Photochemical machining (PCM), also known as photoetching, photofabrication or photochemical milling, is a non-traditional manufacturing method based on the combination of photoresist imaging and chemical etching. PCM uses techniques similar to those employed for the production of printed circuit boards and silicon integrated circuits. The PCM industry plays a valuable worldwide role in the pro...

This paper presents a new clustering algorithm named improved type-2 possibilistic fuzzy c-means (IT2PFCM) for fuzzy segmentation of magnetic resonance imaging, which combines the advantages of type 2 fuzzy set, the fuzzy c-means (FCM) and Possibilistic fuzzy c-means clustering (PFCM). First of all, the type 2 fuzzy is used to fuse the membership function of the two segmentation algorithms (FCM...

In this paper, we propose new fuzzy c-means method for improving the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) segmentation. The proposed method called “possiblistic fuzzy c-means (PFCM)” which hybrids the fuzzy c-means (FCM) and possiblistic c-means (PCM) functions. It is realized by modifying the objective function of the conventional PCM algorithm with Gaussian exponent weights to produce memberships...

Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) has been an interesting research area since its introduction. There are various types of VRP models and different solution techniques proposed for this problem. This paper uses several clustering algorithms in initialization of Simulated Annealing to solve VRP. The main contribution of this research is to assess the effect of using some clustering methods in buildi...

This paper presents a latest survey of different technologies using fuzzy clustering algorithms. Clustering approach is widely used in biomedical field like image segmentation. A different methods are used for medical image segmentation like Improved Fuzzy C Means(IFCM), Possibilistic C Means(PCM),Fuzzy Possibilistic C Means(FPCM), Modified Fuzzy Possibilistic C Means(MFPCM) and Possibilistic F...

The literature shows that inorganic phase change materials (PCM) have been very seldom microencapsulated, so this study aims to contribute to filling this research gap. Bischofite, a by-product from the non-metallic industry identified as having good potential to be used as inorganic PCM, was microencapsulated by means of a fluidized bed method with acrylic as polymer and chloroform as solvent,...

Spatial alignment is an essential step before any further processing (such as fusion and change detection) of multiframe images can be done. We present a new algorithm that aligns translated and rotated pair of 3D images by means of phase correlation method (PCM). PCM is a computationally efficient method for translation estimation. We generalize a known polar-mapping approach of 2D image regis...

The Palladio Bench is a tool to model, simulate and analyze Palladio Component Model (PCM) instances. However, for the Palladio Bench, no single interface to automate experiments or Application Programming Interface (API) to trigger the simulation of PCM instances and to extract performance prediction results is available. The Descartes Query Language (DQL) is a novel approach of a declarative ...