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Prof. Leonid Charny College of Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Str., Boston, MA 02215 Phone: (617) 353-5442 FAX: (617) 353-5548 E-mail: leon@bu.edu
Boston University Team Working on Enterprise Integration: Algorithms and Software Architecture. Professor Michael C. Caramanis Director, Production Control of Manufacturing Systems Laboratory tel 617-353-3247, fax 617-353-5548, Email mcc@enga.bu.edu Boston University, College of Engineering, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, 44 Cummington St, Boston MA 02215 Affiliated Faculty Prof. Leonid Charny, leon@enga.bu.edu Prof. Oded Maimon, maimon@enga.bu.edu Prof. Jim Perkins, perkins@engc.bu.edu Prof. Ali Sharifnia, sharifnia@enga.bu.edu Prof. J. Q. Hu, hu@enga.bu.edu Prof. Pirooz Vakili vakili@enga.bu.edu Research focuses on complex manufacturing and production systems and the pursuit of an enterprise integration environment for concurrent production planning and control. Means used in this pursuit include: -hierarchical decomposition of complex manufacturing systems -development of state of the art dynamic decision support systems and algorithms including manufacturing flow control, scheduling, and performance evaluation, as well as their interoperation with legacy software such as MRP, CAM, and shop floor tracking. -development of flexible information system software -communication-network related issues -Flexible design with dynamic redesign/reengineering capabilities of a system of autonomous decision making agents interacting for the dual purpose of planning and operating a complex production facility. Key words: Enterprise Integration, Hierarchical Production Planning and Control, Reengineering of Production Management Process, Software Architecture for Concurrent Production Control REFERENCES Fu, M.C., and Hu, J.Q., "Addendum to Extensions and Generalizations of Smoothed Perturbation Analysis in a Generalized Semi-Markov Process Framework," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, August, 1995. Fu, M.C., and Hu, J.Q., "On the Relationship of Capacitated Production/Inventory Models to Manufacturing Flow Control Models," to appear in Operations Research Letters, 1995. Hu, J.Q., "Parallel Simulation of DEDS Via Event Synchronization," to appear in DEDSTA, 1995. Fu, M.C., and Hu, J.Q., "Sensitivity Analysis for Monte Carlo Simulation of Option Pricing," to appear in Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences, 1995. Hu, J.Q., and Xiang, D., "Optimal Control for Systems with Deterministic Production Cycles," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, July 1995. Fu, M.C., Hu, J.Q., and Nagi, R., "Comparison of Gradient Estimation Techniques for Queues with Non-identical Servers," to appear in Computers and Operations Research, 1995. Fu, M.C. and Hu, J.Q., "On Unbounded Hazard Rate for Smoothed Perturbation Analysis," to appear in Journal of Applied Probability, Sept., 1995. Hu, J.Q., and Xiang, D., "Monotonicity of Optimal Flow Controls for Failure Prone Production Systems," to appear in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 86, No. 1, July 1995. Hu, J.Q., "The Departure Process of The GI/G/1 Queue and Its MacLaurin Series," to appear in Operations Research, May 1995. Hu, J.Q., "Analyticity of Single Server Queues in Light Traffic," to appear in Queueing Systems, 1995. Hu, J.Q., "Production Rate Control for Failure Prone Production Systems with No Backlog Permitted," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.40, No.2, pp.291-295, 1995. Junjie Hu, and M. Caramanis, "Dynamic Set-Up Scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Design and Stability of Near Optimal General Round Robin Policies", in Discrete Event Systems, Edited by P.R. Kumar and P. Varaiya, IMA Volumes In Mathematics and its Applications, Springer-Ferlag, 1995 C. Kaskavelis and M. Caramanis, "A Lagrangian Relaxation Based Algorithm for Scheduling Multiple-Part-Production-Systems: Industrial Implementation Experience" Proceedings of the 1994 Japan-U.S.A. Symposium on Flexible Automation. Kobe, Japan, pp. 173-180, July 11-18, 1994 C. Kaskavelis and M. Caramanis, "Application of a Lagrangian Relaxation Based Scheduling Algorithm to a Semiconductor Testing Facility", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Automation Technology, Troy, NY, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp.106-112, October 10-12, 1994 G. Liberopoulos and M. Caramanis, "Dynamics and Design of a Class of Parameterized Manufacturing Flow Controllers", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, July 1995. G. Liberopoulos and M. Caramanis, "Production Control of Manufacturing Systems with Production Rate Dependent Failure Rates," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 889-895, April 1994. G. Liberopoulos and M. Caramanis, "Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis for Second Derivative Estimation and Design of Manufacturing Flow Controllers," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 297-327, May 1994. Liberopoulos, G. and Hu, J.Q., "On the Ordering of Hedging Points in a Class of Manufacturing Flow Control Models," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.40, No.2, pp.282-286, 1995 Hu, J.Q., Vakili, P., and Yu, G.X., "Optimality of Hedging Point Policy for Failure Prone Manufacturing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 39, No.9, pp.1875-1880, September, 1994. Fu, M.C., and Hu, J.Q., "Smoothed Perturbation Analysis Derivative Estimation for Markov Chains," Operations Research Letters, Vol.15, pp.241-251, 1994. Fu, M.C. and Hu, J.Q., "(s, S) Inventory Systems with Random Lead Times: Harris Recurrence and Its Implication in Sensitivity Analysis," Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences, Vol.8, No.3, pp.355-376, 1994. Stanley B. Gershwin, Manufacturing Systems Engineering Prentice Hall, 1994 Hu, J.Q., and Xiang, D., "Structural Properties of Optimal Controllers for Failure Prone Manufacturing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 39, No.3, pp. 640-642, 1994. J.Q. Hu, "A Queueing Approach to Manufacturing Flow Control Models," submitted to the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 13-15, 1995 . J.Q. Hu, "A Decomposition Approach to Flow Control in Tandem Production Systems," submitted to the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 13-15, 1995. Hu, J.Q., "Differentiability and Analyticity of Queues in Light Traffic," Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 14-16, 1994. A. Sharifnia, "Stability and performance of Distributed Production Control Methods based on Continuous-Flow Models," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 39, No. 4, April 1994. A. Sharifnia, "Stability and Performance of a Simple Distributed Tracking Policy for Production Control of Manufacturing Systems," to appear IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1996 A. Sharifnia, "Instability of the Join-the-Shortest-Queue and FCFS Policies in Queuing Systems and their Stabilization," Operations Research, to appear. A. Sharifnia and P. Vakili, "Stability and Performance of Continuous-Flow based Distributed Real-Time Production Control Policies Under Bounded Variability," Proceedings of the Fourth RPI International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Automation Technology, October 1994. K. Egilmez and A. Sharifnia, "Optimal Control of a Manufacturing System based on a Novel Continuous-Flow Model with Minimal WIP Requirement," Proceedings of the Fourth RPI International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Automation Technology, October 1994. Yu, G.X., and Vakili, P, "Periodic and Chaotic Dynamics of a Switched Server System under Corridor Policies", to appear IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 1995 Vakili, P., "Discrete-Event Systems Driven by Poisson Processes," Proceedings of the Conference on Decision and Control, December 1994. Streltsov, S., and Vakili, P., "Parallel Replicated Simulation of Uniformized Markov Chains," submitted to the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 1994.
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