Introduction Laser is being used in apparel industry from ninenteenth century. Recently the use of laser in apparel industry is increasing in cutting garment patterns, patterning designer neckties, 3D body scanning, denim fading and engraving leather (Nayak and Khandual 2010; Istook and Hwang 2001; Simmons and Istook 2003; Ortiz-Morales et al. 2003; Ozguney 2007; Bahtiyari 2011). The major reas...

This article describes a class of reconfigurable computing system called online architectures. These architectures use an online algorithm to make run-time reconfiguration decisions that continually adapt the underlying architecture to match the application’s current computational demand. Online architectures have several potential advantages, including better resource utilization (reduced cost...

We present an automated system for detecting visual changes on tunnel linings. By registering new images to a three-dimensional tunnel surface model, recovered using Structure and Motion techniques, we are able to detect and localise changes accurately in order to assist visual inspection by a human expert. We formulate the problem of detecting changes probabilistically and exploit different fe...

In distributed control system Ethernet is invading communication areas reserved so far to other specific and/or proprietary networks, due to its wide bandwidth, reliability and reduced cost. However this fact obliges to carefully evaluate the delay that messages undergo in order to fulfill with the application temporal requirements. In this paper the delay model is studied, its main components ...

Given a set of entities associated with points in Euclidean space, minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC) consist in partitioning this set into clusters such that the sum of squared distances from each point to the centroid of its cluster is minimized. A column generation algorithm for MSSC was given in du Merle et al. [15]. The bottleneck of that algorithm is resolution of the auxiliary prob...

Synopsis: Some trucking companies have begun to look outside their operations for additional efficiencies by “cooperating with competitors,” i .e. with other carriers. This has been referred to as Collaborative Transportation Management. We present simple examples where a firm (i .e. a trucking company or an organization that has its own private fleet ) can enhance its transportation efficienci...

The simplest examples where the simplex method cycles and conditions where expand fails to prevent cycling 1 This paper introduces a class of linear programming examples which cause the simplex method to cycle indeenitely and which are the simplest possible examples which show this behaviour. The structure of examples from this class repeats after two iterations. Cycling is shown to occur for b...

SUMMARY The development of the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip enables epigenome-wide association studies at a reduced cost. One observation of the 450K data is that many CpG sites the beadchip interrogates have very large measurement errors. Including these noisy CpGs will decrease the statistical power of detecting relevant associations due to multiple testing correction. We propose to ...

This paper deals with the optimization of the catalytic convertor for CNG Lean burn Engine based on BS4 compliances. In addition to the present catalytic convertor the work is carried out for the optimization of catalytic convertor and also to meet the BS4 compliance and also to reduced cost for the same. In this project we have prepared the samples with some variation in the substrate with res...

We compare average impulse response of rate of return curves computed from more than sixty-seven years of historical Dow Jones Industrial, Transportation, and Utility Average closing values. The curves are relatively consistent in shape until the 1990s, when marked changes, indicative of improved market efficiency, occur for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. We argue that the effect is a result...