For a general overview of the Processing Network Paradigm, read the paper by Loch, on “Operations Management and Reengineering”. An advanced technical version is “Stochastic Networks and Activity Analysis”, by Harrison. A processing-network model of product (or service) development is advocated in Adler et.al.
Reading Packet: The Processing Network Paradigm
- Loch, Christoph H., “Operations Management and Reengineering”, European Management Journal, 16, 306-317, 1998.
- Harrison, Michael J., “Stochastic Networks and Activity Analysis”, to appear in Y. Suhov (ed.), Analytical Methods in Applied Probability, In Memory of Fridrih Karpelevich, AMS, 2002.
- R.A. Anupindi, S. Chopra, S.D. Deshmukh, J.A. Van Mieghem, E. Zemel, Prentice Hall, 1999.
Kellog’s text book for their POM MBA class, Chapters 3 — 5 cover Process Flow Measures, Flow-Time Analysis, and Flow-Rate and Capacity Analysis.
Optional Packet: Process/Project Management—Framework and Applications
- Adler, P.S., Mandelbaum, A., Nguyen, V. and Schwerer, E., “From project to process management: An empirically-based framework for analyzing product development time”, Management Science, 41, 458–484, 1995. (The basis for the M.Sc. thesis on “Project Management at the Israeli Electric Company”, by Yaron Lamberg.)
- Adler, P.S., Mandelbaum, A., Nguyen, V. and Schwerer, E., “Getting the most out of your product development process”, Harvard Business Review, March 1996 (15 pages). (A managerial version of the above Management-Science paper.)
- Shumsky, Robert, “A Note on Project Scheduling”, Teaching Note, Rochester.
Optional Packet: Fork-join (Split-match) Networks
- Nelson, R., Towsley, D. and Tantawi, A.N., “Performance analysis of parallel processing systems”, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, 14, 532–540, 1988.
- Nelson, R.\ and Tantawi, A.N., “Approximate analysis of fork/join synchronization in parallel queues”, IEEE Trans. on Computers, 37, 739–743, 1988.
- Nelson, R., “A performance evaluation of a general parallel processing model”, ACM, 13–26, 1990.
- Vien, Nguyen, “Processing networks with parallel and sequential tasks: heavy traffic analysis and Brownian limits”, The Annals of Applied Prob, 3, 28–55, 1993.
