The large number of surveillance cameras available nowadays in strategic points of major cities provides a safe environment. However, the huge amount of data provided by the cameras prevents the manual processing requiring the application of automated methods. Among such methods, pedestrian detection plays an important role in reducing the amount of data by locating only the regions of interest...

RFID technology enables a new era of business optimization. With the development of RFID technology, more and more RFID applications have been developed. In RFID system, RFID middleware collects, filters, and integrates large volume of streaming data gathered continuously by heterogeneous readers to process queries from applications. These queries are called continuous queries as they are execu...

This paper presents a novel fuzzy identification method for dynamic modelling of quadrotor UAVs. The method is based on a special parameterization of the antecedent part of fuzzy systems that results in fuzzy-partitions for antecedents. This antecedent parameter representation method of fuzzy rules ensures upholding of predefined linguistic value ordering and ensures that fuzzy-partitions remai...

The objective of this article is to find the optimal trajectory of a pumping ship, used to clean oil spots in the open sea, in order to pump the maximum quantity of pollutant on a fixed time period. We use a model previously developed to simulate the evolution of the oil spots concentration due to the coupling of diffusion, transport from the wind, sea currents and pumping process and reaction ...

-The social insect metaphor for solving diverse problems has become an emerging issue in the current years emphasizing on stochastic construction process building the solution probabilistically. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is an algorithm inspired by the foraging behavior of ants wherein ants deposits a volatile chemical call pheromone on the ground surface for the purpose of foraging and col...

As information has been increasing enormously in the world, it is very difficult to retrieve information as per the user satisfaction. The main objective of this project is to retrieve the information that is more relevant to user query. The optimization technique used here is Genetic Algorithm (GA). A genetic algorithm is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural evolution. This he...

In operation research, there is no single method available for solving all optimization problems. Hence a number of techniques have been developed for solving different types of optimization problems. Optimization is the act of obtaining the best result under given circumstances. The ultimate goal of optimization is either to minimize the efforts required or to maximize the desired benefit [5]....

In this paper, a tooth shape optimization method for cogging torque reduction in Permanent Magnet (PM) motors is developed by using the Reduced Basis Technique (RBT) coupled by Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Design of Experiments (DOE) methods. The primary objective of the method is to reduce the enormous number of design variables required to define the tooth shape. RBT is a weighted combin...