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Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material

Author : Stefan Helber
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ISBN 13 : 9783642958649
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (586 download)

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Book Synopsis Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material by : Stefan Helber

Download or read book Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material written by Stefan Helber and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flow line design is one of the major tasks in production management. The decision to install a set of machines and buffers is often highly irreversible. It determines both cost and revenue to a large extent. In order to assess the economic impact of any possible flow line design, production rates and inventory levels have to be estimated. These performance measures depend on the allocation of buffers whenever the flow of material is occasionally disrupted, for example due to machine failures or quality problems. The book describes analytical methods that can be used to evaluate flow lines much faster than with simulation techniques. Based on these fast analytical techniques, it is possible to determine a flow line design that maximizes the net present value of the flow line investment. The flow of material through the line may be non-linear, for example due to assembly operations or quality inspections.

Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material

Author : Stefan Helber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364295863X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Book Synopsis Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material by : Stefan Helber

Download or read book Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material written by Stefan Helber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flow line design is one of the major tasks in production management. The decision to install a set of machines and buffers is often highly irreversible. It determines both cost and revenue to a large extent. In order to assess the economic impact of any possible flow line design, production rates and inventory levels have to be estimated. These performance measures depend on the allocation of buffers whenever the flow of material is occasionally disrupted, for example due to machine failures or quality problems. The book describes analytical methods that can be used to evaluate flow lines much faster than with simulation techniques. Based on these fast analytical techniques, it is possible to determine a flow line design that maximizes the net present value of the flow line investment. The flow of material through the line may be non-linear, for example due to assembly operations or quality inspections.

Cooperative Decision Making in Common Pool Situations

Author : Holger I. Meinhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642561365
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Cooperative Decision Making in Common Pool Situations by : Holger I. Meinhardt

Download or read book Cooperative Decision Making in Common Pool Situations written by Holger I. Meinhardt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph gives a theoretical explanation of observed cooperative behavior in common pool situations. The incentives for cooperative decision making are investigated by means of a cooperative game theoretical framework. In a first step core existence results are worked out. Whereas general core existence results provide us with an answer for mutual cooperation, nothing can be said how strong these incentives and how stable these cooperative agreements are. To clarify these questions the convexity property for common pool TU-games in scrutinized in a second step. It is proved that the convexity property holds for a large subclass of symmetrical as well as asymmetrical cooperative common pool games. Core existence and the convexity results provide us with a theoretical explanation to bridge the gap between the observation in field studies for cooperation and the noncooperative prediction that the common pool resource will be overused and perhaps endangered.

Quantitative Models for Reverse Logistics

Author : Moritz Fleischmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364256691X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Quantitative Models for Reverse Logistics by : Moritz Fleischmann

Download or read book Quantitative Models for Reverse Logistics written by Moritz Fleischmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic, marketing, and legislative considerations are increasingly leading companies to take back and recover their products after use. From a logistics perspective, these initiatives give rise to new goods flows from the user back to the producer. The management of these goods flows opposite to the traditional supply chain flows is addressed in the recently emerged field of Reverse Logistics. This monograph considers quantitative models that support decision making in Reverse Logistics. To this end, several recent case studies are reviewed. Moreover, first hand insight from a study on used electronic equipment is reported on. On this basis, logistics issues arising in the management of "reverse" goods flows are identified. Moreover, differences between Reverse Logistics and more traditional logistics contexts are highlighted. Finally, attention is paid to capturing the characteristics of Reverse Logistics in appropriate quantitative models.

A Macroeconomic Model of West German Unemployment

Author : Michael Reutter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642181597
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis A Macroeconomic Model of West German Unemployment by : Michael Reutter

