background: dengue is amongst the most serious mosquito-borne infectious disease with hot spots in tropical and subtropical parts of the world. unfortunately, no licensed vaccine for the disease is currently available in medicine markets. the only option available is the management of dengue vector mosquito, aedes aegypti (diptera: culicidae). method: predatory potential of five odonate nymphs ...

In this paper, we propose a hybrid Pareto-based artificial bee colony (HABC) algorithm for solving the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem. In the hybrid algorithm, each food sources is represented by two vectors, i.e., the machine assignment vector and the operation scheduling vector. The artificial bee is divided into three groups, namely, employed bees, onlookers, and scouts...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), confirmed as an efficient technique, has been applied in optical wireless communications (OWCs) to improve the transmission rate. However, disadvantage of high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) also brings into OWC systems, especially for multi-user communications, resulting low efficiency. This paper prop...

Many systems consist of a signal processing and a control dominated part. The interaction of the data processing functions and a large variety of system-level control functions are often complex and with far reaching consequences. Thus, an early analysis and assessment of this interaction in a system level model is desirable. We propose a heterogeneous cosimulation environment with Matlab for t...

8 Abstract 9 The goal of this paper is to explore solution concepts for set-valued TU-games. Several stability conditions can be 10 defined since one can have various interpretations of an improvement within the multicriteria framework. We present 11 two different core solution concepts and explore the relationships among them. These concepts generalize the classic 12 core solution for scalar g...

A method is presented for speeding up the performance of the HMM based speech recognition system where the states are modeled by a large number of Gaussian kernels. The emission probabilities of the states are usually dominated by the nearest Gaussians to the input vector. The speedup is gained without deteriorating the recognition accuracy by concentrating on these kernels in the reduced K-bes...

We treat the class of sampling problems in which the underlying function can be specified by a finite set of samples. Our problem is to reconstruct the signal from non-ideal, noisy samples, which are modelled as the inner products of the signal with a set of sampling vectors, contaminated by noise. To mitigate the effect of the noise and the mismatch between the sampling and reconstruction vect...

Experiments performed on small collections suggest that expanding query vectors with words that are lexically related to the original query words can improve retrieval eeectiveness. Prior experiments using WordNet to automatically expand vectors in the large TREC-1 collection were inconclusive regarding eeec-tiveness gains from lexically related words since any such eeects were dominated by the...