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Publications of Dr. Gershwin in the area of Transfer Lines, Assembly/Disassembly Systems, and Loops

Papers in Refereed Journals:

Gershwin, S. B., and Berman, O., "Analysis of Transfer Lines Consisting of Two Unreliable Machines with Random Processing Times and a Finite Storage Buffer," AIIE Transactions, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 2-11, March, 1981. Reprinted in Modeling and Control of Automated Manufacturing Systems by Alan A. Desrochers, IEEE Computer Society Press Tutorial, 1990.

Gershwin, S. B., and Schick, I. C., "Modeling and Analysis of Three-Stage Transfer Lines with Unreliable Machines and Finite Buffers," Operations Research Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 354-380, March-April, 1983.

Gershwin, S. B., "Representation and Analysis of Transfer Lines with Machines that have Different Processing Rates," Annals of Operations Research. Volume 9, pp. 511-530, 1987.

Gershwin, S. B., "An Efficient Decomposition Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Tandem Queues with Finite Storage Space and Blocking," Operations Research., pp. 291-305, March-April, 1987.

Choong, Y. F., and Gershwin, S. B., "A Decomposition Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Capacitated Transfer Lines with Unreliable Machines and Random Processing Times," IIE Transactions , Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 150-159, June, 1987.

Ammar, M. H. and Gershwin, S. B., "Equivalence Relations in Queuing Models of Fork/Join Networks," Performance Evaluation Journal, Special Issue on Queueing Networks with Finite Capacities, Volume 10, pp. 233-245, 1989.

Gershwin, S. B., "Assembly/Disassembly Systems: An Efficient Decomposition Algorithm for Tree-Structured Networks," IIE Transactions, Volume 23, No. 4, December, 1991, pp. 302-314.

Dallery, Y., and Gershwin, S. B., "Manufacturing Flow Line Systems: A Review of Models and Analytical Results," Queueing Systems Theory and Applications, Special Issue on Queueing Models of Manufacturing Systems, Volume 12, December, 1992, pp. 3-94.

Burman, M., Gershwin, S. B., and Suyematsu, C., "Hewlett-Packard Uses Operations Research to Improve the Design of a Printer Production Line," Interfaces, Volume 28, Number 1, January-February, 1998, pp. 24--36.

Tolio, T. and S. B. Gershwin,"Throughput Estimation in Cyclic Queueing Networks with Blocking," Annals of Operations Research, Volume 79, pp. 207--229 March, 1998

S. B. Gershwin and J. E. Schor, "Efficient Algorithms for Buffer Space Allocation," Annals of Operations Research, Volume 93, pp 117-144, 2000. .ps version .pdf version

S. B. Gershwin and M. H. Burman, "A Decomposition Method for Analyzing Inhomogeneous Assembly/Disassembly Systems," Annals of Operations Research, Volume 93, pp. 91-116, 2000.

Tullio Tolio, Stanley B. Gershwin, and Andrea Matta, "Analysis of Two-Machine lines with Multiple Failure Modes," IIE Transactions, Volume 34, No. 1, pp. 51-62, January, 2002.

Jongyoon Kim and Stanley B. Gershwin, "Quality and Quantity Modeling of a Production Line", OR Spectrum, Volume 27, Numbers 2-3, pp. 287--314, June, 2005. Reprinted in Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems --- Advances in Design, Performance Evaluation, and Control Issues, Liberopoulos, Papadopoulos, Tan, Smith, and Gershwin, editors, Springer, 2005.

Stanley B. Gershwin and Loren M. Werner, "An approximate analytical method for evaluating the performance of closed loop flow systems with unreliable machines and Finite buffers,"International Journal of Production Research,, Volume 45, No. 14, 15 July 2007, Pages 3085--3111.

Jongyoon Kim and Stanley B. Gershwin, "Modeling and analysis of long flow lines with quality and operational failures," IIE Transactions, Volume 40, 2008, Pages 284--296.

N. Maggio, A. Matta, S. B. Gershwin, T. Tolio, "A Decomposition Approximation for Three-Machine Closed-Loop Production Systems with Unreliable Machines, Finite Buffers, and a Fixed Population," IIE Transactions, Volume 41, June 2009, Pages 562--574.

Tan, B., Gershwin, S. B., "Analysis of a general Markovian two-stage continuous-flow production system with a finite buffer," International Journal of Production Economics (2009), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.05.022.

Chuan Shi and Stanley B. Gershwin, "An efficient buffer design algorithm for production line profit maximization," International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 122, Issue 2, December 2009, Pages 725-740, doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.06.040.
Seok Ho Chang, Stanley B. Gershwin, "Modeling and analysis of two unreliable batch machines with a finite buffer in between," IIE Transactions, Volume 42, Issue 6 pp. 405-421.

