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PRESENTATIONS

Real-Time Scheduling

• "An Overview of Recent Research in Design and Operation of Manufacturing Systems ," presented at Departement Automatique et Productique, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, FRANCE, September, 1995.
• "Policy Rules for Virtual Real-Time Scheduling and Integration of Production Operations with Suppliers," presented at the Lean Aerospace Initiative Joint Conference, MIT, June 24-25, 1999.

• "The Control Point Policy," April, 2012.

• "Analysis, Control, and Design of Stochastic Flow Systems with Limited Storage ," presented at the International Annual Conference of the German OR Society 2012 Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany, September 4-7, 2012.

Transfer (Flow) Lines, Assembly/Disassembly Systems, Systems with Loops

• "Analysis of Loop Networks by Decomposition," by Stanley B. Gershwin, Nicola Maggio, Andrea Matta, Tullio Tolio, and Loren Werner, presented at the THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Tinos Island, Greece, May 19-22, 2001.
• "New Results on the Integrated Analysis of Quality and Quantity in Production Lines," by S. Gershwin, I. Schick, and J. Kim, presented at the FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Analysis of Manufacturing Systems --- Production Management, Zakynthos Island, Greece, May 23, 2005.
• "Analysis and Control of Large Flow/Storage Systems Using Decomposition," presented at Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, November 11, 2005.
• "How Do Quantity and Quality Really Interact? Precise Models Instead of Strong Opinions," presented at INCOM 2006, May 18, 2006.
• "A General Model and Analysis of a Discrete Two-Machine Production Line," presented at Texas A&M University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, March 24, 2008.
• "Transfer Lines and Decomposition Techniques," presented at Politecnico di Milano, April 16, 2008.
• "Qualitative Observations on Production Line Behavior -- Intuitive and Counter-Intuitive Explanations," presented at the Fourth International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Quebec, Canada, August 26-29, 2012.
• "The Segmentation Method for Long Line Optimization,"by Chuan Shi and Stanley B. Gershwin, presented at the Fourth International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Quebec, Canada, August 26-29, 2012.

Research Summaries and Overviews

• "Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis: Past Successes and Future Research," presented at EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Workshop on "Performance analysis of manufacturing systems," June, 2006.
• "Systematically Manufacturing Success," presented at Industrial Automation Days, Brussels, Belgium, May 23-24, 2007.

• "Manufacturing Systems Research at MIT," April, 2008.
• "Design and Operation of Manufacturing Systems; Manufacturing Systems Research at MIT," July, 2008.