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Editorial: Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems-What can Industrial Engineering and Management do?
( OMICS International , 2012 , Article)Towards the end of the 20thcentrury, the concept of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) rocked the world of manufacturing and promised a global revolution in the 21stcentury manufacturing landscape. Since then, a ... -
Advancing Service Operations: The Changing Role of Industrial Engineering
( OMICS International , 2012 , Article)Service operations are currently at the hub of economic activities in some parts of the world. Although indicators seem to suggest the existence and future dominance of service economies, such economies will only be ... -
A model to evaluate acquisition price and quantity of used products for remanufacturing
( Elsevier , 2012 , Article)In this paper, an analytical model is proposed to evaluate optimal acquisition price and quantity policy based on the quality of returned used products that are subsequently used for remanufacturing. The model is developed ... -
Optimization models in emergency logistics: A literature review
( Elsevier , 2012 , Article Review)Optimization modeling has become a powerful tool to tackle emergency logistics problems since its first adoption in maritime disaster situations in the 1970s. Using techniques of content analysis, this paper reviews ... -
Meta-heuristics for aircraft arrival and departure scheduling on multiple runways
( Institute of Industrial Engineers , 2012 , Conference Paper)The problem of scheduling aircrafts on multiple runways can be modeled as an identical parallel machine scheduling with release times, target times and deadlines. To schedule arriving and departing aircrafts as close as ... -
Heuristic algorithms for aircraft sequencing problem
(2012 , Conference Paper)Delays in flights resulting in multi-billion-dollar losses are declared annually worldwide. Hence, an identification of air traffic policies that can reduce frequent and costly inefficiencies is needed. The problem of ... -
Multiple-runway aircraft sequencing problems using mixed-integer programming
( Institute of Industrial Engineers , 2012 , Conference Paper)We examine aircraft sequencing problems over multiple runways, under mixed mode operations, with the objective of minimizing the total weighted tardiness of aircraft landings and departures. A mixed-integer programming ... -
Scalar dissipation rate statistics in turbulent flows using Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence measurements
( Elsevier , 2012 , Article)A shearless mixing layer with isotropic decaying turbulence has been examined with a turbulent axisymmetric opposed-jet flow and a plume in pipe flow. The study has been carried out experimentally with Planar Laser Induced ... -
Energy absorption capability of composite hexagonal ring systems
( Elsevier, Ltd , 2012 , Article)An extensive experimental investigation of inplane crushing of composite hexagonal ring system between platens has been carried out. Woven roving glass/epoxy hexagonal ring system with different angles and arrangement were ... -
Enhanced simulated-annealing-based algorithms and their applications to process planning in reconfigurable manufacturing systems
( Elsevier, Ltd , 2012 , Article)Capabilities of enhanced simulated-annealing-based algorithms in solving process planning problems in reconfigurable manufacturing are investigated. The algorithms are enhanced by combining variants of the simulated annealing ... -
Simulated annealing with auxiliary knowledge for process planning optimization in reconfigurable manufacturing
( Elsevier , 2012 , Article)In this paper, three simulated annealing based algorithms that exploit auxiliary knowledge in different ways are devised and employed to handle a manufacturing process planning problem for reconfigurable manufacturing. ... -
Differentiating the mechanical response of hierarchical magnesium nano-composites as a function of temperature
( Elsevier, Ltd , 2012 , Article)The effect of temperature change on quasi-static mechanical response of monolithic Mg alongside hierarchical Mg/Al–Al2O3 nano-composites synthesized through powder metallurgy route followed by microwave assisted rapid ... -
Energy conversion of heat from abandoned oil wells to mechanical refrigeration - Transient analysis and optimization
( Elsevier , 2012 , Article)This study investigates the potential of using the geothermal energy from abandoned oils in a novel three-loop system; geothermal, power and cooling loops to produce cooling effect. The geothermal loop drives the power and ... -
PS/TiO2 (polystyrene/titanium dioxide) composite nanofibers with higher surface-to-volume ratio prepared by electrospinning: Morphology and thermal properties
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , 2013 , Article)Polystyrene (PS)/Titanium dioxide (TiO2) composite nanofibers were prepared by electrospinning of PS/TiO2 solution in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF). The effect of PS and TiO2 concentration on the morphology and thermal ... -
Key performance indicators (KPIs) for evaluation of energy conservation in buildings
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2013 , Conference Paper)The main objectives of this paper are to: identify key performance indicators (KPIs) related to intelligent buildings (economical, environmental, reliability, and quality), and; propose a simulation framework for evaluation ... -
Evaluation of thermal comfort and cooling performance of residential buildings in arid climates
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2013 , Conference Paper)In this paper, a parametric study on the thermal comfort and cooling performance of residential buildings is reported. The study was carried out in the hot arid climatic conditions of Qatar. The influence of diurnal variation ... -
Design of thin wall structures for energy absorption applications: Enhancement of crashworthiness due to axial and oblique impact forces
(2013 , Article)This paper describes a computationally aided design process of a thin wall structure subject to dynamic compression in both axial and oblique directions. Several different cross sectional shapes of thin walled structures ... -
An integrated approach for airline flight selection and timing, fleet assignment, and aircraft routing
( INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences , 2013 , Article)Airline profits critically depend on the nature and efficiency of service they provide and accrue from a complex planning process involving schedule design fleet assignment aircraft routing and crew scheduling which are ... -
MIP models for minimizing total tardiness in a two-machine flow shop
( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2013 , Article)We propose compact mixed-integer programming models for the NP-hard problem of minimizing tardiness in a two-machine flow shop. Also, we propose valid inequalities that aim at tightening the models' representations. We ... -
An assignment-based lower bound for a class of two-machine flow shop problems
(2013 , Article)We present an assignment-based lower bound that is valid for a wide class of two-machine flow shop problems with a regular additive performance criterion. We provide empirical evidence that this new bound consistently ...