Baris Tan and Stanley B. Gershwin, "Modelling and analysis of Markovian continuous flow systems with a finite buffer," Annals of Operations Research Volume 182, Issue 1, Pages 5-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0612-6, January 2011.

Elisa Gebennini, Andrea Grassi, Cesare Fantuzzi, Stanley B. Gershwin, and Irvin Cemil Schick, "Discrete time model for two-machine one-buffer transfer lines with restart policy," Annals of Operations Research, to appear. Available on line April 2011.
Marcello Colledani and Stanley B. Gershwin, "A decomposition method for approximate evaluation of continuous flow multi-stage lines with general Markovian machines," Annals of Operations Research, to appear. Available on line September 2011.

Proceedings of Refereed Conferences

Gershwin, S. B., and Schick, I. C., "Analytic Methods for Calculating Performance Measures of Production Lines with Buffer Storages," Proceedings of the 1978 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, January, 1979, pp. 618-624.

Gershwin, S. B., and Ammar, M. H., "Reliability in Flexible Manufacturing Systems," Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, December, 1979, pp. 540- 545.

Ammar, M. H., and Gershwin, S. B., "Equivalence Relations in Queueing Models of Manufacturing Networks," Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December, 1980, pp. 715-721.

Castanon, D. A., Levy, B. C., and Gershwin, S. B., "Diffusion Approximations for Three-Stage Transfer Lines with Unreliable Machines and Finite Buffers," Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, December, 1982, pp. 1066-1067.

Gershwin, S. B., "An Efficient Decomposition Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Production Lines with Finite Storage Space." In Analysis and Optimization of Systems, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Analysis and Optimization of Systems, Nice, France, June, 1984, pp. 645-658.

Gershwin, S. B., "An Efficient Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Production Lines with Finite Storage Space," Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, December, 1984, pp. 843- 846.

Gershwin, S. B., "Modeling and Analysis of Assembly/Disassembly Networks," Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1986, Vol. 1, pp. 687-691.

Gershwin, S. B., "An Efficient Decomposition Algorithm for Unreliable Tandem Queuing Systems with Finite Buffers," in Queuing Networks with Blocking, Proceedings of the First International Workshop held in Raleigh, North Carolina, May 20- 21, 1988 , Edited by H. G. Perros and T. Altiok, Elsevier, 1989, pp. 127-146.

Gershwin, S. B., "Variance of Output of a Tandem Production System," Queuing Networks with Finite Capacity, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, May 28-29, 1992, Edited by R. Onvural and I. Akyldiz, Elsevier, 1993, 14 pages.

June, 1996 "The design and application of an assembly line decomposition analysis technique," by Stanley B. Gershwin and Mitchell H. Burman, 1996 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference Proceedings, Dartmouth College, The Amos Tuck School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755.

June, 1996 "Efficient Algorithms for Buffer Allocation," by James E. Schor and Stanley B. Gershwin, 1996 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference Proceedings, Dartmouth College, The Amos Tuck School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755.

S. B. Gershwin and J. E Schor, "Efficient Algorithms for Buffer Space Allocation," Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Production Lines, May 19-21, 1997, on Samos Island, in the Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, GR-832 00 Karlovassi, Samos Island, Greece.

S. B. Gershwin, "Design and Operation of Manufacturing Systems --- Control- and System-Theoretical Models and Issues," Proceedings of the 1997 American Control Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June, 1997, pages 1909-1913.

S. B. Gershwin, "Systems Analysis, Design, and Control: Unification and Decomposition," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems, International Workshop held on May 16-20, 1999, Tinos Island, Greece.

S. B. Gershwin, N. Maggio, A. Matta, T. Tolio, and L. Werner, "Analysis of Loop Networks by Decomposition," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, International Workshop held on May 19-22, 2001, Tinos Island, Greece. Jongyoon Kim and S. B. Gershwin, "An Integrated Quality/Quantity Model of a Transfer Line," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, International Workshop held on July 1--4, 2003, on Samos Island, Greece.

Stanley B. Gershwin, Irvin C. Schick, and Jongyoon Kim, " New Results in the Integrated Analysis of Quality and Quantity in Production Lines," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on "Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems --- Production Management May 20-25, 2005, Zakynthos Island, Greece.

R. L. Yang, R. F. Chen, V. Subramaniam and S. B. Gershwin, "Setting Real Time WIP levels in Tandem Line Production Systems," presented at the International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Technology, ICOMAST 2006, August 28-30, Melaka, Malaysia.

