This paper deals with permutation flowshops with considering transportation times of carrying semi-finished jobs from a machine to another one. The transportation between machines can be done using two types of transp...
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This paper deals with permutation flowshops with considering transportation times of carrying semi-finished jobs from a machine to another one. The transportation between machines can be done using two types of transportation systems: multi-transporter and single-transporter systems. We formulate the problem with both systems as six different mixedintegerlinear programs. We also provide solution methods including heuristics and metaheuristics in order to solve large-sized problems. The heuristics are the adaptations of well-known heuristics and the proposed metaheuristics are based on artificial immune systems incorporating an effective local search heuristic and simulated annealing. A comprehensive experiment is conducted to compare and evaluate the performance of the models as well as the algorithms. All the results show the effectiveness of the proposed models and algorithms.
This letter focuses on optimal power flow (OPF) computations in which no more than a pre-specified number of controls are allowed to move. To determine an efficient subset of controls satisfying this constraint, we re...
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This letter focuses on optimal power flow (OPF) computations in which no more than a pre-specified number of controls are allowed to move. To determine an efficient subset of controls satisfying this constraint, we rely on the solution of a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem fed with sensitivity information of controls' impact on the objective and constraints. We illustrate this approach on a 60-bus system and for the OPF problem of minimum load curtailment cost to remove thermal congestion.
Background: Pichia pastoris has been recognized as an effective host for recombinant protein production. A number of studies have been reported for improving this expression system. However, its physiology and cellula...
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Background: Pichia pastoris has been recognized as an effective host for recombinant protein production. A number of studies have been reported for improving this expression system. However, its physiology and cellular metabolism still remained largely uncharacterized. Thus, it is highly desirable to establish a systems biotechnological framework, in which a comprehensive in silico model of P. pastoris can be employed together with high throughput experimental data analysis, for better understanding of the methylotrophic yeast's metabolism. Results: A fully compartmentalized metabolic model of P. pastoris (iPP668), composed of 1,361 reactions and 1,177 metabolites, was reconstructed based on its genome annotation and biochemical information. The constraints-based flux analysis was then used to predict achievable growth rate which is consistent with the cellular phenotype of P. pastoris observed during chemostat experiments. Subsequent in silico analysis further explored the effect of various carbon sources on cell growth, revealing sorbitol as a promising candidate for culturing recombinant P. pastoris strains producing heterologous proteins. Interestingly, methanol consumption yields a high regeneration rate of reducing equivalents which is substantial for the synthesis of valuable pharmaceutical precursors. Hence, as a case study, we examined the applicability of P. pastoris system to whole-cell biotransformation and also identified relevant metabolic engineering targets that have been experimentally verified. Conclusion: The genome-scale metabolic model characterizes the cellular physiology of P. pastoris, thus allowing us to gain valuable insights into the metabolism of methylotrophic yeast and devise possible strategies for strain improvement through in silico simulations. This computational approach, combined with synthetic biology techniques, potentially forms a basis for rational analysis and design of P. pastoris metabolic network to enhance humanized glyco
In this paper we address a rich vehicle routing problem that arises in real-life applications. Among other aspects we consider time windows, simultaneous delivery and pick-up at customer locations and multiple use of ...
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In this paper we address a rich vehicle routing problem that arises in real-life applications. Among other aspects we consider time windows, simultaneous delivery and pick-up at customer locations and multiple use of vehicles. To guarantee a coordinated material flow at the depot, we include the timed allocation of vehicles to loading bays at which the loading and unloading activities can occur. The resulting vehicle routing problem is formulated as a two-index vehicle-flow model which integrates the routing under real-life conditions and the assignment of vehicles to loading bays at the depot. We use CPLEX 11.0 to solve medium-sized instances that are derived from the extended Solomon test set. The selective implementation of preprocessing techniques and cutting planes improves the solver performance significantly.
A numerical procedure for finding the sparsest and densest realization of a given reaction network is proposed in this paper. The problem is formulated and solved in the framework of mixed integer linear programming (...
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A numerical procedure for finding the sparsest and densest realization of a given reaction network is proposed in this paper. The problem is formulated and solved in the framework of mixed integer linear programming (MILP) where the continuous optimization variables are the nonnegative reaction rate coefficients, and the corresponding integer variables ensure the finding of the realization with the minimal or maximal number of reactions. The mass-action kinetics is expressed in the form of linear constraints adjoining the optimization problem. More complex realization problems can also be solved using the proposed framework by modifying the objective function and/or the constraints appropriately.
This text summarizes the PhD dissertation that was defended by the author in January 2009 under the supervision of Erik Demeulemeester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). The text is written in English an...
