This paper addresses the job shop scheduling problem in the presence of machine breakdowns. In this work, we propose to exploit the advantages of data mining techniques to resolve the problem. We proposed an approach to discover a set of classification rules by using historic scheduling data. Intelligent decisions are then made in real time based on this constructed rules to assign the correspo...

Context Oriented Programming (COP) is a hot topic nowadays. A number of programming languages endowed with COP features has been developed. However, some foundational issues remain unclear. This paper proposes adopting static analysis techniques to predict how programs may react in different execution environments. We introduce a core functional language, ContextML, equipped with COP primitives...

This paper presents an optimization approach to identify aircraft dispatching strategy at a flight training school. The strategy adopted by the school was to dispatch the aircraft which is closest to its scheduled maintenance. This strategy was examined and compared with other potential dispatching strategies. The paper presents a mixed integer linear programming model to identify the strategy ...

Server responsiveness and availability are more important than ever in today’s client/server dominated network environments. Recently, researchers have begun to consider cluster-based computers using commodity hardware as an alternative to expensive specialized hardware for building scalable Web servers. In this paper, we present performance results comparing two cluster-based Web servers based...

Efficient implementation of multiple dispatching is critical with regard to the success of the multimethods, which are recognized as a powerful mechanism in object-oriented programming languages. However, the current known time-efficient approaches suffer of poor space efficiency. This paper presents a novel multiple dispatching approach that substantially improves the space efficiency over the...

To increase program modularity, new programming paradigms, such as aspectoriented programming, context-oriented programming, and predicated dispatching, have been researched in recent years. The new-paradigm languages allow changing behavior according to various kinds of contexts at the call sites. A recent statistics shows that at least 66% of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third pa...

Fault diagnosis is of great significance for the rapid recovery system after accident. Intelligent dispatching among multiple controllers developed in this work to improve efficiency downhole locomotive dispatching, finally realizing unmanned intelligent dispatching. The logic processing model with signal lights, rutting machine, locomotives, and other equipment established based on theory Cybe...