In this paper the factor of safety (FS) and critical line-segments slip surface obtained by the Alternating Variable Local Gradient (AVLG) optimization method was presented as a new topic in 2D. Results revealed that the percentage of reduction in the FS obtained by switching from a circular shape to line segments was higher with the AVLG method than other methods. The 2D-AVLG optimization meth...

nowadays, due to inherent complexity of real optimization problems, it has always been a challenging issue to develop a solution algorithm to these problems. single row facility layout problem (srflp) is a np-hard problem of arranging a number of rectangular facilities with varying length on one side of a straight line with aim of minimizing the weighted sum of the distance between all facility...

Computer Science) On-line Methods for Database Optimization by Lipyeow Lim Department of Computer Science Duke University

In this paper model predictive control problems are reformulated as multi-parametric programs. The optimal value of control variables is obtained as an explicit function of the state variables. This reduces on-line optimization to simple function evaluations that need simple computational hardware.

Fuzzy{logic theory is a valuable tool to structure ad{hoc designs where model{based designs are not suitable or even not available. There exist numerous examples of industry proven fuzzy{logic solutions in the domain of control, pattern recognition and expert systems. The design of fuzzy systems demand a great deal of experience and intuition. Due to the many degrees of freedom in the design of...