This dissertation is motivated by a scheduling problem that is commonly observed in today’s manufacturing world. It contributes to the theoretical and practical aspects of scheduling research. It is dedicated to the analysis of scheduling a set of jobs on multiple machines when the jobs have uncertain processing times and conformance to the due date is the performance objective. Efficient scheduling can improve productivity through reduced work-in-process and finished goods inventories. The objective of the research is to efficiently solve the adaptive job shop scheduling problem and to determine best job schedule for the problem using genetic algorithm that minimizes the mean flow time and mean tardiness. In this research, we are developing a method to optimize the scheduling process that improves the customer satisfaction through better adherence to deliver dates and simultaneously minimizing the resource usage.

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Modern transmission concepts require increased efforts to achieve improvements in comfort and efficiency in line with reduced cost. Synchronizer systems are the central element for a change of ratio in stepped transmissions. The trend toward transmissions with optimized efficiency and improved comfort at the same time requires aligned high-capacity synchronizer systems. This paper presents the detail review of multi cone synchronizer system along with its components, working principle and basic design calculations. Material requirement and common materials used for synchronizer components are summarized.

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India being the 2nd largest producer of coconut, lack in technology of processing industry. Till date there were many techniques involved to peel the coconut. But most of them involved, lead to failure. Even now the basic conventional process is being followed. Most of them are not aware of the importance of processing industry in India. Some projects were designed in recent times but the required target was not achieved. The traditional way of de husking a coconut was manually done. Day today the coconut de-husking remains untold miseries to farmers and coconut vendors due to high labour demand and labour cost. This further reflects on the end cost of the coconut in shops that will be bought by the consumers. Also the manual de-husking involves high risk and consumes more time. To overcome this, there is a need to automate the de-husking process. Over decades many steps were taken to automate the de-husking process but all were in vain due to lack of knowledge and interest, fear for breakage during the process, etc. Now is the time to look into the great scope for the future in the field of agriculture. Our machine will be great boon to the farmers and coconut vendors who always depend on the labours for peeling the coconut.

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Environmental problems are increasing due to construction process of cement. An ordinary Portland cement is caused to five to seven percent of total greenhouse gases emission, so alternative of cement is must needed for construction of concrete. One such material is geopolymer concrete, the fly ash, fine aggregates and coarse aggregates are mixes then the alkaline solution was added to prepare the geopolymer concrete. Fly ash uses as binding material. Fly ash is by product of thermal power plant with goods percent of silicon and alumina. This study explained the performance properties of geopolymer concrete with fly ash. Geopolymer concrete can be used as an effective building material and it also helpful in an effective way to reduce to dump fly ash in environment.

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Print quality is correlated to numerous aspects associated with printing technology. Amongst them solid ink density play a crucial role and contribute significantly while printing. Print quality has been considered of greater significant and most frequently evaluated now a days. So it becomes inevitable to understand how ink density behaves on different types of substrates. In this modern era, both sheet-fed offset and digital printing have emerged as most dominating printing technologies facilitate working on large variety of substrates. This present analysis system is used to delineate the ink density variations occurred during printing. The key objective of this research paper is to elucidate the behavior of solid ink density on coated and uncoated paper in sheet-fed offset and digital printing.

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An entire scope of security worries that can go about as hindrances to the reception of cloud computing have been distinguished by analysts in the course of the most recent couple of years. While outsourcing its business-basic information and calculations to the cloud, an undertaking loses control over them. In what capacity ought to the association choose what efforts to establish safety to apply to ensure its information and calculations that have distinctive security necessities from a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) with an obscure level of defilement? The response to this inquiry depends on the association's discernment about the CSP's dependability and the security necessities of its information. This paper proposes a decentralized, dynamic and developing strategy based security system that helps an association to get such observations from learned and trusted representative parts and taking into account that, pick the most applicable security arrangement indicating the efforts to establish safety fundamental for outsourcing information and calculations to the cloud. The authoritative recognition is worked through direct client cooperation and is permitted to advance after some time.

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In these paper, analysis has been done to determine optimum position of deep-beam outrigger at different position of shear wall for G+15 storey building by using STAAD-PRO V8i. Model with three different position of outrigger i.e.at 5th floor, 10th floor, and 15th floor separately with two different position of shear wall are analyzed by linear static analysis method for seismic zone III. As result coming out from above models shows the performance of the deep-beam outrigger at 10th floor with shear wall 2 position is better than other combination. So, additional combination of outrigger at 5th, 10th, 15th floor with shear wall 2 position is analyzed. Which shows minimum lateral displacement as compared to other combination.

