Traditionally, optimal preventive maintenance strategies are derived under deterministic and constant rate demand. Using "option", a powerful financial derivative tool to tackle optimization problem under uncertain environment, this paper presents an analytical, option-based cost model for...

Nowadays, modern production patterns, such as batch production, have brought new challenges for multi-unit maintenance decision-making. The maintenance scheduling should not only consider individual machine deterioration, but also apply to batch production with variable lot size. An interactive...

Maintenance operations have a direct influence on production performance in manufacturing systems. Short-term production analysis is imperative to enable manufacturing operations to optimally respond to dynamic changes in the system behavior. However, most of the conventional decision support...

We investigate the time-dependent transport properties of quantum well on the situation of nonlinear bias, where a thin potential well layer is inserted in the main quantum well. In our calculations, we consider the effects from all kinds of phonon interactions in the device. We find that the...

The kinetics of ordering for a ternary system on the square lattice is investigated by means of the micro-master equation method in the pair approximation. The evolutions of the long-range order and short-range order parameters are calculated. There are transient ordered states during the...

A Blume-Emery-Griffths three components system in which one component is randomly distributed and the other two components are forming sublattice ordering is studied using the pair correlation approximation. The phase diagrams in different typical interaction energy regions are calculated and...

An accumulating amount of research has documented the harmful effects of abusive supervision on either its victims or third parties (peer abusive supervision). The abusive supervision literature, however, neglects to investigate the spillover effects of abusive supervision through third-party...