Search Results - "Lawley, M.A."

Using Shared-Resource Capacity for Robust Control of Failure-Prone Manufacturing Systems by Shengyong Wang, Song Foh Chew, Lawley, M.A.

“…Deadlock-free resource allocation has been an active area of research in flexible manufacturing. Most researchers have assumed that allocated resources do not…”
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Correction to the RUN DAP for conjunctive RAS presented in "Polynomial-complexity deadlock avoidance policies for sequential resource allocation systems" by Jonghun Park, Reveliotis, S.A., Lawley, M.A., Ferreira, P.M.

“…This note first identifies a problem with the correctness of the RUN DAP for conjunctive RAS, presented in the above paper by Reveliotis et al. (1997), and…”
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A Neural Network Degradation Model for Computing and Updating Residual Life Distributions by Gebraeel, N.Z., Lawley, M.A.

“…The ability to accurately estimate the residual life of partially degraded components is arguably the most challenging problem in prognostic condition…”
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A Neural Network Integrated Decision Support System for Condition-Based Optimal Predictive Maintenance Policy by Sze-jung Wu, Gebraeel, N., Lawley, M.A., Yih, Y.

“…This paper develops an integrated neural-network-based decision support system for predictive maintenance of rotational equipment. The integrated system is…”
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Robust Supervisory Control for Product Routings With Multiple Unreliable Resources by Song Foh Chew, Shengyong Wang, Lawley, M.A.

“…Manufacturing systems are often subject to resource failure. In past work, we developed ldquorobustrdquo supervisory controllers for the single-unit resource…”
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Robust supervisory control for Production Systems with multiple resource failures by Song Foh Chew, Lawley, M.A.

“…Supervisory control for deadlock-free resource allocation has been an active area of manufacturing systems research. To date, most work assumes that allocated…”
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Control of deadlock and blocking for production systems with unreliable workstations by Lawley, M.A.

“…Over the past decade, the development of supervisory controllers for automated manufacturing systems has been an active area of research with particular…”
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Polynomial-complexity deadlock avoidance policies for sequential resource allocation systems by Reveliotis, S.A., Lawley, M.A., Ferreira, P.M.

“…The development of efficient deadlock avoidance policies (DAPs) for sequential resource allocation systems (RASs) is a problem of increasing interest in the…”
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Input modeling for hospital simulation models using electronic messages by Konrad, R.A., Lawley, M.A.

“…Health care organizations function in a complex, non-integrated setting, yet the coordination of information, tasks, and equipment across multiple units is…”
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Evaluating hospital pharmacy staffing and work scheduling using simulation by Spry, C.W., Lawley, M.A.

“…With increasing healthcare costs, an aging population, and a shortage of trained personnel it is becoming increasingly important for hospital pharmacy…”
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Robust supervisory control policies for manufacturing systems with unreliable resources by Lawley, M.A., Sulistyono, W.

“…Manufacturing practitioners and researchers have recognized the need to develop effective supervisory controllers for automated manufacturing systems. One…”
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Deadlock avoidance for production systems with flexible routing by Lawley, M.A.

“…The objective of this work is to characterize the deadlock avoidance problem for systems with flexible routing capabilities. Specifically, the paper addresses…”
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A correct and scalable deadlock avoidance policy for flexible manufacturing systems by Lawley, M.A., Reveliotis, S.A., Ferreira, P.M.

“…Configuration flexibility and deadlock-free operation are two essential properties of control systems for highly automated flexible manufacturing systems…”
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Deadlock avoidance for manufacturing systems with partially ordered process plans by Sulistyono, W., Lawley, M.A.

“…Deadlock avoidance policies guarantee deadlock-free resource allocation to concurrent competing processes in flexible manufacturing systems. Most deadlock…”
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Robust supervisory control for production systems with multiple resource failures by Song Fob Chew, Lawley, M.A.

“…Supervisory control for deadlock-free resource allocation has been an active area of manufacturing systems research. To date, most work assumes that allocated…”
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Using shared resource capacity for robust control of failure prone manufacturing systems by Shengyong Wang, Song Fob Chew, Lawley, M.A.

“…For the past decade, deadlock-free resource allocation has been an active area of research in flexible manufacturing. For the most part, researchers have…”
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Deadlock detection, prevention, and avoidance for automated tool sharing systems by Gebraeel, N.Z., Lawley, M.A.

“…Automated tool sharing systems provide a technological response to the high cost of tools in flexible manufacturing systems. These systems allow different…”
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Deadlock avoidance for manufacturing systems with partially ordered process plans by Sulistyono, W., Lawley, M.A.

“…Most deadlock avoidance work in manufacturing deals with systems where each part type requires a fixed sequence of operations. In contrast, the paper deals…”
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Liveness enforcing supervision for resource allocation systems with process synchronizations by Chew, S.F., Lawley, M.A., Reveliotis, S.A.

“…This paper considers the problem of establishing live resource allocation in workflows with synchronization stages, i.e., stages where sub-processes re-combine…”
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Efficient implementations of Banker's algorithm for deadlock avoidance in flexible manufacturing systems by Reveliotis, S.A., Lawley, M.A.

“…Manufacturing systems researchers have dismissed Banker's algorithm as being too conservative for deadlock avoidance in contemporary flexibly automated,…”
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