Metal forming operations such as rolling, extrusion, and drawing offer many opportunities for operations improvement through better process understanding and improved planning practices. This paper addresses short and medium term planning issues in sheet, plate, and tube manufacturing operations. First, v^e identify certain distinctive characteristics-the inherent process flexibility, close int...

I study the state complexity of binary operations on regular languages over different alphabets. It is well known that if L′ m and Ln are languages over the same alphabet with m and n quotients, respectively, the state complexity of any binary boolean operation on L′ m and Ln is mn, and that of the product (concatenation) is (m − 1)2n + 2. In contrast to this, I show that if L′ m and Ln are ove...

This paper proposes a mathematical programming framew ork for combining SVMs with possibly di erent kernels. Compared to single SVMs, the advantage of this approach is tw ofold: it creates SVMs with local domains of expertise leading to local enlargements of the margin, and it allows the use of simple linear kernels combined with a xed boolean operation that is particularly well suited for buil...

We exhaustively investigate possible combinations of a boolean operation together with a catenation. In many cases we prove and improve some conjectures by Brzozowski. For each family of operation, we endeavour to provide a common witness with a small size alphabet.

This paper presents a new algorithm for computing Boolean operations on polygons. This kind of operations are frequently used in Geosciences in order to get spatial information from spatial data modeled as polygons. The presented algorithm is simple and easy to understand and implement. Let n be the total number of edges of all the polygons involved in a Boolean operation and k be the number of...

The development of Internet technology has facilitated the emergence of online marketplace for various kinds of tasks (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in USA and Taskcn.com in China). Although the payment is relatively low, numerous people participate in the tasks in these online marketplaces. Drawing upon shopping value literature, we develop a research model by considering various value percep...