The buffer allocation problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, and it is an important design problem in manufacturing systems. The research proposed in this paper concerns a product line consisting of n unreliable machines with n − 1 buffers and a preventive maintenance policy. The focus of the research is to obtain a better trade-off between the buffer level ...

We propose a quartic function to represent a family of continuous quality loss functions. Depending on the choice of its parameters the shape of this function within the specification limits can be either symmetric or asymmetric, and it can be either similar to the ubiquitous quadratic loss function or somewhat closer to the conventional step function. We examine this family of loss functions i...

the network design problem (ndp) is one of the important problems in combinatorial optimization. among the network design problems, the multicommodity capacitated network design (mcnd) problem has numerous applications in transportation, logistics, telecommunication, and production systems. the mcnd problems with splittable flow variables are np-hard, which means they require exponential time t...

in this manuscript, we study the inverse problem for non self-adjoint sturm--liouville operator $-d^2+q$ with eigenparameter dependent boundary and discontinuity conditions inside a finite closed interval. by defining  a new hilbert space and  using its spectral data of a kind, it is shown that the potential function can be uniquely determined by part of a set of values of eigenfunctions at som...

In a robust parameter design (RPD) problem, the experimenter is interested to determine the values of con-trol factors such that responses will be robust or insensitive to variability of the noise factors. Response sur-face methodology (RSM) is one of the effective methods that can be employed for this purpose. Since quality of products or processes is usually evaluated through several quality ...

This paper deals with the modeling, analysis, design and simulation of a robust control method for a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) supplied with a PWM inverter based on a LPV (Linear Parameter Variation)  standard controller. Under the influence of uncertainties and external disturbances, by a variation of ±150% of motor parameters from the nominal values, the robust performance c...

We consider the problem of estimating the length of a shortest path in a DAG whose edge lengths are known only approximately but can be determined exactly at a cost. Initially, each edge e is known only to lie within an interval [le; he]; the estimation algorithm can pay ce to nd the exact length of e. In particular, we study the problem of nding the cheapest set of edges such that, if exactly ...