The present work is focused on the study of indoor thermal comfort control problem in buildings equipped with heating systems. The occupants' thermal comfort sensation is addressed here by a comfort index known as...
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The present work is focused on the study of indoor thermal comfort control problem in buildings equipped with heating systems. The occupants' thermal comfort sensation is addressed here by a comfort index known as PMV (Predict Mean Vote). In this context, two control algorithms are proposed by using only-one-actuator system associated to the heating system. The methods are based on the model predictive control scheme and on the improvement of the PMV index together with energy minimization. Simulation results - obtained by using the weather data file for the city of Curitiba, Brazil - for two case studies: i ) variations between low and moderate occupants metabolic rates and ii) variations between moderate and high occupants metabolic rates are presented to validate the proposed methodology in terms of room air temperature, relative humidity and PMV control.
This work presents the use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) techniques with the particles' population space based on normative knowledge of cultural algorithms (CA). In this work, the optimal shape design of L...
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This work presents the use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) techniques with the particles' population space based on normative knowledge of cultural algorithms (CA). In this work, the optimal shape design of Loney's solenoids benchmark problem is carried out by PSO, PSO-CA, Gaussian PSO and Gaussian PSO-CA approaches
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population-based swarm intelligence algorithm driven by the simulation of a social psychological metaphor instead of the survival of the fittest individual. Based on the swarm in...
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Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population-based swarm intelligence algorithm driven by the simulation of a social psychological metaphor instead of the survival of the fittest individual. Based on the swarm intelligence theory, this paper discusses the use of PSO approaches using an operator and based on the Gaussian probability distribution function as a population space of a cultural algorithm, called cultural Gaussian PSO (GPSO-CA). Cultural algorithms are mechanisms that incorporate domain knowledge obtained during the evolutionary process, which increase the efficiency of the search process. These approaches are employed in a well-studied continuous optimization problem of mechanical engineering design.
Artificial neural networks and fuzzy systems, have gradually established themselves as popular tools in approximating complicated nonlinear systems and time series forecasting. This paper investigates the hypothesis t...
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Artificial neural networks and fuzzy systems, have gradually established themselves as popular tools in approximating complicated nonlinear systems and time series forecasting. This paper investigates the hypothesis that the nonlinear mathematical models of multilayer perceptron and radial basis function neural networks and the Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy system are able to provide a more accurate out-of-sample forecast than the traditional autoregressive moving average (ARMA) and ARMA generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARMA-GARCH) linear models. Using series of Brazilian exchange rate (R$/US$) returns with 15 min., 60 min., 120 min., daily and weekly basis, the out-pf-sample one-step-ahead forecast performance is compared. Results indicate that forecast performance is strongly related to the series' frequency and the forecasting evaluation shows that nonlinear models perform better than their linear counterparts. In the trade strategy based on forecasts, nonlinear models achieve higher returns when compared to a buy-and-hold strategy and to the linear models.
The vascular endothelium dysfunction often leads to a cardiovascular disease such as arteriosclerosis. Therefore, detection and evaluation of vascular endothelium disorder in early stage would be very important for th...
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The vascular endothelium dysfunction often leads to a cardiovascular disease such as arteriosclerosis. Therefore, detection and evaluation of vascular endothelium disorder in early stage would be very important for the effective diagnosis and therapy. We found that the structural analogues of Evans Blue adsorb to a vascular endothelium denuded region. Thus, we synthesized a polymeric drug carrier which consisted of amphipathic polymer and sensing unit (Evans Blue analogue) and evaluated the characteristics of the polymeric carriers. And then a extracted porcine aorta which was removed endothelial cell in left half area was treated with the micelle solution to evaluate a targeting ability of the micelle.
Artificial neural networks, in particular, feedforward multilayer networks and basis function networks, have gradually established themselves as a usual tool in approximating complex nonlinear systems. B-spline networ...
