CO2 emission levels of copper and zinc mines from which Japanese smelters import ore concentrates into Japan,were estimated by using a database called MLED. Eleven copper mines selected from data availability of mine ...CO2 emission levels of copper and zinc mines from which Japanese smelters import ore concentrates into Japan,were estimated by using a database called MLED. Eleven copper mines selected from data availability of mine site covered 84% of the total imported concentrates. Adding inventories of sea transportation and smelting processes to mine development process,total CO2 emission level for copper and zinc ingots produced in Japan were calculated. The results show that the emission share of mining and mineral processing processes for each mine is indicated around 30%-70% of total emission for ingots,which implies the importance of including the mining activities to the inventory of upper stream products.展开更多
An empirical time study was cohducted to evaluate the performance of the current felling and tree processing methods used in Northern Iran's Hyrcanian forest. Motor-manual felling is done mostly in winter, while tree...An empirical time study was cohducted to evaluate the performance of the current felling and tree processing methods used in Northern Iran's Hyrcanian forest. Motor-manual felling is done mostly in winter, while tree processing starts when the felling season ends. We identified the elements of felling and processing work phases, and 142 cycles and 110 cycles were respectively recorded for felling and processing. On the basis of data analysis (time study), we developed statistical models of effective time consumption in the respective work phase and for its total productivity. The production rate of felling with and without delay time was 9.7 and 11.65 trees per hour (0.17 USD.m^-3 and 0.21 USD-m^-3), and the average production cost with and without delay was 1.21 USD and 1.45 USD per tree, respectively. The average productivity of processing was 35 m^3 per effective hour and the average unit cost of processing was 0.92 USD.m^-3.展开更多
With regards to the assembly line of cost control of Dechang company,the motor housing′s cost control of process will be necessarily appreciated.Though the supply quantity is large in a machine and the price of motor...With regards to the assembly line of cost control of Dechang company,the motor housing′s cost control of process will be necessarily appreciated.Though the supply quantity is large in a machine and the price of motor housing is cheaper,the cost control of automatic production line is significant in this respection.It is found that insufficiency power is main cause for production line failure.The cost control of equipment includes to structure wheel,conveyor and motor for benefit which also needs to be controlled in detail.Only in this way can we fundamentally resolve the main problem of high cost process.When the capital price L increases,Avc also increases too with nonlinear meantime,and Tc&Vc increase in proportion to K.Among them,the Tc increases the highest and then Vc increases lightly.Generally when labour quantity L and capital quantity K increase cost increases in proportion.展开更多
This paper proposes a technique to accelerate the convergence of the value iteration algorithm applied to discrete average cost Markov decision processes. An adaptive partial information value iteration algorithm is p...This paper proposes a technique to accelerate the convergence of the value iteration algorithm applied to discrete average cost Markov decision processes. An adaptive partial information value iteration algorithm is proposed that updates an increasingly accurate approximate version of the original problem with a view to saving computations at the early iterations, when one is typically far from the optimal solution. The proposed algorithm is compared to classical value iteration for a broad set of adaptive parameters and the results suggest that significant computational savings can be obtained, while also ensuring a robust performance with respect to the parameters.展开更多
Product quality and operation cost control obtain increasing emphases in modern chemical system engineering. To improve the fault detection power of the partial least square (PLS) method for quality control, a new QRP...Product quality and operation cost control obtain increasing emphases in modern chemical system engineering. To improve the fault detection power of the partial least square (PLS) method for quality control, a new QRPV statistic is proposed in terms of the VP (variable importance in projection) indices of monitored process variables, which is significantly advanced over and different from the conventional Q statistic. QRPV is calculated only by the residuals of the remarkable process variables (RPVs). Therefore, it is the dominant relation between quality and RPV not all process variables (as in the case of the conventional PLS) that is monitored by this new VP-PLS (VPLS) method. The combination of QRPV and T2 statistics is applied to the quality and cost control of the Tennessee Eastman (TE) process, and weak faults can be detected as quickly as possible. Consequently, the product quality of TE process is guaranteed and operation costs are reduced.展开更多
