We analyze the incentives of a vertically-integrated producer (VIP) to engage in "self-sabotage". Self-sabotage occurs when a VIP intentionally increases its upstream co...
Optimizing combinations of placements of parts, known as markers, is an important preparatory step in order-based industrial production of clothes. Given a work order in the form ...
Today’s multiprocessor system-on-a-chip (MPSoC) products typically have multiple execution modes, and for each mode, all the products utilize the same task allocation and schedu...
Petroleum industry production systems are highly automatized. In this industry, all functions (e.g., planning, scheduling and maintenance) are automated and in order to remain comp...
Features are essential characteristic of applications within a product line. Features organized in different kinds of diagrams containing hierarchies of feature trees are closely ...