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Taylor Kriging Metamodeling for Simulation Interpolation, Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization
(2009-04-02)
The dissertation explores Kriging metamodeling for the interpolation, sensitivity analysis and optimization of simulation models with costly computational or economic expenses. The key theoretical contribution is that a ...
Collective Creativity in Scientific Communities
(2009-06-11)
Innovation is the driving force of personal growth, national wealth and social progress. Significant attention has been given to advancing cyber infrastructures, but little is known about their factors, as well as their ...
Human Behavior Representation in Physical Security Systems Simulation
(2009-02-23)
Physical security systems are designed to prevent access to a facility by intruders, detect the presence of intruders, or facilitate the capture of intruders once they are detected. These systems generally include a ...
A Floor Space Valuation Method for Automotive Electronics Manufacturing
(2009-02-23)
Manufacturing complex products in order to survive the competition in the automotive electronics industry requires high volume manufacturing combined with high levels of quality and automation at a very low cost. All of ...
Participatory Design of Warning Symbols Using Distributed Interactive Evolutionary Computation
(2009-12-14)
Safety warnings play an important role in communicating risk via product labels and environmental signs. With the diversification of cultures and languages in the United States, and with the increasing globalization of ...
Alternate In-Situ Environmental Testing System by Matrix Design
(2009-03-30)
Compared with the existing in-situ environmental testing system, this alternative one got significant improvement on measuring capacity, total cost, as well as number of connections that must be made between the hardware ...
Data Mining Medication Administration Incident Data to Identify Opportunities for Improving Patient Safety
(2009-12-15)
This research analyzed historical data related to medication administration errors at a 340 bed regional medical center. The objective was to determine if data mining techniques could identify relationships within the ...
Cournot Competition under Uncertainty in Power Markets
(2009-12-17)
As deregulation of the electric industry has come into effect in many parts of the world, the price of electricity is no longer determined by regulatory agencies. In contrast, price is determined by market demand, supply ...
A decision support system for biorefinery location and logistics
(2009-05-01)
The use of forest biomass, a renewable resource, as a source of fuels or chemicals is hindered by logistics. Economic success of the bioenergy concepts and their products may also depend on the solution to the logistics ...
AE Simulator A Serial Production Line Simulator
(2009-08-03)
Consider an unreliable serial line with capacitated buffers between machines. Operators are required to repair machines when they fail and machines are blocked when the buffers are full and are starved when the buffers are ...