Energy-saving schemes are nowadays a major worldwide concern. As the building sector is energy consumer, and hence greenhouse gas emitter, research in home management systems (HEMS) has increased substantially during last years. One of primary purposes HEMS monitoring electric consumption disaggregating this across different appliances. Non-intrusive load (NILM) enables disaggregation without h...

Abstract The aim of this work is to enable a step towards self-adapting digital toolset for manufacturing planning focusing on minimally constrained assembly line balancing. approach includes the simultaneous definition optimum number workstations, cycle time and assignment tasks workstations. A bespoke genetic algorithm (GENALSAS) proposed demonstrated which focuses examining simple balancing ...

The rapid development of today’s society and the rapidly increasing incidence skeletal injuries caused by traffic industrial accidents have led to a significant increase in number patients with fractures accompanied severe soft tissue injuries, as well an increased osteomyelitis bone defects. Many these cannot be treated internal fixators can only external fixators. Taylor Bone External Fixator...

This paper presents a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition (MOEA/D) for the optimal operation of a complex multipurpose and multi-reservoir system. Firstly, MOEA/D decomposes a multi-objective optimization problem into a number of scalar optimization sub-problems and optimizes them simultaneously. It uses information of its several neighboring sub-problems for optimizin...

in this study, a bi-objective model for integrated planning of production-distribution in a multi-level supply chain network with multiple product types and multi time periods is presented. the supply chain network including manufacturers, distribution centers, retailers and final customers is proposed. the proposed model minimizes the total supply chain costs and transforming time of products ...

A redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is a well-known NP-hard problem that involves the selection of elements and redundancy levels to maximize the system reliability under various system-level constraints. In many practical design situations, reliability apportionment is complicated because of the presence of several conflicting objectives that cannot be combined into a single-objective functi...