This paper addresses motion planning of a homogeneous modular robotic system. The modules have self-reconfiguration capability so that a group of the modules can construct a robotic structure generating dynamic motion. Motion planning for self-reconfiguration is not straightforward because the modular structure allows many combinatorial configurations, and also the proposed module has only two ...

We present recent developments in two-stage mixed-integer stochastic programming with regard to application in power production planning. In particular, we review structural properties, stability issues, scenario reduction and decomposition algorithms for two-stage models. Furthermore, we describe an application to stochastic thermal unit commitment.

We consider mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) models of production planning problems known as the small bucket lot-sizing and scheduling problems. We present an application of a class of valid inequalities to the case with lost demand (stock-out) costs. Presented results of numerical experiments made for the the Proportional Lot-sizing and Scheduling Problem (PLSP) confirm benefits of such...

Distributed applications ideally allow reconfiguration while the application is running, but changes are usually limited to adding new client and server processes and changing the bindings among such processes. In some application domains, such as real-time financial services, it is necessary to support finer grained reconfiguration at the level of entities smaller than processes, but for perfo...

This paper considers a dairy industry problem on integrated planning and scheduling of set yoghurt production. A mixed integer linear programming formulation is introduced to integrate tactical and operational decisions and a heuristic approach is proposed to decompose time buckets of the decisions. The decomposition heuristic improves computational efficiency by solving big bucket planning and...

• Dynamic adaptation of the UI mashup » Adaptive layout, UIC reconfiguration and exchange • User Interface Services (UIS) provide UI components and resources, like images, styles, libraries • User Interface Components (UIC) are client-side, reusable and configurable web UI parts with a generic JavaScript interface • Classification and description by UISDL • Registry manages UISDL instances U I ...

A cellular manufacturing system (CMS) belongs to a family of modern production methods, which many industrial sectors have used beneficially in recent years. In fact, this system is an application of group technology (GT) determining cell formation (i.e. clustering part families and machine grouping) and layout design (i.e., inter-cell and intra-cell layouts). In the last two decades, a number ...

The component system information and management architecture is a component architecture to build the application software which is used in modern vehicles. The components are distributed in the system: the individual components are mainly located in different computers in vehicles, while the rest runs on computers in the infrastructure. The components can be dynamically loaded to different pla...