Application development staffs that build and maintain mainframe application programs to manage business systems have a variety of specialized skills. An integrated development environment, like CA Ideal for CA Datacom, is needed to share storage of batch and online program logic providing version control, an integrated Data Dictionary and the ability to insulate the programmer from transaction...

The use of batch means is a well-known technique for estimating the variance of mean point estimators computed from a simulation experiment. This paper discusses implementation of a sequential procedure to determine the batch size for constructing confidence intervals for a simulation estimator of the steady-state mean of a stochastic process. Our quasi-independent (QI) procedure increases the ...

The same kind of n jobs are processed one by one sequentially by a single machine and any number k of them may be processed as a batch. A setup time is necessary before the processing of the first job in a batch. The completion times of all the jobs in a batch are the same as the completion time of the last job in the batch and the processing time of the batch is the sum of a setup time and k t...

Obesity in Mexico has reached epidemic proportions; and body image and body satisfaction might be culturally related. Body dissatisfaction has been related to low self-esteem. The aim of this study was to assess the range of perception among Mexican teachers and parents of the ideal body size of adults, boys and girls. Two-hundred and five teachers and eighty parents from Tijuana and Tecate sch...

We examine key convergence properties of the steady-state simulation analysis method of nonoverlapping batch means (NOBM) when it is applied to a stationary, phi-mixing process. For an increasing batch size and a fixed batch count, we show that the standardized vector of batch means converges in distribution to a vector of independent standard normal variates—a well-known result underlying the ...

1 Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Corresponding Author Phone: (404) 894-9668; Fax: (404) 894-9342; Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT In this paper we propose a general method for making process parameter decisions in the development of a rapid manufacturing system. Given a level of demand, the designer can use our method to select the appropriate type of rapid prototyp...

This paper describes a new method in pairing-based signature schemes for identifying the invalid digital signatures in a batch after batch verification has failed. The method more efficiently identifies non-trivial numbers, w, of invalid signatures in constrained sized, N , batches than previously published methods, and does not require that the verifier possess detailed knowledge of w. Our met...

Single and ternary solute gas phase adsorption isotherms were conducted in this study to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple constant volume method, which was utilized by using Tedlar gas sampling bags as a constant volume batch reactor. For this purpose, gas phase adsorption of toluene, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), and methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) on two types of activated carbons, BPL-bitum...

We study a new aggregation operator for gradients coming from a mini-batch for stochastic gradient (SG) methods that allows a significant speed-up in the case of sparse optimization problems. We call this method AdaBatch and it only requires a few lines of code change compared to regular mini-batch SGD algorithms. We provide a theoretical insight to understand how this new class of algorithms i...