Coventry University

About: Coventry University is a education organization based out in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 4964 authors who have published 12700 publications receiving 255898 citations. The organization is also known as: Lanchester Polytechnic & Coventry Polytechnic.

Smallholding, Hobby-Farming, and Commercial Farming: Ethical Identities and the Production of Farming Spaces

Abstract: This paper explores the production of farming identities and spaces, focusing especially on the relational construction of situated ethical identities. Using three case studies drawn from research ...

An Effective Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Variable Neighborhood Search for Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling in a Packaging Machine Workshop

Abstract: Process planning and scheduling are modeled sequentially in the traditional manufacturing system. However, because of their complementarity, the increasing need to integrate them has emerged to enhance the manufacturing productivity significantly. Therefore, the integrated process planning and scheduling (IPPS) is becoming a hotspot in providing a blueprint for efficient manufacturing system. This paper proposes a novel algorithm hybridizing the genetic algorithm with strong global searching ability and variable neighborhood search with strong local searching ability for the IPPS problem. To improve the searching ability, a novel procedure, encoding method, and local search method have been designed. Effective operators have been adopted. Three experiments with totally 37 well-known benchmark problems are employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. Based on the results, the proposed algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art methods and finds the new solutions (the best solutions found so far) for some problems. The proposed method has also been applied on a real-world case from a nonstandard equipment production workshop for the packaging machine of a machine tool company in China. The solution demonstrates that it can solve real-world cases very well.

J.A. Smith, P. Flower and M. Larkin (2009), Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research.

Abstract: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research provides a comprehensive guide to interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) suitable for individuals of all abilities. Pre...