The class of inventory routing problems (IRPs) is present in several areas, including automotive industry and cash management for ATM networks. In the specific case of vendor-managed IRPs, in which the supplier is res...
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The class of inventory routing problems (IRPs) is present in several areas, including automotive industry and cash management for ATM networks. In the specific case of vendor-managed IRPs, in which the supplier is responsible for managing the product inventory in each client and for properly providing replenishments, the challenge is to determine which retailers should be served, the amount of product that should be delivered to each of these retailers, and which routes the distribution vehicles should follow, so that the associated costs are minimized. Although this is clearly a multi-objective optimization problem, in the literature it has been generally modeled as a single-objective problem, which limits the scope of the obtained results. Therefore, this work presents a multi-objective approach to solve one version of the IRP usually found in the scientific literature, by simultaneously minimizing both the inventory and transportation costs. The method proposed in this work is based on the well-known SPEA2 (Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm) and includes innovative aspects mainly associated with the representation of candidate solutions, genetic operators and local search. The experiments were performed on a set of known benchmark IRPs from the literature, so that the obtained results could be properly compared to the best solution found for the single-objective version of each problem.
This paper investigates process fault identification for continuous-time nonlinear switched systems. A novel fault estimation algorithm, based on an adaptive fault diagnosis observer and average dwell time technique, ...
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This paper investigates process fault identification for continuous-time nonlinear switched systems. A novel fault estimation algorithm, based on an adaptive fault diagnosis observer and average dwell time technique, is first proposed. In terms of linear matrix inequality, sufficient condition for the existence of the adaptive observer is derived. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed results.
In this paper it is introduced a new mathematical model of basic planar imprecise geometric objects: fuzzy line, fuzzy triangle and fuzzy circle, as well as basic spatial relations: coincidence, between and collinear....
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In this paper it is introduced a new mathematical model of basic planar imprecise geometric objects: fuzzy line, fuzzy triangle and fuzzy circle, as well as basic spatial relations: coincidence, between and collinear. Models are implemented as an extension of the PostGIS spatial data managing system in Pl/ PgSQL language.
The potential applications of dynamically substructured systems (DSS) with both numerical and physical substructures can be found in diverse dynamics testing fields. In this paper, a feedforward adaptive controller ba...
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Abstract The key issues for iron and steel production in terms of improved productivity are to realize a good crane scheduling for a well-organized rhythm of the whole production and to improve the transportation effi...
Abstract The key issues for iron and steel production in terms of improved productivity are to realize a good crane scheduling for a well-organized rhythm of the whole production and to improve the transportation efficiency of cranes in a computational manner to assist the main equipment scheduling. In this paper a Mixed-timed Petri net modeling is introduced to minimize the makespan of the whole steelmaking and continuous casting process. The crane scheduling problem is formulated as the optimization of firing transition sequences based on the Mixed-timed Petri net (i.e., the Petri net that includes time-transitions and zero-time transitions). Then the formulation is converted to a linear model that can be solved using the branch-and-cut method in the standard commercial solver CPLEX. Special methods for the linear conversion are developed. Due to the limited calculation time required for the scheduling and the scale of the problem, special methods for the efficiency tuning are applied according to the characteristics of the problem. Numerical testing supported by Shanghai Bashan steel plant has demonstrated a significant improvement over the traditional manual scheduling results, showing an improved effectiveness in terms of assisting the on-site schedulers to obtain a better strategy for steelmaking and continues casting.
This paper concerns the application of multi-model based adaptive control approach to accommodate actuator fault for flight control systems. isolation. This approach does not require the exact information about the co...
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This paper concerns the application of multi-model based adaptive control approach to accommodate actuator fault for flight control systems. isolation. This approach does not require the exact information about the controlled system and persistent input excitations. The method can increase robustness and provides stable adaptation of unknown faults. Asymptotic model following conditions and adaptive rules are derived and system stability is guaranteed, while appropriate switching of the multiple models ensures asymptotic tracking for system outputs. An aircraft model is given to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.
Abstract The steel-making and continuous casting system (SCCS) is the bottleneck in the iron and steel production, SCCS often involve various uncertainties such as the emergency customer orders, inaccurate estimate of...
Abstract The steel-making and continuous casting system (SCCS) is the bottleneck in the iron and steel production, SCCS often involve various uncertainties such as the emergency customer orders, inaccurate estimate of ingredient components, the unpredictable machine breakdown or the inaccurate estimate of processing time. How to consider such uncertainties to build a better schedule in a limited time by a computationally efficient manner is becoming critical for the production of iron and steel. The stochastic dynamic programming method is adopt to solve the obtained subproblems which are relaxed by Lagrangian relaxation multipliers, a good dual solution is selected by using “ordinal optimization,” and the actual schedule is dynamically constructed based on the dual solution and the realization of random processing requirements. The method has been tested by using practical data from the Shanghai Bashan steel plant in China and could get near optimal solutions in a limited time; the stochastic processing requirements are effectively handled for the production.
Heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) systems have been proposed as a power efficient alternative to traditional homogeneous systems. In heterogeneous HPC system, fast CPUs which have complex pipelines, high ...
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Heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) systems have been proposed as a power efficient alternative to traditional homogeneous systems. In heterogeneous HPC system, fast CPUs which have complex pipelines, high clock frequencies as well as high power consumption are combined with slow ones which have simple pipelines, low clock frequencies as well as low power consumption. Different types of applications should be distributed to run on different type of CPUs, in order to achieve a trade-off between energy and performance. In this paper, we use experimental research to investigate the applications classifications which categorize each application as the CPU-intensive, memory-intensive, or phase-change application. We also conduct some experiments to measure the current, power, and energy of different types of applications. Afterwards, a scheduling method for applications on heterogeneous HPC systems is proposed. The experiment shows that the scheduling method can trade off the latency and energy consumption based on the applications classification and measurement.
This paper investigates process fault identification for continuous-time nonlinear switched systems. A novel fault estimation algorithm, based on an adaptive fault diagnosis observer and average dwell time technique, ...
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Nowadays, the representation of many real word problems needs to use some type of relational model. As a consequence, information used by a wide range of systems has been stored in multi relational tables. However, fr...
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Nowadays, the representation of many real word problems needs to use some type of relational model. As a consequence, information used by a wide range of systems has been stored in multi relational tables. However, from a data mining point of view, it has been a problem, since most of the traditional data mining algorithms have not been originally proposed to handle this type of data without discarding relationship information. Aiming to ameliorate this problem, we propose a hierarchical approach for handling relational data. In this approach the relational data is converted into a hierarchical structure (the main table as the root and the relations as the nodes). This hierarchical way to represent relational data can be used either for classification or clustering purposes. In this paper, we will use it in clustering algorithms. In order to do so, we propose a hierarchical distance metric to compute the similarity between the tables. In the empirical analysis, we will apply the proposed approach in two well-known clustering algorithms (k-means and agglomerative hierarchical). Finally, this paper also compares the effectiveness of our approach with one existing relational approach.
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