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Creator:: Méndez-Vázquez, Yaileen M.
Abstract:: Teamwork has become a popular operational strategy applied as part of workforce management plans in manufacturing and service industries. Teamwork has been commonly used in organizations to pursue different goals such as increase business operations agility, boost company productivity, improve quality in operations, increase company flexibility, promote collaborative learning, hasten...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Formation. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ David A

Creator:: Crews, Matthew
Abstract:: Simulated Annealing and Threshold Accepting are two stochastic search algorithms that have been successfully used on a variety of complex and difficult problem sets. Due to their stochastic nature they are not guaranteed to produce the same result for each run. This means that these techniques actually produce a distribution...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to thank Dr. John Sessions for inciting in me a love of metaheuristics and the varied world of

Creator:: Chongvilaiwan, Tanida
Abstract:: Small business energy analysts often specialize in one aspect of the business. This specialized focus is done by necessity due to scarcity of resources and to maintain a proprietary market niche. However, this specialized focus results in a growth inhibitor due to their lack of ability to address all the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Vergara, Dr. Karl Haapala, and Dr. John Sessions for serving as a committee member. Moreover, I would

Creator:: Mohseni, Seyed Alireza
Abstract:: Physical experimentation in various scientific and engineering areas continues to be a useful and often necessary approach that is applied in research, development, and for general problem solving. The experimental design process however, is iterative and often involves trial and error. Alternative designs are proposed and evaluated on cost and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: continues to be a useful and often necessary approach that is applied in research, development, and for

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