Analytic annealing for macrocell placement optimization

Mir, Mustahsan; Imam, Muhammad Hasan

doi:10.1016/0045-7906(95)00031-3

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“…The paper reports a layout with a cost of 9,626.00 and provides all the data for verification. Later, it was used as a test problem for a new technique called Analytical Annealing, reporting a cost of 8,640.00 for the best layout obtained (Mir, 1996). Complete data were provided to verify the cost of the layout.…”

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“…In another publication, the idea of Cluster Boundary Tracking is presented with remarkable results . The same authors have reported a number of other algorithms, such as, analytic annealing (Mir, 1996), optimization through controlled convergence (Imam, 1993), and nonlinear programming . Recently, (McKendall, 2010) have used the analytical method of Cluster Boundary Tracking method published by ) the most recent paper that has dealt with these types of problems.…”

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“…Among analytical methods, seven algorithms have been reported in Mir, 1990;Mir, 1992;Imam, 1993;Mir, 1996;Mir, 2001). In one of these publications, a hybrid optimization approach is used that combines Simulated Annealing and Analytical Method (Mir, 2001).…”

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Implications of limited investor attention to customer–supplier information transfers

Zhu

2014

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

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We examine the (dis)incentive effects created by the respective tax systems to invest in human capital in Atlantic Canada and compare this to a select group of provinces from the rest of Canada. While findings show a steady decline in effective tax rates through the years, thereby creating an incentive effect to invest in post-secondary education, disproportionately higher rate gap differentials in the Atlantic Provinces, on average, combined with negative comparative statics reveal a somewhat different undertone. The counterproductive nature of the competing policies effectively nullifies any status quo argument for education or tax policy in the Atlantic Provinces, when compared to their brethren. The graduate retention rebate provides some solace to the narrative in helping to alleviate early tax burdens and equalize returns, but is difficult to claim effectiveness in assuaging any monetary windfall associated with migration. IntroductionThe goal of this paper is to assess the (dis)incentive effects created by the provincial tax systems for human capital investment in Atlantic Canada. Our test subjects are university graduates, but we note that such methodology could be applied to any level or subset of the population that possess human capital deemed scarce and productive, in the economic sense. We do not purport to suggest that university graduates are more important in the economic well being of an economy than, say, skilled trades or college graduates, e.g., and encourage one to think of our case as a subset of a larger sample of possibilities. Our presumption, like our goal, is simple; namely, an empirical investigation of incentivizing the tax system in Atlantic Canada remains an unexplored possibility for strategic policy implementation to retain and recruit scarce resources in the market for human capital. We use the impact on effective tax rates (ETRs) and rates of return as our policy litmus test and explore by empirical and simulation analysis the unilateral exploitation of a select number of provincial tax systems. Some may claim that this work puts the * Collins would like to acknowledge the support of the CRS-SSHRC institutional research grant at St. Francis Xavier University in helping to complete this research.proverbial cart before the horse, as it were, since to attract workers a province needs the requisite infrastructure and such may not be currently present at the appropriate level(s) to warrant an increase in the supply of skilled labour. To that end, we suggest that a more accurate assessment (or, at least, a plausible alternative) might be akin to a "chicken or the egg" argument; namely, which comes first? We leave this debate up to the interested reader for now, and focus on establishing the empirics of the analysis in an effort to add the requisite fodder for a more informed discussion.While previous research has examined the disincentive effects created by the tax system for, e.g., university and college graduates (see, for instance, Burbidge et al., 2012), the current study is diff...

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Implications of limited investor attention to customer–supplier information transfers

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The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

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“…FLP has applications in various fields of engineering such as Industrial Facility Layout Design, Machine Layout (Moslemipour, Lee, & Rilling, 2012), Transportation and Town Planning (Saif & Imam, 2004), VLSI Design (LaPaugh, 2010), Macrocell Placement (Mir & Imam, 1996), and Architectural Floor Plan Design (J. Chung & Tanchoco, 2010).…”

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Automated Discovery and Utilization of Tacit Knowledge in Facility Layout Planning and Optimization

Ahmad¹,

Tasadduq²,

Imam³

et al. 2015

JSSD

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This paper puts forth a novel methodology for facilities layout planning and optimization, where the fitness evaluation of layout alternatives is automatically performed by employing an artificial neural network trained to preferences of the domain experts. The inherently uncertain, unstructured, and often tacit nature of facilities layout design preferences, constraints, and fitness objectives demands the use of domain experts for the fitness evaluation of layout alternatives, which is a resource-intensive process. Indeed, the usual unavailability of domain experts in a timely or economical manner highlights the need for resorting to the use of some intelligent and effective automation technique in this important domain. In order to test the key novel ingredient of the proposed approach, a variety of artificial neural networks are trained on a large data set containing both qualitative and quantitative fitness values of layout alternatives, as well as subjective rankings by a seasoned domain expert utilizing the knowledge of the application domain. Simulation results strongly support the viability of the proposed idea. Such an automated approach to fitness evaluations of layout alternatives is expected to significantly increase the efficacy and efficiency of the overall facilities layout planning process. Moreover, such an approach would spur the much sought for research in decision support and expert systems in layout planning. As such, the paper also provides some very interesting and promising, albeit challenging, future research directions.

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“…Some of the more recent work includes [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Although FLP has been studied extensively with reference to industrial facility layout design, it has applications in various fields of engineering such as machine layout [11], transportation and town planning [12], very large-scale integration (VLSI) design [13], macrocell placement [14], and architectural floor plan design [10].…”

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