Since its standardization by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998, the XML (acronym for eXtensible Markup Language) has been acknowledged as the de-facto standard format for data, besides being a data format employed by a wide and increasing number of application domains. XML allows data and textual contents to be structured; the structural elements are specified in plain text using stri...

supply chain network design decisions are among the strategic decisions of supply chain management which play significant role on the efficient performance of the supply chain. however, there are two challenging factors which may have great impact on the supply chain performance. these factors are on the one hand disruptions and their attendant damages and on the other hand uncertain nature of ...

This paper is concerned with some feasibility issues in mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs) where additional joint constraints are present that must be satis ed by the state and design variables of the problems. We introduce su cient conditions that guarantee the feasibility of these MPECs. It turns out that these conditions also guarantee the feasibility of the quadratic...

The Problem: The goal of this project is to systematically enumerate feasible conformations (three-dimensional configurations) of a flexible molecule, subject to a given set of constraints on the distances between atoms and on the torsional angles of rotatable bonds. Without any constraints, the conformation space of a flexible molecule is astronomical (exponential in the number of degrees of f...

in this paper, finding dynamic load carrying capacity (dlcc) of flexible link manipulators in point to-point motion was formulated as an optimal control problem. the finite element method was employed for modelling and deriving the dynamic equations of the system. the study employed indirect solution of optimal control for system motion planning. due to offline nature of the method, many diffic...

Segmentation of femurs in Anterior-Posterior x-ray images is very important for fracture detection, computer-aided surgery and surgical planning. Existing methods do not perform well in segmenting bones in x-ray images due to the presence of large amount of spurious edges. This paper presents an atlas-based approach for automatic segmentation of femurs in x-ray images. A robust global alignment...