Assembly lines are special kinds of production systems which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity commodities. In many practical manufacturing systems, configuration of assembly lines is fixed and designing a new line may be incurred huge amount of costs and thereby it is not desirable for practitioners. When some changes related to market demand occur, it is wo...

assembly lines are special kinds of production systems which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity commodities. in many practical manufacturing systems, configuration of assembly lines is fixed and designing a new line may be incurred huge amount of costs and thereby it is not desirable for practitioners. when some changes related to market demand occur, it is wo...

Network convergence and new applications running on endhosts result in increasingly variable and unpredictable traffic patterns. By providing origin-destination pairs with several possible paths, loadbalancing has proved itself an excellent tool to face this uncertainty. Formally, load-balancing is defined in terms of a convex link cost function of its load, where the objective is to minimize t...

Abstract The aim of this article is to investigate two new classes quaternions, namely, balancing and Lucas-balancing quaternions that are based on numbers, respectively. Further, some identities including Binet’s formulas, summation Catalan’s identity, etc. concerning these also established.

Wind energy prediction has an important part to play in a smart energy grid for load balancing and capacity planning. In this paper we explore, if wind measurements based on the existing infrastructure of windmills in neighbored wind parks can be learned with a soft computing approach for wind energy prediction in the ten-minute to six-hour range. For this sake we employ Support Vector Regressi...

respirators are commonly used to protect workers against workplace airborne contaminants, but this equipment may become a safety hazard by creating discomfort, disorientation and postural instability. although postural stability is critical to workers, especially those working near moving objects or on surfaces where a loss of balance may become life threatening, little attention has been given...

In the previous lecture we have introduced the load balancing game, in which the players are jobs 1, . . . , n, with loads w1, . . . , wn, respectively, that are to be run on m machines. Every job has do decide on which machine to run (a strategy) in order to minimize its running time, which is defined to be the sum of the loads of the jobs that run on the machine (as if all jobs were run in pa...

Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators’ performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost inefficiency of local public bus companies in Germany, where a complex system allocates ample financial suppor...

In this paper, the authors propose a non-linear cost function based on ecological considerations for lot-size planning. The classical approaches of lot-size optimization, the Wagner-Whitin algorithm and the Part-Period Balancing heuristic, are enhanced with so-called eco-factors. These eco-enhanced approaches combined with eco-balancing help to reduce overall production costs. Simultaneously, t...