• Customer satisfaction: The result of optimizing and aligning business processes to fulfi ll customers’ needs, wants, and desires. • Cost reduction: The result of optimizing operations and supplier processes. • Cycle and fulfi llment time reduction: The result of optimizing the manufacturing and logistics processes. • Quality: The result of optimizing the design, development, and production pr...

Abstract—This paper presents the comparative study of two different evolutionary approaches, a genetic algorithm (GA) and an estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA), in co-evolving negotiation strategies with different preference criteria such as optimizing price and optimizing negotiation speed. Empirical studies demonstrate that both GA and EDA are successful in finding good solutions in p...

To protect the driver of off-highway dump trucks from the harmful vibration, this paper presents the comparison results to determine the optimal damping of the seat system by different optimization design plans. Three optimization schemes are considered including individually optimizing the damping of the cushion, individually optimizing the damping of the seat suspension, and integrately optim...

this paper deals with optimal operation of a three-product dividing-wall column (dwc). the main idea is to design a control structure, through a systematic procedure for plantwide control, with an objective to achieve desired product purities with the minimum use of energy. exact local method is used to find the best controlled variables as single measurement or combination of measurements base...

This paper presents a framework that allows several independent dataflow analyses which perform optimizations to be composed and applied concurrently. This is done so that every analysis will benefit from the transformations made to the program by all other analyses. Dataflow analyses are mostly used in optimizing compilers, to deduce transformations that can be applied on the original program,...

Most Prolog machines have been based on specialized architectures. Our goal is to start with a general purpose architecture and determine a minimal set of extensions for high performance Prolog execution. We have developed both the architecture and optimizing compiler simultaneously, drawing on results of previous implementations. We nd that most Prolog speciic operations can be done satisfacto...

Many complex networks show signs of modular structure, uncovered by community detection. Although many methods succeed in revealing various partitions, it remains difficult to detect at what scale some partition is significant. This problem shows foremost in multi-resolution methods. We here introduce an efficient method for scanning for resolutions in one such method. Additionally, we introduc...

The energy usage of computer systems is becoming important, especially for portable battery-operated applications and embedded systems. A significant reduction in the energy consumption of a program can be achieved via code optimizations that transform the code to take advantage of the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of the target processor. These code optimizations result in significantly s...

This paper presents new compiler analysis for the elimination of invalidation traac in virtual shared memory, using a hybrid distributed invalidation coherence scheme. The invalidation and acknowledgement messages are removed; this reduces both network invalidation traac and the latency of a write fault. It aggressively exploits the SPMD execution model and uses array section analysis to accura...

We present two new compiler optimizations for explicitly parallel programs based on the CSSAME form: Lock-Independent Code Motion (LICM) and Mutex Body Localization (MBL). We have implemented these optimizations on top of the SUIF framework and present performance results for selected SPLASH applications.