IIE Transactions articles from October 2007

IIE Transactions archives from October 2007

Exact and approximate algorithms for part-machine clustering based on a relationship between interval graphs and Robinson matrices.
October 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Group technology provides a framework for accommodating a diverse collection of products and activities associated with a manufacturing process. An especially noteworthy application of group technology is cellular...

Sequencing with limited flexibility.(Report)
October 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Consider the following examples. Example 1: Consider a vehicle resequencing problem typical in many automotive assembly lines where vehicles on a moving line must be rearranged once they emerge from one department and...

An effective methodology for the stochastic project compression problem.(Report)
October 1, 2007... 1. Introduction In this paper, we consider a project planning problem that focuses on the trade-off between project cost and makespan when task time durations are random. That is, given a set of tasks, precedence constraints, and...

A very large scale neighborhood search algorithm for the q-mode problem.(Report)
October 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The q-mode problem is a combinatorial optimization problem that requires partitioning a given collection of objects that are described by categorical attributes into mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive clusters....

Approximate mean waiting time in a GI/D/1 queue with autocorrelated times to failures.(Report)
October 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The random phenomena that are observed in manufacturing systems are due to random processing times, and/or random machine failures/interruptions followed by random repair times. This randomness is the main cause of...