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Tracking consensus in product development teams
(1998)Modern concurrent engineering requires that the perspectives of the stakeholders in the product realization process be harmonized as early as possible in that process. We consider this harmonization to consist largely of ... -
Asynchronous stochastic learning curve effects in a large scale production system
(2008)Large scale production systems contain dynamically unequal distributing lead times and improvement rates. This has made it very problematic to statistically predict the ability of global partners to meet common deadlines ... -
Reverse Logistics: A Multicriteria Decision Model With Uncertainty
(2010-08-20)Waste reduction is critical in today's manufacturing climate. Producers are being compelled to incorporate reverse logistics into their supply chain by government legislation, the potential for recovering economic value, ... -
Statistical Analyses of the Perceptions and Trust of Adaptive Cruise Control Owners
(2012-08-10)Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), an advanced version of conventional cruise control (CCC), can detect the distance to a vehicle ahead and assist drivers in maintaining a set speed and headway distance. The system has been ... -
Non-invasive Real-time Assessment of Muscle Fatigue during Computer Use: Using Mouse Button-Click and Keystroke Durations
(2012-09-13)Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) account for a large proportion of occupational injuries. As the computer has become ubiquitous in office work environments, so have computer-related MSDs. Since most work-related MSDs ... -
A Web-based System for Optimizing Post Disaster Temporary Housing Allocation
(2012-09-13)Natural catastrophes can result in large scale displacement of populations, who are in urgent need of temporary quarters until permanent housing can be provided. During this period, the temporary housing plays an important ... -
An Investigation of Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Medical Prognostics
(2013-02-25)During the course of care, patients frequently develop escalating health problems that lead to medical complications, costly treatments, severe pains, disabilities and even death. Predicting such escalations provides ... -
Feedforward Control and Process Improvement for Some Time Series Disturbance Models
(2013-02-25)Process adjustment strategy is an important part of the process improvement methods, which is also called engineering process control (EPC), and it is often integrated with statistical process control (SPC) to improve the ... -
Quantifying Drivers' Use of In-Vehicle Systems: Implications for Long-term Behavior
(2013-07-23)The modern day vehicles encompass many in-vehicle Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which can provide continuous feedback to drivers but do require an understanding of the driver, system, and vehicle interactions. ... -
Reducing Disruptive Effects of Patient No-shows: A Scheduling Approach
(2013-11-14)Appointment scheduling systems have been studied for nearly 60 years. From a decision making point of view, related problems can be classified into two categories: static and dynamic. In a static scheduling problem, all ... -
Complex Adaptive Food Supply Systems
(2014-02-24)The long-term sustainability of food supply chains (FSCs) is critical to human and environmental health. While the modern industrial FSC is capable of the production and global distribution of enormous quantities of food, ... -
Scheduling Mass Customized Large Product Assembly Line Considering Learning Effect and Shifting Bottleneck
(2014-04-30)The large product assembly industry is a complex and heavily manually based assembly manufacturing process. Examples are commercial airplanes, ships, and wind turbines. These manufacturing enterprises are increasingly ... -
Modeling Depression Progression Dynamics from Electronic Health Record
To assess and monitor the progression dynamics of patients' depression severity conditions, Markov models are refined from other disease progression modeling methodologies to identify the characteristics and evolvement of ... -
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Adaptive Monitoring Strategies for Depression Treatment
Depression is a significant challenge for the American medical care system and affects as high as 10% of the adult population in the U.S. There are many challenges in treating depression. People are reluctant to reveal ... -
Optimization and Machine Learning Frameworks for Complex Network Analysis
Networks are all around us, and they may be connections of tangible objects in the Euclidean space such as electric power grids, the Internet, highways systems, etc. Among the wide range of areas in the network analysis, ... -
Explicitly Controlling Geometric Characteristics of Corridors in Spatial Optimization
Spatially-explicit mixed-integer programming models (MIPs) allow decision makers to explore a variety of complex scenarios and determine optimal sets of actions across a landscape. In reserve selection problems, the landscape ... -
Objective Methods for Characterizing Physical Exposures which may contribute to Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Agricultural Workers
US Migrant farmworkers perform physically-demanding work but are less likely to report poor working conditions, which exposes them to greater risk for musculoskeletal disorders (e.g., prolonged non-neutral postures, ... -
Discrete-event Simulation and Optimization to Improve the Performance of a Healthcare System
Healthcare systems have attracted the attention of management and analysis due to their high percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) and increasing rate of growth of expenditures. Within the various types of healthcare ... -
Systems Modeling of Lung Cancer Screening Programs to Improve Quality
The main aim of this thesis is to study the factors that affect the quality of lung cancer screening with special focus on community based lung cancer screening programs. The variation in false positives and other outcomes ... -
Vehicle Distance Threshold for Quayside Operations of Container Terminals
In container terminal quayside operations, vehicles play a vital role in shuttling containers between the quay and the yard. The problem of determining the vehicle fleet size to employ consists of determining the exact ...