In this paper we address medium-term scheduling in project oriented manufacturing systems. These systems may execute hundreds of thousands of manufacturing operations under various capacity and technological constraints within the typical 3-6 months long horizon. This challenges any branch of operation research or artificial intelligence. We suggest an aggregate scheduling approach to cope with...

A hybrid testing method, discussed in this research, combines state-based testing with data flow analysis to test classes at the intra-class level. Employing state-based testing, the method can generate all possible test message sequences. Using data flow analysis, the method can also detect whether data anomalies exist in those generated sequences, and then compute data flow test cases, which ...

AbstracG In this paper, a new system architecture called decoderdownloadable system is described. The purpose of this system is to provide a uniform platform for the multimedia world bared on image compressions using characteridics oftbe contenb. This s y s tem enables dynamic decoder downloading by negotiationbetween sewers and clients for seamless and minimum delay playback This negotiation s...

In recent years innovative nanostructures are attracting increasing interest and, among them, dendrimers have shown several fields of application. Dendrimers can be designed and modified in plentiful ways giving rise to hundreds of different molecules with specific characteristics and functionalities. Biomedicine is probably the field where these molecules find extraordinary applicability, and ...

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This paper introduces a technique which can automatically monitor the behavior of fish school in images in real-time. Results on the activity level, distribution and social interaction within the school are generated based on the spatial information extracted from captured images. The fish behaviors we observe here are selected based on a list of responses which fish exhibit when they are in di...

Purpose: To determine the extent to which personal characteristics and “person factors” predict symptom distress during the first cycle