Browsing Mühendislik Fakültesi / Faculty of Engineering by Issue Date
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Simulation Optimization Based DSS Application: A Diamond Tool Production Line in İndustry
(2006)A diamond tool manufacturing system simulation is developed to predict the number of machines and the number of workers necessary to maintain desired levels of production for a company in Ankara, Turkey. The current ... -
Buffer Allocation and Performance Modeling in Asynchronous Assembly System Operations: An Artificial Neural Network Metamodeling Approach
(2007)This article investigates metamodeling opportunities in buffer allocation and performance modeling in asynchronous assembly systems ( AAS). Practical challenges to properly design these complex systems are emphasized. A ... -
Aintshop Production Line Optimization Using Response Surface Methodology
(2007)This paper deals with the problem of determining the optimum number of workstations to be used in parallel and workers at some stations using simulation optimization approach in a paint shop line of an automotive factory ... -
A hybrid ant colony optimization approach for the design of reliable networks
(2007)This paper presents a new solution approach, which is a hybridization of ant colony optimization (ACO) and simulated annealing (SA), called (h_ACO) to design of communication networks. The design problem is to find the ... -
An International Facility Design Project
(2008)This paper describes an international facilities design project for Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering students. American and Turkish engineering students collaborated to create and implement the re-design of a Turkish ... -
A Hybrid Simulated Annealing For A Multi-Objective Stochastic Assembly Line Balancing Problem
(2008)Asssembly line balancing is the problem of assigning tasks to the workstations, while optimizing one or more objectives without violating restrictions imposed on the line. In practice, task times may be random due to the ... -
The Efficiency of Variance Reduction in Manufacturing and Service Systems: The Comparison of the Control Variates and Stratified Sampling
(2009)There has been a great interest in the use of variance reduction techniques (VRTs) in simulation output analysis for the purpose of improving accuracy when the performance measurements of complex production and service ... -
Optimization of Manufacturing Systems Using A Neural Network Metamodel with A New Training Approach
(2009)In this study, two manufacturing systems, a kanban-controlled system and a multi-stage, multi-server production line in a diamond tool production system, are optimized utilizing neural network metamodels (tst_NNM) trained ... -
Redesign Of PCB Production Lıine With Simulation And Taguchi Design
(2009)This paper presents the problem of determining the optimum condition of printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing process in an electronic company in Ankara,. Turkey. In the optimization stage of the study Taguchi method ... -
A Systematic Approach to Reduce Human and System-related Errors Causing Customer Dissatisfaction in a Production Environment
(2009)In this study, a systematic methodology for business process improvement, which aims to eliminate human and system-related errors resulting in customer dissatisfaction in a production environment, is presented. The proposed ... -
A Tabu Search Algorithm for the Training of Neural Networks
(2009)The most widely used training algorithm of neural networks (NNs) is back propagation ( BP), a gradient-based technique that requires significant computational effort. Metaheuristic search techniques such as genetic algorithms, ... -
A Local Search Heuristic with Self-tuning Parameter for Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem
(2009)In this paper, a new local search metaheuristic is proposed for the permutation flow-shop scheduling problem. In general, metaheuristics are widely used to solve this problem due to its NP-completeness. Although these ... -
A cross entropy approach to design of reliable networks
(2009)One of the most important parameters determining the performance of communication networks is network reliability. The network reliability strongly depends on not only topological layout of the communication networks but ... -
A General Neural Network Model for Estimating Telecommunications Network Reliability
(2009)This paper puts forth a new encoding method for using neural network models to estimate the reliability of telecommunications networks with identical link reliabilities. Neural estimation is computationally speedy, and can ... -
Women in Engineering in Turkey - A Large Scale Quantitative and Qualitative Examination
(2010)The underrepresentation of women in engineering is well known and unresolved. However, Turkey has witnessed a shift in trend from virtually no female participation in engineering to across-the-board proportions that dominate ... -
Design Of Reliable Communication Networks: A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm
(2010)This article proposes a hybrid approach based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Simulated Annealing (SA), called ACO_SA, for the design of communication networks. The design problem is to find the optimal network topology ... -
Multi-Objective Optimization of A Stochastic Assembly Line Balancing: A Hybrid Simulated Annealing Algorithm
(2011)This paper deals with multi-objective optimization of a single-model stochastic assembly line balancing problem with parallel stations. The objectives are as follows: (1) minimization of the smoothness index and (2) ... -
A Self-adaptive Local Search Algorithm for the Classical Vehicle Routing Problem
(2011)The purpose of this study is introduction of a local search heuristic free from parameter tuning to solve classical vehicle routing problem (VRP). The VRP can be described as the problem of designing optimal delivery of ...
