This work introduces the concept of multi-analyte biomarkers for continuous metabolic monitoring. The importance of using more than one marker lies in the ability to obtain a holistic understanding of the metabolism. This is showcased for the detection and prediction of exhaustion during intense physical exercise. The findings presented here indicate that when glucose and lactate changes over t...

In this paper an approach for flexible production scheduling for continuous multi-grade chemical processes is proposed. The approach integrates the economics of production and of company–market interaction for single-machine multi-grade continuous processes. The operation of a continuous multi-grade plant is modeled utilizing the detailed inclusion of grade transitions and sales orders and oppo...

Multi-robot foraging has been widely studied in the literature, and the general assumption is that the robots are simple, i.e., with limited processing and carrying capacity. We previously studied continuous foraging with slightly more capable robots, and in this article, we are interested in using similar robots for item delivery. Interestingly, item delivery and foraging are two sides of the ...

The Multi Stream automatic speech recognition approach was investigated in this work as a framework for Au dio Visual data fusion and speech recognition This method presents many potential advantages for such a task It particularly allows for synchronous decoding of continuous speech while still allowing for some asynchrony of the visual and acoustic information streams First the Multi Stream f...

Many products from the fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries are currently manufactured batch-wise in multi-product plants. However, this processing scheme suffers from severe drawbacks, such as a high specific energy demand, cleaning costs and high staff requirements. Transferring batch into continuous campaign productions may overcome these drawbacks. Using the case of writing ink, su...

In a global economy, an efficient supply chain as a main core competency empowers enterprises to provide products or services at the right time in the right quantity, at a low cost. This paper is to plan a single product, multi-echelon, multi-period closed loop supply chain for high-tech products (which have continuous price decrease). Ultimately, considering components rated to procurement, pr...

It is shown from the universality of multi-layer neural networks that any discretetime or continuous-time dynamical system can be approximated by discrete-time or continuous-time recurrent neural networks, respectively.

Abstract The normal forms for linearly controllable quadratic system are derived and proved for single-input continuous system, single-input discrete sytem and multi-input continuous system in a constructive way.

the aim of this paper is to introduce the concepts of fuzzy upper and fuzzy lower almost continuous, weakly continuous and almost weakly continuous multifunctions. several characterizations and properties of these multifunctions along with their mutual relationships are established in $l$-fuzzy topological spaces