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  1. Capital allocation to alternatives with a multivariate ladder gamma return distribution

    Article • Decisions in Economics and Finance, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  2. From OR to OM: Observations on the Emergence of a Discipline

    Article • September 2014, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  3. Then and now – 50 years of production research

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  4. The Design of Manufacturing Systems to Cope with Variability

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  5. Contract design for risk sharing partnerships in manufacturing

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, May 2012, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  6. Risk analysis of commitment–option contracts with forecast updates

    Article • IIE Transactions, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  7. Introduction to the special issue on Advances in Manufacturing Systems

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott, Prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

  8. THE EFFECTS OF LEAD TIME ON PLANT TIMING AND SIZE

    Article • Production and Operations Management, January 2009, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  9. A GENERAL APPROACH FOR COORDINATING PRODUCTION IN MULTIPLE-CELL MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

    Article • Production and Operations Management, January 2009, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  10. Analysis of a newsvendor which has errors in inventory data records

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  11. Flexibility in manufacturing and services: achievements, insights and challenges

    Article • Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  12. Foreword

    Article • IIE Transactions, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Baris Tan, John A Buzacott

  13. International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: an appreciation

    Article • International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  14. A robust policy for serial agile production systems

    Article • Naval Research Logistics (NRL), February 2005, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  15. Operative Produktionsplanung und -steuerung

    Article • January 2005, De Gruyter

    John A Buzacott

  16. Inventory Management with Asset-Based Financing

    Article • Management Science, September 2004, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  17. Modelling Teams and Workgroups in Manufacturing

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, February 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  18. Operations and Shipment Scheduling of a Batch on a Flexible Machine

    Article • Operations Research, August 2003, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  19. Managing and Modelling Financial Flows and Material Flows

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  20. The Evolution of Manufacturing System Models: A Personal View

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  21. The value of information used in inventory control of a make-to-order inventory-production system

    Article • IIE Transactions, November 2002, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  22. Integrating advance order information in make-to-stock production systems

    Article • IIE Transactions, August 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Fikri Karaesmen, John A Buzacott

  23. Optimal and near-optimal inventory control policies for a make-to-order inventory–production system

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 2002, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  24. The impact of worker differences on production system output

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, July 2002, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  25. Human Performance in Planning and Scheduling. Bart MacCarthy and John Wilson (Eds.), Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 0-7484-0929-7

    Article • Journal of Scheduling, January 2002, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  26. Multiproduct Kanban-like Control Systems

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  27. Flexibility analysis: A methodology and a case study

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  28. Service system structure

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, October 2000, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  29. The application of computerized production control systems in job shop environments

    Article • Computers in Industry, June 2000, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  30. Flexibility and robustness in manufacturing

    Article • International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, January 2000, Inderscience Publishers

    John A Buzacott

  31. Dynamic Inventory Targets Revisited

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, July 1999, JSTOR

    John A Buzacott

  32. Dynamic inventory targets revisited

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, July 1999, Nature

    John A Buzacott

  33. Hedging against uncertainty in new technology development: the case of direct steelmaking

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, May 1999, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  34. Adaptive Production Control in Modern Industries

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  35. Continuous time distributed decentralized MRP

    Article • Production Planning & Control, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  36. A ?goodness test? for operational measures of manufacturing flexibility

    Article • International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, July 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Diwakar Gupta, John A Buzacott

  37. Commonalities in Reengineered Business Processes: Models and Issues

    Article • Management Science, May 1996, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  38. A review of hierarchical production planning and its applicability for modern manufacturing

    Article • Production Planning & Control, September 1995, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  39. Multistage flow line analysis with the stopped arrival queue model

    Article • IIE Transactions, August 1995, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  40. ‘Common sense’ realities of planning and scheduling in printed circuit board production

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  41. Schedulers & Planners: What and How Can We Learn From Them

    Article • January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  42. A perspective on new paradigms in manufacturing

    Article • Journal of Manufacturing Systems, January 1995, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  43. An information systems based paradigm for decisions in rapidly changing industries

    Article • Control Engineering Practice, January 1995, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  44. Safety Stock versus Safety Time in MRP Controlled Production Systems

    Article • Management Science, December 1994, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  45. Approximate mean value performance analysis of cyclic queueing networks with production blocking

