Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Social Choice -- Chapter 2. Building Bridges over the Great Divide -- Chapter 3. Social Unacceptability for Simple Voting Procedures -- Chapter 4. Probability of Majority Inversion with Three States and Interval Preferences -- Chapter 5. Strategic Voting and...

Duncan's economic model of Shewhart's original x-super-¯ chart has established its optimal and economic application for processes with the Markovian failure characteristic. As the sample statistics show some indications of process variations, the variable-sampling-interval (VSI) control charts...

Often the manufacturing and the inspection workstations in a manufacturing process can coincide: thus, in these workstations the statistical process control (SPC) procedure of collecting sample statistics related to a critical-to-quality parameter is a task required to be done by the same worker...

A combination of double sampling X¯ chart and variable sampling intervals X¯ chart (DSVSI) can successfully reduce the detection time of small mean shift. Before a DSVSI X¯ chart is used, its design parameters should be determined. This study constructs an economic design model of DSVSI X¯...

The aim of the present work is the confrontation of three numerical techniques results to optimize the operating conditions of thermal plasma spraying process. The Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to scrutinize dispersion effects of injection parameters on droplet impact characteristics...

Summary An important issue facing innovation managers is how to exercise adequate managerial control over new product development (NPD) teams in order to ensure that project goals are met. The current study advances research on this subject matter by analyzing the individual and joint effects of...

Abstract The reduction of run length variability has received little attention in the statistical process control literature. This note proposes a modification of the signal rule for the EWMA control chart resulting in a reasonable reduction of run length variability.

Limits of error for inventory differences (LEIDs) using variance propagation techniques have been discussed in previous INMM meetings. However, using the variance propagation methodology with a large number of actual inventory measurements on a monthly basis requires the use of an automated LEID...