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    Risk-sensitive control of branching processes
    (Taylor and Francis inc, 2021) Department of Industrial Engineering; Canbolat, Pelin Gülşah; Faculty Member; Department of Industrial Engineering; College of Engineering; 108242
    This article solves the risk-sensitive control problem for branching processes where the one-period progeny of an individual can take values from a finite set. the decision maker is assumed to maximize the expected risk-averse exponential utility (or to minimize the expected risk-averse exponential disutility) of the rewards earned in an infinite horizon. individuals are assumed to produce progeny independently, and with the same probability mass function if they take the same action. This article characterizes the expected disutility of stationary policies, identifies necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a stationary optimal policy that assigns the same action to all individuals in all periods, and discusses computational methods to obtain such a policy. are available for this article. See the publisher's online edition of IIE Transactions, datasets, Additional tables, detailed proofs, etc.
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    Supervised-learning-based approximation method for multi-server queueing networks under different service disciplines with correlated interarrival and service times
    (Taylor _ Francis, 2021) Department of Business Administration; N/A; Tan, Barış; Khayyati, Siamak; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; 28600; N/A
    Developing efficient performance evaluation methods is important to design and control complex production systems effectively. We present an approximation method (SLQNA) to predict the performance measures of queueing networks composed of multi-server stations operating under different service disciplines with correlated interarrival and service times with merge, split, and batching blocks separated with infinite capacity buffers. SLQNA yields the mean, coefficient of variation, and first-lag autocorrelation of the inter-departure times and the distribution of the time spent in the block, referred as the cycle time at each block. The method generates the training data by simulating different blocks for different parameters and uses Gaussian Process Regression to predict the inter-departure time and the cycle time distribution characteristics of each block in isolation. The predictions obtained for one block are fed into the next block in the network. The cycle time distributions of the blocks are used to approximate the distribution of the total time spent in the network (total cycle time). This approach eliminates the need to generate new data and train new models for each given network. We present SLQNA as a versatile, accurate, and efficient method to evaluate the cycle time distribution and other performance measures in queueing networks.
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    Sustainability in supply chain management: aggregate planning from sustainability perspective
    (Public Library of Science, 2016) Saraçoğlu, O.; Arslan, M.C.; Department of Industrial Engineering; Türkay, Metin; Saraçoğlu, Öztürk; Arslan, Mehmet Can; Faculty Member; Department of Industrial Engineering; College of Engineering; 24956; N/A; N/A
    Supply chain management that considers the flow of raw materials, products and information has become a focal issue in modern manufacturing and service systems. Supply chain management requires effective use of assets and information that has far reaching implications beyond satisfaction of customer demand, flow of goods, services or capital. Aggregate planning, a fundamental decision model in supply chain management, refers to the determination of production, inventory, capacity and labor usage levels in the medium term. Traditionally standard mathematical programming formulation is used to devise the aggregate plan so as to minimize the total cost of operations. However, this formulation is purely an economic model that does not include sustainability considerations. In this study, we revise the standard aggregate planning formulation to account for additional environmental and social criteria to incorporate triple bottom line consideration of sustainability. We show how these additional criteria can be appended to traditional cost accounting in order to address sustainability in aggregate planning. We analyze the revised models and interpret the results on a case study from real life that would be insightful for decision makers.