Layout arrangement is important to achieve high productivity in flexible manufacturing system (FMS). This paper discusses the design of loop layout in FMS. The objective of the loop layout problem is the determination of the ordering of machines around a loop, to minimize the total number of loop traversals for a family of parts. This paper details the design, development and testing of particl...

COMAIDE is a toolkit for user-system cooperation through joint multi-focal graph browsing. It supports cooperative force-directed layout management, concurrent with dialogue handling, for heterogeneous multi-layered 3D interactive diagrams. The layout manager's intu-itively`natural' animations of multi-layered 3D graph drawings support: 1. Cooperative tidying of user-manipulable 3D layout; 2. O...

Layout is a physical arrangement of document components such as text-blocks, text-lines, figures and tables in a page. The difficulty of layout analysis depends on a class of layout to be analyzed. An important and the most investigated class would be rectangular layout. Layout is rectangular if all document components are circumscribed by non-overlapping upright rectangles. In recent years, ho...

A new zero-crossing edge detection method is described. Similar to Laplace of a Gaussian (LoG) algorithm, a 7x7 point spread function (PSF) is convolved with the original image to generate a smoothed image. Instead of locating edge position from the smoothed image, as in the case of LoG, we use the smoothed image as a reference to convert the original image into a three-value edge polarity map ...

With the evolution of QoS-capable 3G wireless networks, the wireless community has been increasingly looking for a framework that can provide effective network-independent end-toend QoS control. In this article we first construct such a framework and then describe how dynamic SLA-based control can be used to achieve end-to-end QoS in a wired and wireless (UMTS) environment. The proposed framewo...

Policy-based management can guide the behavior of a network or distributed system through high-level declarative directives that are dynamically introduced, checked for consistency, refined, and evaluated, resulting typically in a series of low-level actions. We actually view policies as a means of extending the functionality of management systems dynamically, in conjunction with preexisting ha...

This article discusses a novel approach for realizing traffic engineering in the framework of new-generation multilayer networks based on the GMPLS paradigm. In particular, the proposed traffic engineering system is able to dynamically react to traffic changes while at the same time fulfilling QoS requirements for different classes of service. The proposed solution consists of a hybrid routing ...

Different companies have developed the fieldbuses for more than 20 years. A wide variety of fieldbuses have been set up in the industrial automation system in different time periods under different environment. Therefore, during the development of industrial automation systems and control applications, the developer has to consider the interconnection of heterogeneous equipment over different c...

Abstract. We explore various techniques to incorporate grid-like layout conventions into a force-directed, constraint-based graph layout framework. In doing so we are able to provide high-quality layout—with predominantly axis-aligned edges—that is more flexible than previous gridlike layout methods and which can capture layout conventions in notations such as SBGN (Systems Biology Graphical No...

Genetic Algorithms are widely used in many different optimization problems including layout design. The layout of the shelves play an important role in the total sales metrics for superstores since this affects the customers’ shopping behaviour. This paper employed a genetic algorithm based approach to design shelf layout of superstores. The layout design problem was tackled by using a novel ch...