This paper develops a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based “growing” technique to design and synthesise analogue circuits with practical constraints such as the manufacturer’s preferred component values. Most existing problems with evolutionary search techniques applied to circuit design are addressed. The CA technique developed is then applied both to synthesise the topology of a network as well to pe...

In this paper, we focus on engineering Pareto-optimal digital circuits given the expected input/output behaviour with a minimal design effort. The design objectives to be minimised are: hardware area, response time and power consumption. We do so using the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithms. This is novel application of multi-objective optimisation to circuit design. The performance and qu...

The heat transfer coefficient value strongly depends on surface temperature rise and cooling fluid velocity. Thus, taking into account that usually large temperature gradients occur in air cooled electronic circuits, the local values of this coefficient might differ substantially throughout circuit outer surfaces. Consequently, the assumption of heat transfer coefficient uniformity for the enti...

This paper discusses one solution technique for an optimisation problem involving nonuniform linear array (NLA) geometry. This NLA design problem seeks an optimal geometry from the class of fully-augmentable arrays (ie. those with a complete set of intersensor differences) created to support the generalised spatial smoothing (GSS) algorithm, whose aim is to resolve the directions-of-arrival (DO...

A. El-Yacoubi1,2, M. Gilloux2, R. Sabourin1,3 and C.Y. Suen1 1 Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Department of Computer Science, Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montréal, Canada H3G 1M8 2 Service de Recherche Technique de La Poste Department Reconnaissance, Modélisation Optimisation (RMO) 10, rue de l’ile Mabon, 44063 Nantes Cedex 02, France 3 Ecol...

the paper discusses the current state of research concerning railway network timetabling and traffic management. timetable effectiveness is governed by frequency, regularity, accurate running, recovery and layover times, as well as minimal headway, buffer times and waiting times. analytic (queuing) models and stochastic microsimulation are predominantly used for estimation of waiting times and ...

The phenomenological model of Khossravi and Connors (1992) has been adopted to calculate the electrophoretic mobility of drugs at different concentrations of solvents in a binary mixture. The accuracy and predictability of the model have been evaluated employing 14 experimental data sets by using average percentage mean deviation (APMD). The obtained APMD for correlative and predictive studies ...

For extracting the equivalent circuit parameters of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, a unique bio-inspired swarm intelligence optimisation algorithm (OA) called dandelion (DOA) is proposed in this study. The suggested approach has been used to analyse well-known single-diode (SD) and double-diode (DD) PV models for several module types, including monocrystalline SF430M, polycrystalline SG350P, t...

Performance analysis of a linear permanent magnet Vernier machine (LPMVM), which has complex structure, is mostly based on the finite element methods, while for its optimisation or sensitivity quick mathematical technique desirable. This paper introduces an LPMVM and principles operation. Then, mixed subdomain magnetic equivalent circuit are applied to extract field equations in various parts m...