Assembly lines are flow-oriented production systems that are of great importance in the industrial production of standard, high-volume products and even more recently, they have become commonplace in producing low-volume custom products. The main goal of designers of these lines is to increase the efficiency of the system and therefore, the assembly line balancing to achieve an optimal system i...

Words matter, especially in times of crisis. This article analyses the complexities political discourse on vulnerability by considering case Dutch COVID-19 response. Our study finds that framing as a predetermined and naturalised condition, linked to old age pre-existing medical conditions, draws attention away from aspects precarisation tied economic position, social class, cultural background...

The parallelization of distinct element models is discussed with particular attention being paid to the problem of load balancing. One method for solving the load balancing problem through the use of a local, dynamic procedure is given and an implementation on the Cray-T3D and the Intel Paragon is described. The theoretical issues surrounding the load balancing problems are shown to map easily ...

– The preliminary design space exploration for large, interdisciplinary engineering problems is often a difficult and time-consuming task. General techniques are needed that efficiently and methodically search the design space. This work focuses on the use of parallel load balancing techniques integrated with a global optimizer to reduce the computational time of the design space exploration. T...

To eliminate the influence of the inconsistency on the cycle life and the available capacity of the battery pack, and improve the balancing speed, a novel inductor-based layered bidirectional equalizer (IBLBE) is proposed. The equalizer is composed of the bottom balancing circuits and the upper balancing circuits, and the two layer circuits both consist of a plurality of balancing sub-circuits,...

Dynamic load balancing is an important factor affecting the parallel computing performance in a multiprocessor system. On the basis of an introduction to the principle of dynamic load balancing algorithm, we will find the rated efficiency, throughput, speedup, performance of the multiprocessor systems , in case of load balancing we finds through analysis that the basic reason for overhead occur...

Cloud Computing is an attracting technology in the field of computer science. Cloud Computing involves sharing of resources. In the event of processing many jobs, the load balancing becomes essential for efficient operation and to improve user satisfaction. This paper introduces the strategic model that performs load balancing as well as dynamic partition of the nodes of different cloud. Differ...