Increasing industrialization in developing country like India leading difficulty in pollution control. One of the major causes of pollution in aquatic ecosystem is discharge of heavy metals. Wastewater containing heavy metals are treated with conventional technology like chemical precipitation, ion exchange etc. Biosorption of heavy metals from aqueous solution can be considered as an alternati...

While cluster computing frameworks are continuously evolving to provide real-time data analysis capabilities, Apache Spark has managed to be at the forefront of big data analytics for being a unified framework for both, batch and stream data processing. However, recent studies on micro-architectural characterization of in-memory data analytics are limited to only batch processing workloads. We ...

A control algorithm for batch processing of mixed waste is proposed based on conditional Gaussian Bayesian networks. The network is compiled during batch staging for real-time re­ sponse to sensor input.

The automation of complex industrial batch processes is a difficult problem due to the extremely nonlinear and variable system behavior or the conflicting goals within the different process phases. The introduction of a single multipleinput multiple-output controller (e.g. fuzzy logic (FL) controller) is not useful because of the rather high design effort and the low transparency of its complex...

A substantial amount of materials in the pharmaceutical, food, and fine chemical industry is produced in crystalline form. Batch crystallization is a key separation and purification unit in such industries, with a significant impact on the efficiency and profitability of the overall process. Advanced model-based control of crystallization processes offers many possibilities to achieve the strin...

This paper addresses a parallel-batch scheduling problem that incorporates transportation of raw materials or semifinished products before processing with waiting time constraint. The orders located at the different suppliers are transported by some vehicles to a manufacturing facility for further processing. One vehicle can load only one order in one shipment. Each order arriving at the facili...

Carnegie-Mellon University has established a Robotics Institute to bring its expertise in Engineering, Science, and Industrial Administration to bear upon the problem of national industrial productivity The Institute has been established to undertake advanced research and development in seeing, thinking robots and intelligent systems, and to facilitate transfer of this technology to industry Th...

Aggregation in traditional database systems is performed in batch mode: a query is submitted, the system processes a large volume of data over a long period of time, and an accurate answer is returned. Batch mode processing has long been unacceptable to users. In this paper we describe the need for online aggregation processing, in which aggregation operators provide ongoing feedback, and are c...

The most common way to identify success or failure of a job running in a batch-processing mode is by examining a completion code sent by the job to the host operating system. Yet, for a variety of reasons the completion code may inaccurately indicate a successful termination of the job. This article describes a different approach to monitoring the quality of batch processing jobs while in opera...