Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a heuristic for the inventory management of smart vending machine systems with product substitution under the replenishment point, order-up-to level policy and to evaluate ...

This paper addresses the problem of solving the congested transit assignment problem with strict capacities. The model under consideration is the extension made by Cominetti and Correa (2001), for which the only solution ...

Since the cost of the interconnection network grows with the number of buses (due to the connection cost), it becomes natural to try to eliminate as much connections as possible when a large number of processors is involved. ...

SARAS aims to develop assistive surgical robots for laparoscopic MIS, autonomously operating in the same workspace of either a teleoperated surgical robot or a manually driven surgical tool. The auxiliary robots autonomously ...

Distributed computing platforms are evolving to heterogeneous ecosystems with Clusters, Grids and Clouds introducing in its computing nodes, processors with different core architectures, accelerators (i.e. GPUs, FPGAs), ...

The complexity of the VLSI physical design flow grows dramatically as the level of integration increases. An effective way to manage this increasing complexity is through the use of regular designs which contain more ...

This work presents a hierarchical HMM-based audio segmentation system with feature selection designed for the Albayzin 2010 Evaluations. We propose an architecture that combines the outputs of individual binary detectors ...

In this work a kinematics for laminated beams enriched with a refined formulation ZigZag (RZT), originally presented by Tessler et al. in 2007, introduced in a hierarchical one dimensional type “p” finite element is ...

Aggregating multiple opinions or assessments in a decision has always been a challenging field topic for researchers. Over the last decade, different approaches, mainly based on weighting data sources or decision-makers ...

The quest for new portable implementations of simulation algorithms is motivated by the increasing variety of computing architectures. Moreover, the hybridization of high-performance computing systems imposes additional ...