We consider unbounded parallel batch scheduling with job delivery to minimize makespan. When the jobs have identical size, we provide a polynomial-time algorithm. When the jobs have non-identical sizes, we provide a heuristic with a worst-case performance ratio 7/4. c © 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V.

The Quality of Service (QoS) of real time applications is aaected in a rather direct manner by the timely delivery of application-level data units which are typically mapped into several ATM cells. As a consequence, it would be reasonable to associate a common deadline with all the cells in one data unit (batch) and develop a scheduling policy that aims to maximise the number of data unit that ...

The Real-time Analytics Data Stack, colloquially referred to as the RADStack, is an open-source data analytics stack designed to provide fast, flexible queries over up-to-the-second data. It is designed to overcome the limitations of either a purely batch processing system (it takes too long to surface new events) or a purely real-time system (it’s difficult to ensure that no data is left behin...

The data presented here are related to the research paper entitled "PCL-b-P(MMA-co-DMAEMA)2 new triblock copolymer for novel pH-sensitive nanocapsules intended for drug delivery to tumors" by Franco et al. [1]. Characterization data of PCL-diol, macroinitiator Br-PCL-Br, homopolymers (PMMA and PDMAEMA) and copolymers (batch 1 and batch 2) analyzed by FTIR, SEC and NMR, as well as, characterizat...

Purpose: Ofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone with broad-spectrum antibacterial action, used in treatment of systemic and local infections. Ofloxacin is BCS class II drug having low solubility, high permeability with short half-life. The present work was aimed to design, develop and optimize gellified emulsion of Ofloxacin to provide site targeted drug delivery. Transdermal drug delivery will enhance...

The paper considers the model of the retailer’s behavior when the expected demand for goods is a piecewise linear function characterized by some predetermined saturation level. The demand function is constructed as a result of a special marketing research. Let’s assume that the following sale of goods scheme is used. The ordered goods are divided into two parts. The first batch of goods comes a...

the purpose of the current research is investigating the phenylalanine removal by using magnetic nanoparticles (fe3o4) from water samples. the effect of ph, contact time and phenylalanine concentration on phenylalanine adsorption efficiency by magnetite nanoparticles are studied in a batch system. transmission electron microscopy (tem), x-ray diffraction patterns (xrd) and fourier transform inf...

A biologically inspired manufacturing control system for synchronous delivery of jobs at a batch machine is developed. This control system is based on a synchronization mechanism of enzymes replacing the role of product molecules with kanbans. This manufacturing control system works well, provided the variability in service times is not too high.