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STOCHASTIC SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING WITH WEIGHTED QUADRATIC EARLY-TARDY PENALTIES

  • Zhao, Chuan-Li;Tang, Heng-Yong
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.26 no.5_6
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    • pp.889-900
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    • 2008
  • The problem of scheduling n jobs on a single machine is considered when the machine is subject to stochastic breakdowns. The objective is to minimize the weighted squared deviation of job completion times from a common due date. Two versions of the problem are addressed. In the first one the common due date is a given constant, whereas in the second one the common due date is a decision variable. In each case, a general form of deterministic equivalent of the stochastic scheduling problem is obtained when the counting process N(t) related to the machine uptimes is a Poisson process. It is proved that an optimal schedule must be V-shaped in terms of weighted processing time when the agreeable weight condition is satisfied. Based on the V-shape property, two dynamic programming algorithms are proposed to solve both versions of the problem.

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Analysis of Common Cause Failure Using Two-Step Expectation and Maximization Algorithm (2단계 EM 알고리즘을 이용한 공통원인 고장 분석)

  • Baek Jang Hyun;Seo Jae Young;Na Man Gyun
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2005
  • In the field of nuclear reactor safety study, common cause failures (CCFs) became significant contributors to system failure probability and core damage frequency in most Probabilistic risk assessments. However, it is hard to estimate the reliability of such a system, because of the dependency of components caused by CCFs. In order to analyze the system, we propose an analytic method that can find the parameters with lack of raw data. This study adopts the shock model in which the failure probability increases as the shock is cumulated. We use two-step Expectation and Maximization (EM) algorithm to find the unknown parameters. In order to verify the analysis result, we perform the simulation under same environment. This approach might be helpful to build the defensive strategy for the CCFs.

Demension reduction for high-dimensional data via mixtures of common factor analyzers-an application to tumor classification

  • Baek, Jang-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.751-759
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    • 2008
  • Mixtures of factor analyzers(MFA) is useful to model the distribution of high-dimensional data on much lower dimensional space where the number of observations is very large relative to their dimension. Mixtures of common factor analyzers(MCFA) can reduce further the number of parameters in the specification of the component covariance matrices as the number of classes is not small. Moreover, the factor scores of MCFA can be displayed in low-dimensional space to distinguish the groups. We propose the factor scores of MCFA as new low-dimensional features for classification of high-dimensional data. Compared with the conventional dimension reduction methods such as principal component analysis(PCA) and canonical covariates(CV), the proposed factor score was shown to have higher correct classification rates for three real data sets when it was used in parametric and nonparametric classifiers.

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Noninformative priors for the common shape parameter of several inverse Gaussian distributions

  • Kang, Sang Gil;Kim, Dal Ho;Lee, Woo Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.243-253
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we develop the noninformative priors for the common shape parameter of several inverse Gaussian distributions. Specially, we want to develop noninformative priors which satisfy certain objective criterion. The probability matching priors and reference priors of the common shape parameter will be developed. It turns out that the second order matching prior does not exist. The reference priors satisfy the first order matching criterion, but Jeffrey's prior is not the first order matching prior. We showed that the proposed reference prior matches the target coverage probabilities in a frequentist sense through simulation study, and an example based on real data is given.

Stochastic Scheduling Problems for Maximizing the Expected Number of Early Jobs with Common or Exchangeable Due Dates

  • Choi, Jae Young;Kim, Heung-Kyu
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.5-11
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, stochastic scheduling problems are considered when processing times and due dates follow arbitrary distributions and due dates are either common or exchangeable. For maximizing the expected number of early jobs, two policies, one, based on pairwise comparisons of the processing times, and the other, based on survivabilities, are introduced. In addition, it is shown that the former guarantees optimal solutions when the processing times and due dates are deterministic and that the latter guarantees optimal solutions when the due dates follow exponential distributions. Then a new approach, exploiting the two policies, is proposed and analyzed which turns out to give better job sequences in many situations. In fact, the new approach guarantees optimal solutions both when the processing times and due dates are deterministic and when the due dates follow exponential distributions.

