"Offering a step-by-step approach for applying the nonparametric method with the Bayesian approach to model complex relationships occurring in reliability engineering, quality management, and operations research, it also discusses survival and censored data, accelerated lifetime tests (issues in...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Definitions and Symbols -- 0. Summary of Matrix Algebra and Allied Topics -- 1. Linear Programming -- 2. Integer Programming -- 3. Theory of Graphs -- 4. Planning Networks -- 5. Game Theory -- 6. Dynamic Programming -- 7. Queueing Models -- 8. Nonlinear...

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has...