Fuzzy logic controller is one of the most prominent research fields to improve efficiency for process industries, which usually stick conventional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control. The paper proposes an improved version three-term PID-like fuzzy by removing necessity having user-defined parameters in place algorithm work. resulting non-parametric dissimilarity-based clustering was...

In this paper, a computationally simple approach for damage localization and quantification in beam-like structures is proposed. This method is based on using modal flexibility curvature (MFC) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Analytical studies in the literature have shown that changes in the modal flexibility curvature can be considered as a sensitive and suitable criterion for...

Yard crane is an important resource in container terminals. Efficient utilization of the yard crane significantly improves the productivity and the profitability of the container terminal. This paper presents a mixed integer programming model for the yard crane scheduling problem with non- interference constraint that is NPHARD in nature. In other words, one of the most important constraints in...

We introduce a new stable minimum storage algorithm for merging that needs O(m log( n m +1)) element comparisons, where m and n are the sizes of the input sequences with m ≤ n. According to the lower bound for merging, our algorithm is asymptotically optimal regarding the number of comparisons. The presented algorithm rearranges the elements to be merged by rotations, where the areas to be rota...