Steady hydromagnetic Couette flow of class-II of a viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting fluid through a porous medium in a rotating system taking Hall current into account is investigated. Heat transfer characteristics of the fluid flow are considered taking viscous and Joule dissipations into account. It is noticed that there exists flow separation at the moving plate in the sec...

Every evolutionary algorithm needs to address two important facets: exploration and exploitation of a search space. Evolutionary search must combine exploration of the new regions of the space with exploitation of the potential solutions already identified. The necessity of balancing exploration with exploitation needs to be intelligent. This paper introduces an entropy-driven parameter control...

The training of Neural Networks and particularly Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP's) is made by minimizing an error function usually known as "cost function". In our previous works, we apply the Error Entropy Minimization (EEM) algorithm in classification and its optimized version using, as cost function, the entropy of the errors between the outputs and the desired targets of the neural network. O...

Thermodynamic analysis of a steady state flow and heat transfer of an Oldroyd 8-constant fluid with effect of heat source, velocity slip and buoyancy force under tranverse a magnetic field is is carried out in this paper. The model for momentum and energy balance is tackled numerically using Method of Weighted Residual (MWR). Partition method is used to minimize the associated residuals. The re...

After generalization of Shannon‘s entropy measure by Renyi in 1961, many generalized versions of Shannon measure were proposed by different authors. Shannon measure can be obtained from these generalized measures asymptotically. A natural question arises in the parametric generalization of Shannon‘s entropy measure. What is the role of the parameter(s) from application point of view? In the pre...

One important issue in the theory of Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operators is the determination of the associated weights. One of the first approaches, suggested by O’Hagan, determines a special class of OWA operators having maximal Shannon entropy of the OWA weights for a given level of orness; algorithmically it is based on the solution of a constrained optimization problem. In this pape...

For a continuous circle map T, deene the barycentre of any T-invariant probability measure to be b() = R S 1 z dd(z). The set of all such barycentres is a compact convex subset of C. If T is conjugate to a rational rotation via a MM obius map, we prove is a disc. For every piecewise-onto expanding map we prove that the barycentre set has non-empty interior. In this case, each interior point is ...

This paper applies a new multi attribute decision-making (MADM) model to help companies for enterprise resource planning (ERP) selection problem based on Balanced Score Card method. This paper uses three-parameter interval grey numbers which is derived from Grey theory (was proposed by J. Deng). This numbers is used instead of linguistic variables. Beside, a new weighting method that outcomes f...

The entropy generation analysis of non-Newtonian fluid in rotational flow between two concentric cylinders is examined when the outer cylinder is fixed and the inner cylinder is revolved with a constant angular speed. The viscosity of non-Newtonian fluid is considered at the same time interdependent on temperature and shear rate. The Nahme law and Carreau equation are used to modeling dependenc...

An innovative way of calculating the von Mises distribution of image entropy is introduced in this paper. The von Mises distribution's concentration parameter and some fitness parameter that will be defined later have been analyzed in the experimental part for determining their suitability as an image quality assessment measure in some particular distortions such as Gaussian blur or additive Ga...