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Product design optimization has traditionally been dealt with consumer preference as a deterministic process, such as conjoint analysis and multi-dimensional scaling. Actually, the hypothesis in those methods that consumer needs and preference are static and insulated is questioned by many marketing researchers. Preference dynamic and dependence suggest itself to be a challenging task. This paper...
For a container terminal system, efficient berth and quay crane (QC) schedules have great impact on the improvement of both operation efficiency and customer satisfaction. In this paper we address berth and quay crane scheduling problems in a simultaneous way, with uncertainties of vessel arrival time and container handling time. The berths are of discrete type and vessels arrive dynamically with...
Two industrial challenges of uncertainty and interoperability arose as the new forms of industries structure have emerged. Network theories are systematically reviewed in three streams of network structure, network strategy and network evolution in order to find out the current theories' contribution on those two challenging issues, which include supply chain management (SCM), business network (BN),...
During the evaluation of multi-source information system, uncertainty exists widely. In order to use and process the uncertainty and improve the creditability of system evaluation, this paper based on the cloud theory, studied the mapping method between nature variable and quantity variable. At the same time, the paper promoted a novel evaluation method of system performance based on the cloud theory...
For a container terminal system, efficient berth and quay crane (QC) schedules have great impact on the improvement of both operation efficiency and customer satisfaction. In this paper we address both berth and quay crane scheduling problems in a simultaneous way, with uncertainty of container handling time. The berth is of discrete type and vessels arrive dynamically with different service priorities...
Current reliability based approaches to structural design are typically element based: they commonly include uncertainties in the structural resistance, applied loads and geometric parameters, and in some cases in the idealized structural model. Nevertheless, the true measure of safety is the structural systems reliability which must consider multiple failure paths, load sharing and load redistribution...
New Product Development (NPD) is among the most important processes for modern firms to succeed in fast-paced and competitive markets. This paper reviews and integrates extant literature in the domains of NPD and Organization Behavior (OB) to develop a framework for future inter-functional coordination research. The framework, including some propositions, extends the traditional design/manufacturing...
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