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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robot Selection Through Fuzzy Set Optimization
Robots have made a significant impact in today’s industry. Accompanied by the growing demand of industrial robots, the number of robot makers and suppliers is also increasing. However, the growing trend of rob...
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Off-Line Integration Techniques for Robot Path Planning
Off-line programming techniques are not developed to the stage of practical application because of robot inaccuracy, difficulty in precise robot calibration,and difficulty in interfacing to CAD data bases. In ...
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Traffic routing and link dimensioning in the common channel signaling networks
Signaling can be defined as the exchange of information specifically concerned with the establishment and control of connections, and with network management, in a telecommunications network. It constitutes th...
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A hybrid analysis/simulation for ATM performance with application to quality-of-service of CBR traffic
A discrete time queueing model for the performance of an ATM system is analyzed using matrix analytic methods. Time is segmented into slots with each slot equal to the transmission time of one ATM cell. The AT...
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Performance analysis of several call launching schemes in an outbound call management system
An outbound call management (OCM) system is used in launching calls to customers in a company or service center for the purpose or application of, for example, bill processing. Preliminary study of OCM systems...
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The application of Integrated Intelligent Systems (IIS) to production scheduling
One of the most important issues in the process of development and implemention of a manufacturing system is production scheduling. Different scheduling rules and algorithms have been widely developed and used...
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Integration of reverse engineering and rapid prototy** with data reduction
Reverse engineering is a methodology for constructing CAD models of physical parts by digitizing an existing part, creating a computer model and then using it to manufacture the component. When a digitized par...
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Simulation Study of the Process Parameters of a New Precision Grinding Method
A new method for precision surface grinding which is termed “workpiece modulation” is studied in this paper. Simulations and experiments have shown that workpiece modulation improves ground surface quality. Si...
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State-Dependent Pricing and Its Economic Implications
In a packet-switched network, the service provider can charge users a state-dependent price, which depends on the extent to which the network is congested. Alternatively, one can charge users a long-term avera...
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A Multi-Path QoS Routing Protocol in a Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is one composed of a set of mobile hosts capable of communicating with each other without the assistance of base stations. This paper considers the QoS (quality-of-service) rout...
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Integration of Fuzzy Knowledge
In this chapter, we introduce the problems of knowledge integration and present our research results on develo** genetic-algorithm-based (GA-based) integration approaches to shorten the time needed in constr...
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An End-to-End Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Ad Hoc Networks
Bandwidth-guaranteed QoS service in ad hoc networks is a challenging task due to several factors such as the absence of the central control, the dynamic network topology, the hidden terminal problem and the mu...
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SABAGAR: A Simple Attribute-Based Addressing and GPS-Aided Routing Protocol for Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks
We propose in this paper a data-centric routing protocol for wireless sensor network applications. This protocol, called SABAGAR, is designed to be implemented easily to provide the basis for commercially succ...
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Enabling Real-Time H.264 Video Services over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Joint Admission and Transmission Power Control
In a wireless ad hoc network, packets are sent from node-to-node in a multihop fashion until they reach the destination. In this paper we investigate the capacity of a wireless ad hoc network in supporting pa...
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Privacy Preserving Link Analysis on Dynamic Weighted Graph
Link analysis algorithms have been used successfully on hyperlinked data to identify authoritative documents and retrieve other information. They also showed great potential in many new areas such as counterte...
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Equilibrium and Fairness of Networks Shared by TCP Reno and Vegas/FAST
It has been proved theoretically that a network with heterogeneous congestion control algorithms that react to different congestion signals can have multiple equilibrium points. In this paper, we demonstrate t...
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Two-machine flow shop problems with a single server
Scheduling models that allow the handling of pre-operational setup have been a source of major interests because of their practical relevance and theoretical impacts. Two-stage flow-lines have drawn much atten...
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Combining Uncertain Outputs from Multiple Ontology Matchers
An ontology matching method (or a matcher) aims at matching every entity (or concept) in one ontology to the most suitable entity (or entities) in another ontology. Usually it is almost impossible to find a pe...
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Single-machine scheduling to stochastically minimize maximum lateness
We study the problem of scheduling a set of jobs on a single machine, to minimize the maximum lateness ML or the maximum weighted lateness MWL under stochastic order. The processing time P ...
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Resource planning and incentive engineering for a congested wireless access point: an integrated multiple time scale control mechanism
Wireless networks are playing an increasingly important role for global communications. Many resource allocation mechanisms have been proposed to efficiently utilize the limited radio resources in wireless net...