In architectures of parallel computing system, which has a large number of processing nodes, communication overhead is an important metric to evaluate and minimize by improving computation speedup solutions. In this paper, we propose using Stochastic Colored Petri Net to give models of parallel computing multi-processing systems for analyzing and evaluating effectiveness of communication overhe...

In developing countries, intermittent water supply (IWS) regimes have become a usual mode for operating the systems. The reasons and adverse impacts (inequitable supply, deterioration of pipeline so on) IWS regime are well documented in literature; however, limited work is available on solutions to improve regime. Here, we propose application multi-outlet storage tanks overcome issues by consid...

The tradition in agriculture has been to maximize production and minimize the cost of food with little regard to impacts on the environment and the services it provides to society. As the world enters an era in which global food production is likely to double, it is critical that agricultural practices be modified to minimize environmental impacts even though many such practices are likely to i...

Intersections are considered as the most critical parts of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Transit signal priority is one of the efficient solutions to reduce BRT fleet delays at intersections. The aim of this study is to propose a new algorithm to decrease the BRT fleet delays at actuated intersections, while reducing the negative impacts on different approaches. The adaptive strategy is a...

The growth in demand for semiconductors has been accompanied by intense competition between semiconductor manufacturers to satisfy customer on-time delivery needs. This paper is motivated by scheduling the wafer fabrication phase of 300-mm semiconductor manufacturing, as it contains both batch processing operations and multiple customer orders being grouped into production jobs. The resulting m...

Although complexity and vulnerability assessment of mountain landscapes is increasingly taken into consideration, less attention is paid to ecophronesis-based solutions so as to reduce the fragile ecosystem vulnerability. The main propose of this study is to provide an insight of mountain complex landscape vulnerability and propose ecophronesis-based solutions in strategic planning framework fo...