{"title":"A fuzzy genetic multiobjective optimization algorithm for a multilevel generalized assignment problem","authors":"S. Hajri-Gabouj","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.814033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.814033","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a task-operator-machine assignment problem where we seek to minimize the total execution time, to come as close as possible to a perfect load balance among the operators and not to exceed neither predefined inter-operator communication costs nor a prefixed number of resources. Besides, in an industrial environment where work force frequently changes, manufacturing systems need to be flexible and critical decisions have to be quickly taken. In this context, a fuzzy genetic multiobjective optimization algorithm is developed to solve a multilevel generalized assignment problem usually encountered in the clothing industry.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"121 1","pages":"214-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79381994","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":"Correction to \"A decision support system for interactive decision making - Part I: model formulation\"","authors":"L. Fang, K. Hipel, D. Kilgour, Xiaoyong Peng","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.815952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.815952","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"25 1","pages":"290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77806192","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}
Y. L. Quéré, Marc Sevaux, C. Tahon, Damien Trentesaux
{"title":"Reactive scheduling of complex system maintenance in a cooperative environment with communication times","authors":"Y. L. Quéré, Marc Sevaux, C. Tahon, Damien Trentesaux","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813344","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the problem of complex system maintenance in a cooperative environment composed of several decision centers, taking into account communication times. Maintenance activities generate a specific issue for the scheduling of tasks since they identify, dynamically, new tasks, or modify the duration of planned tasks. In addition, when an unexpected event is detected by a decision center, some modifications of the schedule required by this decision center may have consequences on tasks under the control of other decision centers. In fact, some constraints exist between the jobs under the control of different decision centers. Each modification of the execution of a job should be submitted to the approval of each concerned decision center, implying a communication time between all these decision centers. Nevertheless, these communication times may not be compatible with desired modifications. This is why we present an algorithm to ensure rescheduling feasibility, including communication times between decision centers for the maintenance of complex systems in a coordinated environment. Finally, we implement our algorithm on the industrial context of the TGV maintenance in the French railway company.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"148 1","pages":"225-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86116883","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":"Online pattern classification with multiple neural network systems: an experimental study","authors":"C. Lim, R. Harrison","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813150","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an empirical study of the development and application of a committee of neural networks on online pattern classification tasks is presented. A multiple classifier framework is designed by adopting an Adaptive Resonance Theory-based (ART) autonomously learning neural network as the building block. A number of algorithms for combining outputs from multiple neural classifiers are considered, and two benchmark data sets have been used to evaluate the applicability of the proposed system. Different learning strategies coupling offline and online learning approaches, as well as different input pattern representation schemes, including the \"ensemble\" and \"modular\" methods, have been examined experimentally. Benefits and shortcomings of each approach are systematically analyzed and discussed. The results are comparable, and in some cases superior, with those from other classification algorithms. The experiments demonstrate the potentials of the proposed multiple neural network systems in offering an alternative to handle online pattern classification tasks in possibly nonstationary environments.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"2 1","pages":"235-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88285194","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":"Component and agent-based FMS modeling and controller synthesis","authors":"Wenbiao Han, M. Jafari","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813147","url":null,"abstract":"In order to reduce manufacturing control software design cycle and costs, it is imperative to reuse off-the-shelf software components, ensure system properties at design time, and automate software design process. To this end, a component and an agent-based plant modeling of three structures and systematic controller synthesis approaches are proposed under a hierarchical flexible manufacturing system (FMS) architecture. That is, the static structure is modeled using class diagrams of Unified Modeling Language (UML); the dynamic structure is modeled using Petri net (PN); the functional logic is modeled using rule sets. A plant PN controller can be derived systematically with the approach proposed in this article while the desirable system behaviors (e.g., liveness and cyclicness) will be obtained.