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Stomata are the small pores on a surface of leaves which are responsible for the process of respiration. These stomata help plants for intake of carbon-dioxide and release of oxygen. This paper proposes method of identification and automatic counting of stomata on the microscopic image of an epidermis of a leaf. There are various methods of detection and counting of stomata. This paper uses the method of detection and automatic counting of stomata by using morphological operations. There are various morphological operations used in this paper which include dilation, erosion and opening by reconstruction, closing by reconstruction etc. This is most efficient method than others because it gives the efficiency of 94%.

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The main aim of this paper is to study the optimization, performance and emission characteristics of WCOME. The Transesterification of WCO with methanol has been studied in the presence of various catalyst i.e. sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide .The optimization of experimental parameters was established to gain 95% WCOME. The final properties of WCOME like density, viscosity, pour point, cloud point, flash point, fire point and C.V. were evaluated by ASTM standards and were found to be comparable to ASTM standards for diesel. The most recommended WCME blended ratio 5 to 20% for better engine performance and emission characteristics were used. The performance and emission indicators such as brake power , BTE ,EGT ,BSFC ,NOx ,CO,CO2HC and smoke opacity have been estimated for 5%,10% and 20% blend are compared to diesel fuel. The results of experiment shows that BSFC increases with use of biodiesel however BSEC decreases with increase in blend percentage. CO and HC emissions were reduced for biodiesel. But NOX emission increases at B20 blend by50% from (B5,B10 and B20). This work discovered that waste cooking methyl esters can be used in CI engine as a replacement of diesel fuel

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The process of face recognition involves the determination of facial features in an image, by recognizing those features and comparing them to one of the many faces in the database. There are many algorithms capable of performing face recognition; such as: PCA, Discrete Cosine Transform, 3D recognition methods, Gabor Wavelets method etc. There were many issues to consider when choosing a face recognition method. With these in mind the PCA based method of face recognition has found to be better because: Simplest and easiest method to implement, Very fast computation time. PCA has the ability to recognizing a face with a different background is difficult. In this research paper, the face recognition system proposed the Detection time, false negative in missed faces and optimality of the face. This proposed research work has been focused on optimality features of the neural network for the face images and detection time. In this paper, we have applied the neural network for three parameters such – detection time, false acceptance rate, successful rates, no. of failure, and cross correlation

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Technology has made remarkable progress with the time and touched new horizons in this 21st century. This technology proved to be a boon world widely for society. Despite of being achieving so many milestones with latest scientific inventions it have also affected adversely up to a certain extent. One among these adverse affects is ‘counterfeiting or forgery’ i.e. the biggest crime of this century. The crucial solution of this crux is ‘Security Printing’ as every problem has a solution. Security printing facilitates protection against counterfeiting and tempering overtly as well as covertly by combining numerous printing methodologies. This paper is intended to explicate the various dimensions of security printing, anti-counterfeiting tools and techniques used in modern era for improving credibility effectively.

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To transmit Videos, Images etc. over wireless channels, spectrally efficient technique needs to be developed as the spectrum available is a limited resource. Time Domain Synchronous OFDM (TDS-OFDM) is a technique that is spectrally more efficient than other OFDM techniques. But performance of TDS-OFDM is poor in fast fading channels. In this paper, time-frequency structure is proposed. Each symbol consists of time domain one sample shifted training sequence (TS) as guard interval and frequency domain pilots inserted within the data block .This structure improves performance of TDS-OFDM over fast fading channels maintaining the spectral efficiency. The path delay estimation is carried out using time domain training sequence and path gain estimation is done using frequency domain pilots. Channel estimation can be performed using very few numbers of pilots. Hence spectral efficiency is maintained. Also as channel estimation is carried out using pilots present in data block, inter symbol interference is also negligible compared to normal TDS-OFDM.

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In the transportation of valuable materials, theft is very common in transit. Petroleum products are stolen from tankers by the people authorized to transport them. Question papers of examinations are sneaked out in transit before the examinations and leaked to the public. Milk, oil and other such products are diluted and adulterated while they are being transported. All these thefts happen only because the locking mechanism is designed in such a way as to provide the authority of entry to the person who has the key. Nothing can be done to prevent theft if the person with that authority is corrupt. We are proposing a locking mechanism for transport vehicles carrying valued goods where the opening of the lock is triggered only by the complete fulfilment of three factors, namely, the presence of the locked entity in a geo-location fence, RFID authentication, the predened password and authentication password from the owner or the authorized person.

