Process flexibility, whereby a production facility can produce multiple products, is a critical design consideration in multiproduct supply chains facing uncertain demand. The challenge is to determine a cost-effective flexibility configuration that is able to meet the demand with high likelihood. In this paper, we present a framework for analyzing the benefits from flexibility in multistage su...

It is shown that the model of twoor multistage programming undi^r risk results from the application of the principle of dynamic planning* in special structured dynamic decision situations under risk. By u ^ing this property, some characteristics of the solution set of dynamic planning problems will be derived. *This principle is well known and discussed as "flexible Planung" in the German manag...

Water enriched with its natural isotopes plays an important role in research and technology. Heavy water (HDO, D2O) is used in nuclear technology and research and the increasing market demand is expected in future if nuclear fusion will be used for energy production. Water enriched in O is used in research and medicine in trace experiments, as is water enriched in O. Recently there appears to b...

Multistage successive interference cancellation (SIC) and multistage parallel interference cancellation (PIC) are compared under two different realistic dual rate asynchronous DS-CDMA schemes. The effect of power control and imperfect channel side information are also considered. Multistage SIC outperforms singleor multi-stage PIC for any conditions considered.

INTRODUCTION Surgical treatment of Hirschsprung's disease may be performed in a single step, or in stages with a temporary stoma. The therapy depends on the clinical condition of the patient and the severity of symptoms. Planned multistage treatment is carried out in two or three steps. AIM To analyse our 15 years of experience with multistage surgery for the treatment of Hirschsprung's disea...

A multistage system refers to a system consisting of multiple components, stations or stages required to finish the final product or service. Multistage systems are very common in practice and include a variety of modern manufacturing and service systems. In most cases, the quality of the final product or service produced by a multistage system is determined by complex interactions among multip...

Multistage stochastic programs, which involve sequences of decisions over time, are usually hard to solve in realistically sized problems. In the two-stage case, several approaches based on different levels of available information has been adopted in literature such as the Expected Value Problem, EV , the Sum of Pairs Expected Values, SPEV , the Expectation of Pairs Expected Value, EPEV , solv...

The order of stages in a multistage game is often interpreted by looking at earlier stages as involving more long term decisions. For the purpose of making this interpretation precise, the notion of a delay supergame of a bounded multistage game is introduced. A multistage game is bounded if the length of play has an upper bound. A delay supergame is played over many periods. Decisions on all s...