    Article • Queueing Systems, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  46. Jackson Network Models of Manufacturing Systems

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  47. A decomposition-related throughput property of tandem queueing networks with blocking

    Article • Queueing Systems, December 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  48. Models for first-pass FMS investment analysis

    Article • International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, September 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Diwakar Gupta, John A Buzacott

  49. The Performance of Kanban Controlled Serial Production Systems

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  50. The optimal mix of flexible and dedicated manufacturing capacities: Hedging against demand uncertainty

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, December 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Diwakar Gupta, John A Buzacott

  51. The reversibility of cyclic queues

    Article • Operations Research Letters, May 1992, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  52. Editorial introduction

    Article • Queueing Systems, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  53. Design of manufacturing systems using queueing models

    Article • Queueing Systems, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  54. Service Level in Multistage MRP and Base Stock Controlled Production Systems

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  55. The Scheduler’s Predictive Expertise: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  56. Flow time distributions in aK classM/G/1 priority feedback queue

    Article • Queueing Systems, December 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  57. Scale, Scope or Division of Labour: Coping with Volume, Variety and Variability in Manufacturing

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  58. A production system with two job classes, changeover times and revisitation

    Article • Queueing Systems, December 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Diwakar Gupta, John A Buzacott

  59. Abandoning the moving assembly line: models of human operators and job sequencing

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, May 1990, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  60. Approximate models of assembly systems with finite inventory banks

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 1990, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  61. Flexibility and decision making

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, January 1990, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  62. THE SCHEDULER'S INFORMATION SYSTEM: WHAT IS GOING ON? INSIGHTS FOR AUTOMATED ENVIRONMENTS

    Article • January 1990, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  63. Queueing models of Kanban and MRP controlled production systems

    Article • Engineering Costs and Production Economics, August 1989, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  64. Validation of Manufacturing System Models

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  65. Flexible Models of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  66. Modelling Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  67. A framework for understanding flexibility of manufacturing systems

    Article • Journal of Manufacturing Systems, January 1989, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  68. Impact of flexible machines on automated manufacturing systems

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, December 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Diwakar Gupta, John A Buzacott

  69. Job-Shop Scheduling Theory: What Is Relevant?

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, August 1988, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  70. Capacity expansion with interrupted demand growth

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, February 1988, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  71. Matrix-geometric and Recursive Algorithm Solution of a Two-stage Unreliable How Line

    Article • IIE Transactions, December 1987, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  72. Improved Bounds for System-Failure Probability

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, October 1987, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  73. Reliability Evaluation of Systems with After-Fault Switching

    Article • IEEE Power Engineering Review, August 1987, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  74. An Algorithm for Symbolic Reliability Computation with Path-sets or Cut-sets

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, April 1987, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  75. Modeling a Class of Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Reversible Routing

    Article • Operations Research, February 1987, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  76. Development and validation of a systems macro model using isolated micro models

    Article • January 1987, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    John A Buzacott

  77. Node partition formula for directed graph reliability

    Article • Networks, January 1987, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  78. Reliability Evaluation of Systems with after Fault Switching

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, January 1987, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  79. Three State Component Representation for Reliability Evaluation of Power Systems

    Article • January 1987, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  80. Flexible Manufacturing Systems: A Review of Analytical Models

    Article • Management Science, July 1986, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  81. On queueing network models of flexible manufacturing systems

    Article • Queueing Systems, June 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  82. The exponentialization approach to flexible manufacturing system models with general processing times

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, March 1986, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  83. Software engineerng applied to discrete event simulations

    Article • January 1986, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    John A Buzacott

  84. Simulation and analysis of a circuit board manufacturing facility

    Article • January 1986, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    John A Buzacott

  85. Models of flexible manufacturing systems with limited local buffers

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 1986, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  86. Cut-Set Intersections and Node Partitions

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, October 1985, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  87. Modelling the performance of flexible manufacturing systems

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, September 1985, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  88. On Approximate Queueing Models of Dynamic Job Shops

    Article • Management Science, July 1985, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  89. Productivity and Technological Change

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, June 1985, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  90. Equipment reliability and maintenance

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, March 1985, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  91. Modeling a class of state-dependent routing in flexible manufacturing systems

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, March 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    John A Buzacott

