Sustainable earthworks: Optimization with the ICOM method

An evolutionary multi-objective optimization system for earthworks

Earthworks involve the leveling or shaping of a target area through the moving or processing of the ground surface. Most construction projects require earthworks, which are heavily dependent on mechanical equipment (e.g., excavators, trucks and compactors). Often, earthworks are the most costly and time-consuming component of infrastructure constructions (e.g., road, railway and airports) and c...

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The new ICOM Ontology Editor

ICom is an advanced CASE tool, which allows the user to design multiple UML class diagrams with inter-and intra-model constraints. Complete logical reasoning is employed by the tool to verify the specification, infer implicit facts, devise stricter constraints, and manifest any inconsistency. For the ontology creation and maintenance tasks, ICom interface supports ontology engineers in engineer...

Sustainable Optimization in Supply Chain Network of the Iranian Universities

There has been a lot of problems for Universities that the main problems of the students are obliged to pay high fees for education and also inability of university to provide appropriate services in terms of quality and quantity of the students. These two factors cause psychological and even physical problems in the country's students an after a while their motivation for continuing education ...

Optimization and sustainable development

In this opinion paper, I argue that “optimization and sustainable development” indicates a set of specific engineering techniques rather than a unified discipline stemming from a unique scientific principle. On the other hand, I also propose a mathematical principle underlying at least some of the concepts defining sustainability when optimizing a supply chain. The principle is based on the fac...