Using simulation, Headway Technologies predicted that increasing staffing among a group of already lightly loaded machine operators--"overstaffing"--would significantly ...
Although they focus on the big picture, high level supply chain models cannot gloss over the capacity of production nodes to meet production allocations. Capacity is not simply a ...
This paper presents a method for allocating production capacity among flexible and dedicated machines based on uncertain demand forecasts of products in a production portfolio. Gi...
One feature of many naturally occurring or engineered complex systems is tremendous variability in event sizes. To account for it, the behavior of these systems is often described...
Walter Willinger, David Alderson, John C. Doyle, L...
We present a general, consistency-based framework for belief change. Informally, in revising K by , we begin with and incorporate as much of K as consistently possible. Formally, ...