One of the most significant and effective criteria in the process of cutting dimensional rocks using the gang saw is the maximum energy consumption rate of the machine, and its accurate prediction and estimation can help designers and owners of this industry to achieve an optimal and economic process. In the present research work, it is attempted to study and provide models for predicting the m...

The objective of this work was to apply a hybrid process, including electrodialysis reversal (EDR) and reverse osmosis (RO) to the treatment of petrochemical wastewater in order to obtain process water for reuse. A water balance was carried out to defne the main water consumers and the process step that could receive the produced water. Additionally, toxicity assays wer...

Hybrid Communicating Sequential Processes (HCSP) is an extension of CSP allowing continuous dynamics. We are interested in applying HCSP to model and verify hybrid systems. This paper is to present a calculus for a subset of HCSP as a part of our efforts in modelling and verifying hybrid systems. The calculus consists of two parts. To deal with continuous dynamics, the calculus adopts different...

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate a status-age timeliness metric and derive a general result for the average status age that is applicable to a wide variety of multiuser service systems. An alternate technique for evaluating status age based on stochastic hybrid systems is also introduced. For first-come first-serve...

We implement a prototype for a 20-GFLOP sonar beamformer with multiple frameworks for parallelism: MPI, Computational Process Networks, and a hybrid of the two. Computational Process Networks is a framework based on the formal Process Network model and Computation Graphs, implemented with lightweight POSIX threads. We benchmark these systems on a Sun Enterprise 4000. On eight UltraSPARC-II proc...

This paper presents the research and development of a hybrid rapid manufacturing process being developed at the University of Missouri-Rolla. This process includes a laser deposition and a 5axis CNC milling system. By combining laser deposition and machining processes, the resulting hybrid process can provide greater build capability and better accuracy and surface finish. The hybrid process ca...

although wild safflower (c.oxyacantha, 2n=24) has not been studied to a very large extent, yet it is believed that it can be used as an important source of biotic and abiotic stress resistance genes for improvement of cultivated safflower (c.tinctorius l., 2n=2x=24). in this study, the crossability between these two (cultivated and wild safflower) species was evaluated as based upon morphology ...

This paper describes a usefulness measure that supports ongoing work on a hybrid process planning approach that combines the best characteristics of both variant and generative process planning while avoiding their worst limitations. To specify the fixtures needed by a process plan for a new design, the hybrid approach must identify existing designs and process plans that have fixtures that can...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t To study the effects of a delayed immune-response on the growth of an immunogenic neoplasm we introduce Stochastic Hybrid Automata with delayed transitions as a representation of hybrid biochemical systems with delays. These transitions abstractly model unknown dynamics for which a constant duration can be estimated, i.e. a delay. These au-tomata are inspir...