Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deal with the performance modeling and optimization for the stock preparation unit of a paper plant using genetic algorithm. It provides the optimum unit availability level for different combinations of failure and repair rates of the subsystems of the...

This article presents the methodology for calculation of the optimum size of a Photovoltaic (PV) system. Long-term data of PV radiation were used to calculate the average power generated by a PV generator for every hour of a typical day in a month. A load of a typical house in the south of...

This article presents the methodology for calculation of the optimum size of a Photovoltaic (PV) system. Long-term data of PV radiation were used to calculate the average power generated by a PV generator for every hour of a typical day in a month. A load of a typical house in the south of...

In the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), Saaty's consistency index is performed to ensure that the preference information, provided in an individual judgement matrix, is neither random nor illogical. Based on the extension of Saaty's consistency index, this paper proposes a consensus index to...

Manufacturing execution system (MES) provides a common and single system to support most manufacturing processes. However, MES applications do not address all of the manufacturing execution processes required to replenish the supply chain while dynamically responding to unpredicted change and...

Facility location under uncertain environments is an important and challenging problem. The problem deals with the optimal placement of facilities that serve a set of spatially distributed nodes. One way to deal with this problem is to model uncertainty by means of scenarios and to optimise some...

Purpose – This paper attempts to develop a hybrid model using advanced data mining techniques for the detection of Stock Price Manipulation. The hybrid model detailed in this article elucidates the application of a Genetic Algorithm based Artificial Neural Network to classify stocks witnessing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a structured framework to implement and sustain a quality costing system (QCS) based on process cost modeling (PCM) in process industries. Design/methodology/approach – After reviewing and analyzing various cost accounting methodologies...

Stream-based join algorithms got a prominent role in the field of real-time data warehouses. One particular type of stream-based joins is a semi-stream join where a single stream is joined with a disk -based relation. Normally the size of this disk-based relation is large enough and cannot be...