The slope stability analysis is routinely performed by engineers to estimate the stability of river training works, road embankments, embankment dams, excavations and retaining walls. This paper presents a new approach to build a model for the prediction of slope stability state. The support vector machine (SVM) is a new machine learning method based on statistical learning theory, which can so...

İnsansız hava araçları (İHA), artan uçuş süreleri, iyileştirilmiş komuta-kontrol sistemleri ve taşıma kapasiteleri sayesinde geçtiğimiz yıllarda askeri ticari pek çok projede başarı ile kullanılmıştır. Ancak bahsedilen araçların hizmet süre kalitesi genellikle daha önce belirlenen ya da anlık olarak bulunan konumlarına doğrudan bağlıdır. Bu çalışmada baz istasyon özellikli bir insansız aracının...

In the optimum design of reinforced concrete (RC) structural members, robustness employed method is important as well solving optimization problem. some cases where algorithm parameters are defined non-effective values, local-optimum solutions may prevail over existing global results. Any metaheuristic can be effective to solve problem but must give same results for several runs. Due randomizat...

Multi-objective optimization of industrial styrene reactor is done using Harmony Search algorithm. Harmony search algorithm is a recently developed meta-heuristic algorithm which is inspired by musical improvisation process aimed towards obtaining the best harmony. Three objective functions – productivity, selectivity and yield are optimized to get best combination of decision variables for sty...

This paper presents a practical implementation for a new formula of nonlinear PID (NPID) control. The purpose of the controller is to accurately trace a preselected position reference of one stage servomechanism system. The possibility of developing a transfer function model for experimental setup is elusive because of the lack of system data. So, the identified model has been developed via gat...

This paper considers the scheduling problem of parallel batch processing machines with non-identical job size and processing time. In this paper, a new mathematical model with ready time and batch size constraints is presented to formulate the problem mathematically, in which simultaneous reduction of the makespan and earliness-tardiness is the objective function. In recent years, the nature-in...

Floor planning is the primary step of the physical design in the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design flow. It is used to estimate the chip area and wire length prior to the real placement of digital blocks and their interconnections. In the modern physical design of VLSI chips, it is essential to design the chip, which works with multi-supply voltages (MSV). To achieve power optimization...

response surface methodology is a common tool in optimizing processes. it mainly concerns situations when there is only one response of interest. however, many designed experiments often involve simultaneous optimization of several quality characteristics. this is called a multiresponse surface optimization problem. a common approach in dealing with these problems is to apply desirability funct...

The hippocampus is a structure in the medial temporal lobe of the brain that is involved in episodic memory function. The texture features of the hippocampus could give better differentiation between Alzheimer’s disease and normal controls. The localization of the hippocampus structure in MRI histological images is considered as a multimodal global continuous optimization problem, which is solv...

Two-sided assembly lines are designed to produce large and complex products, where workers can perform on both sides at the same time. This paper establishes a mathematical model for multi-objective two-sided line balancing problems with additional constraints (MOATALBP). The considers workers’ skill balance of line, aimings maximize efficiency minimize cost smoothness index. A harmony search a...