Multi-Level Kick Start Server

TinkerFund: Kick-start Caltech Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding has rapidly become a mainstream method used by individuals and groups to raise money for various projects and ventures. Increasingly, organizations that chiefly raise monies for charitable purposes have also been turning to crowdfunding as an additional funding source. Multiple higher-education institutions have done this by integrating crowdfunding as a staple of their fundraising...

Controllable Multi-Server Queue with Balking (TECHNICAL NOTE)

Multi-start simulated annealing for dynamic plant layout problem

In today’s dynamic market, organizations must be adaptive to market fluctuations. In addition, studies show that material-handling cost makes up between 20 and 50 percent of the total operating cost. Therefore, this paper considers the problem of arranging and rearranging, when there are changes in product mix and demand, manufacturing facilities such that the sum of material handling and rearr...

Multi-Server Queues Subject to Server Interruptions

This paper concerns discrete-time queueing systems operating under a first-come-first-served queueing discipline, with deterministic service times of one slot and subject to independent server interruptions. We derive a relationship between the probability generating functions of the system contents during an arbitrary slot and of the system delay of an arbitrary customer. This relationship is ...

Performance Implications Of Rear Foot Movement In The Swimming Kick Start

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