... (accounting for approximately one-sixth of the patient population in California), and data on patients insured at Shriner Hospital However, these insurance companies are located in urban areas in ... regression model, adjusting for density is achieved by including an independent variable which does not require the restrictive assumption of linearity when controlling for density In this study, the ... total charges increased to $193 per capita, adjusted for total inflation (Table 1) This increase in charges could be due to a combination of factors, and may be influenced by population increase and/or...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57
... paintings had been a well-known phenomenon since Roman times, and such paintings would create the illusion of, for instance, walls containing a window to the outside world or a ceiling containing ... rendering Image cube trajectory Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Internet Engineering Task Force Interaural intensity difference Interaural level difference Infrared light-emitting ... Edinburgh EH14 4AS UK Peter Kauff Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Image Processing Department Einsteinufer 37 D-10587 Berlin Germany xv xvi Reinhard Koch Institute...
Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2013, 10:21
Call Progress Time Measurement in IP Telephony
... phase involves determining the tone(s) indicating the completion of one stage of dialing so that the beginning of the next stage of dialing can be detected If an IVR file is played then, any indication ... begin’’ can be used as an indication of the beginning/end of a stage For example, in some implemen- 140 CALL PROGRESS TIME MEASUREMENT IN IP TELEPHONY Figure A-2 Multistage call setup using PIN-based ... progress/setup time for single-stage dialing as well It is expected that the next-generation IP telephony GWs will allow single-stage dialing through a suitable routing/dialing plan in the central...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 07:20
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P3
... holonic concepts into a manufacturing setting: Holon: An autonomous and cooperative building block of a manufacturing system for transforming, transporting, storing, and/or validating information ... estimated uncertainty that the entity contains, the minimally fuzzy sets contain also the minimally uncertain information.* Secondly, the “total ignorance” (or uncertain) information is pointed out ... is decomposed into manufacturing features (with corresponding machining operations) • Factory Manager(s) negotiates with resource agents for machining operations, awards machining operation tasks...
Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 11:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P5
... remaining slack time Slack per number of remaining operations Ratio of slack to remaining operation time Shortest number in queue Shortest processing time Shortest remaining processing time Shortest ... total processing time • Minimizing number of processing steps Four different routing selection rules used herein are SNQ (or NINQ), STPT (shortest total processing time) , WINQ, and FUZZY In previous ... Part Dispatching Rules in FMSs This section explains a fuzzy real -time routing selection and an intelligent decision-making tool using fuzzy expert systems for machine loading in an FMS In the complex...
Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 18:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P4
... themselves In the traditional part–machine incidence matrix, assuming binary values, sequence information is ignored To include sequence information, a sequence-based incidence matrix is introduced, ... components for cellular manufacturing, keeping a concurrent engineering framework in mind It utilizes two middle layers, as shown in Figure 4.4 The inputs for the network include design features of ... form of zero indicates that a machine is not required by the part Figure 4.5a shows a matrix of machine requirements for nine parts, processed on nine machines Part–machine grouping involves a...
Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 18:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P7
... for design retrieval in manufacturing systems, Computers in Industry, 20(1):11-23 For Further Information A good introduction to engineering design is presented in Engineering Design Methods: ... engineering designs can be adapted in the research to represent a design One major disadvantage of using image-based indexing is that the disappearance of hidden features and internal lines is inevitable ... An intelligent design retrieving system should aim toward a natural linking of the next process planning and manufacturing stages 7.2.4 Conducting Retrieval Tasks with a Certain Degree of Incomplete...
Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 16:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P6
... design objectives may include minimizing intercellular movements, minimizing set-up time, minimizing machine load variation or maximizing machine utilization, and minimizing the system’s costs ... constructing a group technology database of parts and their process routings, finding the most suitable routings among parts’ alternative routings, grouping machines into machine groups, and forming ... Algorithm for Finding the Optimum Process Routings for Parts The aim of a cellular manufacturing system design is minimizing the cost of the system It can be gained by dividing the system into independent...
Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 16:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P9
... crossover of two strings Input: Output: string-1 and string-2 offspring-1 and offspring-2 Determine a cut point randomly from all the positions of a string Each string is divided into two parts, ... commonly used criteria for evaluating process plans include shortest processing time and minimum processing cost Since the detailed information on tool paths and machining parameters is not available ... (D-OPT) is introduced, which is defined as an operation incurring no machining cost and having no effects in terms of machine, set-up, and tool changes By adding the dummy operation into the sets...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2013, 23:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P8
... applying parallel machines in industrial manufacturing, only a handful of papers are found on sequencing machining operations for parallel machines [3, 22] The combinatorial nature of sequencing ... Threading External Grooving Radial Drilling Radial Drilling Internal Turning Boring Internal Turning Boring Operation Number WL1 WL2 MU1 MU2 Mode Machining Time 1 1 20 1 1 1 1 28 1 1 10 1 1 12 1 ... satisfied Constraint 8.8 denotes the completion time as the sum of the starting time and the processing time Constraint 8.9 ensures the starting time of operation j cannot be initialized until...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2013, 23:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P12
... of improving the product quality, increasing the effect events in production, increasing autonomity and intelligence in manufacturing lines, reducing the reaction time of manufacturing systems, ... short-term characteristics For instance, in machining processes, if vibration from the ground is coming into the machine processing the materials, and lasts continuously for some time, it can be said to ... the network within the system Various manufacturing processes including machining, arc welding, semiconductor, and hydroforming processes are considered for networks applications Finally, perspectives...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 09:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P11
... or slip) Casting the slip in a plaster mold for a specified duration Removing the mold Air drying the cast piece Spray gazing the dried piece Firing the gazed piece in a kiln Inspecting the finished ... Machining Application Abrasive flow machining (AFM) was originally developed for deburring aircraft valve bodies It has many applications in the aerospace, automotive, electronic, and die-making industries ... heating effect Time of production was divided into five periods beginning in the morning (period 1) and ending with the work day (period 5) Each part was assigned to one of these periods depending...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 09:15
Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P10
... Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem Job-Shop Scheduling Problem Multistage Process Planning Part Loading Scheduling Problem Introduction Production scheduling ... recent interest in using genetic algorithms to address the problem In the following sections, we explain how to solve them with genetic algorithms, including resource-constrained project scheduling, ... fine-tuning Local search in this context can be thought of as being analogous to a kind of learning that occurs during the lifetime of an individual string With the hybrid method, a offspring will...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 09:15
Tài liệu The Right Stock At The Right Time - Prospering In The Coming Good Years (Wiley - 2003) (pdf) ppt
... making it the strongest year in the 10-year pattern Years ending in eight showed winners in out of 10 occurrences The poorer-performing years were those ending in seven and those years ending in ... you pinpoint when those times are most apt to occur I would like to personally welcome you into my world of speculation, into the art of divining the future, into the art of living not in the ... consecutive string of the 11 winning years ending in a five? And how about that eight year in the pattern—would it also produce gains similar to those as it had in the past? Years ending in a five from...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 10:15
Tài liệu Module 13: Real-Time Collaboration in Exchange 2000 pptx
... User Instant Messaging Address URL Instant Messaging Instant Messaging Domain Domain Instant Messaging Home Server URL Home Server Home Server You enable individual users for Instant Messaging ... Use Instant Instant Messaging Messaging Instant Instant Messaging Messaging Chat Server Chat Server Chat Server Chat Server Data Data Conferencing Conferencing Data Data Conferencing Conferencing ... towards latency, including transmission delays, queuing delays in network equipment, and delays in host protocol stacks Latency must be minimized in order to maintain a certain level of interactivity...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 16:15
Tài liệu Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P19 doc
... approximations, during which the training data set is split into certain training data set and possible training data set Subsequently, these training sets are forwarded to the GA-based search engine for ... training data set correctly For each certain rule extracted from the certain training data set, RClass* uses a so-called completeness index to indicate the number of observations in the original ... same rule in the original training data In other words, the completeness index represents the usefulness or the effectiveness of a certain rule The reliability and completeness indices are included...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15
Tài liệu Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P18 pdf
... moving-window sample method is chosen, except that ARL values of the designs using the moving-window sample method are in general smaller than those using the independent method, considering ... with larger values meaning larger shifts Note that both neural networks were trained off-line using simulations By incorporating the trained weight matrices, one can start using the proposed method ... the “true” individual observation input method in that it uses the most recent and four immediately passed observations The reason for maintaining a few observations in a sample point is due...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15
Tài liệu Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P17 doc
... This involves dividing the data set into S mutually exclusive subsets, using S – subsets for training the network (as discussed in Section 17.2.1.2) and the remaining subset for testing, repeating ... differing amplitudes and ranges of the outputs on the training process) TABLE 17.3 MLP Neural Network Training Scheme Training algorithm Starting learning rate (η) Learning adaptation rate Minimum ... training phase is also terminated if the percentage change of error with respect to training time/ epochs is too small (
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15
Tài liệu Computational Intelligence In Manufacturing Handbook P16 pptx
... manually inspecting machined surfaces at fixed intervals A surface profilometer containing a contact stylus is used in the manual inspection procedure This procedure is both time- consuming and labor-intensive ... laboratories in the state of Iowa (including Winnebago Co in Forest City; Delavan Inc in Des Moines; Sauer-Sundstrand Inc in Ames), point to the feasibility of in- process surface roughness recognition ... costs by eliminating the relatively inefficient off-line quality control aspect of surface roughness inspection Therefore, reductions in manufacturing costs will increase competitiveness in worldwide...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15