This paper is in search of designing the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under dynamic and flexible environment. CM is proper for small-to-medium lot production environment that helps the companies to produce variable kind of productions with at least scraps. The most important benefits of CM are decline in material handling, reduction in work-in-process, reduction in set-up time, increme...

As was well known, in classical computation, Turing machines, circuits, multi-stack machines, and multi-counter machines are equivalent, that is, they can simulate each other in polynomial time. In quantum computation, Yao [11] first proved that for any quantum Turing machines M , there exists quantum Boolean circuit (n, t)-simulating M , where n denotes the length of input strings, and t is th...

Flexible flow shop scheduling problem (FFS) with unrelated parallel machines contains sequencing in flow shop where, at any stage, there exists one or more processors. The objective consists of minimizing the maximum completion time. Because of NP-completeness of FFS problem, it is necessary to use heuristics method to address problems of moderate to large scale problem. Therefore, for assessme...

Multi-layer distributed systems, such as those found in corporate systems, are often the target of multi-stage attacks. Such attacks utilize multiple victim machines, in a series, to compromise a target asset deep inside the corporate network. Under such attacks, it is difficult to identify the upstream attacker’s identity from a downstream victim machine because of the mixing of multiple netwo...

In this paper we present our results on the performance analysis of a multi-product manufacturing line. We study the influence of external perturbations, intermediate buffer content and the number of manufacturing stages on the production tracking error of each machine in the multi-product line operated under a surplusbased production control policy. Starting by the analysis of a single machine...

a new multi-stage fuzzy (msf) controller based on multi-objective harmony search algorithm (mohsa) is proposed in this paper to solve the load frequency control (lfc) problem of power systems in deregulated environment. lfc problem are caused by load perturbations, which continuously disturb the normal operation of power system. the objectives of lfc are to mini small size the transient deviati...

This paper models and analyzes multi-stage transfer lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers. The machines have exponential operation, failure, and repair processes. First, a mixed vector–scalar Markov process model is presented based on some notations of mixed vector–scalar operations. Then, several steady-state system properties are deduced from this model. These include the reversib...

Clustering is a popular unsupervised learning tool often used to discover groups within larger population such as customer segments, or patient subtypes. However, despite its use for subgroup discovery and description few state-of-the-art algorithms provide any rationale behind the clusters found. We propose novel approach interpretable clustering that both data points constructs polytopes arou...

One of the main challenges fusion reactors based on magnetic mirrors is axial particle loss through cones. In multi-mirror (MM) systems, addressed by adding mirror cells each end central cell. Coulomb collisions in MM sections serve as retrapping mechanism for escaping particles. Unfortunately, confinement time this system only scales linearly with number and requires an unreasonably large to s...