Arne Thesen Professor Emeritus Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Publications

Contact Information

Program Affiliations

• Industrial and Systems Engineering

Education

• BS 1965, industrial engineering, University of Illinois
• MS 1968, industrial engineering, University of Illinois
• PhD 1972, mechanical engineering, University of Illinois

Fields of Interest

• simulation, heuristic optimization
• manufacturing systems
• selective assembly

Publications

• Thesen, Arne (1998). "Some simple but efficient push and pull heuristics for production sequencing for certain flexible manufacturing systems", International Journal for Production Research.
• Thesen, Arne, (1998). "Design and Evaluation of a Tabu Search Algorithm for Multiprocessor Scheduling". Journal of Heuristics, Vol 4, Issue 2. (141-160).
• Chen, Jung-Tai, and Arne Thesen, (1998), "Performance estimation of a manufacturing cell using rotation scheduling", Computers and Industrial Engineering.
• Chen, Jung-Tai, and Arne Thesen, (1998), "Evaluation of Dispatching Rules for the Production Sequence of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell". Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering.
• Thesen, Arne, (1998). "Optimal Allocation of Work in a Flexible Manufacturing Cell Using Circulating Pallets". Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling, Istanbul, Jul7 7-9.(297-300).
• Thesen, Arne and Laurel W. Travis, Simulation for Decision Making , West Publishing, 1992.