Generally ordering policies are done by two methods, including fix order quantity (FOQ) and fix order period (FOP). These methods are static and either the quantity of ordering or the procedure of ordering is fixing in throughout time horizon. In real environments, demand is varying in any period and may be considered as uncertainty. When demand is variable in any period, the traditional and st...

Estimating and minimizing the maximum power dissipation during testing is an important task in VLSI circuit realization since the power value affects the reliability of the circuits. Therefore during testing a methodology should be adopted to minimize power consumption. Test patterns generated with –D 1 option of ATALANTA contains don’t care bits (x bits). By suitable filling of don’t cares can...

Abstract: The microstructural features of the early stage of ordering of the intermetallic compound Pt2FeCu have been examined using optical and transmission electron microscopy in conjunction with X-ray diffraction technique. It was found that the compound has similar morphological alteration to that of FePt in which the ordering cannot be suppressed by rapid quenching. The early stage of ...

We introduce a declarative approach for a coherent composition of autonomous databases. For this we use ID-logic, a formalism that extends classical logic with inductive definitions. We consider ID-logic theories that express, at the same time, the two basic challenges in database composition problems: relating different schemas of the local databases to one global schema (schema integration) a...

The all-time behavior provides a robustness algorithm by allowing it to be interrupted at any point in the process, while ensuring that the best possible response is delivered when the stop request occurs. This work proposes a methodology to identify the relationship of the parameters of an optimization algorithm by colony of ants with its behavior at-all-moment, allowing to implement a techniq...

Since innovation plays an important role in the context of food, as evident in how successful chefs, restaurants or cuisines in general evolve over time, we were interested in exploring this dimension from a more virtual perspective. In particular, the paper presents results of a study that was conducted in the context of a large-scale German online food community forum to explore another impor...

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