This paper deals with social infrastructure planning problems to determine the location of the facilities of social infrastructure network and the layout. Each user must be assigned to the closest facility to be economically viable. The objective is how to make the accessibility to facilities maximum (i.e., to minimize the distance which the users traveled to reach the facilities). In this pape...

by M.P. Brocklebank, J. Lam, and P. Mehta This article describes a new configuration for the layout of an OSD facility that closely integrates all of the facility contents plus optional R&D and administration areas. It presents a number of operating and GMP advantages, as well as potential capital and operational cost savings. Introduction Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) facilities producing tablets an...

As part of the GINA project at GMD, an interface builder has been implemented that can be used to interactively develop graphical user interfaces based on the OSF/Motif toolkit. The interface builder extensively uses direct-manipulation techniques to facilitate explorative learning and to accelerate the definition process. It provides special support for the dynamic layout capabilities of Motif...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become important to distribution and logistics operations due to current mandates by Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense. In order to meet these mandates, distribution operations have to re-layout their distribution facilities to accommodate these RFID systems. This transcript describes a layout algorithm that supports optimizing the design of RFID s...

Based on the total production process of iron and steel plant, and with the general design requirements for the major operating units, the major operating sites’ overall layout relationship of the iron and steel plant is determined. Based on the production workshops, auxiliary plants, power plants, transportation facilities, the functions of departments, subsidiary production and living service...

There has been increased focus on recycling in Sweden during recent years. This focus can be attributed to external environmental factors such as tougher legislation, but also to the potential gains for raw materials suppliers. Recycling centres are important components in the Swedish total recycling system. Recycling centres are manned facilities for waste collection where visitors can bring, ...

We address graph visualization from the viewpoint of com piler construction Most data structures in compilers are large dense graphs such as annotated control ow graph syntax trees dependency graphs Our main focus is the animation and interactive exploration of these graphs Fast layout heuristics and powerful browsing methods are needed We give a survey of layout heuristics for general directed...

This paper proposes a new integrative view of manufacturing cell formation and both inter-cell and intra-cell layout problems. Cells formation and their popular bi-directional linear layout are determined simultaneously through a Dynamic Programming algorithm (with the objective of minimizing the inter-cell flow cost under a cell size constraint). This Dynamic Programming algorithm is implement...

We present the graph visualization system daVinci, an interactive tool that can be used by arbitrary application programs as a user interface for graph data structures. Beside a novel automatic layout algorithm for graphs, daVinci offers many interactive facilities such as fine-tuning of a layout, abstractions and scaling operations. A bidirectional application interface is used for tool commun...