... discipline It looks as if ComputationalBiology and Bioinformatics are mainly concerned with problems involving data emerging from within cells of living beings It might be appropriate to say that Computational ... meetings As the disciplines of bioinformatics and computationalbiology are gaining prominence day by day, an industry is also emerging fast on their shoulders, estimated at $1.82 billion in 2007 ... location inside cell √ Developing medicinal plant data base × Analysing gene expression images √ Using computers to identify finger prints × Using computers in process control in bio-technology industries...
... result in very interesting and important research findings in the coming years Good findings in a new research area may not necessarily translate quickly into good or high-impact benefits pertaining ... acquire slight amino acid differences in the variable domains of their antibody chains 10 Systems and ComputationalBiology – Bioinformatics and Computational Modeling This serves to increase the ... from using flow cytometric cell sorting to finely discriminate variants with specified binding kinetics (Razai et al., 2005) Parallel Processing of Complex Biomolecular Information: Combining Experimental...
... retrotransposons in diploid cotton species, including G raimondii and G herbaceum [33] These findings are rem- Genome Biology 2009, 10:R122 http://genomebiology.com/2009/10/11/R122 Genome Biology 2009, iniscent ... MYB113 in Arabidopsis In cotton, GhmiR828 is predicted to target five ESTs encoding putative MYB transcription factors and one EST encoding ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA KINESIN (ATK3) Kinesin-like proteins ... KD, Carrington JC, Baulcombe DC, Viegas W, Pikaard CS: Multimegabase silencing in nucleolar dominance involves siRNA-directed DNA methylation and specific methylcytosine-binding proteins Mol...
... Genome Biology 2008, 9:328 http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/12/328 Genome Biology 2008, models in systems biology using examples from halophilic archaea, including a simple mechanism for regulating ... in developing automated methods for determining the intracellular location of proteins tagged with green fluorescent protein Traditionally, this could only be done by expert microscopic examination ... checking might seek to answer the question: In the model, will the concentration of a given metabolite exceed a certain value within a certain time?’ With the aim of exploring how model checking...
... Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org ComputationalBiology and Applied Bioinformatics, ... using computational immunology approaches implemented in a grid infrastructure: modeling atherosclerosis and optimal protocol searching for vaccine against mammary carcinoma Despite the growing ... 319(5862):473-476 28 ComputationalBiology and Applied Bioinformatics Wong, W & Nielsen, R (2007) Finding cis-regulatory modules in Drosophila using phylogenetic hidden Markov models Bioinformatics 23(16):2031-2037...
... following dissertation: APPLYING COMBINATORIAL TECHNIQUES TO TWO PROBLEMS INCOMPUTATIONALBIOLOGY Committee: Dr Sung Wing-kin, Supervisor APPLYING COMBINATORIAL TECHNIQUES TO TWO PROBLEMS INCOMPUTATIONAL ... of Singapore Januray 2004 vi APPLYING COMBINATORIAL TECHNIQUES TO TWO PROBLEMS INCOMPUTATIONALBIOLOGY Chen Wei, M.Sc National University of Singapore, 2004 Supervisor: Dr Sung Wing-kin Computational ... on Motif-finding Problem 30 Chapter Background Knowledge Besides the homology searching problem stated in Part I, another attractive problem inBioinformatics is Motif-finding problem In this Chapter,...
... holonic concepts into a manufacturing setting: Holon: An autonomous and cooperative building block of a manufacturing system for transforming, transporting, storing, and/or validating information ... estimated uncertainty that the entity contains, the minimally fuzzy sets contain also the minimally uncertain information.* Secondly, the “total ignorance” (or uncertain) information is pointed out ... floor is, in general, assigned with one Execution Mediator 3.3.5 Clustering and Cloning in MetaMorph II Clustering and cloning approaches for manufacturing scheduling were developed during the...
... themselves In the traditional part–machine incidence matrix, assuming binary values, sequence information is ignored To include sequence information, a sequence-based incidence matrix is introduced, ... components for cellular manufacturing, keeping a concurrent engineering framework in mind It utilizes two middle layers, as shown in Figure 4.4 The inputs for the network include design features of ... form of zero indicates that a machine is not required by the part Figure 4.5a shows a matrix of machine requirements for nine parts, processed on nine machines Part–machine grouping involves a...
