We develop an analytic and a simulation model for a job shop with unreliable work stations and production constraints. In the complex batch manufacturing operation of the factory, smooth production of each work station is required. In the previous work the Tactical Planning Model was proposed for this purpose. In that model, the production of each work station should be proportional to the queu...

The efficiency of knowledge sharing and learning is the key to obtain sustainable development for the knowledge-intensive industry. However, current application of enterprise knowledge repository can hardly adapt to the personalized retrieval with semantic expansion and can not support the dynamic mechanism of knowledge sharing. This paper focuses on an integrated framework and operating proces...

In this paper we introduce the threshold risk measures, a class of risk measures incompatible with the coherent risk measures. In particular, the threshold risk measures consider the risk involved in applications where being above a threshold (for minimization problems) is considered too risky and should be avoided as much as possible. In this paper we develop the threshold risk measures togeth...

Mobile consumer-electronics devices, especially phones, are powered from batteries which are limited in size and therefore capacity. This implies that managing energy well is paramount in such devices. Good energy management requires a good understanding of where and how the energy is used. To this end we present a detailed analysis of the power consumption of a recent mobile phone, the Openmok...

Figure 1: DBN Crime in urban areas plagues every city in all countries. This demonstration will show a novel approach for learning and predicting crime patterns and planning against such crimes using real urban crime data. A notable characteristic of urban crime, distinct from organized terrorist attacks, is that most urban crimes are opportunistic in nature, i.e., criminals do not plan their a...

This paper proposes a dynamic shared-memory packet buffer management algorithm for a protocol processor in a network terminal. The protocol processor is located in a network interface card (NIC). In general, two types of packet buffer management algorithms, static and dynamic, can be used in a NIC; the dynamic buffer management algorithms work better than the static ones for reducing the packet...

A dynamic risk management framework for software projects is presented. Currently available software risk management frameworks and risk assessment models are static in nature and lacks feedback capability. Such risk management frameworks are not capable of providing the risk assessment of futuristic changes in risk events. A dynamic risk management framework for software project is needed that...

rangeland ecosystems shift across dynamic thresholds between differentecological states in response to natural or human-induced factors. these differentecological states are the result of interactions among climate, soils, grazing history,and management practices. the notion of a single ‘‘pristine’’ final state is onlyconceptual in nature, and because of this, dynamic thresholds and the effects...