Dermatophyte and Cyclohexamide-Resistant Fungi Isolated from Patients with Tinea Capitis and from Air in Hospitals in Minia, Egypt

  • Moubasher, A. H.;El-Naghy, M. A.;Maghazy, S. M.;El-Gendy, Z.
    • The Korean Journal of Mycology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 1993
  • Out of 210 tinea capitis cases studies, 16 were negative when examined with KOH, among the remaining 194 cases, 123 were males (63.4%) and 71 were females (36.6%) and the age of incidence ranged between 7 and 15 years. Microsporum was the main causal agent being identified in 82 cases (42.3%) and was represented by 5 species among which M. canis was common in Egypt (55 cases, 28.4%). Trichophyton constituted 32% and was represented by 8 species among which T. violaceum was the most common (24.2% of total cases). Candida were isolated from 3.6% of total cases. The 47 species and twenty-five genera from nondermatophyte-cyclohexamide resistant fungi were recovered from the diseased skin tissue. Penicillium and Aspergillus were the most abundant followed by Scopulariopsis, Alternaria, Thermoascus, Chrysosporium and Cladosporium. Studies of the air-borne fungi in-door the hospital wards revealed the occurrence of 57 species belonging to 28 genera, among which Aspergillus flavus, Penicillium chrysogenum, p. corylophilum, A. niger, Tritirachium rosum and Alternaria alternata were the most common. Results of the out-door experiments were basically similar to those of the in-door experiments.

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Development of Improved EMC Power Line Filter in New Type

  • Kim, Dong-Il;Kim, Eun-Mi;Ahn, Young-Sup;Jeon, Mi-Hwa
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.153-157
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    • 2008
  • Most of malfunctions in electronic equipment or systems controlled by processors is occurred by the differential- and common-mode noises, and the electrical fast transient (EFT). The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has prepared the dummy signal to test the immunity level of the equipment. For the countermeasure against the differential- and common-mode noises, and the EFT, we designed, fabricated, and tested a new electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) filter, which is composed of feed-through capacitors and ferrite beads with high permeability. As a result, the filter showed excellent differential- and common-mode noises filtering, and immunity improving characteristics over the frequency band from 30 MHz to 1.5 GHz and 1.8 GHz, respectively.

Noninformative priors for common scale parameter in the regular Pareto distributions

  • Kang, Sang-Gil;Kim, Dal-Ho;Kim, Yong-Ku
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.353-363
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we introduce the noninformative priors such as the matching priors and the reference priors for the common scale parameter in the Pareto distributions. It turns out that the posterior distribution under the reference priors is not proper, and Jeffreys' prior is not a matching prior. It is shown that the proposed first order prior matches the target coverage probabilities in a frequentist sense through simulation study.

관상조류 전용 가공사료 개발 연구

  • 장병귀;김상호;유동조;이진건;서옥석;강양수;하형돈
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Poultry Science Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.133-134
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    • 2003
  • This study was conducted to develop ornamental bird granule-type feeds for shortening working hours and improving productivity at the bird farms. We developed two kinds of Common finch feeds for the growing and layer birds. The ME level was 3,200 kcal/kg, respectively and the CP was 16and 20 %, respectively. The developed feeds and traditional mixed-seed feeds were compared to investigate the egg production and hatching rate in Common finch. There was no significant differences between the two feeds indicating that the developed feeds can be used at the bird farms. However morphological shape changes of the developed feeds will be needed for effective assumption.

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Performance Comparison of Common-Mode Voltage Reduction PWM Methods in Terms of Modulation Index (변조지수에 따른 공통모드 전압 저감 PWM 기법 성능 비교)

  • Heo, Geon;Park, Yongsoon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2021
  • This study introduces a new pulse width modulation (PWM) method to reduce common-mode voltages (CMVs) and then compares its performance with other reduced CMV-PWM (RCMV-PWM) methods. CMVs should be reduced to ensure the electromagnetic compatibility and safety of grid-connected inverters. RCMV-PWM methods attempt to synthesize voltage references without zero vectors, which cause high CMV peaks. In these methods, the peak-to-peak magnitude of CMVs can be reduced by one-third of the conventional space-vector PWM. The introduced method splits every reference vector into two vectors to avoid the use of zero vectors. The performances of the RCMV-PWM methods are analyzed in accordance with the modulation index through simulation and experiment.