Scheduling Constrained-Deadline Parallel Tasks on Two-type Heterogeneous Multiprocessors

Abstract Because the requirements of the customers are more and more high related to quality, quantity, delivery times at lowest costs possible, the industry had to come with automated solutions to improve these requirements. Starting from the automated lines developed by Ford and Toyota, we have now developed automated and self-sustained working lines, which is possible nowadays-using collaborative robots. By using the knowledge management system we can improve the development of the future of this kind of area of research. This paper shows the benefits and the smartness use of the robots that are performing the manipulation activities that increases the work place ergonomically and improve the interaction between human - machine in order to assist in parallel tasks and lowering the physically human efforts.

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‘Inevitable and Unacceptable?’ Methodological Rawlsianism in Anglo-American Political Philosophy

Political Studies ◽

10.1111/1467-9248.00140 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 276-294 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Wayne Norman

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Political Theory ◽

Common Sense ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Parallel Tasks ◽

Profound Influence ◽

Political Theories ◽

English Speaking ◽

Anglo American ◽

English Speaking World

This article attempts two parallel tasks. First, it gives a sympathetic explication of the implicit working methodology (‘Methodological Rawlsianism’) of mainstream contemporary political theory in the English-speaking world. And second, principally in footnotes, it surveys the recent literature on justification to see what light these debates cast on the tenets of this methodology. It is worth examining methodological presuppositions because these can have a profound influence on substantive theories: many of the differences between philosophical traditions can be traced to their methodologies. My aim is to expose the central features of methodological Rawlsianism in order to challenge critics of this tradition to explain exactly where and why they depart from the method. While I do not defend it at length, I do suggest that methodological Rawlsianism is inevitable insofar as it is basically a form of common sense. This fact should probably lower expectations about the amount of progress consistent methodological Rawlsians are likely to make in grounding comprehensive normative political theories.

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