Many parallel scienti c applications have dynamic and irregular computational structure. However, most such applications exhibit persistence of computational load and communication structure. This allows us to embed measurement-based automatic load balancing framework in run-time systems of parallel languages that are used to build such applications. In this paper, we describe such a framework ...

This paper presents a new language concept for the support of application integrated load distribution. Load distribution is realized by assigning tasks to cooperating agents and also by migrating agents from overloaded to underloaded processes. Flexible and portable implementation of load distribution mechanisms is achieved by user implemented move and restart tasks. The paper describes the ne...

This review paper presents the state of the art on the problems, approaches and analytical models for assembly and transfer line design and balancing that addresses explicitly cost and profit oriented objectives. The discussions aim to facilitate identifying open problems and research areas that have wide practical applications and that necessitate further investigations. Moreover, they might s...

A new approach to short-term electrical load forecasting is investigated in this paper. As electrical load data are highly non-linear in nature, in the proposed approach, we first separate out the linear and the non-linear parts, and then forecast using the non-linear part only. Semi-parametric spectral estimation method is used to decompose a load data signal into a harmonic linear signal mode...