Showing papers in "Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems in 2004"

TL;DR: According to computational experiment result, the double populations algorithm find the optimal or nearly optimal solution effectively in comparison with other meta-heuristic algorithms and is an efficient method for Vehicle Routing Problem.

TL;DR: To make E- business system actively recommend products to users according to their interests, research on E-business recommended systems was described and existing problems on personalized recommendation in China were analyzed.

TL;DR: To properly and efficiently schedule resources and solve the combinatorial optimization problem, an improved algorithm named Bi-directional Convergence Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm was proposed using the graphic definition of Job-shop problem and the elitist strategy.

TL;DR: The state of the art of PLM is presented and the major international efforts in developing this emerging technology are surveyed.

TL;DR: Two valid methods of optimization deployment for networked manufacturing resources are presented and the solution of the model is introduced and the method is illustrated by an example.

TL;DR: A new algorithm which applied user- based collaborative filtering method based on similar item-set of target item by combing user-based collaborative filtering and project-based Collaborative filtering was presented.

TL;DR: The Bayesian decision making is introduced to extend the contract net protocol, and a multi-agent negotiation system architecture is constructed and it is proved that the learning model reduces the information exchange times between agents and increases their utility.

TL;DR: The detailed ranking of project's risk factors by risk probability, risk loss and both of them was obtained and an aviation project was introduced as an example to demonstrate the process and validity of the new risk analysis method.

TL;DR: In this article, a location-allocation model for the logistic network of a Remanufacturing/Manufacturing (R/M) system was presented, and the characteristics of the model were as following: the structure was a closed-loop network considering the distribution of regenerative products and new products that can be replaced by each other in the forward logistic.

TL;DR: The paper studies the representation and reuse of aircraft design knowledge, and presents a case-based knowledge reuse method in structure design of aircraft components that constructs the case representation, and adopts the similarity-based retrieving in case retrieval algorithm.

TL;DR: In this paper, the decision method of performance measurement of supply and demand coordination in supply chain is studied using the theory of ANP, a new multi-attribute comprehensive measurement system which considering the nonlinear combination of indices is established.

TL;DR: In this article, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was applied to distribute weights among factors, which would influence modular design, and then modules were rationally clustered based on fuzzy dendrogram representation method.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied case-base reasoning (CBR) to find out the similar product or component for configuration of new product orders, and the cost project of new orders was formed by approximately evaluating the cost of manufacturing, cost of requirement of resource and other cost.

TL;DR: A context-centered design knowledge management technique was proposed to improve reuse efficiency of design knowledge and offered wide application prospects and low cost of implementation without having to formalize the details of knowledge items or change their original formats.

TL;DR: The results in IVAE showed that the compounded method of representing the product information could meet the needs of information representation, and support the real time display and interaction commendably at the same time.

TL;DR: An enterprise resource optimization modeling system is proposed, which is based on the supply chain structure and is able to fulfill the optimal resource allocation of a manufacture system.

TL;DR: The architecture, application integration framework, standard, protocol, modeling, organization, management, cooperation and workflow in NetManGrid, an application system including many business grids, are discussed.

TL;DR: To overcome the limitations of traditional GA when solving the problem of job-shop scheduling, an improved GA was proposed by taking advantage of the traditional GA and local search as discussed by the authors, and a new crossover operator, Precedence Operation Crossover (POX), was created.

TL;DR: To optimize process model in product R D under resource constraints, a modeling method by applying Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT) was proposed and an illustrative example is given to show that it is an effective approach for modeling and analyzing the product development process.

TL;DR: Aiming at the resource-constrained project scheduling in a virtual enterprise for mould making, a mathematical model was put forward and a hybrid genetic algorithm was applied, thus a better approximate solution was obtained.

TL;DR: The architecture of EAI based on the web services technology is presented and an open enterprise application integrated framework based onThe web services is designed on the platform of J2EE.

TL;DR: A prototypal system has been developed using VRML and Java-EAI techniques to support the assembly planning activities involving geographically dispersed designers, and the feasibility of collaborative assembly planning and effectiveness of the system are validated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cooperative game theories such as Shapley, Core, Minimum Costs-Remaining Savings (MRCS) and Nash negotiation model to solve the benefit allocation problem of supply chain system consisting of one retailer and two suppliers.

TL;DR: It is shown in the results of the numerical simulation that the outcome of the mining can support cross-selling effectively.

TL;DR: An optimized coordination scheme was developed based on Lagrangian relaxation and sub-gradient algorithm, where the monolithic supply chain models were decomposed into member-wise sub-problems by relaxing the coupling constraints, and the members' local decisions were coordinated through the iterative updating oflagrangian multipliers using sub- gradient algorithm.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduced the concept of fourth party logistics (4PL) to improve the efficiency of supply chain management (SCM), many enterprises outsourced their logistic operations to professional logistics service providers.

TL;DR: A hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) is presented for the problem of minimizing the range of lateness and make-span on parallel non-identical machines, which is a NP-complete.

TL;DR: Multi-individual-crossover genetic operators were introduced to make full use of the excellent quality of the individual and ensured validity and diversification of the evolving descendants, but also reduced searching time of optimal schedule.

TL;DR: The repository of design resource has been established as an effective method of managing and organizing MLVRM, which enables designers to retrieve and view the reusable design resource, and provides an operable data platform for reusable design and configuration design.

TL;DR: To realize agile information system in virtual enterprise, a kind of agile Information system framework of virtual enterprise based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) was studied and its application limitations were expanded.