IIE Transactions articles from May 2008

IIE Transactions archives from May 2008

An exact algorithm for a workforce allocation problem with application to an analysis of cross-training policies.
May 1, 2008... 1. Introduction Workforce staffing and scheduling research comprises a substantial component of the literature base in service capacity management. Areas of application include hospital nursing (Bard and Purnomo, 2005; Wright et al.,...

A robust optimization approach for the capacitated vehicle routing problem with demand uncertainty.
May 1, 2008... 1. Introduction Many industrial applications deal with the problem of routing a fleet of vehicles from a depot to service a set of customers that are geographically dispersed. This type of problem is faced daily by courier services (e.g.,...

A statistical computer experiments approach to airline fleet assignment.
May 1, 2008... 1. Introduction As airline woes continue to persist, mainly due to rising fuel costs, major domestic airlines are battling to reduce costs, increase load factors and improve revenues. The International Air Transport Association reports...

Variance reduction techniques: experimental comparison and analysis for single systems.
May 1, 2008... 1. Introduction Simulation is used extensively in analyzing complex real-life systems (e.g., distribution, production and communication systems). For many situations, it is the only available analysis technique (Law and Kelton, 2000). Many...

Multi-objective scheduling problems: determination of pruned Pareto sets.
May 1, 2008... 1. Introduction Several methods have been developed to determine a subset of candidate solutions for the multi-objective problems that are encountered when considering scheduling and production planning applications. Most real-world...

Design of Industrial Information Systems.
May 1, 2008... Design of Industrial Information Systems Thomas O. Boucher and Ali Yalcin Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2006, 432 pages, ISBN 978-0-12-370492-4, $79.95 Most modern texts on information systems tend to treat the design of...

Queueing Networks and Markov Chains, 2nd Edition.
May 1, 2008... Queueing Networks and Markov Chains, 2nd Edition Gunter Bolch, Stefan Greiner, Hermann de Meer and Kishor S. Trivedi John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2006, 878 pages, ISBN 0-471-56525-3 Nowadays, there exists an enormous amount of...