Of the many production planning and control systems available today almost none deal with the scheduling of multi-resource operations in short-term scheduling, i.e., within the next few days. In short-term scheduling both predictive and reactive usage is important. An initial plan must be created predictively; this can be done periodically. As soon as changes become necessary, e.g. by unforesee...

This paper presents a new energy-efficient MAC design to improve the performance of IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless sensor networks. Our proposed mechanism adaptively determines the sleeping schedules of sensor nodes based on the network traffic load to achieve the balance of throughput and energy consumption. This mechanism consists of two phases: schedule exchange phase and schedule generation p...

As businesses become more dependent on information technology for their operations, IS managers are under increasing pressure to deliver quality applications software on time and within budget. Thus, in addition to their technical skills, they must master the necessary management skills to lead and control software development projects. The purpose of this tutorial is to present the fundamental...

Let A be a minor-closed class of labelled graphs, and let Gn be a random graph sampled uniformly from the set of n-vertex graphs of A. When n is large, what is the probability that Gn is connected? How many components does it have? How large is its biggest component? Thanks to the work of McDiarmid and his collaborators, these questions are now solved when all excluded minors are 2-connected. U...

Newsday fuzzy systems are applied in many interdisciplinary fields, in which artificial intelligent tools are utilized to analyze different data in the corresponding fields. Under this background, the 2nd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM 2016), organized by Macau University of Science and Technology, is scheduled to be held in Macau, December 11–14, 2016. This spe...

a project is any endeavor involving planned action, for example, developing a new product or constructing a dam. [ce1] major factors for a project to be successful are applying performance measurement and feedback tool. one such well-known performance measurement tool to control the project execution is earned value management (evm). evm uses the fundamental principle that trends in the past ca...

This paper presents our research group’s latest results in fully autonomous force-controlled manipulation tasks: (i) advanced non-linear estimators for simultaneous parameter estimation and contact formation “map building” for 6D contact tasks (with active sensing integrated into the task planner), and (ii) the application of these results to programming by human demonstration, for tasks involv...