Download or read book A Macroeconomic Model of West German Unemployment written by Michael Reutter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was accepted in 1999 as doctoral thesis (Dr. oec. publ. ) by the faculty of economics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich. It won the dissertation price of the Alumni-Club of the economics faculty in the academic year 2000. Financial assistance by the German Research Asso ciation (DFG) for printing costs is gratefully acknowledged. I have to thank the people behind the B\'IF,X-project, in particular Donald Knuth and Leslie Lamport, for their wonderful typesetting program. The supervisors of my thesis were Prof. Dr. G. Flaig and Prof. Dr. D. Marin. I would like thank both for their thorough reading of the book and their ideas and critical remarks. lowe much gratitude to my academic teacher Prof. Dr. G. Flaig for many insightful conversations about modern time series econometrics, asymptotic theory and data problems. His empha sis on clear theory combined with sound econometric methods formed my personal ideal of how to do applied economics. After he left the university in 1998I had the opportunity to continue my work at the Center for Economic Studies. Prof. Dr. H. -W. Sinn and my new colleaguesat CES provided a stim ulating environment for the completion of my dissertation. Finally, I want to thank my parents, my sister and my friends for being there and sharing my cheers and worries. Munich, October 2000 Michael Reutter Our main concern in philosophy and in science should be the search fortruth. Justification is not an aim; and brilliance and cleverness as such are boring.

Focal Points in Framed Games

Author : Andre Casajus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642511120
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Focal Points in Framed Games written by Andre Casajus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to built the city. (Genesis 11.7-8) 1.1 Static Focal Points 1.1.1 Coordination In real life, people quite often face situations in which they prefer to act in the same way, but they are not particular about the concrete way of acting. Some examples are given below: Credit cards: Buyers want to possess the credit cards potential sellers do accept. Also, sellers wish to have contracted the credit card company the credit cards of which potential customers usually carry along. For both, basically, it is all the same which credit card this is. What matters is that both choices coincide. Communication, information transmission: The transmission of in formation requires that the signals used have the same meaning to both the sender and the receiver. But it is inessential which signal has a certain mean ing. In verbal communication, this basically means that the people involved use the same (natural) language, though even then some ambiguities remain. Things are a bit more difficult for non-verbal communication, for example data transmission between computers-both sides have to use the same or compatible protocols. Again, what matters is the protocols to be the same for both sides.

FME 2001: Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity

Author : Jose N. Oliveira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540417910
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis FME 2001: Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity by : Jose N. Oliveira

Download or read book FME 2001: Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity written by Jose N. Oliveira and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME 2001, held in Berlin, Germany, in March 2001. The 32 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 72 submissions. Focusing on increasing software productivity, all current aspects in formal methods are covered. Among the application areas addressed are avionics, smart cards, financial engineering, E-commerce, middleware, security, telecommunications, etc.

Consumption Structure and Macroeconomics

Author : Reto Foellmi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 354028513X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Consumption Structure and Macroeconomics by : Reto Foellmi

Download or read book Consumption Structure and Macroeconomics written by Reto Foellmi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which enables to analyze macroeconomic models consistent with these empirical facts. As a result, central macroeconomic phenomena are better understood: the reasons behind long-run growth, structural change, and the influence of inequality on innovations and growth.

An Economic Theory of Cities

Author : Wei-Bin Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642560601
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis An Economic Theory of Cities by : Wei-Bin Zhang

Download or read book An Economic Theory of Cities written by Wei-Bin Zhang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over more than two centuries the developmentofeconomic theory has created a wide array of different concepts, theories, and insights. My recent books, Capital and Knowledge (Zhang, 1999) and A TheoryofInternational Trade (Zhang, 2000) show how separate economic theories such as the Marxian economics, the Keynesian economics, the general equilibrium theory, the neoclassical growth theory, and the neoclassical trade theory can be examined within a single theoretical framework. This book isto further expand the frameworkproposed in the previous studies. This book is a part of my economic theory with endogenous population, capital, knowledge, preferences, sexual division of labor and consumption, institutions, economic structures and exchange values over time and space (Zhang, 1996a). As an extension of the Capital and Knowledge, which is focused on the dynamics of national economies, this book is to construct a theory of urban economies. We are concerned with dynamic relations between division of labor, division ofconsumption and determination of prices structure over space. We examine dynamic interdependence between capital accumulation, knowledge creation and utilization, economicgrowth, price structuresand urban pattern formation under free competition. The theory is constructed on the basisofa few concepts within a compact framework. The comparative advantage of our theory is that in providing rich insights into complex of spatial economies it uses only a few concepts and simplified functional forms and accepts a few assumptions about behavior of consumers, producers, and institutionalstructures.

