a computer network experiment designed to study a method of making the computing power of a high-speed batch system available to the interactive terminal system user. Com-mazds for effecting the intersystem linkage and network operations are presented. Emphasized are system measurements and system tuning techniques for increasing eficiency. There are numerous large computer installations in the...

Easy. direct access to data by users is a key business requirement. With windows-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools being the norm, batch-processing tools do not meet today's expectations of the non-programmer user. However, there is no reason that 'power users' shouldn't have easy to use tools as well. SAS System for personal computers (PC/SAS) coupled with SASfCONNECT is a powerful pa...

This paper investigates the scheduling problem of minimizing makespan on parallel batch processing machines encountered in different manufacturing environments, such as the burn-in operation in the manufacture of semiconductors and the aging test operation in the manufacture of thin film transistor-liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs). Each job is characterized by a processing time, a release tim...

The present study deals with the batch and fed-batch mass production of Steinernema carpocapsae. S. carpocapsae is an entomoparasitic nematode that is used as a biological control agent of soil-borne crop insect pests. The ability and efficiency of fed-batch culture process was successful through the utilization of the nematode’s bacterial symbiont Xenorhabdus nematophila. Results from the fed-...

Real-world knowledge discovery processes typically consist of complex data pre-processing, machine learning, evaluation, and visualization steps. Hence a data mining platform should allow complex nested operator chains or trees, provide transparent data handling, comfortable parameter handling and optimization, be flexible, extendible and easy-to-use. Depending on the task at hand, a user may w...

This paper investigates the scheduling problem of parallel identical batch processing machines in which each machine can process a group of jobs simultaneously as a batch. Each job is characterized by its size and processing time. The processing time of a batch is given by the longest processing time among all jobs in the batch. Based on developing heuristic approaches, we proposed a hybrid gen...