... Minimizing lateness/tardiness
• Minimizing makespan
• Maximizing system/machine utilization
• Minimizing WIP (work in process)
• Maximizing throughput
• Minimizing average flow time
• Minimizing ... Simulation of scheduling rules in a flexible
manufacturing system using fuzzy logic, IEA-AIE96 Ninth International Conference on Industrial
and EngineeringApplicationof Artificial Intelligence ... routings. A routing is selected such that the following goals are achieved:
• Minimizing number of blocked machines.
• Minimizing total processing time.
• Minimizing number of processing steps
Four...
... risk of being left behind.
Simply, CRM is a high-tech way of gathering mou-
ntains of information about customers, then using
it to make customers happy—or at least a source
of more business. ... on
behalf of human users to perform laborious and
routine tasks such as locating and accessing neces-
sary information, resolving inconsistencies in the
retrieved information, filtering away irrelevant
and ... irrelevant
and unwanted information, and integrating infor-
mation from heterogeneous information sources.
In order to execute tasks on behalf of a business
process, computer application, or an individual,
agents...
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The process of defining your problem and solving it is reflected in the design of
the GUI. A number of data structures define different aspects of the problem,
and the various processing stages ...
types of solid objects:
•Circle object — represents the set of points inside and on a circle.
•Polygon object — represents the set of points inside and on a polygon given
by a set of line segments. ... commercial computer software or commercial
software documentation was obtained, as set forth in subparagraph (a) of the Rights in Commercial
Computer Software or Commercial Software Documentation...
... Leadership in
Mechanical Engineering
U.S. research leadership in mechanical engineering basic research is the result of a
combination of key factors, including a national instinct to respond ... president of the National Academy of Engineering.
The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to
secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... mechanical engineering and it
has affected every area of mechanical engineering. In particular, the field of computational
mechanics has become a vital component of this engineering discipline, and...
... paradigm’ in Thomas
Kuhn’s (Kuhn, 1970) point of view. In view of the above investigation, integration is
tentatively interpreted as an act or a process of joining or combining something with ...
something else. The integrated approach is a way of perceiving and solving problems
by integrating information, scientific disciplines, tools, interests and other aspects in a
systemic way in ... the invention-and-design (or engineering) art of applying scientific
methods and knowledge to complex problems arising in public and private enterprises
and organizations and involving their interactions...
... after completing the study.
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The minor thesis is aimed at designing an achievement test of ESP reading which
would be conducted in a class ofCivilEngineering English at ... measure the progress her students
had made in terms of reading skills after undertaking the course of English for Civil
Engineering in their last term in 2004-2005 school year. From the results, ... achievement in improving reading skill with English ofCivil
Engineering after 120 period reading course.
to measure their aptitude for the reading skill.
to diagnose their strength and weakness in...
... investment activities for business purposes; the rights and
obligations of investors; the guarantee of lawful rights and interests of
investors; encouragement of investment and investment incentives; ... Civilis”, a code
consolidating all of the laws in continental Europe during the reign of Roman
emperor Justinian. In countries that follow the civil law tradition, statutes are the
basis of ... roots in Roman law with Civil Law but has a much
different evolution from that ofCivil Law. The general principles of Common Law
grow out of the judicial decisions in court cases by individual...
... Benefits of the applicationof games in teaching grammar create
the effectiveness of students’ learning in grammar which focuses on two factors: developing
students’ motivation and understanding of ... province. It has a long
history of nearly 50years of foundation. In spite of being located in a rural area, it is famous for
its tradition of good teaching and learning with the students getting ... acknowledged to be of importance in language study and in
language teaching and learning in particular. Grammar is acquired naturally from meaningful
input and opportunities to interact in the classroom....
... the to of the infinitive is omitted, it is called bare- infinitive. The
bare- infinitive nominal clause is used when the infinitive clause supplies a
predication corresponding to an use of the ... pronoun
in the objective case shouldn’t be used in subject position. For example, it is
very informal to say “Him singing in the shower is an interesting hobby”.
c. Bare- infinitive nominal clause
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... crossover of two strings
Input: string-1 and string-2.
Output: offspring-1 and offspring-2.
1. Determine a cut point randomly from all the positions of a string. Each string is divided into two
parts, ... side, according to the cut point.
2. Copy the left side of string-1 to form the left side of offspring-1. The right side of offspring-1 is
constructed by the OPTs in the right side of string-1 and ... reorganized according
to the order of these OPTs in string-2.
3. Copy the left side of string-2 to form the left side of offspring-2. The right side of offspring-2 is
constructed by the OPTs in the right...
... organizational
learning: Representing and maintaining knowledge in an experience base”, in Proc.
Tenth Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’98,
1998.
44. T. Dingsøyr, “A ... management in software engineering projects”, in Proc.
Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’99, 1999,
pp. 20–27.
65. P. Br¨ossler, “Knowledge management at a software ... methods
according to the subject of study; in software engineering it can be either a process
to produce software or a software product.
In an article on research methods in software engineering [30]...