WebLicht is a workflow engine that gives researchers access to well-inhabited space of natural language processing tools can be combined into tool chains perform complex analyses. In this paper, we present WebLicht-Batch, web-based interface WebLicht's chainer back-end. WebLicht-Batch helps users automatically feed large input data, or data multiple files WebLicht. It disassembles smaller, more...

Multivariate statistical process monitoring techniques are applied to pilot-plant, cell culture data for the purpose of fault detection and diagnosis. Data from 23 batches, 20 normal operating conditions (NOC) and three abnormal, were available. A PCA model was constructed from 19 NOC batches, while the remaining NOC batch was used for model validation. Subsequently, the model was used to succe...

Industrial biocatalysis has been identified as one of the key enabling technologies that, together with transition to continuous processing, offers prospects for development cost-efficient manufacturing high-quality products and low waste generation. This feature article highlights role miniaturized flow reactors free enzymes cells in success this endeavor recent examples their use single or mu...

BACKGROUND Industrial biotechnology that is able to provide environmentally friendly bio-based products has attracted more attention in replacing petroleum-based industries. Currently, most of the carbon sources used for fermentation-based bioprocesses are obtained from agricultural commodities that are used as foodstuff for human beings. Lignocellulose-derived sugars as the non-food, green, an...

Temperature control of processes that involve the heating and cooling of a closed batch reactor can be a real problem for conventional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) based loop controllers. This paper describes the application of a new industrial advanced process controller. This controller is designed to handle integrating type processes with long dead times and long time constants. Th...

In the parallel batch schedulingmodel, a group of jobs can be scheduled together as a batch while the processing time of this batch is the greatest processing time among its members; in the model of scheduling with rejection, any job can be rejected with a corresponding penalty cost added to the objective value. In this paper, we present a PTAS for the combined model of the above two scheduling...

Title of dissertation: Pig Squeal: Bridging Batch and Stream Processing Using Incremental Updates James Holmes Lampton, Jr., Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ashok Agrawala Department of Computer Science As developers shift from batch MapReduce to stream processing for better latency, they are faced with the dilemma of changing tools and maintaining multiple code b...

With the growing need of processing “big data” in real time, modern streaming processing systems should be able to operate at the cloud scale. This imposes challenges to building large scale stream processing systems. First, processing tasks should be efficiently distributed to worker nodes with small overhead. Second, streaming data processing should be highly available, despite that failures ...

We report the design, fabrication, and characterization of a fully batch-fabricated linear quadrupole mass filter. The device demonstrates for the first time, a microfabricated quadrupole mass filter that doesn’t require any post-fabrication electrode assembly. Utilizing a design with non-conventional square electrodes, a 30 mm quadrupole with an effective electrode diameter of ~1.7 mm, and int...