Location-based service is often quoted as one of the killer applications of mobile commerce. However, there is no theoretical analysis on the real value of location information in location-based mobile services. In this paper we introduce four types of dispatching models and analyze how location information is obtained and used to support dispatch services. The value of GPS-based dispatching se...

Monitoring and prediction of passenger movements are able to generate timely heuristic information that reduces the complexity of the elevator dispatching task to one of finding the best route through already computed data. This paper demonstrates that such information, when used by heuristic search techniques, allows optimal dispatching solutions to be achieved in a practical elevator installa...

In this paper, we introduced the basic principles of energy saving generation dispatching, generated sorting table and implementation processes, implemented energy-saving generation dispatching optimal electric power industry structure and layout. From the terms of the pilot provinces, energy-saving generation dispatching pilots achieved remarkable results. The article proposed full process ene...

In manufacturing the solutions found for scheduling problems and the human expert’s experience are very important. They can be transformed using Artificial Intelligence techniques into knowledge and this knowledge could be used to solve new scheduling problems. In this paper we use Decision Trees for the generation of new Dispatching Rules for a Single Machine shop solved using a Genetic Algori...

Internet servers, Web servers, performance, select, event dispatching Several previous studies have examined techniques for improving Internet server performance by investigating and improving operating system support for event-dispatching mechanisms. These studies have been mainly motivated by the commonly held belief that the overhead incurred in obtaining network I/O events using the select ...

In this paper, we propose a model and algorithms to solve a load balancing problem on a printed circuit board assembly line. On this line of two identical machines, the problem of allocation of component types to machines is analyzed in detail. Twenty eight dispatching rules are developed and extensive computational experimentation is performed. It has been observed that the imbalance per board...

In this paper, we propose a model and algorithms to solve a load balancing problem on a printed circuit board assembly line. On this line of two identical machines, the problem of allocation of component types to machines is analyzed in detail. Twenty eight dispatching rules are developed and extensive computational experimentation is performed. It has been observed that the imbalance per board...

Scheduling problems in an open shop is more complicated than others since jobs do not follow a certain route in the system. This study uses computer simulation to compare the performance of different dispatching rules in an open shop. We find that the choice of the best dispatching rule is affected by the utilization factor, due-date factors, and the process time distribution at each station. I...

The “eigenvoice” technique achieves rapid speaker adaptation by employing prior knowledge of speaker space obtained from reference speakers to place strong constraints on the initial model for each new speaker [9,10]. It has recently been shown to yield very fast adaptation for a large-vocabulary system [3] ([5] modifies the technique in an interesting way). In this paper, we describe a new way...

In this report, we propose a new definition of the EDT (Squared Euclidean Distance Transformation) on irregular isothetic grids. We describe a new separable algorithm to compute this transformation on every grids, which is independent of the background representation. We show that our proposal is able to efficiently handle various kind of classical irregular two-dimensional grids in imagery, an...