Open online distance learning in higher education has quickly gained popularity, expanded, and evolved, with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as the most recent development. New web technologies allow for scalable ways to deliver video lecture content, implement social forums and track student progress in MOOCs. However, we remain limited in our ability to assess complex and open-ended stude...

Multi-cluster tools are widely adopted in wafer fabrication. It is of paramount importance to schedule them to achieve their optimal throughput. This work intends to find their one-wafer optimal periodic schedule to attain their lower bound cycle time. A resource-oriented Petri net model is developed to describe not only their steady state behavior but also behavior of their initial and final t...

The two authors deal with the topic of the final assembly scheduling realized by the use of Genetic Algorithms (GAs). The objective of the research was to study in depth the use of GA for scheduling mixed-model assembly lines and to propose a model able to produce feasible solutions according to the particular requirements of an important Italian motorbike company, the Aprilia group, as well as...

Abstract- LPP RRI Cirebon in making scheduling is currently not effective and efficient. In addition, broadcast administration still uses general computerization. Thus, for scheduling, the same schedule often occurs at one time causes data loss. This final project will apply software development cycle (SDLC) technique building applications using prototype method. The results of this can help pr...

Nanofabrication by molecular self-assembly involves the design of molecules and self-assembly strategies so that shape and chemical complementarities drive the units to organize spontaneously into the desired structures. The power of self-assembly makes it the ubiquitous strategy of living organized matter and provides a powerful tool to chemists. However, a challenging issue in the self-assemb...

The manufacturing of complex products often involves the assembly of other products, or sub-assemblies. Furthermore, these sub-assemblies may be manufactured by different suppliers. As a result, the specification of the assembly process for the final product contains relationships between multiple supply chain components, including business entities, manufacturing processes, products, and parts...

The goal of genome assembly is to reconstruct contiguous portions of a genome (known as contigs) given short reads of DNA sequence obtained in a sequencing experiment. De Bruijn graphs are constructed by finding overlaps of length k − 2 between all substrings of length k − 1 from reads of at least k bases, resulting in a graph where the correct reconstruction of the genome is given by one of th...

This paper presents a methodology to diagnose sources of dimensional variation for compliant parts from the measurement data of final assemblies. The method is developed for a single-station assembly process. The proposed diagnosis tool is based on applying a predictive variation propagation model to determine the part-to-part and tooling interaction in the assembly system. The variation propag...