We consider an open shop scheduling problem. At first, a bi-objective possibilistic mixed-integer programming formulation is developed. The inherent uncertainty in processing times and due dates as fuzzy parameters, machine-dependent setup times and removal times are the special features of this model. The considered bi-objectives are to minimize the weighted mean tardiness and weighted mean co...

So far various methods for optimization presented and one of most popular of them are optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence and also one of most successful of them is Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Prior some efforts by applying fuzzy logic for improving defects of PSO such as trapping in local optimums and early convergence has been done. Moreover to overcome the problem of i...

the synthesis of heat integrated multi-component distillation systems is complex due to its huge search space for structural combination and optimization computation. to provide a systematic approach and tools for the synthesis design of distillation systems, a new method for modeling heat integrated columns is presented, and the operating cost objective function is minimized by improved harmon...

This paper proposes a “structuring search space” (SSS) method aimed to accelerate recognition of large character sets. We divide the feature space of character categories into smaller clusters and derive the centroid of each cluster as a pivot. Given an input pattern, it is compared with all the pivots and only a limited number of clusters whose pivots have higher similarity (or smaller distanc...

Large industrial legacy systems are challenges of reverseengineering activities. Reverse-engineering approaches use text-search tools based on regular expressions or work on graph representations of programs, such as abstract syntax graphs. Analyzing large legacy systems often fail because of the large search space. Our approach to handle large search space in pattern-based reverse engineering ...

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy SYNCHRONIZATION IN IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS By Sandeep Aedudodla December 2006 Chair: Tan F. Wong Major Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication has recently generated a...

Skyline and top-k queries are gaining increasing importance in many emerging applications. Current skyline and top-k query processing techniques work on deterministic object attributes and known scores. However, in many practical scenarios these settings are inapplicable. In this paper we focus on web interaction scenarios where each interaction is a data object with a set of possible outcomes ...