this paper presents a cuckoo optimization algorithm (coa) model for the cost optimization of the one-way and two-way reinforced concrete (rc) slabs according to aci code. the objective function is the total cost of the slabs including the cost of the concrete and that of the reinforcing steel. in this paper, one-way and two-way slabs with various end conditions are formulated as aci code. the t...

To combat with lagging rate control (RC) parameter setting in encoding video sequences with discontinuous scenes, a novel RC algorithm at group of picture (GOP) level is proposed for high efficiency video coding (HEVC) in this paper. Firstly, the variation of GOP is analyzed and used to detect the discontinuous scene. Then, a new bit allocation algorithm is presented by constructing the correla...

Particle filters are an important class of online posterior density estimation algorithms. In this paper we propose a real coded genetic algorithm particle filter (RGAPF) for the dual estimation of stochastic volatility and parameters of a Heston type stochastic volatility model. We compare the performance of our hybrid particle filter with a parameter learning particle filter present in litera...

RC-coding, developed by Cederberg and Danielsson for encoding of binary images, has been gener-alised to allow encoding of any image. Both`compact RC' encoding andèntity' encoding have been generalised. The generalised compact RC encoding algorithm allows for very simple colour image encoding. The generalised entity encoding algorithm is suitable for raster-scan boundary encoding of images, whi...

This paper presents Chemo-tactic PSO-DE (CPSO-DE) optimization algorithm combined with Lagrange Relaxation method (LR) for solving Unit Commitment (UC) problem. The proposed approach employs Chemo-tactic PSO-DE algorithm for optimal settings of Lagrange multipliers. It provides high-quality performance and reaches global solution and is a hybrid heuristic algorithm based on Bacterial Foraging O...