Stochastic Modelling in Innovative Manufacturing: Proceedings, Cambridge, U.K., July 21–22, 1995

ISBN-13: 9783540617686 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 361 str.

Anthony H. Christer;Shunji Osaki;Lyn C. Thomas

Opis

This volume contains selected papers presented at a UK-Japanese Workshop held at Churchill College, Cambridge, July 1995. The first group of papers looks at modelling, and solution techniques that have proved useful in the operational and strategic levels of manufacturing-greedy algorithms, Markov Decision processes and Petri Nets. Further papers concentrate on operational aspects of manufacturing in an uncertain environment. The last group describes interesting problems. The volume shows that the need for stochastic modelling is an important factor in support of decision making, and that this is a growing, exciting and rewarding area of research.

Spis treści

An Optimal Running Policy for Buffered Continuous Production Processes Subject to Random Breakdown.- On the Greedy Algorithm for Stochastic Optimization Problems.- Using Markov Decision Processes to Optimize a Nonlinear Functional of the Final Distribution, with Manufacturing Applications.- Stochastic Petri Net Model of an Ethernet-Based Manufacturing System.- Games of Production Development in Manufacturing.- Voting Procedure on Stopping Games of Markov Chain.- Risk and Return Analysis of a Multi-period Strategic Planning Problem.- Input/Output Backlog Control and Dynamic Capacity Planning in Versatile Manufacturing Companies.- Algorithms for Allocating Resources to Multi-stage Pharmaceutical Research Projects.- An Optimal Selection Problem on a Partially Observable Markov Chain.- Generalizing the Secretary Problem with Rank-dependent Rejection Probability.- Performance Evaluation of Nonparametric Age Replacement Methods — Survey and Comparison —.- Replacement Policies for a Shock Model with Two Kinds of Damage.- Stochastic Maintenance Modelling of High-tech Steel Production Plant.- An Optimal Maintenance Policy for a Deteriorating Server of an M/G/1 Queueing System.- Growth and Innovation through Reliability Testing.- Optimal Times of Burn-In Tests for Multilevel Assembly Lines.- Markovian Software Availability Modeling for Performance Evaluation.- Software Reliability Growth Models for Discrete and Incomplete Testing.- Zero-Failure Software Reliability Demonstration Testing Based on Kullback-Leibler Information.- A Study on Architectures of RAID Level 4 DiskArrays.- Simulation as a Means of Solving the Buffer Capacity Problem for Flow Line Production.- Inventory Control for Price Differentiable Products with No Carrying Over.- A Construction of SQC Intelligence System for Quick Registration and Retrieval Library – A Visualized SQC Report for Technical Wealth –.- On the Network Size for Neuro-based Stock Option Forecasting System: Experimental Evaluation.- Latent Structures of Goodness-of-invention.- Factor Analysis for Selected Observations.