Article history: Received 22 August 2007 Accepted 29 February 2008 Available online xxxx

Expansion of distance education (DE) is one of the characteristics of the information society by which we can judge the level of development in a society. As we witnessed many changes in Slovenia in the last ten years we were interested in what is happening in DE as a modern way of education.DE in Slovenia is still developing, so the institutions that offer it are rather rare. An exception is t...

this paper presents the results of a comprehensive study on the efficiency of planar parallel mechanisms, considering their kinetostatic performance and also, their workspace. this aim is approached upon proceeding single- and multi-objective optimization procedures. kinetostatic performances of ten different planar parallel mechanisms are analyzed by resorting to a recent index, kinematic sens...

in this study, an image backlight compensation method using adaptive luminance modification is proposed for efficiently obtaining clear images.the proposed method combines the fuzzy c-means clustering method, a recurrent functional neural fuzzy network (rfnfn), and a modified differential evolution.the proposed rfnfn is based on the two backlight factors that can accurately detect the compensat...

Semilinear stochastic evolution equations with multiplicative Poisson noise and monotone nonlinear drift in Hilbert spaces are considered‎. ‎The coefficients are assumed to have linear growth‎. ‎We do not impose coercivity conditions on coefficients‎. ‎A novel method of proof for establishing existence and uniqueness of the mild solution is proposed‎. ‎Examples on stochastic partial differentia...

In recent years, soft computing methods have generated a large research interest. The synthesis of the fuzzy logic and the evolutionary algorithms is one of these methods. A particular evolutionary algorithm (EA) is differential evolution (DE). As for any EA, DE algorithm also requires parameters tuning to achieve desirable performance. In this paper tuning the perturbation factor vector of DE ...

formation of asphaltene deposition during oil production, processing and synthesis is known as a fundamental problem of petroleum reservoir worldwide. asphaltene is a petroleum fraction that can lead to increasing the operating costs in these industries. variations in operational pressure, temperature and fluid composition are generally the significant cause of asphaltene precipitation. in this...

In this paper, we study the existence, uniqueness and propagation of regularity to infinite order partial differential evolution equations. Our approach is essentially functional and brings interesting results even when we restrict ourselves to finite order equations.

A Differential Evolution (DE) is introduced to predict the parameters of the soil water retention curve (SWRC) and it is configured for reliability and efficiency with the Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Property Database (UNSODA). The main investigated dataset is 235 samples from lab_drying_h-t table and the testing shows that the data resource is reliable and steady. Some specific statistical comp...

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