An overview of developments in the scheduling of multiproduct/multipurpose batch and continuous processes is presented. Existing approaches are classified based on the time repres...
In computer and electronic manufacturing, it is very important to be able to automatically check whether the surface mounted devices (SMD) are correctly placed on the printed circ...
Batch distillation is an important separation process for small-scale production especially in pharmaceutical, specialty chemical and biochemical industries. Although batch distil...
In this paper, we address the problem of optimal synthesis of an integrated water system, where water using processes and water treatment operations are combined into a single net...
We present an anytime algorithm which computes policies for decision problems represented as multi-stage influence diagrams. Our algorithm constructs policies incrementally, start...