, 2003, 464 pages, ISBN 0471360899 Virtual Reality (VR) brings in a few exciting new developments. Firstly it provides a major redefinition...