one of the methods for the improvement of soil against the tensile stresses is using the artificial supplements in soil such as metal belts or nets, polymer materials and natural fibers. technically this method is called the reinforced of soil.  when a pavement is located on soft soil, great deformations can occur as a result of the crossing of traffic load in superstructure layers of the body....

in acceptance-sampling plans, the items of an incoming lot are inspected one by one. if the number of nonconforming items in sample is equal zero, the lot is accepted but if the number of nonconforming items is equal to one, then second sample is taken and the policy of zero acceptance number would be applied for the second sample. in this paper, a mathematical model is developed to design sing...

Ž We view a debate as a mechanism by which an uninformed decision maker the . listener extracts information from two informed debaters, who hold contradicting positions regarding the right decision. During the debate, the debaters raise arguments and, based on these arguments, the listener reaches a conclusion. Using a simple example, we investigate the mechanism design problem of constructing ...

in this paper, a new approach is proposed for the optimum design of single-phase induction motor. by using the classical design equations and the evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algorithms (ga), particle swarm optimization (pso) and modified particle swarm optimization (mpso), a single phase induction motor (spim) was designed with the maximum efficiency. the finite element method (fem)...

The binary and ternary codes spanned by the rows of the point by block incidence matrices of some 2-designs and their complementary and orthogonal designs are studied. A new method is also introduced to study optimal codes.

The design and deployment of Wi-Fi wireless networks is currently implemented in an ad-hoc fashion with access point installation based on “rules of thumb”. In order to design flexible in-door wireless communication systems, the development of planning software tools for automatic, site-specific design of Wi-Fi networks are required. These tools need to consider various criteria such as the opt...

there has been an increasing concern about inactive drivers who would easily lead to road accidents and fatalities once return to driving. this study investigated the re-usability of traffic signs for inactive drivers with consideration of driver factors and cognitive sign features. fifty-seven hong kong chinese, who possessed a full driving license but had not driven for an extended period, co...

En route air traffic management is difficult and can benefit greatly from decision support tools. This paper presents a study of the efficiency and effectiveness of two practical approaches to real-time scheduling algorithms: a simple greedy scheduler and a well-studied optimal scheduler. A subset (region) of the National Airspace System is isolated to perform optimization on a manageable porti...

With the increasing usage of QoS-based applications, traffic engineering in communication networks has become more crucial. For the optimal utilization of network resources, service providers need to consider multiple criteria that can be customeror traffic-oriented. Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) has been developed to apply more convenient traffic engineering in autonomous systems. This ...