Co-firing biomass plants are of extensive demand due to utilization of both agricultural residues (main) and natural gas (stand-by). Researchers have shown that one strategic decision in establishment of agricultural residues based plants, is location optimization problem. Moreover, mismatch between agricultural lands and biomass plants can lead to high transportation costs and related carbon d...

In this paper, the optimum shape of Tailor-Welded Blanks (TWB) is investigated. The optimization is performed for two different case studies. The first example is deep drawing of a TWB with dissimilar materials and uniform thicknesses and the next example is deep drawing of a TWB with similar materials and non-uniform thicknesses. The effect of blank optimization on the weld line movement is...

The following problem arose in a project run by Schlumberger Consulting for Illinois Power: Given a geographic region, place the minimum number of receivers (ampliiers) on existing utility poles so that all the region's wireless meters can transmit their reading to at least one. Due to the growing popularity of wireless meter reading, the size of the geographic regions involved, and of the amou...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, countries locked their borders. Thus, international shipping deteriorates drastically. Simultaneously, social distancing increased need for immediate online consumption and fast home delivery. In non-digital world, products still to be shipped destination using trucks, trains, airplanes, ships. requirements volumes of goods, transport costs, external l...

ATMs enable the public to perform €nancial transactions. Banks try to strategically position their ATMs in order to maximize transactions and revenue. In this paper, we introduce a model which provides a score to an ATM location, which serves as an indicator of its relative likelihood of transactions. In order to eciently capture the spatially dynamic features, we utilize two concurrent predic...

In non-invasive thermal diagnostics for the location of a tumor, accurate correlations between the thermal image on skin surface and interior human physiology are often desired, which require general solutions for the bioheat equation. In this paper we use sensitivity analysis in order to compute the shape derivative of the funtional that provides the minimum (the geometrical position of the tu...

This thesis is in Computational Geometry. Computational Geometry is a subfield of Computer Science that deals with problems of a geometric nature that arise in application domains such as Computer Graphics, Robotics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Molecular Biology. More specifically, in this thesis we conduct research in Computational Geometry in the context of (Geometric) Facility ...