A multi-product fish production planning produces simultaneously multi fish products from several classes of raw resources. The goal in production planning is to meet customer demand over a fixed time horizon divided into planning periods by optimizing the trade-off between economic objectives such as production cost and customer satisfaction level. The major decisions are production and invent...

The growing popularity of wired and wireless Internet requires distributed systems to be more flexible, adaptive and easily extendable. Dynamic reconfiguration of distributed component-based systems is one possible solution to meet these demands. However, current component frameworks that support dynamic reconfiguration either place the burden of preparing a component for reconfiguration comple...

Aggregate production planning (APP) is one of the most important issues carried out in manufacturing environments which seeks efficient planning, scheduling and coordination of all production activities that optimizes the company's objectives. In this paper, we develop a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for an integrated aggregate production planning system with closed loop supply ...

We consider a production planning problem under uncertainty in which companies have to make product allocation decisions such that the risk of failing regulatory inspections of sites and consequently losing revenue is minimized. In the proposed decision model the regulatory authority is an adversary. The outcome of an inspection is a Bernoulli-distributed random variable whose parameter is a fu...

There is an increasing demand for long running and highly available systems. This holds particularly for distributed systems based on object-middleware, which are becoming increasingly popular nowadays. Dynamic reconfiguration consists of modifying the configuration of a system during runtime, contributing to the availability of the system. This paper introduces a novel approach to dynamic reco...

Today competitive environment has enforced practitioners and researchers to pay great attention to issues enhancing both production and marketing competitiveness. To do so, it has been obligatory for the firms to consider production side activities while customer requirements are on the other side of competition. In this regard, hybrid make-to-stock (MTS)/make-to-order (MTO) production systems ...

The hybrid AC/DC distribution networks will have a crucial role in the future of smart grids due to their adaptiveness variety DC loads and energy resources. Thus, it is necessary assess enhance Hosting Capacity (HC) these for integration Renewable Energy Sources (RESs). One way increase HC without further expansion grid using potential Network Reconfiguration (NR). This paper proposes an enhan...

We present an overview of a system we have developed for generating short-term production schedules for a large steel manufacturer. We have developed a decomposition based approach which uses mixed-integer programming to generate a plan for production on the downstream casting processes, and constraint programming to generate a schedule upstream of these casting processes, taking into account d...

A motion planning algorithm is presented for formation control of coordinating multi agents engaged in rigid formation keeping and formation reconfiguration. The multi agent system is separated into geometrically equivalent subsystems for distributed control. The proposed motion planning algorithm generates reference trajectories for each of these subsystems in real-time for online, distributed...