This study describes the environmental impact of the material production, transportation, and construction phases from the construction site perspective. CO2 emissions for each process were determined using the Korea Life Cycle Inventory Database (LCI DB) in the material production phase, and the actual amounts of oil consumption for transportation equipment were identified in the material tran...

We propose a Multi-Phase Hybrid Metaheuristics approach for solving the Exam Timetabling Problem (ETP). This approach includes a pre-processing phase, a construction phase and an enhancement phase. The pre-processing phase involves two stages: the propagation of ordering constraints and implicit constraints discovery stages. The construction phase uses a variant of the Tabu search with conflict...

A switched Reluctance motor (SRM) has several desirable features, including simple construction, high reliability and low cost. However, it suffers from large torque ripple, highly non-uniform torque output and magnetization characteristics and large noise. Several studies have succeeded in torque ripple reduction for SRM using Direct Torque Control (DTC) technique. DTC method has many adva...

Minimal elimination orderings were introduced by Rose, Tarjan, and Lueker in 1976, and during the last decade they have received increasing attention. Such orderings have important applications in several different fields, and they were first studied in connection with minimizing fill in sparse matrix computations. Rather than computing any minimal ordering, which might result in fill that is f...

A preliminary survey of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in the southeastern United States is presented. MCSs are identified and characterized by means of high-resolution, digital, composite radar reflectivity data. Surveys of this kind are needed to give forecasters better guidance in their real-time assessment of MCS evolution, severe weather potential, and quantitative precipitation. The ...

The phase diagram of order parameters for pairing and phase coherence in hole-doped cuprates is discussed. By examining carefully some recent inelastic neutron scattering data obtained on hole-doped cuprates and heavy fermion compound UPd2Al3 in which the superconductivity is mediated by spin fluctuations, we conclude that the coherent gap in hole-doped cuprates has most likely the magnetic ori...

In this study, a two phase hybrid heuristic approach was proposed to solve the multi-depot multi-vehicle inventory routing problem (MDMVIRP). Inventory routing problem (IRP) is one of the major issues in the supply chain networks that arise in the context of vendor managed systems (VMI) The MDMVIRP combines inventory management and routing decision. We are given on input a fleet of homogeneous ...

The origin of all 4-phase Golay sequences and Golay sequence pairs of even length at most 26 is explained. The principal techniques are the three-stage construction of Fiedler, Jedwab and Parker [FJP08] involving multi-dimensional Golay arrays, and a “sum-difference” construction that modifies a result due to Eliahou, Kervaire and Saffari [EKS91]. The existence of 4-phase seed pairs of lengths ...

The application of clustering methods for automatic taxonomy construction from text requires knowledge about the tradeoff between, (i), their effectiveness (quality of result), (ii), efficiency (run-time behaviour), and, (iii), traceability of the taxonomy construction by the ontology engineer. In this line, we present an original conceptual clustering method based on Formal Concept Analysis fo...

GRASP is an iterative multi-start metaheuristic for solving difficult combinatorial problems. Each GRASP iteration consists of two phases: a greedy adaptive randomized construction phase and a local search phase. Starting from the feasible solution built during the greedy adaptive randomized construction phase, the local search explores its neighborhood until a local optimum is found. The best ...