Received Signal Strength (RSS) based positioning systems are potential candidates to enable location aware computing spaces due to their economic viability. Fundamental requirement of such localization systems is to estimate location from RSS at a particular location. In this paper we present a location system based on Support Vector Machines (SVM). Characterization of different kernel function...

Purpose Companies could gain competitive advantage through the supply chain network. Especially facility location represent possible source of cost and service performance improvement. The goal of this article is to explore and expose what could be the facility location key performance indicators. Design/methodology/approach A literature review is conducted to examine research relating to suppl...

increasing of the distribution efficiency is one of the most objectives of an integrated logistic system developed as a new management philosophy in the past few decades. the problem is examind in two parts: facilities location problem (flp) for long policies and vehicle routing problem (vrp) to meet the customer demand. these two components can be solved separately; however, this solution may ...

A set of mobile robots (represented as points) is distributed in the Cartesian plane. The collection contains an unknown subset of byzantine robots which are indistinguishable from the reliable ones. The reliable robots need to gather, i.e., arrive to a configuration in which at the same time, all of them occupy the same point on the plane. The robots are equipped with GPS devices and at the be...

This paper presents an automatic vision-based system for unsupervised detection and classification of spliced yarn joints. In the splice detection process, a competitive learning method based on an LBG algorithm is used. In the splice classification process, a dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm is used to classify the extracted splice joint into one of three categories, based on the degree of...