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# IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

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Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): C1
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering publication information

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): C2
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• ### An Integrated Pricing and Deteriorating Model and a Hybrid Algorithm for a VMI (Vendor-Managed-Inventory) Supply Chain

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):673 - 682
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This paper studies a vendor-managed-inventory (VMI) supply chain where a manufacturer, as a vendor, procures a type of nondeteriorating raw material to produce a deteriorating product, and distribute it to multiple retailers. The price of the product offered by one retailer is also influenced by the prices offered by other retailers because consumers can choose the product from any of the retailer... View full abstract»

• ### Optimization Based Method for Supply Location Selection and Routing in Large-Scale Emergency Material Delivery

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):683 - 693
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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Timely supply of vital materials to disaster hit areas plays a critical role in emergency relief. The problem involves warehouse selection, fleet routing, and scheduling so as to meet demand in the strict time window. The problem is NP-hard, in general, and extremely difficult to solve. The congestion caused by heavy traffic further aggravates the problem. To obtain a scalable solution, a new meth... View full abstract»

• ### The Linehaul-Feeder Vehicle Routing Problem With Virtual Depots

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):694 - 704
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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The problem addressed in this paper-the linehaul-feeder vehicle routing problem with virtual depots (LFVRP-VD)-can be regarded as an extension of the vehicle routing problem. During delivery operation, one large vehicle departs from the physical depot (PD) and services all virtual depots (VDs). A set of small vehicles delivers to customers and, if necessary, reloads either from the PD or from the ... View full abstract»

• ### Self Assessment-Based Decision Making for Multiagent Cooperative Search

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):705 - 719
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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This paper addresses a search problem with multiple limited capability search agents in a partially connected dynamical networked environment under different information structures. A self assessment-based decision-making scheme for multiple agents is proposed that uses a modified negotiation scheme with low communication overheads. The scheme has attractive features of fast decision-making and sc... View full abstract»

• ### An Adaptive Sampling Algorithm for Simulation-Based Optimization With Descriptive Complexity Preference

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):720 - 731
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Many systems nowadays follow not only physical laws but also manmade rules. These systems are known as discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDSs), where simulation is the only faithful way for performance evaluation. Due to various advantages in practice, designs (or solution candidates) with low descriptive complexity (called simple designs) are usually preferred over complex ones when their performa... View full abstract»

• ### Allocating Resources in Multiagent Flowshops With Adaptive Auctions

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):732 - 743
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating machine resources among multiple agents, each of which is responsible to solve a flowshop scheduling problem. We present an iterated combinatorial auction mechanism in which bid generation is performed within each agent, while a price adjustment procedure is performed by a centralized auctioneer. While this approach is fairly well-studied in the... View full abstract»

• ### Nonparametric and Semi-Parametric Sensor Recovery in Multichannel Condition Monitoring Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):744 - 753
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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Condition monitoring (CM) has been recognized as a more effective failure prevention paradigm than the time-based counterpart. CM can be performed via an array of sensors providing multiple, real-time equipment degradation information with broad coverage. However, loss of sensor readings due to sensor abnormalities and/or malfunction of connectors has long been a hurdle to reliable fault diagnosis... View full abstract»

• ### Symbolic Computation of Reduced Guards in Supervisory Control

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):754 - 765
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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In the supervisory control theory, a supervisor is generated based on given plant and specification models. The supervisor restricts the plant in order to fulfill the specifications. A problem that is typically encountered in industrial applications is that the resulting supervisor is not easily comprehensible for the users. To tackle this problem, we introduce an efficient method to characterize ... View full abstract»

• ### A Practical Approach for Maximally Permissive Liveness-Enforcing Supervision of Complex Resource Allocation Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):766 - 779
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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Past works towards the effective deployment of the maximally permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor (LES) for sequential resource allocation systems (RAS) have been stalled by: (i) the NP-Hardness of the computation of this policy for the majority of the considered RAS classes and (ii) the inability of the adopted more compact representations of the underlying RAS dynamics to provide an effectiv... View full abstract»

