This paper presents a series of experimentally establish data at drilling of the stainless steel X2CrNiMo18-14-3 and the means for the determination of the axial cutting force and cutting moment with respect to the sp...
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This paper presents a series of experimentally establish data at drilling of the stainless steel X2CrNiMo18-14-3 and the means for the determination of the axial cutting force and cutting moment with respect to the specific working conditions. The experimental data and their following processing represent the original contribution of the authors to determination of the calculus relations of the axial cutting force and the cutting moment for drilling of the studied steel. These were modified with respect to the relations available in the technical literature for common steels. The obtained results can be taken into consideration in the educational studies and in the theoretical technical research. Also they can be implemented in the manufacturing activity.
This paper presents an inference network-based system for representing knowledge and performing reasoning called NKSS. In this system, all propositional concepts are represented as nodes while the relations are repres...
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This paper presents an inference network-based system for representing knowledge and performing reasoning called NKSS. In this system, all propositional concepts are represented as nodes while the relations are represented as directed links. NKSS is a four-valued system. Each proposition is either believed, its negation is believed, unknown, or in the state of contradiction. Logical relations such as AND, OR and NOT as well as other relations such as IF-THEN rules can be expressed in NKSS. There is a set of network update operators for adding, removing, updating and revising knowledge (beliefs). Due to the nature of network computation, it has an extreme level of tolerance to contradictory input knowledge. The resulting belief state is always clear and unique.
Online auction Web sites are fast changing, highly dynamic, and complex as they involve tremendous sellers and potential buyers, as well as a huge amount of items listed for bidding. We develop a two-phase framework w...
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Online auction Web sites are fast changing, highly dynamic, and complex as they involve tremendous sellers and potential buyers, as well as a huge amount of items listed for bidding. We develop a two-phase framework which aims at mining and summarizing hot items from multiple auction Web sites to assist decision making. The objective of the first phase is to automatically extract the product features and product feature values of the items from the descriptions provided by the sellers. We design a HMM-based learning method to train an extended HMM model which can adapt to the unseen Web page from which the information is extracted. The goal of the second phase is to discover and summarize the hot items based on the extracted information. We formulate the hot item mining task as a semi-supervised learning problem and employ the graph mincuts algorithm to accomplish this task. The summary of the hot items is then generated by considering the frequency and the position of the product features being mentioned in the descriptions. We have conducted extensive experiments from several real-world auction Web sites to demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework.
systemsengineering rigor has been used successfully in the aerospace and defense industries where the development cycles tend to be rather long. However, the practice of using a traditional waterfall, spiral or V-mod...
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systemsengineering rigor has been used successfully in the aerospace and defense industries where the development cycles tend to be rather long. However, the practice of using a traditional waterfall, spiral or V-model systemsengineering life-cycle framework, in other industries brings into question their appropriateness when considering the relative speed of new product development in industrial manufacturing. The purpose of this research is to investigate the applicability of incorporating systemsengineering principles in the industrial sector to determine whether there is a statistical association with the overall growth of diversified industrial firms. This research focuses on investigating three systemsengineering life-cycle approaches: incremental&iterative methods, lean enablers for systemsengineering and agile systemsengineering, using a semistructured interviewing approach with subject matter experts from the Fortune 500 diversified industrial sector. The research reveals that there are weak statistical associations between the use of the incremental&iterative and lean systemsengineering life-cycle approaches when considering the financial growth of the diversified industrial sector. However, the research reveals that there is a strong statistical association between the financial growth of companies in the diversified industrial sector and the use of the agile systemsengineering life-cycle approach.
In this paper, we want to propose a new reliable multicast MAC protocol based on the PCF (point coordination function) MAC protocol for minimizing the RAK frame transmissions and enhancing the efficiency of the radio ...
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In this paper, we want to propose a new reliable multicast MAC protocol based on the PCF (point coordination function) MAC protocol for minimizing the RAK frame transmissions and enhancing the efficiency of the radio bandwidth. Enhancing the BMMM protocol, the proposed MAC protocol reduces the RAK frame transmissions necessary to request the ACK frame transmissions from the recipients by employing the connectivity information among the recipients involved in the multicast frame transmissions of the AP.
