W designing supply chains, firms are often faced with the competing demands of improved customer service and reduced cost. We extend a cost-based location-inventory model (Shen et al. 2003) to include a customer service element and develop practical methods for quick and meaningful evaluation of cost/service trade-offs. Service is measured by the fraction of all demands that are located within ...

Introduction Laser is being used in apparel industry from ninenteenth century. Recently the use of laser in apparel industry is increasing in cutting garment patterns, patterning designer neckties, 3D body scanning, denim fading and engraving leather (Nayak and Khandual 2010; Istook and Hwang 2001; Simmons and Istook 2003; Ortiz-Morales et al. 2003; Ozguney 2007; Bahtiyari 2011). The major reas...

This article describes a class of reconfigurable computing system called online architectures. These architectures use an online algorithm to make run-time reconfiguration decisions that continually adapt the underlying architecture to match the application’s current computational demand. Online architectures have several potential advantages, including better resource utilization (reduced cost...

We present an automated system for detecting visual changes on tunnel linings. By registering new images to a three-dimensional tunnel surface model, recovered using Structure and Motion techniques, we are able to detect and localise changes accurately in order to assist visual inspection by a human expert. We formulate the problem of detecting changes probabilistically and exploit different fe...

We study the dissipative quantum dynamics and the asymptotic behavior of a particle in a bistable potential interacting with a sub-Ohmic broadband environment. The reduced dynamics, in the intermediate to strong dissipation regime, is obtained beyond the two-level system approximation by using a real-time path integral approach. We find a crossover dynamic regime with damped intra-well oscillat...

In distributed control system Ethernet is invading communication areas reserved so far to other specific and/or proprietary networks, due to its wide bandwidth, reliability and reduced cost. However this fact obliges to carefully evaluate the delay that messages undergo in order to fulfill with the application temporal requirements. In this paper the delay model is studied, its main components ...

Given a set of entities associated with points in Euclidean space, minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC) consist in partitioning this set into clusters such that the sum of squared distances from each point to the centroid of its cluster is minimized. A column generation algorithm for MSSC was given in du Merle et al. [15]. The bottleneck of that algorithm is resolution of the auxiliary prob...

Synopsis: Some trucking companies have begun to look outside their operations for additional efficiencies by “cooperating with competitors,” i .e. with other carriers. This has been referred to as Collaborative Transportation Management. We present simple examples where a firm (i .e. a trucking company or an organization that has its own private fleet ) can enhance its transportation efficienci...

The simplest examples where the simplex method cycles and conditions where expand fails to prevent cycling 1 This paper introduces a class of linear programming examples which cause the simplex method to cycle indeenitely and which are the simplest possible examples which show this behaviour. The structure of examples from this class repeats after two iterations. Cycling is shown to occur for b...