We present a simulation/optimization model combining optimization with BIOPLUME II simulation for optimizing in-situ bioremediation system design. In-situ bioremediation of contaminated groundwater has become widely accepted because of its cost-effective ability to achieve satisfactory cleanup. We use parallel recombinative simulated annealing to search for an optimal design and apply the BIOPL...

Nonstoquastic Hamiltonians are hard to simulate due the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulation. It is, however, unclear whether nonstoquasticity can lead advantage annealing. Here we show that $YY$ interactions between qubits make adiabatic path during annealing, and therefore performance, dependent on spin-reversal transformations. With right choice of transformation, a nonstoquastic H...

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) have successfully been applied in numerous domains to show the relations between essential components in complex systems. In this paper, a novel learning method is proposed to construct FCMs based on historical data and by using meta-heuristic: Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), and Tabu Search (TS). Implementation of the proposed method has demonstrat...

This paper presents a new mathematical model for the problem of scheduling part families and jobs within each part family in a flow line manufacturing cell where the setup times for each family are sequence dependent and it is desired to minimize the maximum completion time of the last job on the last machine (makespan) while processing parts (jobs) in each family together. Gaining an optimal s...

Double Crystal Diffractometry (DCD) is used to characterize the strain produced by 2 MeV He+ at room temperature to simulate a Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry(RBS) analysis of bulk Si, Ge and GaAs. The irradiation-induced strain is very small in both Si and Ge and persists after 15 min annealing at 400°C. The strain is significant in GaAs and largely reversible upon annealing. The capabi...

Chalcogenide glasses doped with silver have many applications including their use as a novel radiation sensor. In this paper, we undertake the first atomistic simulation of radiation damage and healing in silver-doped Germanium-selenide glass. We jointly employ empirical potentials and ab initio methods to create and characterize new structural models and to show that they are in accord with ma...

A NNEAL, as defined in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, means: 1) to heat (as glass) in order to fix laid-on colors, and 2) to heat and then cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle. The cooling stage of annealing is usually done slowly to reduce the number of defects in the crystal structure (as steel) and to minimize the potential energy stored in the molecul...

The fabrication and characterization of a radio frequency (RF) micromachined switch with annealing were presented. The structure of the RF switch consists of a membrane, coplanar waveguide (CPW) lines, and eight springs. The RF switch is manufactured using the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. The switch requires a post-process to release the membrane and springs. The post...

Privacy risk assessment is a crucial issue in any privacy-aware analysis process. Traditional frameworks for privacy systematically generate the assumed knowledge potential adversary, evaluating without realistically modelling collection of background used by adversary when performing attack. In this work, we propose Simulated Annealing (SPA), new adversarial behavior model mobility data. We an...