This paper presents a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming model to design a group layout of a cellular manufacturing system in a dynamic environment, in which the number of cells to be formed is variable. Cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are concurrently made in a dynamic environment by the integrated model, which incorporates with an extensive coverage of important ...

A major application of dynamic adaptation is the development of safe and reliable embedded systems. In contrast to classical redundancy approaches dynamic adaptation can react much more flexible to different kinds of errors including changes in the environment. Moreover dynamic adaptation can usually be realized much more cost-efficient than classical redundancy or faulttolerance mechanisms. Us...

Scheduling of production in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) has been extensively investigated over the past years and it continues to attract the interest of both academic researchers and practitioners. The generation of new and modified production schedules is becoming a necessity in today’s complex manufacturing environment. Genetic algorithms are used in this paper to obtain an initial...

Abstract Soft robots have become important members of the robot community with many potential applications owing to their unique flexibility and security embedded at material level. An increasing number researchers are interested in designing, manufacturing, modeling, control. However, dynamic simulation soft is difficult infinite degrees freedom nonlinear characteristics that associated materi...

The number of information sources in the Web is growing day by day with a tremendous speed. At the same time, users tend to manage more and more tasks electronically, thereby using publicly available information sources. Since the Web is an open, distributed and dynamic environment, in which information sources are offered and controlled autonomously and independently, the interoperability of a...

Cloud computing is becoming an interesting alternative as a flexible and affordable on-demand environment for deploying custom applications in the form of services. In this work, a self-organizing system model based on dynamic relation network is proposed. In the model, autonomic element can self-adapted to the weight of the relationship under the guidance of the self-organizing policy. Based o...

Today’s software operate in a dynamic, organizational context and hence, it needs flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve consistently with its operational environment. The Tropos requirements oriented development methodology, has defined a number of organizational architectural styles which are suitable to cooperative, dynamic and distribute...

The fundamental problem the Grid research and development community is seeking to solve is how to coordinate distributed resources amongst a dynamic set of individuals and organizations in order to solve a common collaborative goal. The problem of service discovery in a Grid environment arises through the heterogeneity, distribution and sharing of the resources in different virtual organization...