This volume contains contributions from prominent researchers who participated in the 2007 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research. Topics covered include quality management systems, reliability and quality control, engineering experimental design, computer supported collaborative engineering, human factors and ergonomics, computer aided manufacturing, manufacturing processes and methods, engineering management and leadership, optimization, transportation network design, stochastics modelling, queueing theory, and industrial applications. The book offers the states of arts of tremendous advances in communication systems and electrical engineering and also serve as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on industrialengineering and operations research. Presents theories and applications of modern industrial engineering and operations research to meet the needs of rapidly developing fields. Covers a variety of subjects in modern industrial engineering and operations research and industrial applications. Chapters are representative in a variety of subjects related to technologies in the fields of industrial engineering and operations research INDICE: From the contents A Comprehensive Movement Compatibility Study forHong Kong Chinese.- A Study of Comparative Design Satisfaction Between Culture and Modern Bamboo Chair.- Factors Influencing Symbol-Training Effectiveness.- Multiple Colony Ant Algorithm with Forward/Backward Scheduling Approach for Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- A Proposal of New Paradigm for Hand and Foot Controls in the Context of Spatial Compatibility Effect.- Development of a Mathematical Model for Process with S-Type Quality Characteristics to a Quality Selection Problem.- Temporal Aggregation and the Production Smoothing Model.- Simulations of Gear Shaving and the Tooth Contact Analysis.- On Aggregative Methods of Supplier Assessment.- Human Factors and Ergonomics for Non-Destructive Testing.- A Novel Matrix Approach to Determine Makespan for Zero Wait Batch Processes.- IMGP: A Decision Analysis Approach for Collaborative Manufacturing.- Nonlinear Programming Based on Particle Swarm Optimization.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-74903-7
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 550
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés