An inventory stacking decision assigns positions to items which are stacked vertically, such as containers in container terminals and steel plates plants. The performance of decisions is greatly affected by the arrival departure information on items. We study an problem with partial based industrial observation a plant. On inbound side, we investigate three levels future arriving their effect p...

Each of two parts has K coordination holes with the intent that each hole on onepart is paired and to be pinned with a corresponding hole on the other part. Whilethe nominal hole centers for each hole pair are identical, the actual hole centers willdeviate from their nominal values in some random fashion reflecting the inherent holecentering accuracy of the drilling process....

We study several interconnected problems that arise under the current U.S. patent system when a patent covers one component or feature of a complex product. This situation is common in the information technology sector of the economy. Our analysis applies to cases involving reasonable royalties but not lost profits. First, we show using bargaining theory that the threat to obtain a permanent in...

We propose the use of stacking, an ensemble learning technique, to the statistical machine translation (SMT) models. A diverse ensemble of weak learners is created using the same SMT engine (a hierarchical phrase-based system) by manipulating the training data and a strong model is created by combining the weak models on-the-fly. Experimental results on two language pairs and three different si...

Disk-shaped π-surfaces that stack to form columnar structures1 are prototypes of molecular-scale wires that have an insulating hydrocarbon sheath surrounding a conductive aromatic core.2 Typically, the strengths of the associations between the molecules, formed through contacts between aromatic surfaces, are weak. Previous schemes to modulate these strengths are based on metalligand interaction...