a. nodehi

Some business process management systems (BPMSs) have been developed in the field of smart factories. These systems are typically based on technical or production areas and technical processes. However, many existing systems, with respect to technologies used in smart factories and also the dynamic nature of the processes in these environments, are not able meet requirements of smart factories in the business process execution. The present study presents a new prototype of BPMS architecture based on smart factories’ characteristics. This prototype has several components. In the monitoring component, process management can take place through process mining techniques inside a defined data analysis system for collecting event logs from big data. This component could operate based on control and optimization modules. The control module is applied to discover process models and their conformity with models extracted from business process analysis using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) and Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) algorithms. Also, the optimization module can improve the processes model based on Business Process Intelligence (BPI) technique and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The results of the new prototype execution on a case study indicate that the proposed architecture is highly accurate, complete, and optimal in process management for smart factories.

Minimizing make-span and maximizing remaining energy are usually of chief importance in the applications of wireless sensor actor networks (WSANs). Current task assignment approaches are typically concerned with one of the timing or energy constraints. These approaches do not consider the types and various features of tasks WSANs may need to perform and thus may not be applicable to some types of real applications such as search and rescue missions. To this end, an optimized and type aware task assignment approach called TATA is proposed that considers the energy consumption as well as the make-span. TATA is an optimized task assignment approach and aware of the distribution necessities of WSANs with hybrid architecture. TATA comprises of two protocols, namely a Make-span Calculation Protocol (MaSC) and an Energy Consumption Calculation Protocol (ECal). Through considering both time and energy, TATA makes a tradeoff between minimizing make-span and maximizing the residual energies of actors. A series of extensive simulation results on typical scenarios show shorter make-span and larger remaining energy in comparison to when stochastic task assignment (STA), opportunistic load balancing (OLB), and task assignment algorithm based on quasi-Newton interior point (TA-QNIP) approaches is applied.

Salinity stress is most important factor limiting crops growth and production in worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of four water salinity levels (1.15, 4, 7 and 10 dS.m-1) on some traits of phonology, morphology, yield and yield components of four canola (Brassica napus L.) cultivars (Hyola 4815, 308 and 401 and RGS 003) under application of 10 Ton.ha-1 vermicompost in 2014-15 in Gorgan region, Iran. The experiment was conducted as factorial arranged in randomized complete blocks design with three replications. The results showed that the all traits, except days to seed emergence and pod length were significantly affected by cultivar. The Hyola 4815 cultivar had the lowest total plant height, height of first pod and branch from ground, stem diameter and seeds per pod with a significant difference with other cultivars. The lowest number of branches and highest days to flowering and maturity and stem diameter were obtained from RGS cultivar with a significant difference with the other cultivars. The Hyola 308 and 4815 cultivars with the highest number of pods per plant were significantly different with Hyola 401 and RGS cultivars. The highest 1000- seed weight was found in Hyola 4815 and 401 with a significant difference with the other cultivars. Hyola 308 and 401 cultivars had the highest seed yield and their differences were significant with RGS cultivar. However, seed yield differences of these three cultivars were not significant with Hyola 4815 cultivar. ....