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Artificial neural networks, in particular, feedforward multilayer networks and basis function networks, have gradually established themselves as a usual tool in approximating complex nonlinear systems. B-spline networks, a type of basis function neural network, are normally trained by gradient-based methods, which may fall into local minima during the learning phase. In order to overcome the drawbacks encountered by conventional learning methods, particle swarm optimization - a swarm intelligence methodology - can provide a stochastic global search of B-spline networks for nonlinear system identification. In this paper, a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm using Gaussian and Cauchy probability distributions are applied to adjust the control points of B-spline neural networks. Simulation results for the identification of Rossler systems are provided and demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed identification scheme.
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Markle, Stephen P.CDR. STEPHEN P. MARKLE
USN (REt.)P.E.a retired US Navy Engineering Duty Officer and is the Engineering Director for Navalis Environmental Systems. His active duty assignments included the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations Director of Surface Warfare as Section Head for Surface Combatant Maintenance and Modernization Program Executive Office Expeditionary Warfare as Assistant Project Manager for the (TAKE 1)Class Programand as Deputy Director
Environmental Programs Division at Naval Sea Systems Command. He is a 1993 graduate of the Naval Construction and Engineering Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a Naval Engineers Degree and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Since 1995 he has authored thirteen published technical papers dealing with environmental issues. CDR Markle is the recipient of Fiscal Year 2001 Individual Environmental Quality Awards and Environmental Excellence in Weapon System Acquisition Team Awards from Naval Sea Systems Command Chief of Naval Operations Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of Defense and the 2001 ASNE “Jimmie Hamilton” award. He is a Professional Engineer registered in the State of New York and Commonwealth of Virginia. He serves as the Chair of the Joint ASNE/SNAME Committee on Environmental Engineering and also as Chair of ASTM Ships and Marine Technology Marine Environmental Protection Subcommittee (F25.06).
Regulations governing the discharge of sewage from ships have been in force since the early 1970's. In response, the marine industry has developed ever more complex systems and processes for managing these wastes....
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Regulations governing the discharge of sewage from ships have been in force since the early 1970's. In response, the marine industry has developed ever more complex systems and processes for managing these wastes. The first compliance method involved holding wastes until they could be legally discharged;as technology advanced, treatment systems were developed and installed to enable discharge within regulated waters. As the size and number of ships as increased with maturation of the ocean tourism business, more restrictive regulations have been enacted to minimize the impact on sensitive waters. The trend is toward increasing regulation of both sewage and graywater. The most recent action occurred on 12 October 2005 when the Governor of California signed into law Senate Bill 771 regulating most ship liquid discharges within state waters. This paper describes the development of an innovative advanced wastewater treatment technology, based on advanced oxidation, bearing in mind the lessons learned from systems developed by industry over the past thirty years.
This paper describes the application of differential evolution approaches to the optimization of a supply chain. Although simplified, this supply chain included stocks, production, transportation and distribution, in ...
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This paper describes the application of differential evolution approaches to the optimization of a supply chain. Although simplified, this supply chain included stocks, production, transportation and distribution, in an integrated production-inventory-distribution system. The supply chain problem model is presented as well as a short introduction to each evolutionary algorithm. Differential evolution (DE) is an emergent evolutionary algorithm that offers three major advantages: it finds the global minimum regardless of the initial parameter values, it involves fast convergence, and it uses few control parameters. Inspired by the chaos theory, this work presents a new global optimization algorithm based on different DE approaches combined with chaotic sequences (DEC), called chaotic differential evolution algorithm. The performance of three evolutionary algorithm approaches (genetic algorithm, DE and DEC) and branch and bound method were evaluated with numerical simulations. Results were also compared with other similar approach in the literature. DEC was the algorithm that led to better results, outperforming previously published solutions. The simplicity and robustness of evolutionary algorithms in general, and the efficiency of DEC, in particular, suggest their great utility for the supply chain optimization problem, as well as other logistics-related problems.
This work presents a new global optimization algorithm based on differential evolution (DE) method and DE combined with chaotic sequences (DEC) given by logistic map. In this paper, the optimal shape design of Loney...
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This work presents a new global optimization algorithm based on differential evolution (DE) method and DE combined with chaotic sequences (DEC) given by logistic map. In this paper, the optimal shape design of Loney's solenoids benchmark problem is carried out by DE and DEC algorithms. The results of DE and DEC approaches are also investigated and their performance compared with those reported in the literature
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