... An intelligent design retrieving system should aim toward a natural linking of the next process planning and manufacturing stages 7.2.4 Conducting Retrieval Tasks with a Certain Degree of Incomplete ... engineering designs can be adapted in the research to represent a design One major disadvantage of using image-based indexing is that the disappearance of hidden features and internal lines is inevitable ... Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 8(3):137-150 Perng, D.-B and C.-F Chang, (1997) A new feature-based design system with dynamic editing, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 32(2):383-397...
... design objectives may include minimizing intercellular movements, minimizing set-up time, minimizing machine load variation or maximizing machine utilization, and minimizing the system’s costs ... constructing a group technology database of parts and their process routings, finding the most suitable routings among parts’ alternative routings, grouping machines into machine groups, and forming ... Algorithm for Finding the Optimum Process Routings for Parts The aim of a cellular manufacturing system design is minimizing the cost of the system It can be gained by dividing the system into independent...
... crossover of two strings Input: Output: string-1 and string-2 offspring-1 and offspring-2 Determine a cut point randomly from all the positions of a string Each string is divided into two parts, ... (D-OPT) is introduced, which is defined as an operation incurring no machining cost and having no effects in terms of machine, set-up, and tool changes By adding the dummy operation into the sets ... to be used in order to convert a piece-part from its original form to a final form that is specified on a detailed engineering drawing For machining, process planning includes determination of...
... applying parallel machines in industrial manufacturing, only a handful of papers are found on sequencing machining operations for parallel machines [3, 22] The combinatorial nature of sequencing ... capability of activating i cutting tools (I Ն i Ն 1) on distinct MUs, in parallel, either for the purpose of machining a single workpiece, or for the purpose of machining, in parallel, l workpieces ... and 470 constraints This clearly indicates that sequencing the parallel machining operations by using conventional integer programming method could be computationally expensive and inefficient [4]...
... of improving the product quality, increasing the effect events in production, increasing autonomity and intelligence in manufacturing lines, reducing the reaction time of manufacturing systems, ... equipped with such functionalities as storing information, reasoning, decision making, learning, and integration of these into the process In particular, the learning characteristic is a unique feature ... the network within the system Various manufacturing processes including machining, arc welding, semiconductor, and hydroforming processes are considered for networks applications Finally, perspectives...
... or slip) Casting the slip in a plaster mold for a specified duration Removing the mold Air drying the cast piece Spray gazing the dried piece Firing the gazed piece in a kiln Inspecting the finished ... Machining Application Abrasive flow machining (AFM) was originally developed for deburring aircraft valve bodies It has many applications in the aerospace, automotive, electronic, and die-making industries ... Machining Using a Static Neural Network Model, Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks: Smart Engineering Systems: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming,...
... Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem Job-Shop Scheduling Problem Multistage Process Planning Part Loading Scheduling Problem Introduction Production scheduling ... recent interest in using genetic algorithms to address the problem In the following sections, we explain how to solve them with genetic algorithms, including resource-constrained project scheduling, ... parallel machine scheduling, job-shop scheduling, multistage process planning, and part loading scheduling problem 10.2 Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem The problem of scheduling activities...
... approximations, during which the training data set is split into certain training data set and possible training data set Subsequently, these training sets are forwarded to the GA-based search engine for ... training data set correctly For each certain rule extracted from the certain training data set, RClass* uses a so-called completeness index to indicate the number of observations in the original ... same rule in the original training data In other words, the completeness index represents the usefulness or the effectiveness of a certain rule The reliability and completeness indices are included...
... moving-window sample method is chosen, except that ARL values of the designs using the moving-window sample method are in general smaller than those using the independent method, considering ... with larger values meaning larger shifts Note that both neural networks were trained off-line using simulations By incorporating the trained weight matrices, one can start using the proposed method ... the “true” individual observation input method in that it uses the most recent and four immediately passed observations The reason for maintaining a few observations in a sample point is due...
... This involves dividing the data set into S mutually exclusive subsets, using S – subsets for training the network (as discussed in Section 17.2.1.2) and the remaining subset for testing, repeating ... differing amplitudes and ranges of the outputs on the training process) TABLE 17.3 MLP Neural Network Training Scheme Training algorithm Starting learning rate (η) Learning adaptation rate Minimum ... and α as shown in Equation 17.12) are not large enough to move into a different basin, the quality controller converges to the local minimum in the basin holding the starting point However, it...