1. Complexity reduction of a design problem in QFD using decomposition

   • Jong-Seok Shin
   • Kwang-Jae Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 354

2. Demand and cost forecast error sensitivity analyses in aggregate production planning by possibilistic linear programming models

   • Suhua Hsieh
   • Ming-Shian Wu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 364

3. Enhancing the performance of an agent-based manufacturing system through learning and forecasting

   • Weiming Shen
   • Francisco Maturana
   • Douglas H. Norrie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 380

4. Towards the design and development of a knowledge-based universal modular jigs and fixtures system

   • Jamil Kakish
   • Pei-Liang Zhang
   • Ibrahim Zeid

   OriginalPaper Pages: 381 - 401

5. Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Key to future manufacturing

   • M. G. Mehrabi
   • A. G. Ulsoy
   • Y. Koren

   OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 419

6. Metaheuristic methods for a class of the facility layout problem

   • Arlindo Gomes de Alvarenga
   • Francisco J. Negreiros-Gomes
   • Ma´rio Mestria

   OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 430