This paper presents a methodology for optimizing skylight design with the considerations of thermal comfort, daylight availability and energy performance by integrated daylight and thermal simulation. Dynamic thermal modelling programmed IES and daylight simulation engine Radiance are used as simulation tools to study energy performance of a shopping mall atrium with a skylight on the roof ...

In this paper, a synthetic scaled weighted variance Xbar (synthetic SWV-Xbar) control chart is proposed to monitor the process mean of skewed populations. A comparison between the performances of the synthetic SWV-Xbar and synthetic WV-Xbar charts are made in terms of the average run length (ARL) values for the various levels of skewnesses as well as different magnitudes of positive and negativ...

Today's corporations often must operate across organizational boundaries. Phenomena such as electronic commerce, extended enterprises, and the Internet stimulate cooperation between organizations. Therefore, it is interesting to consider workflows distributed over a number of organizations. Interorganizational workflow offers companies the opportunity to re-shape business processes beyond the b...

CCC-r chart extended approach of CCC charts, is a technique applied when nonconforming items are rarely observed. However, it is usually assumed that the inspection process is perfect in the implementation control charts imperfect inspections may have a significant impact on the performance of the control chart and setting the control limits. This paper first investigates the ...

{Portions reprinted, with permission from Keim et al. #2001 IEEE Abstract Simple presentation graphics are intuitive and easy-to-use, but show only highly aggregated data presenting only a very small number of data values (as in the case of bar charts) and may have a high degree of overlap occluding a significant portion of the data values (as in the case of the x-y plots). In this article, the...

Charts constitute a natural uniform architecture for parsing and generation provided string position is replaced by a notion more appropriate to logical forms and that measures are taken to curtail generation paths containing semantically incomplete phrases.

Control chart is the most well-known chart to monitor the number of nonconformities per inspection unit where each sample consists of constant size. Generally, the design of a control chart requires determination of sample size, sampling interval, and control limits width. Optimally selecting these parameters depends on several process parameters, which have been considered from statistical and...