Roadheader performance and related parameters are reviewed and their effects on the production and advance rate are discussed. Among the parameters influencing the machine performance, the most important one is the cutterhead design which could be optimized for a specific application. The procedures and the approach used in design optimization is reviewed. A computer program which has been deve...

Performance aspects of a Lagrangian relaxation based heuris-tic for solving large 0-1 integer linear programs are discussed. In particular , we look at its application to airline and railway crew scheduling problems. We present a scalable parallelization of the original algorithm used in production at Carmen Systems AB, GG oteborg, Sweden, based on distributing the variables and a new sequentia...

due to the fact that the error surface of adaptive infinite impulse response (iir) systems is generally nonlinear and multimodal, the conventional derivative based techniques fail when used in adaptive identification of such systems. in this case, global optimization techniques are required in order to avoid the local minima. harmony search (hs), a musical inspired metaheuristic, is a recently ...

Basic infrastructure like Power and Water production has come into focus due to the rapid growth witnessed in the Middle East. Hybrid desalination plants have high flexibility and play a vital role in water and power production. Conservation of fuel resources in the existing scenario of increasing fuel prices make it necessary to produce power and water in a cost optimal way. The challenge in o...

Thin film bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators and filters operating in the GHz range are used in mobile phones for the most demanding filtering applications and complement the surface acoustic wave (SAW) based filters. Their main advantages are small size and high performance at frequencies above 2 GHz. This work concentrates on the characterization, performance optimization, and modelling tech...

Popular websites are expected to handle huge amounts of requests simultaneously within a reasonable timeframe. On top of that, boosted by the recent developments in server-side scripting technology, many web servers also must perform a signifi cant amount of serverside processing. This puts a tremendous burden on the availability of processing capacity. Consequently, for many popular websites, ...

In this paper, a general framework was presented to boost heuristic optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence from static to dynamic environments. Regarding the problems of dynamic optimization as opposed to static environments, evaluation function or constraints change in the time and hence place of optimization. The subject matter of the framework is based on the variability of the ...

The paper is presented on the development of a designer friendly hull form parameterization and its coupling with a local and a global optimization algorithm: the well known Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) and the more recent evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). These two algorithms are representative of classes with rather opposite characteristics (derivative–based and deriva...