Sustainable energy grids and networks are converging. In recent decades, cost, sustainability, and digitization drivers have caused engineering systems to evolve into systems-of-systems that deliver multiple services across multiple application…
In some refineries, storage tanks are located at two different sites, one for low-fusion-point crude oil and the other for high one. Two pipelines are used to transport different oil types. Due to the constraints resulting from the high-fusion-point…
The feasibility of a schedule is essential to the operation of a complex system involving both discrete and continuous processes. This paper studies the short-term scheduling problem for crude oil operations in a control theory perspective. A…
Named Data Networking (NDN) is a new clean-slate architecture for the future Internet. Efficient content retrieval is the original intention of NDN design. The content retrieval process driven by content consumers in NDN includes the following…
For short-term scheduling of crude oil operations in a refinery, charging tanks are a type of critical resources. If the number of charging tanks is insufficient, the scheduling problem is further complicated. In this case, to make a refinery operate…
With the interaction of discrete-event and continuous processes, the short-term scheduling problem of crude oil operations is essentially combinatorial. As charging tanks are a type of critical resources, it is crucial to determine how many charging…
The feasibility of a schedule is essential to the operation of a complex system involving both discrete and continuous processes. This paper studies the short-term scheduling problem for crude oil operations in a control theory perspective. A…
A short-term schedule for oil refinery should arrange all the activities in every detail for the whole scheduling horizon, leading to a complex problem. There lacks efficient techniques and software tools for its solution applicable to industrial oil…