This paper derives the long-run marginal timber and sawing cost of producing lumber from a dual linear programming framework. A computational accounting procedure is suggested and compared with a recently designed procedure in industrial use. To be useful, the calculated cost figures should be approximately constant over a nontrivial interval of sales volumes. The preliminary results of a case ...

Industrial Research Limited (IRL) has engaged in world leading research in the area of automated beef processing. Two innovative applications of automation are beef belly ripping and beef brisket sawing. The challenges faced in these applications, the methods used to meet them and the results achieved are described.

A framework is brieey introduced, which supports the comparison of Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms. This framework, called \Adaptive Sampling", was used for the design of two incomplete 3-SAT methods. The rst one is based on the Neural Network approach, and the second method mixes general features of Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). These methods have been tested a...

The planning of how hardwood logs can be sawn to improve recovery of high-value lumber has always been hampered by the limited information provided by external defects, and whatever internal defects are eventually revealed on the cut log faces by the sawing pattern. With expanded markets, lower-quality logs, increased competition from non-wood products, social pressures to manage public lands f...