As for the assembly line of cost control of Toyota company in, the motor housing also needs cost control. Because the supply quantity of small motor is very large every month, the production line is needed to solve th...As for the assembly line of cost control of Toyota company in, the motor housing also needs cost control. Because the supply quantity of small motor is very large every month, the production line is needed to solve this problem. In addition to the control of equipment, personnel quantities and wages, the introduction of raw materials also needs to be controlled. Only in this way can we fundamentally solve the problem of high cost and low profit.展开更多
In the present paper, cost control existing in stages of decision making, drawing design, construction bidding, construction, completion settlement, product sales of real estate development are analyzed and solutions ...In the present paper, cost control existing in stages of decision making, drawing design, construction bidding, construction, completion settlement, product sales of real estate development are analyzed and solutions for cost control in each stage are provided.展开更多
This article explores controllable Borel spaces, stationary, homogeneous Markov processes, discrete time with infinite horizon, with bounded cost functions and using the expected total discounted cost criterion. The p...This article explores controllable Borel spaces, stationary, homogeneous Markov processes, discrete time with infinite horizon, with bounded cost functions and using the expected total discounted cost criterion. The problem of the estimation of stability for this type of process is set. The central objective is to obtain a bounded stability index expressed in terms of the Lévy-Prokhorov metric;likewise, sufficient conditions are provided for the existence of such inequalities.展开更多
Abstract Most papers in scheduling research have treated individual job processing times as fixed parameters. However, in many practical situations, a manager may control processing time by reallocating resources. In ...Abstract Most papers in scheduling research have treated individual job processing times as fixed parameters. However, in many practical situations, a manager may control processing time by reallocating resources. In this paper, authors consider a machine scheduling problem with controllable processing times. In the first part of this paper, a special case where the processing times and compression costs are uniform among jobs is discussed. Theoretical results are derived that aid in developing an O(n 2) algorithm to slove the problem optimally. In the second part of this paper, authors generalize the discussion to general case. An effective heuristic to the general problem will be presented.展开更多
时间序列早期分类(ETSC)有两个矛盾的目标:早期性和准确率。分类早期性的实现,总是以牺牲它的准确率为代价。现有基于优化的多变量时间序列(MTS)早期分类方法,虽然在成本函数中考虑了错误分类成本和延迟决策成本,却忽视了MTS数据集样本...时间序列早期分类(ETSC)有两个矛盾的目标:早期性和准确率。分类早期性的实现,总是以牺牲它的准确率为代价。现有基于优化的多变量时间序列(MTS)早期分类方法,虽然在成本函数中考虑了错误分类成本和延迟决策成本,却忽视了MTS数据集样本之间的局部结构对分类性能的影响。针对这个问题,提出一种基于正交局部保持映射(OLPP)和成本优化的MTS早期分类模型(OLPPMOAE)。首先,使用OLPP将MTS样本前缀映射到低维空间,保持原数据集的局部结构;其次,在低维空间训练一组高斯过程(GP)分类器,生成训练集每个时刻的类概率;最后,使用粒子群优化(PSO)算法从这些类概率中学习停止规则中的最优参数。在6个MTS数据集上的实验结果表明,在早期性基本持平的情况下,OLPPMOAE的准确率显著高于基于成本的R1_C_(lr)(stopping Rule and Cost function with regularization term l_(1)and l_(2))模型,平均准确率能够提升11.33%~15.35%,调和均值(HM)能够提升4.71%~9.01%。因此,所提模型能够以较高的准确率尽早地分类MTS。展开更多
文摘CO2 emission levels of copper and zinc mines from which Japanese smelters import ore concentrates into Japan,were estimated by using a database called MLED. Eleven copper mines selected from data availability of mine site covered 84% of the total imported concentrates. Adding inventories of sea transportation and smelting processes to mine development process,total CO2 emission level for copper and zinc ingots produced in Japan were calculated. The results show that the emission share of mining and mineral processing processes for each mine is indicated around 30%-70% of total emission for ingots,which implies the importance of including the mining activities to the inventory of upper stream products.
基金financially supported by Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technologies and University of Joensuu
文摘An empirical time study was cohducted to evaluate the performance of the current felling and tree processing methods used in Northern Iran's Hyrcanian forest. Motor-manual felling is done mostly in winter, while tree processing starts when the felling season ends. We identified the elements of felling and processing work phases, and 142 cycles and 110 cycles were respectively recorded for felling and processing. On the basis of data analysis (time study), we developed statistical models of effective time consumption in the respective work phase and for its total productivity. The production rate of felling with and without delay time was 9.7 and 11.65 trees per hour (0.17 USD.m^-3 and 0.21 USD-m^-3), and the average production cost with and without delay was 1.21 USD and 1.45 USD per tree, respectively. The average productivity of processing was 35 m^3 per effective hour and the average unit cost of processing was 0.92 USD.m^-3.
