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    Design of empty container depot layouts using data and analytics

    This paper presents an approach using a combination of data-driven and analytical models to design the layout of empty container depots where top-lifters (TLs) are used. A method to determine the optimum numbe...

    Erhan Karakaya, Alice E. Smith… in Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (2023)

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    An Improved Bat Algorithm with a Dimension-Based Best Bat for Numerical Optimization

    The bat algorithm (BA) is a recent swarm intelligence algorithm which can be a powerful tool for numerical optimization. However, the BA and most of its variants rely on a quite elitist strategy where the bat ...

    Lingyun Zhou, Alice E Smith in Women in Computational Intelligence (2022)

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    Using Simulation to Improve Container Depot Operations

    This chapter will discuss a discrete-event simulation project in terms of both technical development and outcomes, and the effects on the project members involved in terms of lessons learned and professional g...

    Jimena Pascual, Alice E. Smith in Women in Industrial and Systems Engineering (2020)

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    The Ant Colony Paradigm for Reliable Systems Design

    This chapter introduces a relatively new meta-heuristic for combinatorial optimization, the ant colony. The ant colony algorithm is a multiple solution global optimizer that iterates to find optimal or near op...

    Yun-Chia Liang, Alice E. Smith in Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering (2007)

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    Integrated facilities design using a contour distance metric

    The unequal area facility design problem has been studied in the literature generally by considering block layout separate from detailed design. This paper shows a tractable method for concurrently optimizing ...

    Bryan A. Norman, Rifat Aykut Arapoglu, Alice E. Smith in IIE Transactions (2001)

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    Evolutionary Design of Facilities Considering Production Uncertainty

    This paper considers the design of facilities while explicitly incorporating production uncertainty in the form of product quantity expected values and standard deviations. Block layout designs can be optimize...

    Alice E. Smith, Bryan A. Norman in Evolutionary Design and Manufacture (2000)

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    Prediction and optimization of a ceramic casting process using a hierarchical hybrid system of neural networks and fuzzy logic

    This paper is a case study that describes a hybrid system integrating fuzzy logic, neural networks and algorithmic optimization for use in the ceramics industry. A prediction module estimates two quality metri...

    Sarah S.Y. Lam, Kimberly L. Petri, Alice E. Smith in IIE Transactions (2000)

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    Economic design of reliable networks

    This paper describes a general approach to the optimal design of communications networks when considering both economics and reliability. The approach uses a genetic algorithm to identify the best topology of ...

    Darren L. Deeter, Alice E. Smith in IIE Transactions (1998)

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    Achieving Stretch Goals: Best Practices in Manufacturing for the New Millennium

    Alice E. Smith in IIE Transactions (1998)