PROMISING DIRECTIONS TO INCREASE GRINDING EFFICIENCY IN MACHINE PARTS SURFACES

Membrane reactors: A way to increase efficiency

Challenges, Opportunities, and Promising Directions

Contemporary IP-based Internet architecture increasingly is unable to meet the demands of current network usage patterns. Content-centric networking (CCN), as a clean-slate future network architecture, is different from existing IP networks and has some salient features, such as in-network caching, name-based routing, friendly mobility, and built-in security. This architecture has a profound im...

Hybrid simulation-based optimization of discrete parts manufacturing to increase energy efficiency and productivity

This presented research comprises the development of an optimization module for use in a novel production optimization tool – similar in function but not mode of operation to an Advanced Planning System –, with energy efficiency incorporated into its goal system. The optimization features a hybrid-simulation of production systems as an evaluation function. A hybrid simulation has been developed...

Promising Directions in Hardware Design Verification

Ensuring the functional correctness of hardware early in the design cycle is crucial for both economic and methodological reasons. However, current verification techniques are inadequate for industrial designs. Formal verification techniques are exhaustive but do not scale; partial verification techniques based on simulation scale well but are not exhaustive. This paper discusses promising appr...

Promising directions in plant phenotypic plasticity

A research agenda for the next phase of plasticity studies calls for contributions from a diverse group of biologists, working both independently and collaboratively, to pursue four promising directions: examining dynamic, anatomical/architectural, and cross-generational plasticity along with simpler growth traits; carefully assessing the adaptive significance of those plasticity patterns; inve...