Image registration (IR) is the process of geometric overlaying or alignment of two or more 2D/3D images of the same scene (unimodal registration), taken or not at different time slots, from different angles, and/or by different image acquisition systems (multimodal registration). Technically, image registration implies a complex optimization of different parameters, performed at local or/and gl...

Many optimization techniques have been proposed since the inception of engineering optimization in 1960s. Traditional mathematical modeling-based approaches are incompetent to solve the engineering optimization problems, as these problems have complex system that involves large number of design variables as well as equality or inequality constraints. In order to overcome the various difficultie...

Combinatorial auctions, where bidders are allowed to submit bids for bundles of items, are preferred to single-item auctions when bidders have complementarities and substitutabilities among items and therefore achieve better social efficiency. A large unexplored area of research is the design of bidding strategies. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive bidding strategy for combinatorial auct...

Power system stabilizers (PSSs) must be capable of providing appropriate stabilization signals over abroad range of operating conditions and disturbances. The main idea of this paper is changing aclassic PSS (CPSS) to an adaptive PSS using genetic algorithm. This new genetic algorithm based onadaptive PSS (GAPSS) improves power system damping, considerably. The controller design issue isformula...

When searching for prey, many predator species exhibit a remarkable behavior: after prey capture, the predators promptly engage in ‘area-restricted search’, probing for consecutive captures nearby. Biologists have been surprised with the efficiency and adaptability of this search strategy to a great number of habitats and prey distributions. We propose to synthesize a similar search strategy fo...

Thermoregulatory clothing plays an indispensable role in maintaining body thermal comfort and achieving building energy savings response to fluctuating ambient. Existing temperature-adaptive without external input has very limited thermoregulatory power because of the lack simultaneous regulation multiple heat-dissipation pathways. Here, we report with multimodal body-heat (viz. convection, rad...