Manufacturing Systems Research Lab:
Selected Publications

Anagonye, Aloysius U., and J. T. Wang, "A Semi-Empirical Method for Estimating the Effective Leak and Vent Areas of an Airbag", Crashworthiness, Occupant Protection and Biomechanics in Transportation Systems, AMD-.237/BED- 45, (1999): 195.

Barone, M. R., and D. A. Caulk, "Analysis of Liquid Metal Flow in Die Casting," International Journal of Engineering Science 38 (2000): 1279.

Beaujon, George J., Samuel P. Marin and Gary C. McDonald, "Balancing and Optimizing a Portfolio of R&D Projects", Naval Research Logistics 48 (2001):18.

Blumenfeld, Dennis E., Carlos F. Daganzo, Michael C. Frick, and David J. A. Gonsalvez, "Impact of Manufacturing Response Time on Retailer Inventory." International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 19-8 (1999):797.

Blumenfeld, Dennis E., Operations Research Calculations Handbook, Boca Raton: CRC Press (2001)

Bordley, Robert F., Mark A. Beltramo, and Dennis E. Blumenfeld, "Consolidating Distribution Centers Can Reduce Lost Sales," International Journal of Production Economics, 58:1 (1999):57.

Chen, Kuo-Kuang, "Finite Element Simulation of Expansion of Tubes in Hydroforming," in Sheet Metal Forming for the New Millennium, International Deep Drawing Research Group, (2000):61.

Chen, Kuo-Kuang, "WRAPFORM-II, A New Binder Forming Simulation Method". SAE Paper 2000-01-1106, in Sheet Metal Forming, SAE SP-1536, (2000):113.

Chen, Kuo-Kuang, "The Bulge of Tubes and a Failure Criterion for Tube Hydroforming", SAE Paper 2001-01-1132.

Chen, Kuo-Kuang, "Deformation, Strain and Stress in Expansion of Tubes in Hydroforming," SAE Paper 2000-01-0769, in Sheet Metal Forming, SAE SP-1536 (2000): 33.

Chopra, Sunil, and Jonathan H. Owen, "A Note on Formulations for the A-partition Problem on Hypergraphs", Discrete Applied Mathematics 90 (1999):115.

Feit, Eleanor and David S. Wu , "Transfer Line Design with Uncertain Machine Performance Information." IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 16:5 (2000).

Field, David A., "Automatic generation of transitional meshes", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 50 (2001): 1861.

Field, David A., "Qualitative measures for initial meshes", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 46 (1999).

Garcia, Alfredo, Daniel Reaume and Robert L. Smith, "Fictitious play for finding system optimal routings in dynamic traffic networks", Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 34-2 (2000):147-156.

Gibbons, Diane I. and Gary C. McDonald, "Constrained Regression Estimates of Technology Effects on Fuel Economy", Journal of Quality Technology, 31, (1999): 235-245.

Inman, Robert R., "Are You Implementing a Pull System by Putting the Cart before the Horse?", Production and Inventory Management Journal, 40:2 (1999): 67.

Inman, Robert R., "Empirical Evaluation of Exponential and Independence Assumptions in Queuing Models of Manufacturing Systems," Production and Operations Management 8:4 (2000): 409.

Joshi, Shirish, Hanif Sherali, and Jeffrey D. Tew, "An Enhanced Response Surface Methodology (RSM) Algorithm Using Gradient Deflection and Second-Order Search Strategies", Computers in Operations Research, 25:7-8 (1999): 531.

Lawless, J. F., R. J. MacKay, J. A. Robinson, "Analysis of Variation Transmission in Manufacturing Processes---Part I," Journal of Quality Technology, 31:2 (1999): 131-142.

McDonald, Gary C., "Shaping Statistics for Success in the 21st Century: The Needs of Industry", The American Statistician 53 (1999): 203.

McDonald, Gary C., "Commentary on 'On the Information Economics Approach to the Generalized Game Show Problem'", The American Statistician 53 (2000): 393.

Owen, Jonathan H. and Sanjay Mehrotra, "A Disjunctive Cutting Plane Procedure for General Mixed-Integer Linear Programs," Mathematical Programming, 89:3 (2001): 437.

Reaume, Daniel, H. Edwin Romeijn, and Robert L. Smith, "Implementing pure adaptive search for global optimization using Markov chain sampling", Journal of Global Optimization 20:1 (2001): 33.

Sastry, P.S., S. Shah, S. Singh, and K.P Unnikrishnan, "Role of feedback in mammalian vision: a new hypothesis and a computational model", Vision Research 39 (1999):131.

Sommese, Andrew J., Jan Verschelde, Charles W. Wampler, "Numerical Decompositon of the Solution Sets of Polynomial Systems into Irreducible Components", SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis 38:6 (2001):2022.

Stoughton, Thomas B., "A General Forming Limit Criterion For Sheet Metal Forming", International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 42:1 (1999): 1-27.

Wampler, Charles W., "Solving the Kinematics of Planar Mechanisms", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 121-3, (1999).

William H. Frey, D. A. Field, "Designing Bézier Conic Segments With Monotone Curvature", Computer Aided Geometric Design 17:6 (2000): 457.