Emissions resulted from transportation activities may lead to dangerous effects on the whole environment and human health. According to sustainability principles, in recent years researchers attempt to consider the environmental burden of logistics activities in traditional logistics problems such as vehicle routing problems (VRPs). The pollution-routing problem (PRP) is an extension of the VRP...

Human action recognition has drawn much attention in the field of video analysis. In this paper, we develop a human action detection and recognition process based on the tracking of Interest Points (IP) trajectory. A pre-processing step that performs spatio-temporal action detection is proposed. This step uses optical flow along with dense speed-up-robust-features (SURF) in order to detect and ...

Multi-view learning leverages correlations between different sources of data to make predictions in one view based on observations in another view. A popular approach is to assume that, both, the correlations between the views and the view-specific covariances have a lowrank structure, leading to inter-battery factor analysis, a model closely related to canonical correlation analysis. We propos...

This paper presents an application of sliding mode control for switched reluctance motor (SRM) speed. The sliding mode technique finds its stronger justification in the utilization of a robust control law to model uncertainties. A sliding mode controller of the motor speed is then designed and simulated. Digital simulation results shows that the designed sliding speed controller realises a good...

This paper presents a study on optimization of a complex real-world application; economic environmental dispatch (EED) using two recently proposed modified ABC variants, named as JA-ABC3 and JA-ABC4a. EED is known to be a problem that is difficult yet crucial to be solved. Thus, robust optimization algorithms are needed to solve this kind of problem. JA-ABC3 and JA-ABC4a are recently proposed A...

The mean-risk approach quantifies the problem of choice among uncertain prospects in a lucid form of only two criteria: the mean, representing the expected outcome, and the risk: a scalar measure of the variability of outcomes. The model is appealing to decision makers but it may lead to inferior conclusions. Several risk measures, however, can be combined with the mean itself into the robust o...

This paper deals with the design of a fault tolerant control (FTC) of a quadrotor aircraft system, considering the actuator faults. The attitude dynamic model of quadrotor, taking into account the various parameters which can affect the dynamics of this system in space is presented. Subsequently, based on robust adaptive-backstepping method and taking into account the actuator faults, a new FTC...

The present paper is intended to present a robust multiplicative video watermarking scheme. In this regard, the video signal is segmented into 3-D blocks like cubes, and then, the 3-D wavelet transform is applied to each block. The low frequency components of the wavelet coefficients are then used for data embedding to make the process robust against both malicious and unintentional attacks. Th...

Background: DNA microarray is a useful technology that simultaneously assesses the expression of thousands of genes. It can be utilized for the detection of cancer types and cancer biomarkers. This study aimed to predict blood cancer using leukemia gene expression data and a robust ℓ2,p-norm sparsity-based gene selection method. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, the microarray ...