Open Section

Special Section: Open Source Software

While many successful and well-known open source projects produce output of high quality, a general assessment of this development paradigm is still missing. In this paper, an online community of both small and large, successful and failed projects and their programmers is analysed mainly using the version-control data of each project, also according to their productivity and estimation of expe...

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A new Education Section for FEBS Open Bio

Following a proposal initiated by the FEBS Education Committee, FEBS Open Bio is starting a section devoted to original and valuable publications in biochemical and molecular life sciences education. We have been entrusted with the task of coordinating this new Section. The overall aim of this initiative is, in the spirit of FEBS and its Education Committee, to foster good educational practices...

Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] 0 Estimating Performance Measures in Stochastic Cyclic Schedules

This paper reviews a cyclic scheduling model of repetitive manufacturing environments consisting of exible machines and multi-stage jobs. We explicitly model two system performance measures, throughput and ow time, while incorporating variability arising from uncertainty in operation processing times. We present an iterative approximation scheme to estimate the two moment behavior of our perfor...

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