Scaling up the number of simultaneously moving units in pathfinding problems to hundreds, or even thousands, is well beyond the capability of theoretically optimal algorithms in practice, which is consistent with existing intractability results (Surynek 2010). However, significant scalability can be achieved by trading off solution optimality. This motivates evaluating the quality of suboptimal...

Loquat fruits, highly valued by consumers for their characteristic aroma and pleasant taste, have a short post-harvest life are susceptible to mechanical damage, loss of firmness, initial organoleptic characteristics. The aim this work was develop drying method suitable storing loquat fruits in polyamide/polyethylene (PA/PE) bags containing two gaseous mixtures (treatments): MAPN2 (100% N2) MAP...

This paper proposes the guided iterative prioritized planning (GIPP) algorithm to address the problem of moving multiple mobile agents to their respective destinations in a shortest timerelated cost. Compared to other MAPP algorithms, the GIPP algorithm strikes a good balance between various performance criteria such as finding feasible solutions, completing the task promptly and low computatio...

The US government has signed a multimillion dollar contract with the maker of the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp to accelerate the drug’s development. Under the contract the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will provide funding, expertise, and technical support to the drug company, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, of San Diego, California. BARDA is the US agency tasked wi...