: Economic theory and business strategists have pointed at the phenomenon of positive externalities and the related enabling and constraining aspects of an installed base. For inst...
Using discrete-event simulation models, a study was conducted to evaluate the current production practices of a high-volume semiconductor back-end operation. The overall goal was ...
Joerg Domaschke, Steven Brown, Jennifer Robinson, ...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. The main reasons for batching are avoidance of set ups and/or facilitation of material handling...
Despite the long history of classical planning, there has been very little comparative analysis of the performance tradeoffs offered by the multitude of existing planning algorith...
Abstract -- In this paper, we present a new mathematical framework in which disjunctive feature structures are defined as directed acyclic hypergraphs. Disjunction is defined in th...