Energy efficiency has become a major concern for manufacturing companies not only due to environmental concerns and stringent regulations, but also large incremental energy costs. Energy-efficient scheduling can be effective at improving thus reducing consumption associated costs, as well pollutant emissions. This work reviews recent literature on energy-efficient in job shop systems, with part...

the method of entropy production minimization for finding energy efficient paths of operation of process equipment is first presented using an instructive example with optimal control theory. with refer-ence to the earlier investigations, the researchers present some design rules that relate to the designs’ en-tropy production. minimum entropy production is not obtained in special cases, not ge...

The increasing energy consumption driven by striking growths in the number of users and data usage has placed cost reduction and energy efficiency at the forefront of system design. As a step towards incorporating more energy friendly mobile platforms in future networks, 3GPP LTE-Advanced has adopted Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission/reception due to its ability to mitigate and/or coo...