TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Group elevator scheduling has long been recognized as an important problem for building transportation efficiency, since unsatisfactory elevator service is one of the major complai...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper addresses the general single-machine earliness-tardiness problem with distinct release dates, due dates, and unit costs. The aim of this research is to obtain an exact n...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Maintaining an asset with life-limited parts, e.g., a jet engine or an electric generator, may be costly. Certain costs, e.g., setup cost, can be shared if some parts of the asset ...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper we deal with the problem of modeling railway networks with Petri nets so as to apply the theory of supervisory control for discrete event systems to automatically de...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This work intends to deal with the optimal kinematic synthesis problem of parallel manipulators under a unified framework. Observing that regular (e.g., hyper-rectangular) workspac...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Dynamic programming, branch-and-bound, and constraint programming are the standard solution principles for nding optimal solutions to machine scheduling problems. We propose a new ...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract--The use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in material-handling processes of manufacturing facilities and warehouses isbecomingincreasinglycommon.AcriticaldrawbackofanAG...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper considers a matrix-based discrete event control approach for a warehouse. The control system is organized in two modules: a dynamic model and a controller. The model pro...