Multiple Criteria Decision Making in the New Millennium

Author : Murat Köksalan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642566804
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Book Synopsis Multiple Criteria Decision Making in the New Millennium by : Murat Köksalan

Download or read book Multiple Criteria Decision Making in the New Millennium written by Murat Köksalan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making held in Ankara, Turkey July 10 14, 2000. This was one of the regular conferences of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, which are held at approximately two-year intervals. The Ankara conference had 195 participants from 38 countries. A total of 185 papers were presented at the conference. The title of our volume is MCDM in the New Millennium. The papers presented at the conference reflect the theme. We had several papers on information technology (IT) and many application papers. Of the 81 application papers presented, 14 appear in the volume. We expect more IT applications of MCDM to appear in the future, in particular in the areas of e-commerce and the internet. The conference surroundings and accomodations were excellent, and conducive to both an outstanding academic exchange, and enjoyment and a cultural broadening of participants. We had a pleasant and enjoyable outing and visit to the Anatolian Civilizations Museum. We also had an outstanding banquet at which awards were presented. The MCDM Gold Medal was presented to Professor Thomas Saaty, of the University of Pittsburgh. The MCDM Presidential Service Award was presented to ProfessorPekka Korhonen of the Helsinki School of Economics for his years of presidential service to the society. The society presented the MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award to Professor Alexander V. Lotov of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Strategic Trading in Illiquid Markets

Author : Burkart Mönch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540263152
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Strategic Trading in Illiquid Markets by : Burkart Mönch

Download or read book Strategic Trading in Illiquid Markets written by Burkart Mönch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Area of Research and the Object of Investigation In this thesis we will investigate trading strategies in illiquid markets from a market microstructure perspective. Market microstructure is the academic term for the branch of financial economics that investigates trading and the organization of security markets, see, e. g. , Harris (2002). Historically, exchanges evolved as a location, where those interested in buy ing or selling securities could meet physically to transact. Thus, traditionally security trading was organized on exchange floors, where so-called dealers arranged all trades and provided liquidity by quoting prices at which they were willing buy or sell. Consequently, the initial surge of the market mi crostructure literature focused predominantly on this type of market design, which is often referred to as quote-driven. Nowadays, the interest is shifting towards order-driven markets. Beginning with the Toronto Stock Exchange in the mid 1970s and increasing in fre quency and scope, this market structure has emerged as the preeminent form of security trading worldwide. In order-driven markets, exchanges arrange trades by matching public orders, often by employing automatic execution systems. Introduction A major difference between a quote-driven and an order-driven market arises from the transparency pre- and post-trade. The pre-trade transparency con cerns the question whether the order book is visible to the keeper only, or whether it is open to the public.

Time Continuity in Discrete Time Models

Author : Christopher Suerie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540272909
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Time Continuity in Discrete Time Models by : Christopher Suerie

Download or read book Time Continuity in Discrete Time Models written by Christopher Suerie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Production planning problems containing special characteristics from process industries are addressed in this book. The main subject is the development of mathematical programming models that allow to model production plans which are not disrupted by discretization of time. However, discrete time models are used as a basis and are subsequently enhanced to include aspects of time continuity. Their integration is achieved by different building blocks which may be combined freely according to the specific planning situation at hand. The primary area of application of these kinds of models are process industries.

Project Scheduling with Time Windows and Scarce Resources

Author : Klaus Neumann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662223414
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis Project Scheduling with Time Windows and Scarce Resources by : Klaus Neumann

Download or read book Project Scheduling with Time Windows and Scarce Resources written by Klaus Neumann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project is a unique undertaking or endeavor to be accomplished that can be divided into individual subtasks or activities each of which requires time and scarce resources for its completion. Also there is a desired objective to be attained (for example, minimization of project duration or of variation of resource utilization, or maximization of net present value of the project). Moreover, there are given precedence relationships among activities prescrib ing the order in which activities must be carried out. Project scheduling, in its basic form, consists of finding start times for all activities such that pre scribed resource and precedence constraints are satisfied and an objective function is optimized. Since the concept of a project can be interpreted quite broadly, project scheduling problems arise in a great variety of practical situations. These in clude construction work, the development and introduction of new products, service systems, or software packages, strategic long-term planning in manu facturing and the service sector, emergency planning, and even the conduct ing of political campaigns. Recently, project scheduling has been successfully applied to production and operations management, e.g. make-to-order pro duction in manufacturing and batch production in process industries. Since the late 1950's, network-based planning methods for project sched uling problems have been developed, cf. Elmaghraby (1977) and Moder et al.

