An analysis of production control tasks is given, in order to derive requirements for a language for programming production controllers The programming of the controllers is divided into two related tasks: the specification of the controller environment (the description of the capabilities of the agents that the controller can use to make products and the description of how products must be pro...

preventive maintenance scheduling is to perform a series of tasks that prevents or minimizes production breakdowns and improves the reliability. mathematical models have been developed to solve the preventive maintenance scheduling problem. there are several limitations in the prior work in this area of research. craft combinations are assumed to be given. the craft combination problem concerns...

Most work on speech motor control has been devoted to the spatial and temporal coordination of articulatory movements for successive units, segments or syllables, in the speech chain. An intrasegmental temporal domain has generally been lacking in speech production models, but such a domain is necessary at least for certain classes of speech sounds, e.g., voiceless obstruents, clicks, ejectives...

This paper presents some issues in interarticulator programming in speech production, using as an example the production of a vowel, a bilabial stop consonant, and a vowel. The mechanism for making the labial closure is presented as well as the control of the duration of the closure. An examination of the coordination of the tongue movement from the first to the second vowel with the lip moveme...

A new type of programming methodology, built around structured programming ideas, has been gaining widespread acceptance for production programming. This paper discusses how this methodology has been introduced into a large production programming organization. Finally it analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of each component of the methodology and recommends ways it can be introduced in a ...

We propose a long-term memory design for artificial general intelligence based on Solomonoff’s incremental machine learning methods. We introduce four synergistic update algorithms that use a Stochastic Context-Free Grammar as a guiding probability distribution of programs. The update algorithms accomplish adjusting production probabilities, re-using previous solutions, learning programming idi...

In this study, a two echelons supply chain system in which a supplier is producing perishable product and distribute it to multiple customers is considered. By allowing lateral transshipment mechanism, it is also possible to deliver products to some customers in some periods in bulk, then customers using their own vehicle to transship goods between each other seeking further reduction in the ov...