  92. Queueing models for a flexible machining station Part I: The diffusion approximation

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, February 1985, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  93. Queueing models for a flexible machining station Part II: The method of Coxian phases

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, February 1985, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  94. Modelling manufacturing systems

    Article • Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, January 1985, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  95. Quality modeling and a quality control of a manufacturing system

    Article • December 1984, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  96. Cut-Set Intersections and Node Partitions

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, December 1984, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  97. The time spent in a dynamic job shop

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 1984, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  98. The Future of Industrial Engineering As An Academic Discipline

    Article • IIE Transactions, March 1984, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  99. Recent Developments in Queueing

    Article • Advances in Applied Probability, March 1984, Cambridge University Press

    John A Buzacott

  100. Probability of Component or Subsystem Failure Before System Failure

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, December 1983, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  101. The Ordering of Terms in Cut-based Recursive Disjoint Products

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, December 1983, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  102. One- and two-stage scheduling of two products with distributed inserted idle time: The benefits of a controllable production rate

    Article • Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, December 1983, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  103. A recursive algorithm for directed-graph reliability

    Article • Networks, January 1983, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  104. Images of Reality: The Relation Between The Real World and The Model Worldin or

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, August 1982, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  105. "Optimal" operating rules for automated manufacturing systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, February 1982, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  106. Open queueing network models of dynamic job shops

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, May 1981, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  107. 'Optimal' operating rules for automated manufacturing systems

    Article • December 1980, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  108. Models for Understanding Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    Article • A I I E Transactions, December 1980, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  109. On the approximations to the single server queue

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, November 1980, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  110. A recursive algorithm for finding reliability measures related to the connection of nodes in a graph

    Article • Networks, January 1980, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  111. Book Review

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, February 1979, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  112. Models of automatic transfer lines with inventory banks a review and comparison

    Article • A I I E Transactions, June 1978, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  113. The production capacity of job shops with limited storage space

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, September 1976, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  114. Rejoinder to Goyal's Letter

    Article • Operational Research Quarterly (1970-1977), January 1976, JSTOR

    John A Buzacott

  115. Rejoinder to Goyal's Letter

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, January 1976, Nature

    John A Buzacott

  116. Forum Some Thoughts On The Canadian Conference On Applied Systems Analysis

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, October 1975, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  117. Economic Order Quantities with Inflation

    Article • Operational Research Quarterly (1970-1977), September 1975, JSTOR

    John A Buzacott

  118. Economic Order Quantities with Inflation

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, September 1975, Nature

    John A Buzacott

  119. The Effect Of Queue Discipline On The Capacity Of Oueues With Service Time Dependent On Waiting Times

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, June 1974, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  120. Training Industrial Engineering Students In The Practice Of Operational Research - Somehospital Projects1

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, February 1974, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  121. The Pit Charging Problem in Steel Production

    Article • Management Science, December 1973, INFORMS

    John A Buzacott

  122. Reliability Analysis of a Nuclear Reactor Fuel Charging System

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, June 1973, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  123. The Effect of Station Breakdowns and Random Processing Times on the Capacity of Flow Lines with In-Process Storage

    Article • A I I E Transactions, December 1972, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  124. Contributors to this Issue

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, July 1971, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  125. The Capacity of The Soaking Pit-Rolling Mill Complex in Steel Production

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, July 1971, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  126. Availability of Priority Standby Redundant Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, May 1971, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  127. Sequencing many jobs on a multi-purpose facility

    Article • Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, March 1971, Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  128. The role of inventory banks in flow-line production systems

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 1971, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  129. Markov Approach to Finding Failure Times of Repairable Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, November 1970, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  130. Network Approaches to Finding the Reliability of Repairable Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Reliability, November 1970, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott

  131. Finding the MTBF of repairable systems by reduction of the reliability block diagram

    Article • Microelectronics Reliability, May 1967, Elsevier

    John A Buzacott

  132. AUTOMATIC TRANSFER LINES WITH BUFFER STOCKS

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 1967, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  133. PREDICTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS WITHOUT INTERNAL STORAGE

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 1967, Taylor & Francis

    John A Buzacott

  134. Queuing Models of Manufacturing and Service Systems

    Article • Wiley

    John A Buzacott

  135. M-CI/sup 2/: modelling cyber interdependencies between critical infrastructures

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    John A Buzacott