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WSC
2001
15 years 8 months ago
How "overstaffing" at bottleneck machines can unleash extra capacity
Using simulation, Headway Technologies predicted that increasing staffing among a group of already lightly loaded machine operators--"overstaffing"--would significantly ...
Robert C. Kotcher
WSC
2001
15 years 8 months ago
Production scheduling validity in high level supply chain models
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 ...
David J. Parsons, Richard A. Phelps
WSC
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Multi-Period Robust Capacity Planning Based on Product and Process Simulations
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...
Emre Kazancioglu, Kazuhiro Saitou
WSC
2004
15 years 8 months ago
More "Normal" Than Normal: Scaling Distributions and Complex Systems
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...
AAAI
2000
15 years 8 months ago
A Consistency-Based Model for Belief Change: Preliminary Report
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, ...
James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub