a Chengdu Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, PR China b School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, PR China c School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA d College of Computer Science & Technology, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, 361021, PR China e School of Management and Economic, Beijing In...

nowadays, different methods are used to solve optimization problems which ,one of the newest is bco method that are inspired by the nature and derived from the social life of bees of these methods can be noted that bco is derived from the social life of bees. we use in this paper fuzzy logic for bee‟s decision stage. at the end, we solve two different problem that have already been solved by es...

In this paper, a strain-intensity-factor-based method is proposed to calculate the fatigue crack growth under the fully reversed loading condition. A theoretical analysis is conducted in detail to demonstrate that the strain intensity factor is likely to be a better driving parameter correlated with the fatigue crack growth rate than the stress intensity factor (SIF), especially for some metall...

The objective of this study is to present the method proposed by Sullivan and to estimate the healthy life expectancy using different measures of state of health, based on information from the World Health Survey carried out in Brazil in 2003. By combining information on mortality and morbidity into a unique indicator, simple to calculate and easy to interpret, the Sullivan method is currently ...

Railway Engineering Institute, China Academy of Railway Sciences, Beijing, China, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom, Department of Civil Engineering, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Uni...

In the present study, a general probabilistic design framework is developed for cyclic fatigue life prediction of metallic hardware using methods that address uncertainty in experimental data and computational model. The methodology involves (i) utilization of fatigue tests data conducted on coupons of Ti6Al4V material (ii) continuum damage mechanics based material constitutive models to simula...

How can artiŽcial life (AL) advance scientiŽc understanding? Is AL best seen as a new discipline, or as a collection of novel computational methods that can be applied to old problems? And given that the products of AL research range from abstract existence proofs to working robots to detailed simulation models, are there standards of quality or usefulness that can be applied across the whole Ž...

In this paper, we present a variant of local search, namely the Life Span Method (LSM), for generic combinatorial optimization problems. The LSM can be seen as a variation of tabu search introduced by Glover [18, 19]. We outline applications of the LSM to several combinatorial optimization problems such as the maximum stable set problem, the traveling salesman problem, the quadratic assignment ...