Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems is a set of papers on some of the newest research and applications of mathematical and computational techniques to manufacturing systems and supply chains. These papers deal with fundamental questions (how to predict factory performance: how to...

The topological network design of general service, finite waiting room, multi-server queueing networks is a complex optimization problem. Series, merge, and split topologies are examined using an approximation method to estimate the performance of these queueing networks and an iterative search...

The optimal design of real-life systems modeled as finite queueing networks is a difficult stochastic optimization problem. Besides being non-linear and including integer variables, different objectives often conflict with each other. For example, one conflicting pair of objectives includes...