Today, for many companies, there are large numbers of manufacturing equipments. To better utilize manufacturing resources, it is necessary to classify the equipments into a few groups. In this paper, the hybrid algorithm of fuzzy clustering algorithm (FCM) and genetic algorithm (GA) is implemented to group manufacturing resources. An application sample is developed and its results are analyzed....

Funding information National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: CNS-1247955, CNS-1247924; Wireless Engineering Research & Education Center (WEREC), Auburn University Abstract Femtocells are small, low-power cellular base stations with high potential for coverage extension and offloading voice and wireless data. In this paper, we study the problem of joint access control and spectrum resour...

Abstract: Today, there is no standard system for performing maintenance on heterogeneous railway equipments. Maintenance staff needs a standard application capable of diagnosing and monitoring heterogeneous on-board equipments. We propose to build a web-based diagnosis and monitoring system. The main advantage of our approach is that it offers a well known and user friendly interface: a web bro...

In a context where data and computing services are moving to external specialized datacenters the manual management of these systems is becoming an issue. Human administrators have to deal with hardware resources optimization while meeting the users’ needs. In our approach we propose to reconfigure both a set of applications deployed in a datacenter (by adapting their behaviors using autonomic ...

Degraded insulating property of electric equipments will lead to serious accident and great loss for the utilities and customers. Partial discharge detection is an efficient diagnosis method to prevent the failure of electric equipments arising from degrading insulation. However, universal offline partial discharge detection could be performed only during shutdown of equipments. By using the pr...

The paper employs a case study methodology and uses performance-importance analysis to determine the information quality dimensions that affect the einnovation process. The selected case is a high technology organisation dealing with the design and manufacturing electronic equipments and tools used for medical test. The equipments designed by the organisation comprise components designed by oth...