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Constructing School Timetables Using Simulated Annealing: Sequential and Parallel Algorithms

Abramson, D. - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 1, pp. 98-113

This paper considers a solution to the school timetabling problem. The timetabling problem involves scheduling a number of tuples, each consisting of class of students, a teacher, a subject and a room, to a fixed number of time slots. A Monte Carlo scheme called simulated annealing is used as an...

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Note: Microcomputer Performance of "FABLE" on Hoffmann's Data Sets

Johnson, Roger V. - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 10, pp. 1190-1192

Some of the legitimacy of Hoffmann's (1992) Eureka is gained from his statement that "Eureka ... would seem to be approximately six times as fast (as Johnson's (1988) FABLE on the literature set). However, Eureka had one problem for which its solution was one station over the optimal, whereas...

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Tree Diversity, Landscape Diversity, and Economics of Maple-Birch Forests: Implications of Markovian Models

Lin, Ching-Rong; Buongiorno, Joseph - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 10, pp. 1351-1366

policies on ecological and economic criteria. Optimization augmented the usefulness of the approach, suggesting that income …

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Robust Capacity Planning Under Uncertainty

Paraskevopoulos, Dimitris; Karakitsos, Elias; Rustem, Berc - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 7, pp. 787-800

The existence of uncertainty influences the investment, production and pricing decision of firms. Therefore, capacity expansion models need to take into account uncertainty. This uncertainty, may arise because of errors in the specification, statistical estimation of relationships and in the...

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An Optimization Framework for Product Design

Shi, Leyuan; Ólafsson, Sigurdur; Chen, Qun - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 12, pp. 1681-1692

customers to design a new product such that market share is maximized. The authors present a new optimization framework for this …

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A Minimax Portfolio Selection Rule with Linear Programming Solution

Young, Martin R. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 5, pp. 673-683

process as a linear optimization problem also makes it feasible to constrain certain decision variables to be integer, or 0 …

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Optimal Control of a Manufacturing Process That Involves Trial Runs

Gallego, Guillermo; Yao, David D.; Moon, Ilkyeong - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 12, pp. 1499-1505

We study a manufacturing process that is quite common in semiconductor wafer fabrication. In generic terms, the job to be processed consists of J units. To process the job, a "setup" is required, followed by routine processing and testing. In principle, the entirety of the job can be set up and...

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Notes: Toward Characterizing the Optimal Allocation of Storage Space in Production Line Systems with Variable Processing Times

Hillier, Frederick S.; So, Kut C.; Boling, Ronald W. - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 1, pp. 126-133

This investigation considers certain issues regarding the optimal design of unpaced production lines with variable processing times. Under certain assumptions, including an equal allocation of buffer storage space between the respective pairs of stations, it is known that the optimal allocation...

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Optimizing Product Line Designs: Efficient Methods and Comparisons

Belloni, Alexandre; Freund, Robert; Selove, Matthew; … - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 9, pp. 1544-1552

We take advantage of recent advances in optimization methods and computer hardware to identify globally optimal …

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Stochastic Optimization by Simulation: Convergence Proofs for the GI/G/1 Queue in Steady-State

L'Ecuyer, Pierre; Glynn, Peter W. - In: Management Science 40 (1994) 11, pp. 1562-1578

ratio method have drawn a great deal of attention recently as ways of estimating the gradient of a performance measure with … perturbation analysis, for which the single-run optimization converges to the optimum even with a fixed (and small) number of ends … derivative estimation and optimization algorithms do not always take advantage of that regenerative structure. In a companion …

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