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Individual information put away in the Cloud may contain account numbers, passwords, notes, and other essential data that could be utilized and abused by a contender, or an official courtroom. This information are stored, replicated, and documented by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), frequently without clients' approval and control. Self-destructing information primarily goes for securing the client information's protection. Every one of the information and their duplicates get to be destructed or mixed up after a client determined time, with no client intercession. What's more, the decryption key is destructed after the client indicated time. In this paper, we exhibit SeDas, a framework that meets this test through a novel coordination of cryptographic methods with dynamic stockpiling systems taking into account T10 OSD standard. We actualized a proof-of-concept SeDas model. Through usefulness and security properties assessments of the SeDas model, the outcomes show that SeDas is down to earth to utilize and meets all the protection saving objectives depicted. Contrasted with the framework without self-destructing information component, throughput for transferring and downloading with the proposed SeDas acceptably diminishes by fewer than 72%, while inertness for transfer/download operations with self-destructing information instrument increments by fewer than 60%

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Personalization advances that offer capable instruments to clients to improve their involvement in wide assortment of framework. Customized pursuit alludes to hunt encounters that are embraced particularly for singular's hobbies by fused data about individual past particular question gave, however in the meantime raises new security challenges. Client wavered to unveil their private data amid pursuit which has ended up real issue on personalization advancements. For instance framework that are customize a few commercials as indicated by physical area of client or their companion's inquiry history that present new security challenges that may dishearten to wide appropriation of personalization innovations. This paper breaks down the security difficulties connected with present and noticeable personalization patterns. We review client mentalities towards the security insurance and personalization and also the innovations that diminish protection dangers. This article can help to architects and analysts to further study on protection difficulties of arrangements when planning personalization framework

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In this paper we have implemented the optimization of banker algorithm with the help of some good searching and sorting technique such as merge sort, hashing mapping and so on. This technique has a very higher potential to best utilization of resources in our computer in quadratic time. We have used greedy approach to optimize this algorithm. This algorithm is not only used for banking but also useful for many organizations such as library and many more.

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In this study, deterioration of strength of RCC residential buildings of MP Housing Board Colony, Ayodhya nagar Bhopal has been assessed using Rebound hammer. The age of the buildings vary between 1995 to 2013. The analyzed results are obtained on the basis of comparative study of strengths at the time of construction and at present time. From the results, it is concluded that the percentage deterioration is affected by the age and some other factors.

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As a practical approach, it is more difficult to set the controller gains compared to proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers due to the nonlinearity of the fuzzy controllers. This research paper proposes a design procedure and a tuning procedure consisting of tuning rules from the PID domain over to fuzzy single-loop controllers. The idea is to replace conventional PID controller with an equivalent linear fuzzy controller and eventually fine-tune the nonlinear fuzzy controller. This is relevant whenever a PID controller is possible or already implemented.

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The Objective of this dissertation work was to study the effect of filler material on Mechanical Properties of polyphenelene sulphide Composites. For this purpose, carbon fibre filler materials were selected based on their end applications. The fillers used are carbon fibre. The composition selected was PPS + 30% Carbon Fiber Fillers. The mechanical test was carried out on pin on disc apparatus Tribometer. The friction and wear Test gave the results for frictional force, coefficient of friction and wear. The results indicated that carbon Filled Composites showed best results for friction and wear whereas frictional force, coefficient of friction and wear results were good for Carbon filled ones. The specimens were tested during three intervals of time i.e. 15, 30 & 45 minutes. The results concluded that carbon filled composites showed greater strength. Micro-structure Analysis was carried out after manufacturing the specimen.

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Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are used extensively for applications that require mobility while routing, more importantly for emergency and military operations. Routing information to nodes without a fixed infrastructure and with dynamically changing infrastructure is one of the greatest challenges. Multicasting is a more frequent requirement for such defense operations, which adds on to the level of difficulty while routing. In order to overcome this challenge, a couple of protocols exist in the literature providing various solutions to delivering data to multiple destinations at mobility. However, these strategies are either of greater complexity or the cost is high. In order to overcome this issue, a number of protocols exist in the literature providing various solutions to delivering data to multiple destinations at mobility. However, these strategies are either of greater complexity or the cost is high. In this paper, we present a performance study of FRRM (Familiar route retrieval for multicasting) protocol in MANETs which uses the concept of cache memory to retrieve the familiar routes efficiently. The performance of this protocol is analyzed using NS2 on the basis of three parameters such as packet delivery ratio, throughput and energy consumption.

