Supervisory control for deadlock-free resource allocation has been an active area of manufacturing systems research. Most work, however, assumes that allocated resources do not fail. Little research has addressed allocating resources that may fail. Automated manufacturing systems have many types of components that may fail unexpectedly. We develop robust controllers for single unit resource all...

Hub location problems are strategic network planning problems. They formalise the challenge of mutually exchanging shipments between a large set of depots. The aim is to choose a set of hubs (out of a given set of possible hubs) and connect every depot to a hub so that the total transport costs for exchanging shipments between the depots are minimised. In classical hub location problems, the un...

A different approach to the capacitated single allocation hub location problem is presented. Instead of using capacity constraints to limit the amount of flow that can be received by the hubs, we introduce a second objective function to the model (besides the traditional cost minimizing function), that tries to minimize the time to process the flow entering the hubs. Two bi-criteria single allo...

We consider a capacitated supply system that produces a single item that is demanded by several classes of customers. Each customer class may have a different backorder cost, so stock allocation arises as a key decision problem. We model the supply system as a multicustomer make-to-stock queue. Using dynamic programming, we show that the optimal allocation policy has a simple and intuitive stru...

Traditional algorithms are suitable when steps of algorithm are to be executed in a sequence and at a single location. These algorithms have limitations, when used in multi-agent environment, where different agents of single application run on different nodes, thus emphasizing the need for distributed algorithms. Agents in multi-agent systems perform task independently and share the result with...

Managing perishable food in a retail store is quite difficult because of the product’s short lifetime and deterioration. Many elements, such as price, shelf space allocation, and quality, which can affect the consumption rate, should be taken into account when the perishable food retail chain is designed. The modern tracking technologies provide good opportunities to improve the management of t...

In DS-CDMA cellular communications systems, the single frequency reuse can be utilized. Since large other-cell interference is produced, the well known soft handover or site diversity must be used. If the single frequency reuse is not utilized to avoid the other-cell interference, we will face the frequency allocation problem, similar to FDMA systems. In this paper, a DS-CDMA cellular system us...

We study the efficient allocation of a single object over a finite time horizon. Buyers arrive randomly over time, are long-lived and have independent private values. The valuation of a buyer may depend on the time of the allocation in an arbitrary way. We construct an incentive compatible mechanism in which (A) there is a single financial transaction (with the buyer), (B) ex-post participation...

By reusing the cellular resources, device-to-device (D2D) communication is becoming a very promising technology that greatly enhances the spectrum utilization. To harvest the benefits that D2D communications can offer, efficient resource allocation strategy is required to guarantee the demands of quality of service (QoS) for both cellular and D2D users. This paper proposes a resource allocation...

We consider the integrated workforce planning and allocation problem for a high volume manufacturing facility that operates in two non-overlapping shifts of twelve hours each day, with twenty eight shifts for a two week planing period. In such facilities, operational workforce planning is typically carried out in two steps consisting of the multishift assignments and the single-shift allocation...