Many parallel machines, both commercial and experimental, have been/are being designed with toroidal interconnection networks. For a given number of nodes, the torus has a relatively larger diameter, but better cost/performance tradeoffs, such as higher channel bandwidth, and lower node degree, when compared to the hypercube. Thus, the torus is...
Good tool management and job operating strategies will
result in reduction in tool inventory and associated costs.
Very little empirical research has been conducted on a
Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) as a whole in relation
to its performances with tool movement approach,
specifically in a dynamic job shop in a...
Traditional simulation languages and simulators do not
fully support the need to design, modify, and extend
simulation models of manufacturing systems, especially,
material handling systems. Since AGV systems, one type of
automated material handling systems, require complicated
control logic, flexible job routings, and frequent layout
modifications and extensions to correspond...
The children's apparel industry is a fast-growing
industry in the United States. It is important to determine
what factors are considered as the most important when
parents purchase their pre-school children's clothing. To
gain a better understanding of parent-consumers' purchasing
behavior of pre-school children's apparel, this study
focused on parent-consumers'...
An evaluation of scheduling heuristics for non-identical
parallel processors was performed. There has been
limited research that has focused on scheduling of parallel
processors. This research generalizes the results from
prior work in this area and examines complex scheduling
rules in terms of flow time, tardiness, and proportion of
tardy...
This is a bibliography of doctoral dissertations and masters' theses in forestry and related topics issued during the period from July 1981 through June 1990. The colleges and universities included are all accredited by the Society of American Foresters. The actual listings were supplied by the individual institutions. Topics covered...
This volume contains the papers accepted for the informal workshop on Knowledge Compilation and Speedup Learning held along with the Machine Learning Conference in Aberdeen Scotland. This workshop is a sequel to the first Knowledge Compilation workshop, which was organized by Jim Bennett, Tom Dieterich, and Jack Mostow in Otter...