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There are two major parts of thinking the way of Computer vision: “The extraction of image processing methodologies and their subsequent matching”. The first step is essential as the memory consuming and redundant raw image processing data as captured from cameras would be slow and complex to process by most sophisticated vision algorithm. High level feature extraction concerns finding shapes in computer images. In image processing there is a lots of features processing. It is a special form of dimensionally reduction of any images. When the input data to the algorithm is too large to be processed and is suspected to be notoriously redundant, then the input data will be transformed into a reduced set of features, is called as feature extraction. Thresholding is simple extraction technique. Thresholding is a process of converting grayscale input image to a bi-level image by using an optimal threshold. Thus the objective of binarization is to mark pixels that belong to true foreground regions with a single intensity and background regions with different intensities.

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Immaculate, bountiful and pollution free source of electricity which turned attention of many researchers has been offered by pv cells. A stability analysis for a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) scheme based on extremum-seeking control has been studied for a photovoltaic (PV) array supplying a dc-to-dc switching converter. The PV output needs to be consistent in terms of voltage, so its output can’t be directly fed to electricity bank or to the main grid. Therefore need exists for design of controller. This can extract and calculate the maximum power point from PV array at any moment. PV array usually drives under indistinct/ unclear environmental disturbance and parameters. Here in this paper enhanced extremum seeking MPPT controller is proposed, which has an excellent tolerance of stochastic fluctuations in nature. In the suggested MPPT algorithm, the convergence rate is not pludged by unknown power map as one in conventional ES algorithm. Further the effectiveness of proposed MPPT scheme has been demonstrated using matlab simulations under effect of different irradiations.

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A reinforced concrete flat-plate floor system is widely used in various types of building structures including condominiums, parking garages, and office buildings. This floor system is advantageous in terms of simpler formwork, shorter construction period, reduced storey height, flexible room arrangement, more headroom, better air circulation, and better light penetration. In spite of the advantages, the system has its problems, one of which is the possibility of punching shear failure in the vicinity of the slab-column connections. Present aim of this study is to check the suitability of flat slabs with openings of different location & sizes. In this study FE analysis of flat slabs is proposed using SAFE 12.2.0 for two grid sizes of 5x5m and 7x7m respectively. Further the comparison has been done for the most suitable opening location w.r.t maximum deflection.

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Environmental problems are growing due to release of CO2 in the construction process of cement, it is producing harmful effects on environment. And also shortage of conventional construction materials such as cement, gravels and sand is increasing, because of the higher growth in construction work. Hence alternates are strongly required for these materials. An ordinary Portland cement is caused to five to seven percent of total green house gases emission, so alternative of cement is required for construction of concrete. At the present time researchers searched some substitute for these materials such as fly ash, blast furnace slag, silica fume, rice husk ash, etc apart from this the recent studies research has show that the paper pulp is also useful for construction of concrete as a fine aggregate. Paper pulp contains low calcium and minimum amount of silica, because of this silica and magnesium paper pulp can be used like cement, paper pulp reduces cost of concrete and also it improves the strength of concrete. This study explains the application of paper pulp as a substitute for binding material in concrete. This paper reviews the performance properties of paper pulp in concrete. Paper pulp can be used as a effective building material.

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Concrete is a mixture which is produced by blending adequate proportion of cement, water and aggregate. Every ingredient is used to significantly increase the performance of concrete. Apart from performance of concrete, the developers also accounts cost of concrete which is proportional to the cost of each ingredient. Considering the rising cost of these ingredients and scarcity of natural resources, the utilization of alternative materials in production of concrete, is opted. The present paper emphasizes on studying the characteristics of concrete blended by replacing coarse aggregate with ceramic waste. Ceramic waste is produced from industries during production of ceramic artefacts. The industries produce approx. 30% of waste material of production, which is usually not recycled and used in landfills. In construction sector the ceramic can be effectively used in place of coarse aggregate in production of cost effective and eco-friendly concrete.

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