EADOCS (Expert Assisted Design Of Composite Sandwich panels) is a multi-level and hybrid expert system for innovative conceptual design. The objectives for conceptual design support are to assess the feasibility and optimality of alternative solutions and to find the best concept for further detailed design. Case-based reasoning is applied to generate conceptual designs and to refine their stru...

in this paper, matlab code for a recently developed meta-heuristic methodology, the vibrating particles system (vps) algorithm, is presented. the vps is a population-based algorithm which simulates a free vibration of single degree of freedom systems with viscous damping. the particles gradually approach to their equilibrium positions that are achieved from current population and historically b...

One of basic principles in designing treatment environments is to design air conditioning/ventilation system proportionate to environment. Essentially, appropriate air conditioner in treatment spaces must bear the following capabilities: providing healthy and clean air, reducing the concentration of pollutants produced in the atmosphere, emission of pollutants and impeding their spread in exter...

We define the formal framework of r-hybrid knowledge bases (KBs) integrating ontologies and rules. A r-hybrid KB has a structural component (ontology) and a rule component. Such a framework is very general, in the sense that: (i) the construction is parametric with respect to the logic used to specify the structural component; (ii) the rule component is very expressive, since it consists of a D...

To study the role of the signal sequences in the biogenesis of outer membrane proteins, we have constructed two hybrid genes: a phoE-ompF hybrid gene, which encodes the signal sequence of outer membrane PhoE protein and the structural sequence of outer membrane OmpF protein, and a bla-phoE hybrid gene which encodes the signal sequence as well as 158 amino acids of the structural sequence of the...

A hybrid system which combines Self Organizing Maps and Case Based Reasoning is presented and apply to Structural Assessment. Self Organizing Maps are trained as a classification tool in order to organize the old cases in memory with the purpose of speeding up the Case Based Reasoning process. Three real structures have been used: An aluminium beam, a pipe section and a long pipe.

This paper presents a new architecture called FAIS for implementing intelligent agents cooperating in a special Multi Agent environment, namely the RoboCup Rescue Simulation System. This is a layered architecture which is customized for solving fire extinguishing problem. Structural decision making algorithms are combined with heuristic ones in this model, so it's a hybrid architecture.