• ### Stochastic Algorithms for Discrete Parameter Simulation Optimization

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):780 - 793
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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We present two efficient discrete parameter simulation optimization (DPSO) algorithms for the long-run average cost objective. One of these algorithms uses the smoothed functional approximation (SFA) procedure, while the other is based on simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA). The use of SFA for DPSO had not been proposed previously in the literature. Further, both algorithms a... View full abstract»

• ### Supervisor Optimization for Deadlock Resolution in Automated Manufacturing Systems With Petri Nets

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):794 - 804
Cited by:  Papers (34)
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For automated manufacturing systems (AMSs), deadlock resolution in terms of Petri nets remains an attractive topic to which many approaches are dedicated. However, few of them can quantitatively optimize certain indices during their supervisor synthesis process. This causes unnecessary control limitations and often leads to high implementation cost. In the framework of Petri nets, this paper propo... View full abstract»

• ### Bending-Invariant Correspondence Matching on 3-D Human Bodies for Feature Point Extraction

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):805 - 814
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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In this paper, we present an automatic approach to match correspondences on 3-D human bodies in various postures so that feature points can be automatically extracted. The feature points are very important to the establishment of volumetric parameterization around human bodies for the human-centered customization of soft-products (Trans. Autom. Sci. Eng., vol. 4, issue no. 1, pp. 11-21, 2007). For... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Image-Based Euclidean Calibration of Structured Light Systems in General Scenes

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):815 - 823
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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This paper presents a method to perform Euclidean calibration on camera and projector-based structured light systems, without assuming specific scene structure. The vast majority of the methods in the literature rely on prior knowledge of the 3D scene geometry in order to perform calibration, i.e., the nature of the occluding bodies in the scene needs to be known beforehand in order to calibrate s... View full abstract»

• ### Development and Force/Position Control of a New Hybrid Thermo-Piezoelectric MicroGripper Dedicated to Micromanipulation Tasks

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):824 - 834
Cited by:  Papers (51)
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A new microgripper dedicated to micromanipulation and microassembly tasks is presented in this paper. Based on a new actuator, called thermo-piezoelectric actuator, the microgripper presents both a high range and a high positioning resolution. The principle of the microgripper is based on the combination of the thermal actuation (for the coarse positioning) and the piezoelectric actuation (for the... View full abstract»

• ### Model-Assisted Stochastic Learning for Robotic Applications

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):835 - 845
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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We present here a framework for the generation, application, and assessment of assistive models for the purpose of aiding automated robotic parameter optimization methods. Our approach represents an expansion of traditional machine learning implementations by employing models to predict the performances of input parameter sequences and then filter a potential population of inputs prior to evaluati... View full abstract»

• ### Linear Programming SVM-ARMA $_{rm 2K}$ With Application in Engine System Identification

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):846 - 854
Cited by:  Papers (8)  |  Patents (1)
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As an emerging non-parametric modeling technique, the methodology of support vector regression blazed a new trail in identifying complex nonlinear systems with superior generalization capability and sparsity. Nevertheless, the conventional quadratic programming support vector regression can easily lead to representation redundancy and expensive computational cost. In this paper, by using the l<... View full abstract»

• ### Optimization of Train Regulation and Energy Usage of Metro Lines Using an Adaptive-Optimal-Control Algorithm

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):855 - 864
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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Automatic train regulation (ATR) dominates the service quality, transport capacity, and energy usage of a metro-line operation. The train regulator aims to maximize the schedule/headway adherence while minimizing the energy consumption. This paper presents a traffic-energy model to characterize the complicated dynamics with regard to the traffic and the energy consumption of a metro line, and devi... View full abstract»

• ### On the Flexible Demand Assignment Problems: Case of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):865 - 868
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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Multiresource generalized assignment problem (MRGAP) has enormous applications in solving real problems of industries. In recent years, several generalizations of MRGAP have been proposed to tackle very difficult problems. An important generalization is called flexible demand assignment (FDA) problem. In this paper, a generalization of FDA is proposed that has many applications. Two features of ou... View full abstract»

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Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):869 - 873
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Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): 874
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• ### 2011 Index IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Vol. 8

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):875 - 888
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• ### IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): C3
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Information for authors

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): C4
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