Increasing manufacturing competition has necessitated simultaneous design of multiple products. Various design strategies such as Design for Variety (DfV) and product family design have become critical in this respect. This paper provides a new generic approach, which combines aspects of function architecting, multi-objective optimization, and multi agent systems to tackle product platform prob...

Let n binary numbers of length n be given. The Boolean function ``Multiple Product'' MPn asks for (some binary representation of ) the value of their product. It has been shown (K.-Y. Siu and V. Roychowdhury, On optimal depth threshold circuits for multiplication and related problems, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 7, 285 292 (1994)) that this function can be computed in polynomial-size threshold circu...

Let u(x) x ∈ Rq be a symmetric non-negative definite function which is bounded away from zero but which may have u(0) = ∞. Let px,δ(·) be the density of an Rq valued canonical normal random variable with mean x and variance δ and let {Gx,δ; (x, δ) ∈ Rq× [0, 1]} be the mean zero Gaussian process with covariance EGx,δGy,δ′ = ∫ ∫ u(s− t)px,δ(s)py,δ′(t) ds dt. A finite positive measure μ on Rq is s...

Supply chain network design in perishable product has become a challenging task due to its short life time, spoilage of product in degradation nature and stochastic market demand. This paper focused on designing and optimizing model for perishable product in stochastic demand, which comprises multiple levels from producer, local collector, wholesaler and retailers. The ultimate goal is to optim...