Seventh International Conference On «Stochastic Models Of Manufacturing And Service Operations» (Ostuni, 7-12 June 2009)

This volume contains the proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations held at Ostuni, Italy. The common attribute of all the papers published in this volume is the use of stochastic models for the analysis, design and management of manufacturing and service operations.John Buzacott, Professor Emeritus of Operations Management and Information Systems at the York University, Canada.Yves Dallery, Professor at the Laboratory of Industrial Engineering of the Ecole Centrale Paris, France.Stanley B. Gershwin, Senior Research Scientist at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.George Liberopoulos, Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly, Greece.Semyon Meerkov, Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.J. MacGregor Smith, Professor at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos, Professor at the Economics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.Baris Tan, Professor at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics of the Koç University, Turkey.Tullio Tolio, Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.