Analyzing patterns in large-scale graphs, such as social networks (e.g. Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter) has many applications including community identification, blog analysis, intrusion and spamming detections. Currently, it is impossible to process information in large-scale graphs with millions even billions of edges with a single computer. In this paper, we take advantage of MapReduce, a progr...

Neuro Mechanical Network (NMN) is a new concept of adaptronic character. The governing idea is to include geometry, topology, load carrying, energy transfer, actuating, sensing and control of a machine in one single mathematical state model, and thereby enabling a formulation of the design and configuration problem as an optimization problem. We have focused our attention on a type of NMNs cons...

Practical optimum design of structures often involves parameters with uncertainties. There have been several ways to deal with such optimisation problems, and one of the approaches is an antioptimisation process. The task is to find the optimum solution of common design variables while simultaneously searching for the worst case scenario of those parameters with uncertainties. This paper propos...

Traditional truss design and analysis assumes pinned joints at the connections. Other design provisions recommend that the trusses be designed and analyzed as frame structures, with careful consideration of the stress, timber behavior, and joint response. A large body of knowledge has been compiled detailing truss behavior as it relates to member properties and responses. However, the modeling ...

Trusses are load-carrying light-weight structures consisting of bars connected at joints ubiquitously applied in a variety engineering scenarios. Designing optimal trusses that satisfy functional specifications with minimal amount material has interested both theoreticians and practitioners for more than century. In this paper, we introduce two main ideas to improve upon the state art. First, f...

Trusses are common structural elements in many industrial and civil buildings. The article describes the approach to planar trusses reliability analysis case of limited statistical data. proposed can be used when it is complicated determine a cumulative distribution function for design loads physical/mechanical properties material elements. method requires only estimates mathematical expectatio...

In civil engineering, structural optimization seeks an efficient use of material resources and the automatization design process a wide range structures such as frames, bridges, other systems. This work develops novel multiobjective topology to minimize planar trusses' weight strain energy. initial stage, optimized discrete geometry ground structure is generated from continuum space with genera...

Structural optimisation currently relies heavily on methods based on discretisation. In simpler cases like the simulation of frames and trusses, where discretisation is not necessary, only the elongation or compression is considered and the joints are free, like ball and socket joints, in order to avoid bending the trusses. In this dissertation a discretisation free method for the modelling and...