1. Preface

   • J. MacGregor Smith
   • Stanley B. Gershwin
   • Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

   Legacy Pages: 0 - 0

2. Tandem queues in bulk port operations

   • Tayfur Altiok

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 14

3. AMVA‐based solution procedures for open queueing networks with population constraints

   • Ronald Buitenhek
   • Geert‐Jan van Houtum
   • Henk Zijm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 40

4. Comparison among three pull control policies: kanban, base stock, and generalized kanban

   • C. Duri
   • Y. Frein
   • M. Di Mascolo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 69

5. The multiple server effect: Optimal allocation of servers to stations with different service‐time distributions in tandem queueing networks

   • Kenichi Futamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 90

6. A decomposition method for analyzing inhomogeneous assembly/disassembly systems

   • Stanley B. Gershwin
   • Mitchell H. Burman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 115

7. Efficient algorithms for buffer space allocation

   • Stanley B. Gershwin
   • James E. Schor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 144

8. Production systems with interruptions, arbitrary topology and finite buffers

   • Surendra M. Gupta
   • Ayse Kavusturucu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 176

9. Simulation optimization of buffer allocations in production lines with unreliable machines

   • Gül Gürkan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 216

10. Approximate analysis of unreliable transfer lines with splits in the flow of material

    • Stefan Helber

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 243

11. Sensitivity analysis and decomposition of unreliable production lines with blocking

    • Vassilis S. Kouikoglou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 264

12. A robust decomposition method for the analysis of production lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers

    • Hervé Le Bihan
    • Yves Dallery

    OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 297

13. Production variability in manufacturing systems: Bernoulli reliability case

    • Jingshan Li
    • Semyon M. Meerkov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 324

14. A unified framework for pull control mechanisms in multi‐stage manufacturing systems

    • George Liberopoulos
    • Yves Dallery

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 355

15. A two‐level queueing network model with blocking and non‐blocking messages

    • S. Ramesh
    • H.G. Perros

    OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 372

16. A simulated annealing approach for buffer allocation in reliable production lines

    • Diomidis D. Spinellis
    • Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 373 - 384

17. Asymptotic variance rate of the output in production lines with finite buffers

    • Barış Tan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 403

18. Modeling and analysis of multi‐stage transfer lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers

    • Sheng Yang
    • Cheng Wu
    • S. Jack Hu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 421

19. Capacity analysis of an automated kit transportation system

    • W.H.M. Zijm
    • I.J.B.F. Adan
    • G.J. van Houtum

    OriginalPaper Pages: 423 - 446