Different successful heuristic approaches have been proposed for solving combinatorial optimization problems. Commonly, each of them is specialized to serve a different purpose or address specific difficulties. However, most combinatorial problems that model real world applications have a priori well known measurable properties. Embedded machine learning methods may aid towards the recognition ...

Computer-aided process planning (CAPP) is an essential component in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). Operation sequencing in CAPP is an essential activity. Each sequence of production operations which is produced in a process plan cannot be the best possible sequence every time in a changing production environment. As the complexity of the product incr...

background and purpose: studies have shown the advantages of e-cme programs. developing case-based e-cme activities, one of the popular formats of e-cme programs, is difficult and time consuming. in this article we describe our experience of performing instructional system design for creating case-based e-cme contents.  methods: we performed a five-step instructional system design (i.e. system ...