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"28 1","pages":"193-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86136111","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":"Integrating simulation and optimization of manufacturing systems","authors":"D. Duvivier, V. Dhaevers, V. Bachelet, A. Artiba","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.914037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.914037","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the ongoing development of a modeling methodology and a tool (the so-called simulation integrated system with modeling and optimization (SISMO) solver) that permits manufacturing systems to be both simulated and optimized according to several improvement strategies. We point out that the different steps of modeling, simulating, and optimizing uses the same integrated formalism and environment. A major point of this methodology and tool is the original decision-making mechanism over a hierarchy of complex discrete systems that model the real world. For the SISMO platform to be validated, we applied it to an actual highly constrained discrete-continuous scheduling problem. This study on a real-life problem has systematically led to improvements.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"111 1","pages":"186-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83553465","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":"Sensor fusion in anti-personnel mine detection using a two-level belief function model","authors":"N. Milisavljevic, I. Bloch","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.814034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.814034","url":null,"abstract":"A two-level approach for modeling and fusion of antipersonnel mine detection sensors in terms of belief functions within the Dempster-Shafer framework is presented. Three promising and complementary sensors are considered: a metal detector, an infrared camera, and a ground-penetrating radar. Since the metal detector, the most often used mine detection sensor, provides measures that have different behaviors depending on the metal content of the observed object, the first level aims at identifying this content and at providing a classification into three classes. Depending on the metal content, the object is further analyzed at the second level toward deciding the final object identity. This process can be applied to any problem where one piece of information induces different reasoning schemes depending on its value. A way to include influence of various factors on sensors in the model is also presented, as well as a possibility that not all sensors refer to the same object. An original decision rule adapted to this type of application is proposed, as well as a way for estimating confidence degrees. More generally, this decision rule can be used in any situation where the different types of errors do not have the same importance. Some examples of obtained results are shown on synthetic data mimicking reality and with increasing complexity. Finally, applications on real data show promising results.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"17 1","pages":"269-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90926999","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":"Subsethood based adaptive linguistic networks for pattern classification","authors":"Sandeep Paul, Satish Kumar","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2002.806073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2002.806073","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a fuzzy-neural network that admits both numeric as well as linguistic inputs. Numeric inputs are fuzzified by input nodes upon presentation to the network. Fuzzy rule-based knowledge is translated directly into a network architecture. Connections in the network are represented by fuzzy sets: Input to hidden connections represent rule antecedents; hidden to output connections represent rule consequents. The novelty of the model lies in the method of activation spread in the network which is based on a fuzzy mutual subsethood measure. Rule (hidden) node activations are computed as a fuzzy inner product. For a given numeric or fuzzy input, numeric outputs are computed using volume based defuzzification. A supervised learning procedure based on gradient descent is employed to train the network. The model has a natural capability for inference, function approximation, and classification and is versatile in that it can handle numeric and fuzzy inputs simultaneously. In this paper, we focus on the classification ability of the model and demonstrate its performance on three benchmark classification problems: the Iris data set, Ripley's synthetic two class problem, and Pal and Mitra's Telegu vowel data. Results show that the classifier performs at par or better than various other techniques.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"9 1","pages":"248-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75321327","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":"Correction to \"A decision support system for interactive decision making - Part II: analysis and output interpretation\"","authors":"L. Fang, K. Hipel, D. Kilgour, Xiaoyong Peng","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.815953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.815953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"32 1","pages":"290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79776014","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":"Special issue on intelligent techniques in flexible manufacturing systems","authors":"S. Hammadi, C. Tahon","doi":"10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813336","url":null,"abstract":"Flexible manufacturing systems cover a wide range of manufacturing devices and processes. It also includes design, operation, maintenance of individual devices in the manufacturing system. Constant development in new technologies pushes to produce ever more recent and more complex products with formerly unusual functions. Production processes and production systems must also adapt to this trend. A new generation of manufacturing systems intelligent manufacturing systems, enable the implementation of increasingly demands of production processes and, at the same time, increase production efficiency.","PeriodicalId":55005,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Re","volume":"6 1","pages":"157-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89621993","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}