for any agency dealing with the design of the water distribution network, an economic design will be an objective. in this research, central force optimization (cfo) and differential evolution (de) algorithm were used to optimize ismail abad water distribution network. optimization of the network has been evaluated by developing an optimization model based on cfo and de algorithm in matlab and ...

As we are moving toward the next generation all-IP wireless networks, we are facing the integration of heterogeneous networks, such as WWAN and WLAN, where vertical handoff is required. In vertical handoff between WWAN and WLAN, mobile hosts should be able to move freely across different networks while satisfying QoS requirements for a variety of applications. In order to achieve seamless hando...

Abstract Pristine carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and functionalized (f-CNTs) were introduced into conductive poly(methyl methacrylate)/graphene nanoplatelet (PMMA/GNP) composites to achieve a synergistic effect in the enhancement of conductivity reduction percolation threshold by forming 3-Dimensional(3-D) hybrid structure. Both in-plane perpendicular electrical properties investigated. The synergies ...

Since the late 1990's, the trend of integrated circuit design has been integrating several system components or IP blocks, such as processors and memories, on one chip. This is referred to the concept of System on Chip (SoC). However, with the increase of system scales in SoC systems, some problems such as inter-connection communication, scalability, system throughput and response time of the s...

We report the thermal, mechanical, and diffusion properties of bisphenol E based polycyanurate nanocomposites with three forms of graphene derived from sequential processing of the same carbon nanostructure. Edgefunctionalized graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) were converted to graphene oxide (GO), then heated to produce thermally reduced graphene oxide (TRGO). All three reinforcements were individu...

Gradient descent techniques such as back propagation have been used effectively to train neural network connection weights; however, in some applications gradient information may not be available. Biologically inspired genetic algorithms provide an alternative. Unfortunately, early attempts to use genetic algorithms to train connection weights demonstrated that exchanging genetic material betwe...

Two frame-based ATM scheduling strategies, Delayed Frame Queueing (DFQ) and Virtual Frame Queueing (VFQ), are described for real-time network applications. Both strategies guarantee explicit upper bounds on delay and jitter on a per virtual connection (VC) basis without relying on per-VC queueing. They also resolve the disadvantages often associated with other frame-based schedulers. The DFQ sc...

Although voice conversion (VC) algorithms have achieved remarkable success along with the development of machine learning, superior performance is still difficult to achieve when using nonparallel data. In this paper, we propose using a cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN) for nonparallel data-based VC training. A CycleGAN is a generative adversarial network (GAN) originally develope...