Implementing Job Rotation as a manufacturing method is beneficial to production efficiency, reduction of labor cost, operator satisfaction, and Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) reduction. In this thesis, the steps of simulating the...
Optimizing queries in a distributed database is quite difficult. This work proposes defining new generalized quantifiers which operate on sets rather than tuples. These quantifiers would allow for easier optimization in a horizontally distributed...
Heuristic; Production management; Personnel management--Data processing
The Naval Surface Warfare Center wishes to create a task assignment schedule
with a minimal training cost for workers to raise their skills to the required levels. As the
number of workers, skills, and tasks increase, the problem quickly becomes...
Mixing machinery; Production engineering--Case studies
A processing facility in Trenton, Ky owned by HydroSolutions is in need of modernization in order to increase efficiency in the mixing process, improve the safety of the facility, and give the facility the ability to expand in the future. The main...
Electronic commerce--Corrupt practices--Prevention; Internet advertising--Corrupt practices; Internet fraud
Online search advertising is currently the greatest source of revenue for many Internet giants such as Google™, Yahoo!™, and Bing™. The increased number of specialized websites and modern profiling techniques have all contributed to an...
Representing the complex data in a concise and accurate way is a special stage in data mining methodology. Redundant and noisy data affects generalization power of any classification algorithm, undermines the results of any clustering algorithm and...
Electric power production; Electric power failures; Hybrid electric vehicles
Electric vehicles are quickly becoming one of the most rapidly growing technologies of this age. With their acceleration to prominence, the concept of Vehicle to Grid (V2G) becomes much more common as well. V2G is normally used as a supplement to...
Jug bands; Musicians; Musical instruments; Meetings; Group portraits
Louisville Master Bakers Band pictured in front of crowd of restaurant association conference attendees. Handwritten on bottom of image: "Photo by Fischer. 'Bottlers of 7Up.' Lou. Restaurant Operators Assn. Meeting Jan. 31, 1939. Compliments...
Row of women working as switchboard or telephone operators. They sit in chairs at their stations with their backs to the camera. Behind them stands a woman wearing a headset.
