Quality control (QC) plan is an important component of manufacturing planning for mass customization. QC planning is to determine the operational tolerances and the way to control process variation for assuring the production quality against design tolerances. It includes four phases, i.e., tolerance stack-up analysis, tolerance assignment, in-process inspection design, and the procedure of err...

For the continuous manufacturing processes, the integrated optimization for production planning, scheduling, and dynamic optimization usually leads to profit improvement and better overall performance. The challenge is that the integrated optimization is often a large scale problem which is difficult to solve. To deal with the computational difficulty of the integrated problem, we first propose...

SIADEX is an integrated framework to support decision making during crisis episodes by providing realistic temporally annotated plans of action. The main component of SIADEX is a forward state-based HTN temporal planner.

In today’s rapidly changing healthcare industry, U.S. hospitals and health systems are contending with tightening margins that conflict with an ever-expanding list of capital needs. Given competing demands on scarce capital resources, an organization’s long-term success and sustainability hinges on its ability to make smart strategic investment decisions today. The alignment of capital decision...

Integrated simulation systems are important tools to decrease the damage caused by various disasters. In peacetime, it would be used for disaster-proof city planning, disaster prevention plans, and disaster response training. At the time of a disaster occurs, it will be used for real-time simulation to predict disasters. The paper describes the simulation system that has the following features:...

Short time-to-market and low costs of projects require effective and efficient management of projects. As progress in projects is not always as what is foreseen and because new projects need to be started up all of a sudden during the year due to fast changing results managing multiple projects simultaneously is essential. Management of projects in multiproject environments is difficult and oft...

The ceaselessly increasing number of trips on urban highways and major arterial roads have caused serious congestion and air pollution problems. Thus many transportation agencies have persevered in their efforts not only to alleviate such problems, but also to minimize social costs. However, the complex nature of such problems has strongly hindered transportation agencies’ ability to consider a...