Energy simulation is a vital part of energy policy of a country, especially for a developing country like China where energy consumption is growing very rapidly. The present study has been conducted to simulate the total primary energy consumption in residential sector in rural areas in Chongqing by using macro and micro drivers including population size, number of households, persons per house...

Nowadays, in order to reach minimum production cost in machining operations, various optimization methods have been proposed. Since turning operation has different parameters affecting the workpiece quality, it was selected as a complicated manufacturing method in this paper. To reach sufficient quality, all influencing parameters such as cutting speed, federate, depth of cut and tool rake angl...

The hit-or-miss transform (HMT) is a fundamental operation on binary images, widely used since 40 years. As it is not increasing, its extension to grey-level images is not straightforward, and very few authors have considered it. Moreover, despite its potential usefulness, very few applications of the grey-level HMT have been proposed until now. Part I of this paper, developed hereafter, is dev...

in this paper the basic theory of a new edge detection algorithm is discussed, its application in image processing is analyzed and introduced as well. Considering the advantages of Grey system theory exploited in image edge detection, a mufti-scale morphological edge detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. At the end a new anti-noise edge detector is presented by improving the edge detec...

Grey theory is one of the new mathematical theories born out of the concept of the grey set. It is an effective method used to solve uncertainty problems with discrete data and incomplete information. In this paper, an improved grey GM (1, 1) model, using a technique that combines residual modification with the Markov chain model, is proposed. This paper employs the annual supply value of Taiwa...

In order to conduct grey relational analysis of the teaching skills and learning results of aerobics, based on brief introduction of related theories of the grey relational analysis method, this paper uses the viewpoints of system theory to systematically classify the teaching skills of aerobics. Finally, the grey relational analysis method in statistics is combined with the study on the learni...

This study empirically analyzes model accuracy, and applies grey forecasting to handle non-linear problems, insufficient data resources and forecasting involving small samples, and to construct the co-opetition diffusion model for the Lotka–Volterra (L.V.) system. Furthermore, this study examines historical data comprising revenue trends in the Taiwanese IC assembly industry during the past ten...

Animals often settle near competitors, a behavior known as social attraction, which belies standard habitat selection theory. Two hypotheses account for these observations: individuals obtain Allee benefits mediated by the physical presence of a competitor, or they use successfully settled individual as a source of information indicating the location of high quality habitat. We evaluated these ...