2 Research plan 3 2.1 Status of CP – Violation and the Physics of B Mesons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1 CP violation within and beyond the standard model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.2 LHCb: A second generation B experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Status of our own work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7...

a facility layout problem is concerned with determining the best position of departments, cells, or machines on the plant. an efficient layout contributes to the overall efficiency of operations. it’s been proved that, when system characteristics change, it can cause a significant increase in material handling cost. consequently, the efficiency of the current layout decreases or is lost and it ...

BACKGROUND Forming specific health plans can help translate good intentions into action. Mobile text reminders can further enhance the effects of planning on behavior. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to explore the combined impact of a Web-based, fully automated planning tool and mobile text reminders on intention to change saturated fat intake, self-reported saturated fat intake, and portion size chan...

A lot of Metaheuristics for solving dynamic combinatorial facility layout problems have been developed, but still require much computation time when the number of facilities or planning horizon is large. Dynamic facility layout should meet a dynamic change in both product mix and demand quantity of each product over a planning horizon by adjusting facility layout effectively under a given syste...

A dynamic and optimal shop floor design, modelling and implementation is key to achieving successful Fractal Manufacturing System (FrMS). To build adaptive and fault-tolerant fractal layout, attention is paid to issues of shop floor planning, function layout, determination of capacity level, cell composition planning and flow distances of products. A full fledged FrMS. layout is multi-functiona...

The task of the knowledge-based presentation system WIP is the generation of a variety of multimodal documents from an input consisting of a formal description of the communicative intent of a planned presentation. WIP generates illustrated texts that are customized for the intended audience and situation. We present the architecture of WIP and introduce as its major components the presentation...

  We suggest a method for finding the non-dominated points of the production possibility set (PPS) with variable returns to scale (VRS) technology in data envelopment analysis (DEA). We present a multiobjective linear programming (MOLP) problem whose feasible region is the same as the PPS under variable returns to scale for generating non-dominated points. We demonstrate that Pareto solutions o...

The task of the knowledge-based presentation system WIP is the generation of a variety of multimodal documents from an input consisting of a formal description of the communicative intent of a planned presentation. WIP generates illustrated texts that are customized for the intended audience and situation. We present the architecture of WIP and introduce as its major components the presentation...