Subject and Outline -- Kanban-Controlled Manufacturing Systems: Basic Version and Variations -- Literature Review: Models of Kanban Systems -- New Models of Kanban Systems: A Construction-Kit Approach -- Components: Basic Building Blocks -- Subassemblies: Models of Multi-Product Manufacturing Facilities -- Composite Models: Models of Multi-Stage Kanban Systems -- Extended Application: Models of…
Inventory and Supply Chain Models with Forecast Updates -- Examples from Industry -- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes -- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes and Fixed Cost -- Inventory Models with Three Consecutive Delivery Modes -- Multiperiod Quantity-Flexibility Contracts -- Purchase Contract Management: Fixed Exercise Cost -- Purchase Contract Management…
Background -- The Approach -- Theory of Real Systems -- Theory of System Knowledge -- The Intelligent Enterprise -- Realizing Enterprise Intelligence -- Conclusion.Today's enterprises have to continuously extend their operational limits to earn profit, thrive and prosper. Over time evolution led to the development of two concepts to master this challenge: intelligence and knowledge. This work i…
From the contents: Symmetrization of Fuzzy Operators: Notes On Data Aggregation -- An Integrity Estimation Using Fuzzy Logic -- Connectionist Fuzzy Relational Systems -- Semantic Indexing and Fuzzy Relevance Model in Information Retrieval -- Backward Reasoning on Rule-Based Systems Modeled by Fuzzy Petri Nets Through Backward Tree -- On The Generalization of Fuzzy Rough Approximation Based on A…
Knowledge Discovery today is a significant study and research area. In finding answers to many research questions in this area, the ultimate hope is that knowledge can be extracted from various forms of data around us. This book covers recent advances in unsupervised and supervised data analysis methods in Computational Intelligence for knowledge discovery. In its first part the book provides a…
Fundamentals of Product Customization -- Product Customization: Theoretical Basics -- Mass Customization and Complexity -- A Customers’ Needs Model for Mass Customization -- An IT Infrastructure for Effective and Efficient Product Customization -- Customer Oriented Interaction Systems -- A Multi-agent System for Coping with Variety Induced Complexity -- Implementation Scenarios of the Informa…
Business Cycle Analysis -- Forecasting Quarterly German GDP at Monthly Intervals Using Monthly Ifo Business Conditions Data -- Real Wages and Business Cycle Asymmetries -- Evaluating the German Inventory Cycle Using Data from the Ifo Business Survey -- Do Ifo Indicators Help Explain Revisions in German Industrial Production? -- A Leading Indicator for the Dutch Economy -- Survey Activity of the…
Variable Neighborhood Search for Extremal Graphs. XI. Bounds on Algebraic Connectivity -- Problems and Results on Geometric Patterns -- Data Depth and Maximum Feasible Subsystems -- The Maximum Independent Set Problem and Augmenting Graphs -- Interior Point and Semidefinite Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization -- Balancing Mixed-Model Supply Chains -- Bilevel Programming: A Combinatorial Pe…
Basic Theory of Stochastic Optimization -- Convex Stochastic Programs -- Barycentric Approximation Scheme -- Extensions -- Applications in the Power Industry -- Conclusions.This work was completed during my tenure as a scientific assistant and d- toral student at the Institute for Operations Research at the University of St. Gallen. During that time, I was involved in several industry projects …
Unilateral Analysis and Duality -- Monotonic Optimization: Branch and Cut Methods -- Duality Bound Methods in Global Optimization -- General Quadratic Programming -- On Solving Polynomial, Factorable, and Black-Box Optimization Problems Using the RLT Methodology -- Bilevel Programming -- Applications of Global Optimization to Portfolio Analysis -- Optimization Techniques in Medicine -- Global O…