The characteristics of today's competitive environment, such as the speed with which products are designed, manufactured, and distributed, and the need for higher responsiveness and lower operational cost, are forcing companies to search for innovative ways to do business. The concept of agile manufacturing has been proposed in response to these challenges for companies. This ...

The hemodynamic response function (HRF) describes the local response of brain vasculature to functional activation. Accurate HRF modeling enables the investigation of cerebral blood flow regulation and improves our ability to interpret fMRI results. Block designs have been used extensively as fMRI paradigms because detection power is maximized; however, block designs are not optimal for HRF par...

Supply-hubs, supported by information sharing technologies, are being used by contract manufacturers in hi-tech industries to streamline their supply-side inventory management, in response to shortening product lifecycles and the necessity of configuring goods to order. In this paper, we develop a linear programming model for integrated planning and scheduling of supply hub activities. We assum...

J. A. de Zwart, A. C. Silva, P. van Gelderen, P. Kellman, M. Fukunaga, R. Chu, A. P. Koretsky, J. H. Duyn LFMI, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, LCE, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States Introduction BOLD fMRI allows an indirect measurement of neuronal activity. Its contrast mechanism is based on the intravascular change in deoxyhem...

14:00 – 15:15 Session 3 Chair: Angsheng Li Modelling the Power Supply Network Hardness and Approximation Alexandru Popa Approximation Algorithms for a combined Facility Location Buy-at-Bulk Network Design Andreas Bley, S. Mehdi Hashemi and Mohsen Rezapour k-means++ under Approximation Stability Manu Agarwal, Ragesh Jaiswal and Arindam Pal 15:15 – 15:35 Coffee Break 15:35 – 15:45 Group Photo 15:...

The sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network are generally constrained with limited power supply. Efficient power management is a must for any sensor network to keep the sensor nodes in the network to be operational for a longer period of time this increasing the lifetime of the sensor network. Hierarchy based routing enables the sensor networks to be deployed in larger areas. In this paper we...