文摘With regards to the assembly line of cost control of Dechang company,the motor housing′s cost control of process will be necessarily appreciated.Though the supply quantity is large in a machine and the price of motor housing is cheaper,the cost control of automatic production line is significant in this respection.It is found that insufficiency power is main cause for production line failure.The cost control of equipment includes to structure wheel,conveyor and motor for benefit which also needs to be controlled in detail.Only in this way can we fundamentally resolve the main problem of high cost process.When the capital price L increases,Avc also increases too with nonlinear meantime,and Tc&Vc increase in proportion to K.Among them,the Tc increases the highest and then Vc increases lightly.Generally when labour quantity L and capital quantity K increase cost increases in proportion.
文摘This paper proposes a technique to accelerate the convergence of the value iteration algorithm applied to discrete average cost Markov decision processes. An adaptive partial information value iteration algorithm is proposed that updates an increasingly accurate approximate version of the original problem with a view to saving computations at the early iterations, when one is typically far from the optimal solution. The proposed algorithm is compared to classical value iteration for a broad set of adaptive parameters and the results suggest that significant computational savings can be obtained, while also ensuring a robust performance with respect to the parameters.
文摘Product quality and operation cost control obtain increasing emphases in modern chemical system engineering. To improve the fault detection power of the partial least square (PLS) method for quality control, a new QRPV statistic is proposed in terms of the VP (variable importance in projection) indices of monitored process variables, which is significantly advanced over and different from the conventional Q statistic. QRPV is calculated only by the residuals of the remarkable process variables (RPVs). Therefore, it is the dominant relation between quality and RPV not all process variables (as in the case of the conventional PLS) that is monitored by this new VP-PLS (VPLS) method. The combination of QRPV and T2 statistics is applied to the quality and cost control of the Tennessee Eastman (TE) process, and weak faults can be detected as quickly as possible. Consequently, the product quality of TE process is guaranteed and operation costs are reduced.
文摘As for the assembly line of cost control of Toyota company in, the motor housing also needs cost control. Because the supply quantity of small motor is very large every month, the production line is needed to solve this problem. In addition to the control of equipment, personnel quantities and wages, the introduction of raw materials also needs to be controlled. Only in this way can we fundamentally solve the problem of high cost and low profit.
文摘In the present paper, cost control existing in stages of decision making, drawing design, construction bidding, construction, completion settlement, product sales of real estate development are analyzed and solutions for cost control in each stage are provided.
文摘This article explores controllable Borel spaces, stationary, homogeneous Markov processes, discrete time with infinite horizon, with bounded cost functions and using the expected total discounted cost criterion. The problem of the estimation of stability for this type of process is set. The central objective is to obtain a bounded stability index expressed in terms of the Lévy-Prokhorov metric;likewise, sufficient conditions are provided for the existence of such inequalities.
文摘Abstract Most papers in scheduling research have treated individual job processing times as fixed parameters. However, in many practical situations, a manager may control processing time by reallocating resources. In this paper, authors consider a machine scheduling problem with controllable processing times. In the first part of this paper, a special case where the processing times and compression costs are uniform among jobs is discussed. Theoretical results are derived that aid in developing an O(n 2) algorithm to slove the problem optimally. In the second part of this paper, authors generalize the discussion to general case. An effective heuristic to the general problem will be presented.
文摘时间序列早期分类(ETSC)有两个矛盾的目标:早期性和准确率。分类早期性的实现,总是以牺牲它的准确率为代价。现有基于优化的多变量时间序列(MTS)早期分类方法,虽然在成本函数中考虑了错误分类成本和延迟决策成本,却忽视了MTS数据集样本之间的局部结构对分类性能的影响。针对这个问题,提出一种基于正交局部保持映射(OLPP)和成本优化的MTS早期分类模型(OLPPMOAE)。首先,使用OLPP将MTS样本前缀映射到低维空间,保持原数据集的局部结构;其次,在低维空间训练一组高斯过程(GP)分类器,生成训练集每个时刻的类概率;最后,使用粒子群优化(PSO)算法从这些类概率中学习停止规则中的最优参数。在6个MTS数据集上的实验结果表明,在早期性基本持平的情况下,OLPPMOAE的准确率显著高于基于成本的R1_C_(lr)(stopping Rule and Cost function with regularization term l_(1)and l_(2))模型,平均准确率能够提升11.33%~15.35%,调和均值(HM)能够提升4.71%~9.01%。因此,所提模型能够以较高的准确率尽早地分类MTS。