In this paper, a complete review of published researches about hierarchical facility location and hub network problems is presented. Hierarchical network is a system where facilities with different service levels interact in a top-down way or vice versa. In Hierarchical systems, service levels are composed of different facilities. Published papers from (1970) to (2015) have been studied and a c...

This paper presents the results of the elastic and geometrical properties of four types of nanostructured hierarchical and self-similar honeycombs. It is shown that at the nanometer scale, the elastic properties are size-dependent; the thinner the first order cell walls, the stiffer the hierarchical honeycombs. As an initial strain can be applied and controlled to the first order cell walls by ...

From the viewpoint of the relationship between production release and order arrival, production system can be classified into make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO), assemble-to-order (ATO), and engineer-to-order (ETO) systems. Production planning is a complicated task which requires cooperation among multiple functional units in an organization. Planning is the consequence of a hierarchy of ...

In nature, biological structures often exhibit complex geometries that serve a wide range of specific mechanical functions. One such example are the ammonites, a large group of extinct mollusks, which produced elaborate, fractal-like hierarchical suture interface patterns. This report experimentally explores the influence of hierarchical suture interface designs on mechanical behavior by taking...

this survey is aimed to compare the hierarchical structure of subject directories, including yahoo, the open directory and looksmart with dewey decimal classification (ddc) in 10 selective subjects. five questions are raised to compare the broadness and the depth of the hierarchical structures in the subject directories and ddc and to study the effectiveness of the usage of ddc in the organizat...

Syntactic rules in human language usually refer to the hierarchical structure of sentences. However, the input during language acquisition can often be explained equally well with rules based on linear order. The fact that children consistently ignore these linear explanations to instead settle on hierarchical explanations has been used to argue for an innate hierarchical bias in humans. We rev...

We propose a hierarchical, unsupervised clustering algorithm (TreeGCS) based upon the Growing Cell Structure (GCS) neural network of Fritzke. Our algorithm improves an inconsistency in the GCS algorithm, where the network topology is susceptible to the ordering of the input vectors. We demonstrate improved stability of the GCS foundation by alternating the input vector order on each presentatio...

We investigated the mechanical behavior of two-dimensional hierarchical honeycomb structures using analytical, numerical and experimental methods. Hierarchical honeycombs are constructed by replacing every three-edge vertex of a regular hexagonal lattice with a smaller hexagon. Repeating this process builds a fractal-appearing structure. The stiffness and strength of this structure is controlle...

Since wavelets were introduced in the radiosity algorithm5, surprisingly little research has been devoted to higher order wavelets and their use in radiosity algorithms. A previous study13 has shown that wavelet radiosity, and especially higher order wavelet radiosity was not bringing significant improvements over hierarchical radiosity and was having a very important extra memory cost, thus pr...