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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Industrial Engineering

2009

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Scheduling For Service Stability And Supply Chain Coordination, Yuerong Chen Aug 2009

Scheduling For Service Stability And Supply Chain Coordination, Yuerong Chen

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation studies scheduling for service stability and for supply chain coordination as well. The scheduling problems for service stability are studied from the single perspective of a firm itself, while the scheduling problems for supply chain coordination are investigated from the perspective of a supply chain. Both the studies have broad applications in real life.

In the first study, several job scheduling problems are addressed, with the measure of performance being job completion time variance (CTV). CTV minimization is used to represent service stability, since it means that jobs are completed in a relative concentrated period of time. CTV …


Qos Provision For Wireless Sensor Networks, Dengfeng Yang Aug 2009

Qos Provision For Wireless Sensor Networks, Dengfeng Yang

Doctoral Dissertations

Wireless sensor network is a fast growing area of research, receiving attention not only within the computer science and electrical engineering communities, but also in relation to network optimization, scheduling, risk and reliability analysis within industrial and system engineering. The availability of micro-sensors and low-power wireless communications will enable the deployment of densely distributed sensor/actuator networks. And an integration of such system plays critical roles in many facets of human life ranging from intelligent assistants in hospitals to manufacturing process, to rescue agents in large scale disaster response, to sensor networks tracking environment phenomena, and others.

The sensor nodes will …