Department of Management Studies (MS): Recent submissions
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Performance Evaluation Of Skill-Based Routing In An Inbound Call Center Using Stochastic Petri Nets
(2009-05-28)Call centers have become a preferred and prevalent means for companies to communicate with their customers. As a consequence of this, the call center industry has seen a huge growth in both volume and scope in the last ... -
Cellular Services Market In India : Predictive Models And Assessing Interventions
(2009-04-27)The Objective of this thesis is to address some interesting problems in the Indian cellular services market. The first problem we address relates to identifying important change points that marked the evolution of the ... -
Dynamic Control Mechanism For Customer Buy Down Behavior
(2009-04-24)Revenue Management (RM) has become one of the most successful application areas of Operation Research. What started off as an obscure practice among few airlines in U.S in early seventies, has attained the status of ... -
Impact Of Option Introduction On Different Characteristics Of Underlying Stocks In NSE, India
(2009-04-24)Financial Derivatives are one of the most popular and emerging innovations in the field of financial engineering. Since their inception, there has been a phenomenal growth in the volumes of derivatives traded all over the ... -
Deterministic Scheduling Of Parallel Discrete And Batch Processors
(2009-03-03)Scheduling concerns the allocation of limited resources to tasks over time. In manufacturing systems, scheduling is nothing but assigning the jobs to the available processors over a period of time. Our research focuses on ... -
Novel Approaches For Demand Forecasting In Semiconductor Manufacturing
(2009-02-25)Accurate demand forecasting is a key capability for a manufacturing organization, more so, a semiconductor manufacturer. Many crucial decisions are based on demand forecasts. The semiconductor industry is characterized by ... -
A Study Of Organizational Rightsizing : Actors, Processes And Outcome
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-06-06)The pressure for economic integration has been reinforced by developments in technology, changes in market structures and the emergence of transnational corporations. Rightsizing has emerged as a critical process in this ... -
Pricing Multicast Network Services
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-03-28)Multicast has long been considered an attractive service for the Internet for the provision of multiparty applications. For over a decade now multicast has been a proposed IETF standard. Though there is a strong industry ... -
A Theoretical Model And Empirical Analysis Of Components Of Spread In Over The Counter Exchange Of India
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-03-26)Over the Counter Exchange of India (OTCEI) was established in 1992 mainly to provide a platform for small and medium sized companies to raise money for their capital requirements. It is a well defined dealer market with ... -
Rational Supply Planning In Resource Constrained Electricity Systems
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-02-21)Electricity is the most preferred source of energy, because of its quality and convenience of usage. It is probably one of the most vital infrastructural inputs for economic development of a country. Indeed it is the fulcrum ... -
Modelling The Transport Sector In India : A Study On Intermodal Substitution Passenger Transport
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-02-21)Transportation infrastructure has long been recognized as the sine qua non of rapid economic development. As a predominantly agrarian economy with a vast and growing population spread over an extensive mass of land, India ... -
Improvement Of Piston Ring Quality : A Case Study
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-02-21)Automobiles have become an integral part of our daily life as more and more mopeds, motor cycles, cars, trucks, busses and trains are being used for transport. The main parts of an automotive engine are cylinder, piston ... -
Identification Of Key Factors Of User Satisfaction For Banking Software Products And Development Of An Importance-Performance Map
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-02-21)The Indian IT industry has grown at an impressive rate during the last decade. India's own competitive advantage in the software business is well known: cost-effectiveness, world-class quality, high reliability, and rapid ... -
Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms For Parallel Heterogeneous Batch Processors
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-02-21)In the last decade, market pressures for greater variety of products forced a gradual shift from continuous manufacturing to batch manufacturing in various industries. Consequently batch scheduling problems have attracted ... -
An Analytical Study Of The Silk Reeling Operations In Karnataka
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-02-21)Sericulture is an important agro industry in Indian economy. Reeling sector is a vital component of sericulture linking the agriculture based activity of cocoon production with the industrial activity of fabric production. ... -
ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN CAPITAL VALUE ADDITION AMONG KNOWLEDGE PROFESSIONALS
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-07-13)The last decade has seen the growth of knowledge based industries and knowledge work. It has also witnessed the ever-increasing onslaught of competition and change.Intangibles have become increasingly important factors in ... -
Influence of Lot Sizing on Lead Time Error Costs in M.R.P. Systems- a Computer Simulation Study
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-03-11)Timing of ordering of inventory items is of very great importance in Materials Requirement Planning. Uncertainties in timing can have an adverse effect on the system performance. Most often the lead time variation contribute ...