Abstract The ever-increasing competitiveness, due to the market globalisation, has forced industries modify their design and production strategies. Hence, it is crucial estimate optimise costs as early possible since any following changes will negatively impact redesign effort lead time. This paper aims compare different parametric cost estimation methods that can be used for analysing mechanic...

A design-to-hardware methodology applied to the synthesis of communication protocols based on performance analysis techniques and genetic algorithms is presented. The process requires a choice between the tasks to be implemented in hardware and those to be implemented in software, i.e., the selection of the best HW/SW partition. The proposed methodology uses a genetic algorithm to optimize an e...

Background: Operating room (OR) is one of the main hospital parts and management of time and cost are very important in this essential unit. Also, due to the close relationship with other departments, improving its service quality and performance, significantly increases the efficiency of hospital. OR is a complex system in which each lack of coordination effects on all hospita...

In this paper we address interactive shape modelling of geometric shapes defined by mathematical functions. We introduce mathematical operators that implement modifications of geometry and appearance of the shapes. Any of the operators involved in creating the shape can be edited, modified or removed at any time, thus allowing for a great flexibility of the modelling pipeline and opening prospe...

We present a method to extract the haemodynamic response function (HRF) from a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series. The method is based on Fourierwavelet regularised deconvolution (ForWaRD). The extraction algorithm is very general: it relies only on the assumptions of the general linear model (GLM) and the fact that signal and noise can be distinguished in the frequency an...

Such as prospective studies can provide evidence-based information for clinicians and regulatory agencies, modelling studies provide useful information when experimental studies are to complex, too long, or too expensive to carry out. If modelling has been widely used in pharmacokinetics, it is in the field of pharmacoeconomics that numerous models have been published in recent years, including...

Warranty is a powerful implement for marketing strategy that is used by manufacturersand creates satisfaction for consumers by ensuring to compensate for incorrect operation of the product. Warranty serviceresults ina cost named warranty cost for a manufacturer.This cost is a function of warranty policy, regions, and product failures pattern. Since this service coversthe cost of uncertain failu...

This paper proposes an advanced distribution automation planning problem in which emergency-based demand response plans are incorporated during service restoration process. The fitness function of this planning problem consists of various costs associated with fault occurrence in electric distribution systems consisting of the total yearly cost of customers’ interruptions, the total annualized ...

 Spatial generalized linear mixed models are used commonly for modelling non-Gaussian discrete spatial responses. We present an algorithm for parameter estimation of the models using Laplace approximation of likelihood function. In these models, the spatial correlation structure of data is carried out by random effects or latent variables. In most spatial analysis, it is assumed that rando...