future increase of mobile communication subscribers will require a great capacity expansion of the cellular systems. in order to accommodate the increasing number of subscribers, the cell size will have to be much smaller than current size. therefore, it is predictable that the location updating and paging procedures will produce a major part of signaling traffic in these networks. this pape...

Combinatorial auctions are used as a distributed coordination mechanism in Multiagent Systems. The use of combinatorial auctions as negotiation and coordination mechanism is especially appropriate in systems with interdependencies and complementarities such as manufacturing scheduling systems. In this work we review some updating price mechanisms for combinatorial auctions based on the Lagrangi...

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements are demanding increasing changes in manufacturing environments. Enterprises are required to constantly redesign their products and continuously reconfigure their manufacturing systems. Traditional approaches to manufacturing systems do not fully satisfy this new situation. Many authors have proposed that artificial intelligence will ...

Disruption of a workstation is the major contributor to downtime in any manufacturing process, and it impacts performance, cost, consumer’s centric value, efficiency. The effect cascaded whole assembly line by blockage starvation caused defective workstations. Consequently, key appropriately allocating resources limiting an accurate understanding aftermath each disturbance. work presented here ...

A local and temporal separated manufacturing becomes possible, which can enhance the economic efficiency of the production. Complex products such as spacecraft, large CNC Machine, large compressor face challenges in their development process. The cloud manufacturing which is based on the development of cloud computing and Internet of Things system makes the collaborative manufacturing process o...

In this study, an attempt has been made to apply Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) approach, one of the network types of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), into worker assignment problems for VCMS environment and analyze the network performance and effectiveness under different cell configurations and time periods. Worker assignment problems assume a crucial role in any type of manufacturing sy...

The Taguchi method is a useful technique to improve the performance of products or processes at a lower cost and in less time. This procedure can be categorized in the static and dynamic quality characteristics. The optimization of multiple responses has received increasing attention over the last few years in many manufacturing organizations.  Several approaches dealing with multiple static q...