With the rapid expansion of the information on the Internet, recommender systems play an important role in terms of trade and research. Recommender systems try to guess the user's way of thinking, using the in-formation of user's behavior or similar users and their views, to discover and then propose a product which is the most appropriate and closest product of user's interest. In the past dec...

Numerous design challenges in system synthesis can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problems. Unfortunately, most of these problems are NP-complete or NP-hard. As fabrication technology improves and transistors become smaller and more numerous, we will continue to rely on design automation techniques to create and use future computing systems. Therefore, there is a substantial need f...

A direct search approach to determine optimal reservoir operating is proposed with ant colony optimization for continuous domains (ACOR). The model is applied to a system of single reservoir to determine the optimum releases during 42 years of monthly steps. A disadvantage of ant colony based methods and the ACOR in particular, refers to great amount of computer run time consumption. In this st...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) promulgated its regulations on the “Radiological Criteria for License Termination” in 10 CFR Part 20, Subpart E. The regulations require that, for the release of sites for unrestricted use, the total effective dose equivalent (TEDE) to an average member of a critical group, resulting from residual radioactivity that is distinguishable from background...