In textile industries, production facilities are established as multi-stage production flow shop facilities, where a production stage may be made up of parallel machines. This known as a flexible or hybrid flow shop e...
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In textile industries, production facilities are established as multi-stage production flow shop facilities, where a production stage may be made up of parallel machines. This known as a flexible or hybrid flow shop environment. This paper considers the problem of scheduling n independent jobs in such an environment. In addition, we also consider the general case in which parallel machines at each stage may be unrelated. Each job is processed in ordered operations on a machine at each stage. Its release date and due date are given. The preemption of jobs is not permitted. We consider both sequence- and machine-dependent setup times. The problem is to determine a schedule that minimizes a convex combination of makespan and the number of tardy jobs. A 0-1 mixed integer program of the problem is formulated. Since this problem is NP-hard in the strong sense, we develop heuristic algorithms to solve it approximately. Firstly, several basic dispatching rules and well-known constructive heuristics for flow shop makespan scheduling problems are generalized to the problem under consideration. We sketch how, from a job sequence, a complete schedule for the flexible flow shop problem with unrelated parallel machines can be constructed. To improve the solutions, polynomial heuristic improvement methods based on shift moves of jobs are applied. Then, genetic algorithms are suggested. We discuss the components of these algorithms and test their parameters. The performance of the heuristics is compared relative to each other on a set of test problems with up to 50 jobs and 20 stages.
In this paper, we propose a new constructive method, based on cooperative coevolution, for designing automatically the structure of a neural network for classification. Our approach is based on a modular construction ...
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In this paper, we propose a new constructive method, based on cooperative coevolution, for designing automatically the structure of a neural network for classification. Our approach is based on a modular construction of the neural network by means of a cooperative evolutionary process. This process benefits from the advantages of coevolutionary computation as well as the advantages of constructive methods. The proposed methodology can be easily extended to work with almost any kind of classifier. The evaluation of each module that constitutes the network is made using a multiobjective method. So, each new module can be evaluated in a comprehensive way, considering different aspects, such as performance, complexity, or degree of cooperation with the previous modules of the network. In this way, the method has the advantage of considering not only the performance of the networks, but also other features. The method is tested on 40 classification problems from the UCI machine learning repository with very good performance. The method is thoroughly compared with two other constructive methods, cascade correlation and GMDH networks, and other classification methods, namely, SVM, C4.5, and k nearest-neighbours, and an ensemble of neural networks constructed using four different methods. (c) 2006 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The design phase of B-spline neural networks is a highly computationally complex task. Existent heuristics have been found to be highly dependent on the initial conditions employed. Increasing interest in biologically...
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The design phase of B-spline neural networks is a highly computationally complex task. Existent heuristics have been found to be highly dependent on the initial conditions employed. Increasing interest in biologically inspired learning algorithms for control techniques such as Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems is in progress. In this paper, the Bacterial Programming approach is presented, which is based on the replication of the microbial evolution phenomenon. This technique produces an efficient topology search, obtaining additionally more consistent solutions.
In this paper, we study linear control systems over Ore algebras. Within this mathematical framework, we can simultaneously deal with different classes of linear control systems such as time-varying systems of ordinar...
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In this paper, we study linear control systems over Ore algebras. Within this mathematical framework, we can simultaneously deal with different classes of linear control systems such as time-varying systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), differential time-delay systems, underdetermined systems of partial differential equations (PDEs), multidimensional discrete systems, multidimensional convolutional codes, etc. We give effective algorithms which check whether or not a linear control system over some Ore algebra is controllable, parametrizable, flat or pi-free.
The design of neuro-fuzzy models is still a complex problem, as it involves not only the determination of the model parameters, but also its structure. Of special importance is the incorporation of a priori informatio...
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The design of neuro-fuzzy models is still a complex problem, as it involves not only the determination of the model parameters, but also its structure. Of special importance is the incorporation of a priori information in the design process. In this paper two known desigm algorithms for B-spline models will be updated to account for function and derivatives equality restrictions, which am important when the neural model is used for performing single or multi-objective optimization on-line.
Neural architectures have been proposed to navigate mobile robots within several environment definitions. In this paper a new neural modular constructive approach to navigate mobile robots in unknown environments is p...
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Neural architectures have been proposed to navigate mobile robots within several environment definitions. In this paper a new neural modular constructive approach to navigate mobile robots in unknown environments is presented. The problem, in its basic form, consists of defining and executing a trajectory to a predefined goal while avoiding all obstacles, in an unknown environment. Some crucial issues arise when trying to solve this problem, such as an overflow of sensorial information and conflicting objectives. Most neural network (NN) approaches to this problem focus on a monolithic system, i.e., a system with only one neural network that receives and analyses all available information, resulting in conflicting training patterns, long training times and poor generalisation. The work presented in this article circumvents these problems by the use of a constructive modular NN. Navigation capabilities were proven with the NOMAD 200 mobile robot.
Recurrent neural networks possess interesting universal approximation capabilities, making them good candidates for time-series modeling. Unfortunately, long-term dependencies are difficult to learn if gradient descen...
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Recurrent neural networks possess interesting universal approximation capabilities, making them good candidates for time-series modeling. Unfortunately, long-term dependencies are difficult to learn if gradient descent algorithms are employed. We support the view that it is easier for these algorithms to find good solutions if time-delayed connections are included in the recurrent networks. The algorithm we present here allows one to choose the right locations and delays for such connections. As we show on several univariate benchmarks and one multivariate real-world problem, this algorithm produces very good results while keeping the total number of connections in the recurrent network to a minimum. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
The objective of this paper is the application of an adaptive constructive one-hidden-layer feedforward neural networks (OHL-FNNs) to image compression. Comparisons with fixed structure neural networks are performed t...
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The objective of this paper is the application of an adaptive constructive one-hidden-layer feedforward neural networks (OHL-FNNs) to image compression. Comparisons with fixed structure neural networks are performed to demonstrate and illustrate the training and the generalization capabilities of the proposed adaptive constructive networks. The influence of quantization effects as well as comparison with the baseline JPEG scheme are also investigated. It has been demonstrated through several experiments that very promising results are obtained as compared to presently available techniques in the literature.
This article presents a machine learning method for solving classification and approximation problems. This method uses the divide-and-conquer algorithm design technique (taken from machine learning models based on a ...
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This article presents a machine learning method for solving classification and approximation problems. This method uses the divide-and-conquer algorithm design technique (taken from machine learning models based on a tree), with the aim of achieving design ease and good results on the training examples and allows semi-global actions on its computational elements (a feature taken from neural networks), with the aim of attaining good generalization and good behavior in the presence of noise in training examples. Finally, some results obtained after solving several problems with a particular implementation of SEPARATE are presented together with their analysis.
We present the application of Cascade Correlation for structures to QSPR (quantitative structure-property relationships) and QSAR (quantitative structure-activity relationships) analysis. Cascade Correlation for struc...
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We present the application of Cascade Correlation for structures to QSPR (quantitative structure-property relationships) and QSAR (quantitative structure-activity relationships) analysis. Cascade Correlation for structures is a neural network model recently proposed for the processing of structured data. This allows the direct treatment of chemical compounds as labeled trees, which constitutes a novel approach to QSPR/QSAR. We report the results obtained for QSPR on Alkanes (predicting the boiling point) and QSAR of a class of Benzodiazepines. Our approach compares favorably versus the traditional QSAR treatment based on equations and it is competitive with 'ad hoc' MLPs for the QSPR problem.
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