Since the electricity bill of a data center constitutes a significant portion of its overall operational costs, reducing this has become important. We investigate cost reduction o...
Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael J. Neel...
Worldwide competition originated the development of Integrated E-Supply Chains (IESC) that are distributed manufacturing systems integrating international logistics and informatio...
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Maria Pia Fanti, Agostino Marc...
Optimum implementation of non-conventional wells allows us to increase considerably hydrocarbon recovery. By considering the high drilling cost and the potential improvement in we...
In computer and electronic manufacturing, it is very important to be able to automatically check whether the surface mounted devices (SMD) are correctly placed on the printed circ...
Planning can often be simplified by decomposing the task into smaller tasks arranged hierarchically. Charlin et al. [4] recently showed that the hierarchy discovery problem can be...