Infrastructure assessment and renewal have been in the center of attention worldwide. While the infrastructure is the foundation for economic growth, a large percentage of existing facilities are rapidly deteriorating due to age, outdated technology, and insufficient capacity for population growth. Prioritizing infrastructure facilities for repair purposes, the allocation of the limited funds, ...

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to enhance the noisy speech in the framework of dual-channel speech enhancement. The new method is a hybrid optimization algorithm, which employs the  combination of  the  conventional θ-PSO and the shuffled sub-swarms particle optimization (SSPSO) technique. It is known that the θ-PSO algorithm has better optimization performance than standard PSO al...

This paper presents a new and efficient approach for capacitor placement in radial distribution systems that determine the optimal locations and size of capacitor with an objective of improving the voltage profile and reduction of power loss. The solution methodology has two parts: in part one the loss sensitivity factors are used to select the candidate locations for the capacitor placement an...

Taking into account the constraints of water resources and fact that total amount on earth is constant, exploitation reservoir one key issues among various

Multilevel thresholding is an important technique for image processing and pattern recognition. The maximum entropy thresholding (MET) has been widely applied in the literature. In this paper, a new multilevel MET algorithm based on the technology of the shuffled frog-leaping (SFLO) algorithm is proposed: called the maximum entropy based shuffled frog-leaping algorithm thresholding (MESFLOT) me...