Production and Sales Planning with Limited Shared Tooling at the Key Operation
The focus of this paper is multiperiod production and sales planning when there is a single dominant production operation for which tooling dies, molds, etc. can be shared among parts and is limited in availability. Our interest in such problems grew ...
Comparison among Certain Inspection Policies
Certain continuous production processes and early warning systems must be inspected in order to detect failures that would otherwise not be apparent. An optimal inspection policy is a sequence of inspection times which minimizes the average cost per ...
A Decision Process Model of R&D Resource Allocation in Hierarchical Organizations
A mathematical model is presented which incorporates many descriptive characteristics of decentralized R&D resource allocation processes. In general it is a member of the class of models referred to as decision process models. In specific it is ...
The Marketing Channel as an Equilibrium Set of Contracts
Nash bargaining theory and recent developments in economic contract theory are employed in the analysis of the marketing channels. Individual dyadic contracts involving payment schedules between members of a simple 3 level channel are investigated with ...
A Theory of Optimal Agenda Design
This paper formalizes the problem of designing optimal agendas for voting over finite alternative spaces, when voters are assumed to be "naive," i.e., they do not vote strategically. The class of agendas considered here is quite broad, and includes, as ...
A Perspective on the Use of Control Variables to Increase the Efficiency of Monte Carlo Simulations
This is a survey paper on the application of control variables to increase the efficiency of discrete event simulations. The emphasis is on the practical problems and potential of applying the method in the simulation of complex systems. The basic ...
Heuristic Techniques for Simultaneous Scheduling of Production and Distribution in Multi-Echelon Structures: Theory and Empirical Comparisons
Seven heuristic algorithms are discussed. Each can be used for production scheduling in an assembly network a network where each work station has at most one immediate successor work station, but may have any number of immediate predecessor work ...
A Survey of Methods for Pure Nonlinear Integer Programming
The subject of this paper is a classification and discussion of algorithms for solution of nonlinear pure integer programming problems. The survey is organized by characterizing the mathematical form of the nonlinear optimization problems addressed by ...