Constructing and Applying Objective Functions

Author : Andranik S. Tangian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642560385
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing and Applying Objective Functions by : Andranik S. Tangian

Download or read book Constructing and Applying Objective Functions written by Andranik S. Tangian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some seven decades, econometrics has been almost exclusiveley dealing with constructing and applying econometric equation systems, which constitute constraints in econometric optimization models. The second major component, the scalarvalued objective function, has only in recent years attracted more attention and some progress has been made. This book is devoted to theories, models and methods for constructing scalarvalued objective functions for econometric optimization models, to their applications, and to some related topics like historical issues about pioneering contributions by Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen.

Technical Progress and Economic Growth

Author : Franco Nardini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540415961
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Book Synopsis Technical Progress and Economic Growth by : Franco Nardini

Download or read book Technical Progress and Economic Growth written by Franco Nardini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-02-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book revisits the subject matter of macroeconomic theory in a two-sector disequilibrium model inspired by the structural theories of the business cycle developed by Tugan-Baranowski, Aftalion, Fanno, and Lowe. The functioning of each market is modeled following Hicks: the features of each market depend on the characteristics of the goods traded. In this framework, endogenous irregular business cycles arise. The issues of the impact of technical progress and the effectiveness of a stabilizing fiscal policy are thoroughly discussed. The book concludes with a discussion of all of these problems in a case of open economy.

Performance Analysis and Optimization of Inbound Call Centers

Author : Raik Stolletz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642555063
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Performance Analysis and Optimization of Inbound Call Centers by : Raik Stolletz

Download or read book Performance Analysis and Optimization of Inbound Call Centers written by Raik Stolletz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material presented in this book is a result of my work in the field of call center management during the period 1999-2002. The focus is on the perfor mance analysis and optimization of inbound call centers. Since call arrivals and call-handling times are often random in inbound call centers, this thesis concentrates on the performance analysis and optimization using queueing models. This book describes mathematical methods and algorithms to relate the number of agents and telephone trunks of a given call center configuration to technical as well as economic performance measures. This book has been accepted as a PhD thesis in Business Administration at the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. I am indebted to many people for their support during the process of writing this thesis. First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Dr. Stefan Helber, for motivating my research to call center related problems. He gently pushed me in fruitful directions and encouraged me to strike a balance between mathematical results and economic implications. Many other helpful suggestions came from him, and his constructive comments on draft versions of this book are invaluable. I am thankful to him and to Prof. Dr. Rolf Schwinn for refereeing this thesis.

Union Wage Bargaining and Economic Growth

Author : Jörg Lingens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364217017X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Union Wage Bargaining and Economic Growth by : Jörg Lingens

Download or read book Union Wage Bargaining and Economic Growth written by Jörg Lingens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a book is not possible without the generous input of many people. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to thank at least some of these people. Prof. Dr. Jochen Michaelis, the supervisor of my dissertation, taught me how to do economic analysis and initiated my interest in labour market is sues. Discussions with him have always been enlightening and have greatly improved the analysis in this book. Moreover, he always encouraged me when I experienced a slump in my motivation. He never lost his calmness and good temper, not even in situations when my need for discussion must have been bothering him. Thanks for that Jochen. I'm indebted to Prof. Dr. Peter Weise for taking over the job as the sec ond referee of my thesis. He gave very valuable comments and sacrificed his christmas holiday to write the referee report as fast as possible. I also want to thank Prof. Stefan Voigt and Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kosfeld, the other two members of the dissertation committee, for the discussion during the defence of the thesis.