D-lactic acid was produced by Sporolactobacillus sp. strain CASD in repeated batch fermentation with one- and two-reactor systems. The strain showed relatively high energy consumption in its growth-related metabolism in comparison with other lactic acid producers. When the fermentation was repeated with 10% (v/v) of previous culture to start a new batch, D-lactic acid production shifted from be...

In chemical batch control applications the speciication of how to produce a batch is called a recipe. When several recipes execute concurrently within a plant there is a possibility for circular wait between recipes utilizing shared resources. A circular wait might lead to the loss of an entire batch; this is costly and should therefore be avoided. This work describes the implementation of a di...

Business process automation improves organizations’ efficiency to perform work. Single executions of process models, called process instances, are usually executed independently in business process management systems (BPMS). In practice, we can observe examples in which a synchronized execution of groups of instances for certain activities, called batch processing, can lead to an improved perfo...

The batch evaluation of information retrieval systems typically makes use of a testbed consisting of a collection of documents, a set of queries, and for each query, a set of judgements indicating which documents are relevant. This paper presents a probabilistic model for predicting IR system rankings in a batch experiment when using document relevance assessments from different judges, using t...

In recent years, coded distributed computing (CDC) has attracted significant attention, because it can efficiently facilitate many delay-sensitive computation tasks against unexpected latencies in computing systems. Despite such a salient feature, design challenges and opportunities remain. thi...