Publications

• Yi-Tzer Lin and Chen Zhou, "Modeling and Analysis of Message Passing in Distributed Manufacturing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 29, no. 2, May 1999, pp. 250-262.
• Jeff Meyer, Mike Ball, John Baras, Abdur Chowdhury, Edward Lin, Dana Nau, Ravi Rajamani, and Vinai Trichur, (1998) "Process Planning in Microwave Module Production," 1998 Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing Workshop: State of the Art and State of Practice, Second Biannual AI & Mfg Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug. 31 - Sept. 2, 1998.
• Ramesh Karne, Swati Dandekar, Sridhar Poluri, Gang Chen, John Baras, Dana Nau, Michael Ball, Edward Lin, Vinai Trichur, James Williams, (1998) "Web-It-Man: A Web-based Integrated Tool for Manufacturing Environment," DETC98/CIE-5524, 1998 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Sept. 13-16, Atlanta, GA.
• Michael Ball, John Baras, Edward Lin, Ioannis Minis, Dana Nau and Ramesh Karne "Integrated Product and Process Design Tool for Microwave Modules," 1998 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, pp. 655-656, Jan. 5-8, 1998, Monterrey, Mexico.
• Manish Govil, Karthik S.G., Edward Lin, Edward Magrab and Ioannis Minis "Integrating Product Design and Production: Designing for Time-to-Market," 1998 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, pp. 657-658, Jan. 5-8, 1998, Monterrey, Mexico.
• Kenneth Crossen and Edward Lin, (1997) "Creating Excellent Manufacturing Work Instructions," Modern Machine Shop, Nov. 1997, pp. 178-180.
• Herrmann, Jeffrey, Lin, Edward, and Minis, Ioannis (1997) "An Operator Information System for Parallel, off-line assembly," 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, September 9-12, 1997, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
• Kalyanapasupathy, V., Lin, Edward, and Minis, Ioannis (1997) "Group Technology Code Generation over the Internet," DETC97/CIE-4290, 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 14-17, 1997, Sacramento, CA.
• Candadai, A., Herrmann, J.W., Lam, G., Lin, Edward, Minis, I., Ramachandran, V., (1996) "Design Evaluation for Agile Manufacturing," Proceedings of the 1996 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jan. 2-5, 1996, pp. 27-28.
• Lin, Edward, Minis, I., Nau, D.S., Regli, W.C. (1996) "An Assessment of Virtual Manufacturing Technologies," Proceedings of the 1996 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jan. 2-5, 1996, pp. 101-102.
• Lin, Yi-Tzer and Zhou, Chen (1993) "Message Reachability Analysis for Manufacturing Cells", 2nd Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings, Los Angeles, California, May 26-28, 1993, pp. 46-50.
• Lin, Yi-Tzer (1994) "Modelling and analysis for message reachability in distributed manufacturing systems," Ph.D. thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. (Copyright 24Aug95, TX-4-114-980).

• Petri Nets: Tutorial and Applications, The 32th Annual Symposium of the Washington Operations Research - Management Science Council, Washington, D.C., Nov. 5, 1997. Presentation Material , Handout
• Vieira, Guilerme E., Herrmann, Jeffrey W., Lin, Edward, "Evaluating Rescheduling Policies for Discrete Manufacturing Systems," poster session, Winter Simulation Conference'98, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC, Dec. 3-16, 1998.
• Herrmann, Jeffrey W., Vieira, Guilherme E., Lin, Edward, "Evaluating Rescheduling Strategies," SC07.2, Schedling, Logistics & Facilities Design I, INFORMS Fall 1999 Metting, Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 7-10, 1999.

• Whangbo, Albert, Lin, Edward, and Herrmann, W. Jeffrey (1999) "REU Report: Development of an Agent-Based Factory Shop Floor Simulation Tool", Technical Report UG99-8, Institute for Systems Research, University of Marynald.
• Kalyanapasupathy, V., Lin, Edward, and Minis, Ioannis (1997) "Distributed Group Technology Code Generation System," Technical Report, Institute for Systems Research, University of Marynald.
• Edward Lin, Ioannis Minis, Dana S. Nau and William C. Regli (1995) "Contribution to Virtual Manufacturing Background Research -- Phase I," Final Report to Lawrence Associatesin for Manufacturing Technology Directorate, Air Force Wright Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433-6533, Contract No. F33615-92-D-5812.
• Edward Lin, Ioannis Minis, Dana S. Nau and William C. Regli (1995) "Contribution to Virtual Manufacturing Background Research -- Phase II," Final Report to Lawrence Associatesin for Manufacturing Technology Directorate, Air Force Wright Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433-6533.
• Ioannis Minis, Arun Candadai, Jeffrey Herrmann, Giang Lam, Edward Lin, Rakesh Nagi and Vijay Ramachandran (1995)"Optimal Selection of Partners in Agile Manufacturing -- Software User's Manual (A004)," Contract DAAE07-93-C-R086, U.S. Army Tank Command (TACOM), AMSTA-IRRA.
• Ioannis Minis, Arun Candadai, Jeffrey Herrmann, Giang Lam, Edward Lin, Rakesh Nagi and Vijay Ramachandran (1995)"Optimal Selection of Partners in Agile Manufacturing -- Computer System Operator's Manual (A005)," Contract DAAE07-93-C-R086, U.S. Army Tank Command (TACOM), AMSTA-IRRA.
• Ioannis Minis, Arun Candadai, Jeffrey Herrmann, Giang Lam, Edward Lin, Rakesh Nagi and Vijay Ramachandran (1995)"Optimal Selection of Partners in Agile Manufacturing -- Final Report (A001)," Contract DAAE07-93-C-R086, U.S. Army Tank Command (TACOM), AMSTA-IRRA.
• Ioannis Minis, Arun Candadai, Jeffrey Herrmann, Giang Lam, Edward Lin, Rakesh Nagi and Vijay Ramachandran (1995)"Optimal Selection of Partners in Agile Manufacturing -- System/Segment Design Document (A003)," Contract DAAE07-93-C-R086, U.S. Army Tank Command (TACOM), AMSTA-IRRA.

• Lin, Edward, Kalyanapasupathy Venkatraman, and Minis, Ioannis, "Assessment of Web-based Manufacturing Services," submitted to a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems.
• Vieira, Guilherme E., Herrmann, Jeffrey W., and Lin, Edward, "Analytical Models to Predict the Performance of a Single-Machine System Under Periodic and Event-Driven Rescheduling Strategies," accepted for publication in the Internatioanl Journal of Production Research.
• Minis, Ioannis, Herrmann, Jeffrey W., Lam, Giang, and Lin, Edward, "A Generative Approach for Concurrent Manufacturability Evaluation and Subcontractor Selection," accepted to publish in the Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Dana Nau, Michael Ball, John Baras, Abdur Chowdhury, Edward Lin, Jeff Meyer, Ravi Rajamani, John Splain, and Vinai Trichur, "Process Planning in Microwave Module Production," submitted to a special issue of AI-EDAM.
• Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Edward Lin, Bala Ram, and Sanjiv Sarin, "Adaptable Simulation Models for Manufacturing," submitted to FAIM 2000 -- Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, June 26-28, 2000, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
• R. K. Arni, S. K. Gupta, E. Lin, and W. Regli, "Web-Based Process Provider Selection for Solid Freeform Fabrication," submitted to the internet computing.