Integration of batching and scheduling for hot rolling production in the steel industry

This paper investigates the hot rolling production scheduling problem in the steel industry and proposes a new mixed integer programming model for this problem based on the monolithic modeling strategy that integrates batching and scheduling. Using this strategy, the new model can simultaneously schedule multiple turns and simultaneously determine the production timetable of these turns in a global optimal view. A long-term tabu search heuristic using frequency-based memory is developed to obtain near-optimal solutions for this problem. Three kinds of speed-up strategies are developed to accelerate the search procedure of the proposed tabu search. A practical scheduling system combining the proposed mathematical model and the tabu search heuristic has been developed and tested on instances collected from practical production data. The experimental results show that the proposed mathematical model and the tabu search heuristic outperform both the current manual scheduling method and the traditional serial method.     

Magnetic properties of high-temperature superconductors: Analysis within the framework of the impurity mechanism

The impurity mechanism proposed earlier is used to interpret the magnetic properties of hightemperature superconductors. The appearance of superconductive granules and the existence of weak bonds in grains of ceramics and in single crystals is explained. The irreversibility line is obtained and its new interpretation as the line of thresholds of appearance of infinite nonsuperconductive cluster is given. The relaxation time of the magnetic susceptibility in alternating magnetic fields is calculated. The decrease of the Meissner fraction with increase in magnetic field and decrease in doping, and other magnetic properties are explained.     

露采边坡渗流的有限元分析及其实例

介绍了应用有限元法求解渗流问题的原理及其实例。     

COMMERCIAL BREWING TRIALS WITH ZENITH HOPS

Commercial brewing trials with Zenith hops from the 1982 and 1983 crops have shown that these hops are suitable for producing both ales and lager beers.     

基于神经网络的智能检索系统

文章首先概述了当前大多数的搜索引擎的主要的弊端；然后着重介绍了智能检索系统的运行基本思路和售用算法，以及该算法在检索领域中运用的优点；最后指出，神经网络运用在检索领域，可解决网络管理中的诸多难题。     

浅谈如何做一名新时期创新型教师

教师的职业道德是贯穿教育全过程的精神支柱,它对学生和社会都会有深远的激励和影响作用;而熟练掌握专业知识和教育理论知识是教师业务能力的本质要求。新时期的创新型教师都必须不断地在这两个方面进行提升才能够符合时代的要求。     

大红山铜矿岩体结构调查分析

大量工程实践已证明岩体结构是控制岩体稳定性的重要影响因素。为此，以大红山铜矿为研究背景，在选定有代表性调查地段的基础上，引入详细观测线法对其岩体结构进行了详细调查与统计。分析结果表明：调查区域内巷道岩体节理裂隙比较密集和发育，主要发育有倾向N53E、走向N37W、倾角53°，倾向W26S、走向N36W、倾角68°；倾向E1S、走向NIE、倾角89°的三组优势结构面，其中优势结构面第二组和第三组构成不稳定块体，并且断层及软弱夹层比较发育，加剧了巷道的破碎程度，对巷道围岩的稳定性有控制作用。最后提出了在巷道施工中密切注意围岩稳定性变化，避免工程事故的发生的建议。     

Intelligent scheduling with tabu search: An application to jobs with linear delay penalties and sequence-dependent setup costs and times

In this article we study thetabu search (TS) method in an application for solving an important class of scheduling problems. Tabu search is characterized by integrating artificial intelligence and optimization principles, with particular emphasis on exploiting flexible memory structures, to yield a highly effective solution procedure. We first discuss the problem of minimizing the sum of the setup costs and linear delay penalties when N jobs, arriving at time zero, are to be scheduled for sequential processing on a continuously available machine. A prototype TS method is developed for this problem using the common approach of exchanging the position of two jobs to transform one schedule into another. A more powerful method is then developed that employs insert moves in combination with swap moves to search the solution space. This method and the best parameters found for it during the preliminary experimentation with the prototype procedure are used to obtain solutions to a more complex problem that considers setup times in addition to setup costs. In this case, our procedure succeeded in finding optimal solutions to all problems for which these solutions are known and a better solution to a larger problem for which optimizing procedures exceeded a specified time limit (branch and bound) or reached a memory overflow (branch and bound/dynamic programming) before normal termination. These experiments confirm not only the effectiveness but also the robustness of the TS method, in terms of the solution quality obtained with a common set of parameter choices for two related but different problems.