This paper presents a comprehensive disassembly sequence planning (DSP) algorithm in the human–robot collaboration (HRC) setting with consideration of several important factors including limited resources and human workers’ safety. The proposed DSP is capable distributing tasks among operator, robot, HRC, aiming to minimize total time without violating safety constraints. Regarding resource con...

Suppose we wish to estimate the product of the means of two independent populations of Bernoulli random variables , the parameters of which, themselves, are modeled as independent beta random variables. Assume that the total sample size for the experiment is xed, but that the number of experimental units observed from each population may be random. Using a decision theoretic approach, we seek t...

This paper examines the allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems. I argue that complex product systems, e.g., personal computers (PCs), are distinguished by functional interaction among several components, each guided by a relatively autonomous bundle of technical and economic characteristics. I try to explore whether the dynamics of such interactions between components of comp...

In retailing, a variety of products compete to be displayed in the limited shelf space since it has a significant effect on demands. To affect customers’ purchasing decisions, retailers properly make decisions about which products to display (product assortment) and how much shelf space to allocate the stocked products (shelf space allocation). In the previous studies, researchers usually emplo...

Product networks are a class of interconnection networks that includes many useful networks such as multi-dimensional mesh, multi-dimensional torus, hypercube, and generalize hypercube. Most existing processor allocation methods are proposed for a specific interconnection network such as 2-D mesh or hypercube. In this research study, a “unified model” for processor allocation is proposed for pa...

To operate a multiple product manufacturing system under a CONWIP control policy, one must decide how to assign kanbans to products. With a fixed total number of kanbans in a competitive environment, the goal is to determine their allocation to product types in order to minimize lost sales equitably. In particular, we consider systems in which the products may make multiple visits to the same s...

The role of attention in visual word recognition and reading aloud is a long debated issue. Studies of both developmental and acquired reading disorders provide growing evidence that spatial attention is critically involved in word reading, in particular for the phonological decoding of unfamiliar letter strings. However, studies on healthy participants have produced contrasting results. The ai...