In this work, we consider a retailer selling a single product with limited on-hand inventory over a finite selling season. Customer demand arrives according to a Poisson process,...
We develop a hierarchical distributed production planning and control methodology, called DISCS, for a large and unstable semiconductor manufacturing process. The upper layer of D...
Procurement is one of the major activities in the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), which is closely coupled with inventory management. Any improvement in this area will h...
—Many techniques have been proposed in the last few years to address performance degradations in end-to-end congestion control. Although these techniques require parameter tuning...
Mario Barbera, Alfio Lombardo, Carla Panarello, Gi...
The amount of products and services available over the Internet increases significantly and it soon becomes beyond users ability to analyze and compare them. At the same time the n...