An improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed to solve a typical batching problem in a batch processing plant of the process industry. The batching problem (BP) is to transform the primary requirements for products into sets of batches for each task with the objective of minimizing the total workload. On the basis of some preliminary properties, a novel particle solution r...

We study the coordinated scheduling problem of hybrid batch production on a single batching machine and two-stage transportation connecting the production, where there is a crane available in the first-stage transportation that transports jobs from the warehouse to the machine and there is a vehicle available in the second-stage transportation to deliver jobs from the machine to the customer. A...

The tradeoffs in employing multicasting technology for implementing large scale video on demand (VoD) over Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, in general, come to the scheduled multicasting streams and limited video or television program selections. The scheduling strategies presented in this paper will provide several advantages. First, we proposed a near Video on demand architecture c...

Multi-character recognition in arbitrary photographs on mobile platform is difficult, in terms of both accuracy and real-time performance. In this paper, we focus on the domain of hand-written multi-digit recognition. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is the state-of-the-art solution for object recognition, and presents a workload that is both compute and data intensive. To reduce the workload...

We introduce mix rings, a novel peer-to-peer mixnet architecture for anonymity that yields low-latency networking compared to existing mixnet architectures. A mix ring is a cycle of continuous-time mixes that uses carefully coordinated cover traffic and a simple fan-out mechanism to protect the initiator from timing analysis attacks. Key features of the mix ring architecture include decoupling ...

We study a single batching machine scheduling problem with transportation and deterioration considerations arising from steel production. A set of jobs are transported, one at a time, by a vehicle from a holding area to the single batching machine. The machine can process several jobs simultaneously as a batch. The processing time of a job will increase if the duration from the time leaving the...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2008.07.022 * Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +86 24 83680169 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. Tang In this paper, we consider two new types of the two-machine flowshop scheduling problems where a batching machine is followed by a single machine. The first type is that normal jobs with transportation between machin...

Bangladesh is one of the largest exporters of jute which is commonly processed with mineral Jute Batching Oil (JBO). JBO-processed jute products (especially food grade packaging item) have poor acceptability worldwide mainly due to their unpleasant odor, texture and the possible presence of carcinogenic compounds Foreign market has demanded replacement of mineral JBO and it is high time not to ...

Many stream-based applications have sophisticated data processing requirements and real-time performance expectations that need to be met under asynchronous, time-varying data streams. In order to address these challenges, we propose novel operator scheduling approaches that specify (1) which operators to schedule (2) in which order to schedule the operators, and (3) how many tuples to process ...