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Neural network system for operations management
Title
Neural network system for operations management.
Creator
Ezziane, Zoheir Hocine., Florida Atlantic University, Mazouz, Abdel Kader, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Abstract/Description
Distribution centers and warehouses are becoming more and more dependent on advanced computer technologies to establish and maintain competitiveness in a global economy. Neural network represent a new technology with a wide scope of potential warehouses applications, ranging from planning and forecasting to overall performance. In this dissertation, numerous results are showing increases in warehouse performance, when using neural network technology. The neural network system is used as a...
Show moreDistribution centers and warehouses are becoming more and more dependent on advanced computer technologies to establish and maintain competitiveness in a global economy. Neural network represent a new technology with a wide scope of potential warehouses applications, ranging from planning and forecasting to overall performance. In this dissertation, numerous results are showing increases in warehouse performance, when using neural network technology. The neural network system is used as a forecasting tool. It is then compared to time series forecasting analysis. The comparison process is designed to increase the warehouse performance understudy. At the end of this process, the results are forecasting variables needed to eventually increase warehouse performance and efficiency. Initially, neural networks along with time series are used to make the forecast on inventory control. Then the following step is to let different neural network modules perform the forecasting analysis on other management operations like inventory adjustments, accuracy and turnover, customer complaints and labor productivity for any distribution center or warehouse. The concept of benchmarking is also used, in order to provide tools which will help warehouse management determining performance levels for each subcomponent of the warehouse operations, and consequently the overall performance of the warehouse or distributor center taken into consideration after feeding in the appropriate data to the system.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12369
Subject Headings
Operations research, Warehouses, Neural networks (Computer science)--Industrial applications
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Document (PDF)
Web log analysis: Experimental studies
Title
Web log analysis: Experimental studies.
Creator
Yang, Zhijian., Florida Atlantic University, Zhong, Shi, Pandya, Abhijit S., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description
With rapid growth of the World Wide Web, web performance becomes increasingly important for modern businesses, especially for e-commerce. As we all know, web server logs contain potentially useful empirical data to improve web server performance. In this thesis, we discuss some topics related to the analysis of a website's server logs for enhancing server performance, which will benefit some applications in business. Markov chain models are used and allow us to dynamically model page...
Show moreWith rapid growth of the World Wide Web, web performance becomes increasingly important for modern businesses, especially for e-commerce. As we all know, web server logs contain potentially useful empirical data to improve web server performance. In this thesis, we discuss some topics related to the analysis of a website's server logs for enhancing server performance, which will benefit some applications in business. Markov chain models are used and allow us to dynamically model page sequences extracted from server logs. My experimental studies contain three major parts. First, I present a workload characterization study of the website used for my research. Second, Markov chain models are constructed for both page request and page-visiting sequence prediction. Finally, I carefully evaluate the constructed models using an independent test data set, which is from server logs on a different day. The research results demonstrate the effectiveness of Markov chain models for characterizing page-visiting sequences.
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Date Issued
2005
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13202
Subject Headings
Markov processes, Operations research, Business enterprises--Computer networks, Electronic commerce--Data processing
Format
Document (PDF)
Moving Mountains: Animal Rights Organizations, Emotion, and Autodidactic Frame Alignment
Title
Moving Mountains: Animal Rights Organizations, Emotion, and Autodidactic Frame Alignment.
Creator
Jarvis, Lee Charles Jr., Goodrick, Elizabeth, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
Abstract/Description
Animal rights organizations, in attempting to affect institutional change in industrial animal agriculture, face an institutional mountain. I show how these organizations, though contesting institutions which are highly reified, tacitly endorsed, and historically inertial, leverage emotional experiences and regulation to incrementally move this mountain. Using a grounded qualitative study of interview data from animal rights advocates and archival data generated by animal rights organizations...
Show moreAnimal rights organizations, in attempting to affect institutional change in industrial animal agriculture, face an institutional mountain. I show how these organizations, though contesting institutions which are highly reified, tacitly endorsed, and historically inertial, leverage emotional experiences and regulation to incrementally move this mountain. Using a grounded qualitative study of interview data from animal rights advocates and archival data generated by animal rights organizations, this study finds that animal rights organizations have encoded both response- and antecedent-focused emotion regulation into two distinct strategies used to garner support for their institutional change project: transgression mining and seed planting. Furthermore, this study expounds upon the role of moral emotional experiences in the individual-level process by which persons alternate into support for animal rights organizations and their goals, here labeled autodidactic frame alignment. Drawing on Goffman’s backstage/frontstage distinction, this study illustrates how emotion’s role in institutional change efforts varies across both level of analysis and areas of interactive life. In doing so, this research adds empirical weight to and extends recent theoretical work expounding upon the emotionally-charged nature of the lived experience of institutions.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004645, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004645
Subject Headings
Communication in organizations, Corporate culture, Grounded theory, Management -- Psychological aspects, Operations research, Organizational behavior, Organizational change, Psychology, Industrial
Format
Document (PDF)