Qi, C., Sivakumar, A.I., and Gershwin, S.B., "Job Release Based on WIPLOAD Control in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication," in the proceedings of the 8th Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC), December 2006, Singapore.

Irvin C. Schick and Stanley B. Gershwin, "Discrete-Event Models for the Analysis of Quality/Quantity Interactions in Production Systems," Conference on Systems and Control (CSC2007), Marrakech, Morocco May 16--18, 2007.

Stanley B. Gershwin and Saeideh Fallah-Fini, "A General Model and Analysis of a Discrete Two-Machine Production Line," Sixth Conference on the Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 11-16 May 2007. Also see gershwin-texas-a-m-08.pdf

Young Jae Jang and Stanley B. Gershwin, "Decomposition Analysis of Multiple-Part-Type Production Lines," Sixth Conference on the Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 11-16 May 2007.

Irvin C. Schick and Stanley B. Gershwin, "A Taxonomy of Quality/Quantity Issues in Manufacturing Systems," Sixth Conference on the Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 11-16 May 2007.

Baris Tan and Stanley B. Gershwin, "Modelling and Analysis of Markovian Single-Buffer Fluid Flow Systems," Sixth Conference on the Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 11-16 May 2007.

Qi, C., Sivakumar, A.I., and Gershwin, S.B., "Simulation Experimental Investigation on Job Release Control in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication," in the proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, December 2007, Washington, USA

Tajan, J.B.C., Sivakumar, A.I., Gershwin, S. B., "Online control of a batch processor with incompatible job families under correlated future arrivals," Proceedings --- Winter Simulation Conference, art. no. 4736307, pp. 2100-2108, 2008.

Fernando Tubilla and Stanley B. Gershwin, "The Hedging Zone Policy for Real-Time Scheduling of Sequence-Dependent Setups," INCOM09, The 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, June 3 - 5, 2009, Moscow, Russia.

Chuan Shi and Stanley B. Gershwin, "An Efficient Buffer Design Algorithm for Production Line Profit Maximization," INCOM09, The 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, June 3 - 5, 2009, Moscow, Russia.

M. Colledani and S. B. Gershwin,"Modeling and Analysis of Two-Stage Systems with Parallel Machines and Limited Repair Capacity," INCOM09, The 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, June 3 - 5, 2009, Moscow, Russia.

Chuan Shi and Stanley B. Gershwin, "An Efficient Buffer Design Algorithm for Production Line Profit Maximization," SMMSO 2009, The Seventh Conference on "Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations, 2009," June 6 - 11, 2009, Lecce, Italy.

M. Colledani and S. B. Gershwin, "A Decomposition Method for Approximate Evaluation of Continuous Flow Multi-Stage Lines with General Markovian Machines," SMMSO 2009, The Seventh Conference on "Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations, 2009," June 6 - 11, 2009, Lecce, Italy.

Fernando Tubilla and Stanley B. Gershwin, "Real-Time Scheduling Policy for Manufacturing Systems with Sequence-Dependent Setups," SMMSO 2009, The Seventh Conference on "Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations, 2009," June 6 - 11, 2009, Lecce, Italy.

Elisa Gebennini, Andrea Grassi, Cesare Fantuzzi, Stanley B. Gershwin, Irvin C. Schick, "On the Introduction of a Restart Policy in the Two-Machine, One-Buffer Transfer Line Model," SMMSO 2009, The Seventh Conference on "Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations, 2009," June 6 - 11, 2009, Lecce, Italy.

Internal Memoranda and Progress Reports:

Gershwin, S. B., "Reliability and Storage Size, Parts I and II," C. S. Draper Laboratory Memorandum, May, 1973, 11 pages and 7 pages.

Quagliata, L., Alvarez-Correa, G., Pennell, M., Gershwin, S. B., "A Statistical Simulation of High Volume Manufacturing of Mechanical Components Using Transfer Lines," C.S. Draper Laboratory, Inc., Report R-768, October, 1973.

Gershwin, S. B. and Berman, O., "Complex Materials Handling and Assembly Systems, Volume VII: Analysis of Transfer Lines Consisting of Two Unreliable Machines with Random Processing Times and Finite Storage Buffers," MIT Electronic Systems Laboratory Report, ESL-R-834-7, September, 1978, 67 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., and Schick, I. C., "Complex Materials Handling and Assembly Systems, Volume IX: Analysis of Transfer Lines Consisting of Three Unreliable Models and Two Finite Storage Buffers," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report, ESL-R-834-9, August, 1979, 198 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., and Schick, I. C., "Modeling and Analysis of Two- and Three-Stage Transfer Lines with Unreliable Machines and Finite Buffers," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-R-979, 79 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., and Schick, I. C., "Continuous Model of an Unreliable Material Flow Systems with a Finite Interstage Buffer," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-R-1039, September, 1980, 54 pages.

