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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problems
There are Optimization Problems that are too complex to be solved efficiently by deterministic methods. For these problems, where deterministic methods have proven to be inefficient, if not completely unusable...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robust Supply Chain Network Design Under Facility Disruption by Consideration of Risk Propagation
A supply chain consists of facilities that are subjected to various types of disruption. When one or more facility in the supply chain is disrupted, its impact propagates and reduce the performance of the supp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Integrated Framework Approach for TEBC Technologies in Distributed Manufacturing Systems: A Systematic Review and Opportunities
Distributed manufacturing systems have become consensus, particularly networked manufacturing systems (NMS) owing to its flexible and adaptable nature in response to customized requirements. Highlighting of fu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of a Patient Admission Problem: A Social Network Approach
Due to pressing demand for the quality of care and to maximize the patient satisfaction, traditional scheduling may not cater the needs of patient’s accessibility for mitigating the patient tardiness and socia...
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Chapter
An Integrated Fuzzy MCDM Approach to Supplier Selection—Indian Automotive Industry Case
Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques are being adopted in the supplier selection in the automotive industry. Due to their flexibility to interact with the factors needed in determining the supplier...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interoperable Decision Support System Based on Multivariate Time Series for Setup Data Processing and Visualization
Nowadays, interoperable decision support systems play a crucial role to improve production activity control in industrial Companies, and enable them to face the growing exigencies imposed by the arising Indust...
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Article
Estimation of manufacturing systems degradation rate for residual life prediction through dynamic workload adjustment
Complex systems in a work cell often consist of multiple units to process the manufacturing functions effectively for achieving the desired objectives. All manufacturing work cells are familiar with many unfor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Autonomous Production Control: A Literature Review
Autonomous production control (APC) aims at improving production systems performance through fast and flexible reaction to changes in dynamic production environments. APC shifts the power of decision from a c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Impact of UTAUT Predictors on the Intention and Usage of Electronic Health Records and Telemedicine from the Perspective of Clinical Staffs
Technology adoption play significant role for good healthcare services. It is very important to understand and identify the requirements and perceptions of hospital employees for the implementation of technol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigation of Copper and Zinc Contamination on the Work Piece Surface with WEDM
This work presents an investigation on Wire Electric Discharge Machining (WEDM) of Pure Titanium (Grade-2). Pure Titanium and its alloys are the most suitable metallic materials for biomedical applications. In...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Dynamic Selection of Dispatching Rules Based on the Kano Model Satisfaction Scheduling Tool
Production scheduling is a function that can contribute strongly to the competitive capacity of companies producing goods and services. Failure to stagger tasks properly causes enormous waste of time and resou...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Manufacturing Services Classification in a Decentralized Supply Chain Using Text Mining
With the recent development of weblogs and social networks, many supplier industries share their data on different websites and weblogs. Even the Small-to-Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Web-Based Decision System for Distributed Process Planning in a Networked Manufacturing Environment
Distributed manufacturing sector is increasingly enabling the Web-enabled services due to the advancements in Information technology and pervasive applications of recently advanced manufacturing systems. In th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Text Mining Based Supervised Learning Algorithm for Classification of Manufacturing Suppliers
With the expeditious growth of unstructured massive data on the World Wide Web (WWW), more advanced tools, techniques, methods, and approaches for information organization and retrieval are desired. Text mini...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Industrial Plant Layout Analyzing Based on SNA
Social network analysis (SNA) is a widely studied research topics, which has been increasingly being applied for solving different kind of problems, including industrial manufacturing ones. This paper focuses ...
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Chapter
Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling Based on a Dynamic Multi-criteria Decision Model
Distributed manufacturing scheduling is increasingly necessary in nowadays global manufacturing environments and assumes primal importance to ensure enhanced solutions for such globally distributed manufacturi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Web-Based Decision Support System for Supply Chain Operations Management Towards an Integrated Framework
Operations management deals with the design and management of products, processes, services and supply chains. Supply chains integration and manufacturing operations management can benefit highly from the use ...
