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A Model for Contingent Manpower Planning: Insights from a High Clock Speed Industry
(2003-01)Intense competitive pressures have led to compressed product life cycles and frequent introduction of new products. This creates demand volatility and a consequent pressure on manufacturing to meet this variable demand. ... -
Model Order Reduction for Determining Bubble Parameters to Attain a Desired Fluid Surface Shape
(2005-01)In this paper, a new methodology for predicting fluid free surface shape using Model Order Reduction (MOR) is presented. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition combined with a linear interpolation procedure for its coefficient ... -
Model reduction for active control design using multiple-point Arnoldi methods
(2003-01)A multiple-point Arnoldi method is derived for model reduction of computational fluid dynamic systems. By choosing the number of frequency interpolation points and the number of Arnoldi vectors at each frequency point, the ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems with Multiple-Loop Structures
(2006-01)Kanban and Constant Work-In-Process (CONWIP) control methods are designed to impose tight controls over inventory, while providing a satisfactory production rate. This paper generalizes systems with kanban or CONWIP control ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Re-entrant Production Systems
(2006-01)This paper presents a model and analysis of a re-entrant production line with finite buffers and unreliable machines. Semiconductor device and liquid crystal display (LCD) fabrication processes are characterized as a ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Two-Part Type Manufacturing Systems
(2005-01)This paper presents a model and analysis of a synchronous tandem flow line that produces different part types on unreliable machines. The machines operate according to a static priority rule, operating on the highest ... -
Modeling Dielectric Erosion in Multi-Step Copper Chemical-Mechanical Polishing
(2004-01)A formidable challenge in the present multi-step Cu CMP process, employed in the ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI) technology, is the control of wafer surface non-uniformity, which primarily is due to dielectric erosion ... -
Modeling generalized stacking fault in Au using tight-binding potential combined with a simulated annealing method
(2002-01)Tight-binding potential combined with a simulated annealing method is used to study the generalized stacking fault structure and energy of gold. The potential is chosen to fit band structures and total energies from a set ... -
Modeling Information Flow in Face-to-Face Meetings while Protecting Privacy
(2006-01)Social networks have been used to understand how information flows through an organization as well as identifying individuals that appear to have control over this information flow. Such individuals are identified as being ... -
Modeling of Piezoelectric Tube Actuators
(2004-01)A new dynamic model is presented for piezoelectric tube actuators commonly used in high-precision instruments. The model captures coupling between motions in all three axes such as bending motion due to a supposedly pure ... -
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Ga(In)AsN/GaAs Quantum Wells towards 1.3µm and 1.55µm
(2002-01)In this article, we report an attempt of extending the InGaAsN materials towards 1.3µm and 1.55µm wavelength. All these InGaAsN samples are grown in a plasma-assisted solid-source molecular-beam epitaxy (SS-MBE) system. ... -
Molecular computations for reactions and phase transitions: applications to protein stabilization, hydrates and catalysis
(2005-01)In this work we have made significant contributions in three different areas of interest: therapeutic protein stabilization, thermodynamics of natural gas clathrate-hydrates, and zeolite catalysis. In all three fields, ... -
Molecular Computations for the Stabilization of Therapeutic Proteins
(2004-01)Molecular computations based on quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics have been applied to the understanding and quantification of processes leading to the degradation of therapeutic proteins. In particular, we focus ... -
Molecular Engineering Approaches to Highly Structured Materials
(2004-01)Design and synthesis of novel supramolecular architectures is an interesting area of research in the last two decades. Intermolecular interactions assisted self-assembly of molecular and macromolecular building blocks play ... -
Molecular Engineering of Amphiphilic Pyridine Incorporated Conjugated Polymers for Metal Ion Sensors
(2004-01)Recent developments in the synthesis and structure-property investigation studies of conjugated polymers have led to the design of novel polymeric materials with tailored properties for advanced technological applications. ... -
Molecular Engineering of Conjugated Polymers for Sensor Applications
(2006-01)In recent years, the application of fluorescent conjugated polymers for sensing chemical and biological analytes has received much attention from many researchers. A promising development in this direction was the fabrication ... -
Molecular Study of Interactions between Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Stromal Cells
(2002-01)Multipotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are progenitors of all types of hematopoietic cells, and the efficient isolation and propagation of HSCs will significantly enhance our ability to manage many human disorders ... -
Monitoring Defect Formation in Colloidal Self Assembly using Photonic Bandgap Variations
(2006-01)Defect control in colloidal crystals is essential for these nanostructures to be effective as photonic bandgap (PBG) materials. We have used in-situ monitoring of the PBG of a colloidal crystal to study the structural ... -
Mortality Dependence of Cu Dual Damascene Interconnects on Adjacent Segments
(2004-01)Electromigration experiments have been carried out on straight interconnects that have single vias at each end, and are divided into two segments by a via in the center ("dotted-I" structures). For dotted-i structures in ... -
MOSFET Channel Engineering using Strained Si, SiGe, and Ge Channels
(2003-01)Biaxial tensile strained Si grown on SiGe virtual substrates will be incorporated into future generations of CMOS technology due to the lack of performance increase with scaling. Compressively strained Ge-rich alloys with ...