The financial services industry is changing rapidly as a result of advances in information technology (IT), telecommunications and the Internet. Technological innovations and increasing customer demand have led to the...
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The financial services industry is changing rapidly as a result of advances in information technology (IT), telecommunications and the Internet. Technological innovations and increasing customer demand have led to the emergence of new services and new organizational forms for financial services firms. Willingly or unwillingly, banks are being forced to move toward worldwide operation. This enables them to offer services and credit facilities on a global scale, tailored to customers regardless of where they are based. However, variations among national markets present obstacles as well as opportunities to companies attempting to "go global." This paper describes specific problems and solutions for the globalization of banking services, and a case study carried out on payment services for an international bank to develop system architecture for cross border payment. The proposed architecture aims to keep apart of the processes local, but transfers the core of the transaction operations to a centralized system with clear services and clear interfaces. The bi-directional translation of formats makes standardized processing possible, while output for the specific contexts can be provided in the original formats. An important property of the architecture is that the rich context has been integrated into the handling of transactions.
This paper seeks incentive plans to salesforce by considering their impacts on a firm's inventory decision. The incentives to salesforce affect how much effort sales people exert, which in turn determines the dema...
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This paper seeks incentive plans to salesforce by considering their impacts on a firm's inventory decision. The incentives to salesforce affect how much effort sales people exert, which in turn determines the demand pattern and ultimately the firm's inventory replenishment policy. In particular, we analyze a standard single item, periodic review system in which incentive plans and inventory decisions are made simultaneously to maximize the long-run average profit. Allowing a general sales incentives-demand relationship and a lump-sum expenditure for executing the incentive plans, the expected one-period gross profit, as a function of inventory level, fails to be unimodal in general. We develop an efficient computational procedure for obtaining an optimal (s,S,z) policy: whenever the inventory level falls to or below s, an order is placed to bring it up to S, and when x > s, no order is issued;the choice of incentives to salesforce depends on the inventory level. Further, we explore the conditions under which (s,S,z) policy is globally optimal.
We consider the problem of scheduling n jobs on a single machine. Each job i has a processing time p/sub i/, a weight w/sub i/, and a due date D/sub i/, which is a fuzzy number with a triangular membership function. T...
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We consider the problem of scheduling n jobs on a single machine. Each job i has a processing time p/sub i/, a weight w/sub i/, and a due date D/sub i/, which is a fuzzy number with a triangular membership function. The problem is to determine: (i) a job sequence, and (ii) a set of idle times each before one job, so as to minimize the total weighted earliness and tardiness cost under the fuzzy due dates. We first introduce a fuzzy distance function to measure the deviation of the completion time of a job from its fuzzy due date. We show that, given a job sequence, the problem of determining the optimal idle times is a continuous and convex optimization problem with a differentiable objective function, although the objective function after applying the fuzzy distance measure becomes nonlinear. We devise a genetic algorithm (GA) to tackle the problem, using a pigeon-hole coding scheme to represent a sequence and a nonlinear optimizer to determine the idle times. We evaluate the solutions obtained by such a GA as compared to the solutions obtained by treating the due dates as crispy numbers equal to the mean values of its fuzzy partners.
This work presents and implements a low-cost irrigation system for smart agriculture that is based on the Internet of Things (IoT). In order to continuously monitor environmental data in real time, the system is equip...
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Precise energy consumption forecasting is of major importance to define the future energy consumption of a given region. However, it is not easy to contend with the uncertainty of the long-term energy consumption. In ...
Precise energy consumption forecasting is of major importance to define the future energy consumption of a given region. However, it is not easy to contend with the uncertainty of the long-term energy consumption. In order to effectively forecast the long-term energy consumption, an agent-based fuzzy-neural approach is proposed in this study. In the proposed methodology, a group of agents is formed. These agents configure their own fuzzy neural networks to forecast the long-term energy consumption based on the settings. A collaboration mechanism governed by the centralized efficient P2P communication is therefore established. To facilitate the collaboration process and to derive a single representative value from these forecasts, the fuzzy group learning tree technique is used. The agent-based fuzzy-neural approach takes into account the different points of view in a more efficient way, and therefore the results obtained are more comprehensive and more in-depth. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is illustrated with a case study.
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