Ammar, M. H., and Gershwin, S. B., "A Partially Formulated Method for Solving Three-Machine Transfer Lines," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-TM-1046, September, 1980, 30 pages.

Castanon, D. A., Levy, B. C., and Gershwin, S. B., "Diffusion Approximation of Transfer Lines with Unreliable Machines and Finite Storage Elements," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-P-1183, March, 1982, 56 pages.

Pan, Y., and Gershwin, S. B., "Modeling and Analysis of Production Lines With and Without Preventative Maintenance," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-P- 1294, April, 1983, 46 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., "An Efficient Decomposition Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Production Lines with Finite Storage Space," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-P-1308, July, 1983, 14 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., "An Efficient Decomposition Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Tandem Queues with Finite Storage Space and Blocking," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-R-1309, December, 1983, 34 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., "Representation and Analysis of Transfer Lines with Machines That Have Different Processing Rates," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-P- 1446, March, 1985, 14 pages.

Choong, Y. F., and Gershwin, S. B., "A Decomposition Method for the Approximate Evaluation of Capacitated Transfer Lines with Unreliable Machines and Random Processing Times," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Report LIDS-P-1476, June, 1985, 24 pages.

Ammar, M. H. and Gershwin, S. B., "Equivalence Relations in Queuing Models of Assembly/Disassembly Networks," Georgia Institute of Technology School of Information and Computer Science Technical Report GIT-ICS-87/45, December, 1987, 24 pages. \bigskip

Gershwin, S. B., "An Efficient Decomposition Algorithm for Unreliable Tandem Queuing Systems with Finite Buffers," MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Report LMP 88-002, December, 1987; revised May, 1988, 17 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., "Assembly/Disassembly Systems: An Efficient Decomposition Algorithm for Tree-Structured Networks," MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision SystemsReport LIDS-P-1579; also MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Report LMP 88-007; June, 1988, 33 pages + figures.

Ou, J., and Gershwin, S. B., "The Variance of the Lead Time Distribution of a Two-Machine Transfer Line with a Finite Buffer," MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Report LMP 89-028; August, 1989, 24 pages + figures.

Dallery, Y., and Gershwin, S. B., "Manufacturing Flow Line Systems: A Review of Models and Analytical Results," MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Report LMP 91-002, February, 1991, 88 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., "Variance of Output of a Tandem Production System," MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Report LMP 92-003, January, 1992, 32 pages.

Gershwin, S. B., and Goldis, Y., "Efficient Algorithms for Transfer Line Design," MIT LMP-95-005, November, 1995, 50 pages.

Gershwin, S. B. and Burman, M. H., "A Decomposition Method for Analyzing Inhomogeneous Assembly/Disassembly Systems," February, 1999.

N. Maggio, A. Matta, S. B. Gershwin, and T. Tolio, "An approximate analytical method for evaluating the performance of closed loop flow systems with unreliable machines and finite buffers --- Part I: Small Loops," February, 2003.

Gershwin, S. B. and Werner, L. M., "An approximate analytical method for evaluating the performance of closed loop flow systems with unreliable machines and finite buffers --- Part II: Large Loops," May, 2003.

Kim, Jongyoon and Gershwin, S. B., "Integrated Quality and Quantity Modeling of a Production Line," September 10, 2004, 32 pages.

Chang, Seok Ho and Gershwin, S. B., "Modeling and Exact Analysis of a Production Line with Two Unreliable Batch Machines and a Finite Buffer: Part I - Full Batches," June 28, 2005, 45 pages.

Poffe, Andrea and Gershwin, S. B., "Integrating Quality and Quantity Modelling in a Production Line," June 29, 2005, 45 pages.

Schick, I. C., Gershwin, S. B., and Kim, Jongyoon,"Quality/Quantity Modeling and Analysis of Production Lines Subject to Uncertainty," Final Report presented to General Motors Research and Development Center, May 10, 2005, 68 pages.

B. Tan and S. B. Gershwin, "Modeling and Analysis of Markovian Continuous Flow Production Systems with a Finite Buffer: A General Methodology and Applications," Operations Research Center Working Paper OR 381-07, March, 2007, 35 pages.

Last Updated: April 27, 2009