Branch-and-price methods for prescribing profitable upgrades of high-technology products with deterministic or stochastic demands /

This dissertation deals with a model that would help manufacturers make profitable decisions in upgrading the features of a family (i.e., set) of related high-technology products over their life cycle. The model integrates various organizations in an enterprise: product design, manufacturing, produ...

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Main Author:	Damodaran, Purushothaman
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2002.
Subjects:	Major industrial engineering.
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