Cemal Dincer

Yasar University · Industrial Engineering

The facility location and capacity acquisition decisions are intertwined, especially within the international context where capacity acquisition costs are location dependent. A review of the relevant literature however, reveals that the facility location and the capacity acquisition problems have been dealt with separately. Thus, an integrated appr...

This paper presents a model for analyzing international plant location and financing decisions under uncertainty. The model diverges from the usual plant location problem in that location and financing decisions are considered simultaneously. This approach is necessary since subsidized financing as well as preferential tax treatment can be signific...

We present a detailed integrated simulation model for casualty transportation and emergency room management after a major disaster. Usually, the two important processes are handled separately in literature. However, to be able to correctly evaluate preparedness of disaster and emergency and minimize potential loss of lives, these two interconnected...

From the standpoint of medical services, a disaster is a calamitous event resulting in an unexpected number of casualties that exceeds the therapeutic capacities of medical services. In these situations, effective medical response plays a crucial role in saving life. To model medical rescue activities, a two-priority non-preemptive S-server, and a...

An appropriate distance is an essential ingredient in various real-world learning tasks. Distance metric learning proposes to study a metric, which is capable of reflecting the data configuration much better in comparison with the commonly used methods. ...

Transfer lines represent the basic manufacturing system of many high volume production systems. Analysis and understanding of transfer lines are of great importance to improve design and operation performance of many manufacturing systems. Majority of research on the throughput of transfer lines concentrate on the steady state results. Due to the c...

Transfer lines represent the basic manufacturing system of many high volume production systems. Analysis and understanding of transfer lines are of great importance to improve design and operation performance of many manufacturing systems. Majority of research on the throughput of transfer lines concentrate on the steady state results. Due to the c...

The 24th Mini-EURO Conference on “Continuous Optimization and Information-Based Technologies in the Financial Sector” (http://cs.ieu.edu.tr/europt-2010/) was held at the Izmir University of Economics from June 23 to 26. The scientific event included 37 parallel sessions each consisting of up to 4 presentations for a total of 154 presentations. All...

This paper presents a recurrent epidemic model (REM) to explore the dynamics of Internet epidemiology through the phases of susceptibility to recovery. From both theoretical and practical standpoint, it has two main differences compared to the bare worm propagation modeling. In the first place, it defines a unique stochastic model of a general infe...

Transfer lines simply characterise the interrelationship of manufacturing stages with their buffers and they are used to model the key features of such manufacturing environments with simplifying assumptions. There is a vast literature on these systems, however, little has been done on the transient analysis of the transfer lines by making use of t...

The design of tandem production systems has been well studied in the literature with the primary focus being on how to improve their efficiency. Considering the large costs associated, a slight improvement in efficiency can lead to very significant savings over its life. Division of work and allocation of buffer capacities between workstations are...

A number of pull production systems reported in the literature are found to be equivalent to a tandemqueue so that existing accurate tandem-queue approximation methods can be used to evaluate such systems. In this study, we consider developing an exact performance evaluation model for a non-tandemqueue equivalent pull production system using discre...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse a special case of the non-pre-emptive single machine scheduling problem where the distinct due dates for each job are related to processing times according to the Equal-Slack rule. The scheduling objective is to minimize the sum of earliness and tardiness penalties. After determining some properties of the pr...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse a special case of the non-pre-emptive single machine scheduling problem where the distinct due dates for each job are related to processing times according to the Equal–Slack rule. The scheduling objective is to minimize the sum of earliness and tardiness penalties. After determining some properties of the pr...

It would be difficult to efficiently implement a manufacturing system without solving its design and operational problems. Based on this framework, a system configuration and tooling problem is modeled. The model turns out to be a large mixed integer linear program, so that some alternative optimal seeking and heuristic techniques are used to solve...

Emergence of global markets enhanced the emergence of global firms which have plants in different countries and implement an integrated management style. Due to the intensive competition in global markets, manufacturing performance is conceived as an important strategic weapon. Facility location, capacity acquisition and technology selection decisi...

In this paper, a Decision Support System is proposed for a Just-In-Time production system. The Decision Support System includes three components: database, model base, and interface. The database contains the predefined parameters together with the data generated for the considered Just-In-Time production system. In the model base, both determinist...