Recently added articles from IIE Transactions:

An exact algorithm for a workforce allocation problem with application to an analysis of cross-training policies.

May 01, 2008; Brusco, Michael J. ... 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., 2006), telephone operations and call centers ...

A robust optimization approach for the capacitated vehicle routing problem with demand uncertainty.

May 01, 2008; Sungur, Ilgaz ... 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., Federal Express, United Parcel Service ...

A statistical computer experiments approach to airline fleet assignment.

May 01, 2008; Pilla, Venkata L. ... 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 that North American carriers are expected ...

Variance reduction techniques: experimental comparison and analysis for single systems.

May 01, 2008; Sabuncuoglu, Ihsan ... 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 simulation models are extremely large, ...

Multi-objective scheduling problems: determination of pruned Pareto sets.

May 01, 2008; Taboada, Heidi A. ... 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 scheduling and production planning problems ...

Design of Industrial Information Systems.

May 01, 2008; Billo, Richard E. ... 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 industrial information systems in ...

Queueing Networks and Markov Chains, 2nd Edition.

May 01, 2008; Krieger, Udo R. ... 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 literature dealing with ...