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This text summarizes the PhD dissertation that was defended by the author in January 2009 under the supervision of Erik Demeulemeester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). The text is written in English and is available from the author upon request. The PhD dissertation is situated within the health care services domain and studies the impact of planning and scheduling procedures in the operating room. It incorporates an extensive review of both scientific contributions and the current operating room planning and scheduling practices of hospitals in Flanders (Belgium). The emphasis of the research, though, is directed towards the development, the testing and the application of surgery sequencing algorithms in a day-care environment.
Latency insensitive protocols (LIP) were originally based on valid/stall handshakes between components and relays stations. However, for designs whose connection graph is a single strongly connected component(SCC), it...
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(纸本)9781424489350
Latency insensitive protocols (LIP) were originally based on valid/stall handshakes between components and relays stations. However, for designs whose connection graph is a single strongly connected component(SCC), it was shown that static scheduling of computation achieves better throughput. Unfortunately, for a system composed of multiple SCCs such global static scheduling is not possible. Recent work has shown how to minimize back pressure (stall) based flow control for such systems. However, that solution does not necessarily achieve optimal throughput because it only minimizes back-pressure without attempting to optimize throughput. Throughput optimizing solutions for latency insensitive systems also exists, which require a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) solution that inevitably does not scale for large systems. Moreover, that throughput optimizing solution uses back pressure for every connection leading to area overhead and further interconnect routing issues. In this paper, we consider an optimization technique for the synthesis of latency insensitive systems. In particular, we consider a synchronous hardware system which is composed of multiple SCCs. We provide algorithm for synthesizing a latency insensitive implementation which minimizes back-pressure while maximizing throughput. Our approach scales because we formulate MILP whose size is significantly smaller than that of the previous throughput optimizing MILP formulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first optimization technique considering both back pressure and throughput of latency insensitive system in the literature.
We consider the problem of maximizing the lifetime of a given multicast connection in wireless networks that use directional antennas and have limited energy resources. We provide a globally optimal solution to this p...
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We consider the problem of maximizing the lifetime of a given multicast connection in wireless networks that use directional antennas and have limited energy resources. We provide a globally optimal solution to this problem by developing a general MILP formulation that can apply to many directional antenna models, some of which are not supported by the existing formulations. We also investigate the theoretical performance of a well-known heuristic algorithm for this optimization problem in terms of its approximation ratio. We use a graph theoretic approach, for the first time, to derive an upper bound on its approximation ratio in an analytical expression and discover that it is a constant-factor approximation algorithm. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. NETWORKS, Vol. 55(3), 287-297 2010
Minimum-distance controlled tabular adjustment methods (CTA), and its restricted variants (RCTA), is a recent perturbative approach for tabular data protection. Given a table to be protected, the purpose of RCTA is to...
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(纸本)9783642158377
Minimum-distance controlled tabular adjustment methods (CTA), and its restricted variants (RCTA), is a recent perturbative approach for tabular data protection. Given a table to be protected, the purpose of RCTA is to find the closest table that guarantees protection levels for the sensitive cells. This is achieved by adding slight adjustments to the remaining cells, possibly excluding a subset of them (usually, the total cells) which preserve their original values. If either protection levels are large, or the bounds for cell deviations are tight, or too many cell values have to be preserved, the resulting mixedintegerlinear problem may be reported as infeasible. This work describes a tool developed for analyzing infeasible instances. The tool is based on a general elastic programming approach, which considers an artificial problem obtained by relaxing constraints and bounds through the addition of extra elastic variables. The tool allows selecting the subset of constraints and bounds to be relaxed, such that an elastic filter method can be applied for isolating a subset of infeasible table relations, protection levels, and cell bounds. Some computational experiments are reported using real-world instances.
As virtualization becomes more and more popular, how to guarantee survivability of a virtual infrastructure (VI) over a wide-area optical network is increasingly important. In this paper, we approach the problem of su...
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(纸本)9781424456383
As virtualization becomes more and more popular, how to guarantee survivability of a virtual infrastructure (VI) over a wide-area optical network is increasingly important. In this paper, we approach the problem of survivable VI mapping (SVIM) from a few unique perspectives. One of the most distinguishing perspectives is that a large-scale regional failure could destroy one or more facility nodes to which some VI nodes are mapped. Accordingly, redundant facility nodes at different geographical locations and redundant optical connections have to be provisioned such that the VI can still be mapped after the failure. Another distinguishing perspective is that with failure-dependent protection, the SVIM problem can be decomposed into several instances of the basic non-survivable VI mapping (NSVIM) problem, whose solution permits effective sharing of the redundant resources among all failures. In this paper, we first formulate the minimum-cost SVIM problem using mixed integer linear programming (MILP). We then propose an efficient heuristic solution to NSVIM, based on which two novel heuristic SVIM algorithms called Separate Optimization with Unconstrained Mapping (SOUM) and Incremental Optimization with Constrained Mapping (IOCM). Simulations are performed to study and compare the performance of the MILP and heuristics.
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