Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center

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Research Profile

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  Due dates

  
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  Scheduling

  
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  Maximum lateness

  
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  Job shop scheduling

  
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  Job shop

  
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  Markov decision process

  
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  Heuristics

  
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  Job analysis

  
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  Heuristic methods

  
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  Lower bounds

  

Publications

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  2013

  Benjamin J. Lobo; Thom J. Hodgson; Russell E. King; Kristin A. Thoney; James R. Wilson

  An effective lower bound on ^Lmax in a worker-constrained job shop

  Computers and Operations Research. 2013;40(1):328-343.

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  2013

  Benjamin J. Lobo; Thom J. Hodgson; Russell E. King; Kristin A. Thoney; James R. Wilson

  Allocating job-shop manpower to minimize L_max: Optimality criteria, search heuristics, and probabilistic quality metrics

  Computers and Operations Research. 2013.

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  2012

  Lisa Hartman; Jeffrey A. Joines; Kristin A. Thoney; Russell E. King

  The effect speed and replenishment flexibility has on overall costs of sourcing apparel products

  Journal of the Textile Institute. 2012;103(6):604-621.

Grants

• 1.

  Russell King; Thom Hodgson

  Coal Barge Scheduling Model

  7/1/2006 - 12/31/2007

  Sponsor: Progress Energy

  Funding: $ 37,430.00

• 2.

  Russell King; Thom Hodgson

  Coal Barge Scheduling Model

  7/1/2006 - 12/31/2007

  Sponsor: Progress Energy

  Funding: $ 1,966.00

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  Russell King; Thom Hodgson; Kristin Thoney-Barletta

  Production Systems Analysis (TPFDD Scheduling)

  10/17/2003 - 9/30/2004

  Sponsor: Department of Defense (DOD)

  Funding: $ 20,000.00

Journals

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  Publications
• IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)
  7
• International Journal of Production Research
  6
• Journal of the Textile Institute
  5
• Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings
  4
• Journal of the Textile Institute Part 1: Fibre Science and Textile Technology
  3

Institutional Network

• Internal
  Shared Pub.
• Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
  38
• Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute
  24
• Textile & Apparel Technology & Management
  12
• Industrial and Systems Engineering
  7
• Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science
  7

• External
  Shared Pub.
• Mercer University at Macon
  3
• Bilkent Üniversitesi
  3
• Countrywide Financial
  2
• Galatasaray Üniversitesi
  2
• Wyeth
  2
• Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
  1