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The Intelligent Process Planner and Scheduler
(2000)
This report is an account of an undergraduate student participating for two months in the research and development of a web-based, planning and scheduling application. The content contains details of web-application ...
Measuring Ground Delay Program Effectiveness Using the Rate Control Index
(2000)
The objective of Air Traffic Flow Management is to maintain safe and efficient use of airspace and airports by regulating the flow of traffic. In this paper, we introduce a single-valued metric for post-operatively rating ...
Modeling and Simulation of a Tungsten Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor
(2000)
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes are widely used in semiconductor device fabrication to deposit thin films of electronic materials. Physically based CVD modeling and simulation methods have been adopted for reactor ...
Randomized Difference Two-Timescale Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation Algorithms for Simulation Optimization of Hidden Markov Models
(2000)
We proposetwo finite difference two-timescale simultaneous perturbationstochastic approximation (SPSA)algorithmsfor simulation optimization ofhidden Markov models. Stability and convergence of both thealgorithms is ...
Improving Cluster Tool Performance by Finding the Optimal Sequence and Cyclic Sequence of Wafer Handler Moves
(2000)
The research aims to develop algorithms that can minimize the total lot processing time (makespan) of cluster tools used for semiconductor manufacturing. Previous research focuses on finding an optimal sequence of wafer ...
Stochastic Approximation and Optimization for Markov Chains
(2000)
We study the convergence properties of the projected stochasticapproximation (SA) algorithm which may be used to find the root of an unknown steady state function of a parameterized family of Markov chains. The analysis ...
Binary Rewriter Writer Software Manual
(2007-08-21)
In traditional software development, the developer would use a compiler to translate a high-level language program (Java, C++, etc.) into a binary executable program. In recent years, new research has introduced a new ...
Robot Formations: Learning Minimum-Length Paths on Uneven Terrain
(2000)
We discuss a prototypeproblem involving terrain exploration and learning by formations ofautonomous vehicles. We investigate an algorithm forcoordinating multiple robots whose task is to find the shortest pathbetween a ...
Distributed subgradient method under random communication topology - the e
(2009-09)
In this note we study the performance metrics (rate of convergence and guaranteed region of convergence) of a multi-agent subgradient method for optimizing a sum of convex functions. We assume that the agents exchange ...
Convergence Results for Ant Routing Algorithms via Stochastic Approximation and Optimization
(2007)
``Ant algorithms'' have been proposed to solve a variety of problems arising in optimization and distributed control. They form a subset of the larger class of ``Swarm Intelligence'' algorithms. The central idea is that a ...