{"title":"Effect of wastes on changeover time in garment industry","authors":"B. Kordoghli, Ali Moussa","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552584","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, garment industries in Tunisia are adopting new strategies that producing a very large variety of garments in extremely small quantities. This means a practical difficulty of changing tools and production lines frequently. Here, a study has been carried out to find out the changeover time and the kinds of wastes in the sewing line. For two months, a series of observations and analyses of two garment factories has been taken in order to identify wastes and to eliminate them. Lean manufacturing and SMED technique are two methods that have been considered as guideline to solve those problems. Serious problems have been detected in studied sewing lines: the technological constraints due to the skill level and efficiency of mechanic's labor and the working process.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125108339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belief Hidden Markov Model for speech recognition","authors":"Siwar Jendoubi, B. B. Yaghlane, Arnaud Martin","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552563","url":null,"abstract":"Speech Recognition searches to predict the spoken words automatically. These systems are known to be very expensive because of using several pre-recorded hours of speech. Hence, building a model that minimizes the cost of the recognizer will be very interesting. In this paper, we present a new approach for recognizing speech based on belief HMMs instead of probabilistic HMMs. Experiments shows that our belief recognizer is insensitive to the lack of the data and it can be trained using only one exemplary of each acoustic unit and it gives a good recognition rates. Consequently, using the belief HMM recognizer can greatly minimize the cost of these systems.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125470738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The inclusion interaction between an anti inflamatory with β-cyclodextrin","authors":"K. Sahra, K. Dinar, M. Kadri","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552698","url":null,"abstract":"The inclusion interactions between β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and diclofenac (DCF) were simulated using the semiempirical PM3 and ONIOM (B3LYP/3-21g: PM3) methods. The modeling results showed that the most stable geometry of DCF into β-CD complex is B orientation inclusion, in which the phenyl acetate moiety is included inside the hydrophobic cavity of β-CD. The results showed that the binding energy (BE) and total stabilization energy (EONIMO) of B orientation are lower than A orientation, indicating that the B orientation is more stable than the A orientation, Furthermore, it can be deduced from the results obtained by NBO analysis that the main driving forces of DCF/β-CD are weak hydrogen bonding interaction.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130355729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imbricating tasks in a multichannel contact center","authors":"B. Legros, Oualid Iouini, G. Koole","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552711","url":null,"abstract":"Motivated by the call center practice, we consider a blended call center with calls arriving over time and an infinitely backlogged queue of emails. Calls have a non-preemptive priority over emails. The call service is characterized by three successive stages where the second one is a break, i.e., there is no required interaction between the customer and the agent for a nonnegligible duration. This leads to a new opportunity to efficiently split the agent time between calls and emails. We focus on the optimization of the email routing to agents. Our objective is to maximize the throughput of emails subject to a constraint on the call waiting time. We develop a general framework with two parameters for the email routing to agents. One parameter controls the routing between calls, and the other does the control inside a call. In particular, we prove for the optimal routing that all the time at least one of the two email routing parameters has an extreme value.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116550982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new realistic modeling approach for two-echelon logistics network design","authors":"F. Moalla, R. Mellouli, H. Chabchoub","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552554","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we deal with a single-commodity location-allocation problem for a two-echelon logistic network. We present novel models with a new reading of the problem. Indeed, some classical models in literature seem in certain cases simplistic and then generate gaps between theoretical formalisms and the reality. Concretely, these gaps arise when setting up and calibrating these models, thus the identification of robust parameter values could prove difficult. The reason is the aggregation process of data, since it is naturally used in modeling, lacks to provide sufficient accuracy. In a pragmatic framework, the issue of logistic network design is rich and presents several possibilities for data apprehension in terms of details to be modeled. This motivates to construct a more realistic modeling approach. In this context, we propose a way for integrating a maximum precision degree without leaving the context of modeling a strategic issue. Actually, the question of designing a logistic network is substituted by the need to compute a logistic master plan mixing the tactical with the strategic. This becomes a major concern of businesses and this observation fits the importance of location-allocation problems. Two mixed integer programming (MILP) are proposed. A derived linear programming (LP) is identified and used to describe a perspective of a cooperative hybrid resolution approach based on Genetic Algorithm. Experimental study provides a comparison of the models results.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114966251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The genetic algorithm with two point crossover to solve the resource-constrained project scheduling problems","authors":"Hela Ouerfelli, A. Dammak","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552686","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few decades, the resource-constrained project-scheduling problem has become the key of the success of researching project in the enterprises and has become a popular problem type in operations research. However, due to its strongly NP-hard status, the effectiveness of exact optimization procedures is restricted to relatively small instances. In this paper, we present a genetic algorithm (GA), the so called genetic algorithm with two-point crossover (GA2P), for this problem that is able to provide near-optimal heuristic solutions. A full factorial computational experiment was set up using the well-known standard instances in PSPLIB, and the results reveal that the algorithm is effective for the RCPSP.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134265896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The embedded control system through real-time task","authors":"Atef Gharbi, M. Khalgui, S. Ben Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552705","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the study of Embedded Control System through Real-Time Task. In the embedded control system, we decompose a component into several real-time tasks. To ensure safety control of tasks at run-time, we define service and reconfiguration processes for tasks and use the semaphore concept to obtain safety mutual exclusions. The Priority Ceiling Protocol (PCP) is applied as an approach to ensure the scheduling between periodic tasks with precedence and mutual exclusion constraints. We simulate the scheduling of Real-time tasks with PCP through the Cheddar tool.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130960428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a device for transferring power and data to a cochlear implant","authors":"Kaoula Tayari, M. Chaoui, M. Lahiani, H. Ghariani","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552612","url":null,"abstract":"Among the identified implantable electronic systems, there is a pacemaker, urinary implants, visual implants and auditory cochlear implants. This system is composed of an implant and a control unit. The implant is designed to work efficiently and autonomously for long periods. It is placed under the skin of the user. The main tasks of the implant are the stimulation of nerves or muscles and the detection and measurement of different physiological signals. As for the control unit, it serves, first to transmit all information needed to perform the various tasks to the implant. Second, it is used to retrieve and process data from the implant.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132101813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computation of resource circuits of Petri nets by using binary decision diagrams","authors":"Yufeng Chen, Ding Liu, Gaiyun Liu, Kamel Barkaoui","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552618","url":null,"abstract":"Deadlocks are a constant issue in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). Circular wait is a necessary condition of deadlocks. In the framework of Petri nets modeling FMSs, deadlocks have a great relation with the resource circuits. In the paper, we present a symbolic approach to compute all resource circuits of Petri net models of FMSs by using binary decision diagrams (BDDs). BDDs can represent large sets of encoded data with compact shared structures and enable the efficient manipulation of those sets. Thus, the presented approach can efficiently find all resource circuits of a net model of an FMS. A number of examples are provided to demonstrate the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133384391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selection of pertinent acoustic features for detection of pathological voices","authors":"L. Salhi, A. Cherif","doi":"10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552723","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests a new method to improve the performance of acoustic features selection for the classification of pathological and normal voices. The effectiveness of the Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCCs) using the Fisher Discriminant Ratio (FDR) is analyzed. To evaluate the performance of the selected features, experiments were performed using a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) classifier with Feed Forward Back Propagation training algorithm (FFBP). The developed method was evaluated using voice data base composed of recorded voice samples (continuous speech) from normophonic and dysphonic speakers. Based on mixed voices database, the best selected features achieved a correct classification rate of 92.74%. The proposed system shows that the FDR is sufficiently a selection method of acoustic features for classification of pathological and normal voices.","PeriodicalId":339666,"journal":{"name":"2013 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114525437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}