Abstract: A system, method, and an associated computer program (product) for optimizing an arrangement of objects formed from at least one structure in order to use objects to design a technical installation is provided. The system has: a selection device for selecting objects that are filtered from a set of provided objects on the basis of properties of the objects and/or arrangement conditions derived from the relationships of the objects among one another and/or by means of prescribable parameters, a processing device designed to make an association between each selected object and at least one subarea of the technical installation, an optimization device designed to perform optimization of the arrangement of the selected objects within their subarea, if need be iteratively, by rotating and/or by tilting and/or sorting and/or rearranging the objects, an output device for outputting the optimized arrangement of the objects to use this arrangement for designing the installation.

Abstract: In a method for determination of an acquisition sequence for slice plane data of slice planes of an examination subject, the slice plane data are acquired with measurement sequences that each includes a preparation phase and a measurement phase temporally separated from the preparation phase. For n slice planes and a set of sequence parameters that include at least the parameters TRmin: minimal repetition time between two measurement sequences of the same slice plane and TRmax: maximum repetition time between two measurement sequences of the same slice plane, a periodic acquisition scheme that, temporally expanded, is [TRi, TR]-compatible to the k-th degree and has k streams. The association of the n slice planes with the k streams of the acquisition scheme and the order of the slice planes within the respective streams are determined by mixed-integer linear program.

Abstract: In a method for determination of an acquisition sequence for acquisition of slice plane data of slice planes of an examination subject in an imaging method for generation of slice images (associated with the slice planes) of the examination subject, the slice plane data are acquired with measurement sequences that each include a preparation phase and a measurement phase temporally separated from the preparation phase, the measurement phase including at least one measurement for acquisition of slice plane data. For n slice planes and a set of sequence parameters that include at least the parameters TRmin: minimal repetition time between two measurement sequences of the same slice plane and TRmax: maximum repetition time between two measurement sequences of the same slice plane, a periodic acquisition scheme that, temporally expanded, is [TRi TR]-compatible to the k-th degree and has k streams.

Abstract: A method for controlling track-bound vehicles in which prescribed route networks and route for track-bound vehicles (F.sub.n) are used to determine forecast delays E(V.sub.k.sup.n) for the vehicles (F.sub.n), a destination function (.psi.) which quantifies the various aspects of causes of delay or aspects which lead to a need to control the individual vehicles (F.sub.n) is minimized, and the method of steepest descent determines control values (M.sub.k.sup.n) by means of which the individual vehicles (F.sub.n) are controlled.

Abstract: A process and a device for comprehensive control of a basic industry plant, such as a steel plant or an integrated iron works, which includes subprocesses that are critical with regard to continuous material flow, e.g., casting processes. The invention optimizes the material flow through the system and prevents the interruption of the material flow prior to the start of subprocesses that are critical with regard to continuous material flow. The process sequence in a subprocess is subdivided into four steps, referred to as quarter cells with each quarter cell containing a point in time, a time range to describe possible process time fluctuations, the name of the previous quarter cell, i.e., the name of the previous substep of a subprocess, as well as a marker of whether the process time fluctuation of this subcell is influenceable or non-influenceable.