Nonlinear function approximation is one of the most important tasks in system analysis and identification. Several models have been presented to achieve an accurate approximation on nonlinear mathematics functions. However, the majority of the models are specific to certain problems and systems. In this paper, an evolutionary-based wavelet neural network model is proposed for structure definiti...

One of the most fundamental components of healthcare system on each country is blood supply chain management. This chain is comprised of two significant components including collecting donor’ bloods and supplying blood’s products. The main purpose of this paper is to concentrate on supplying blood products and present a novel constrained bi-objective mathematical model for a two-echelon blood s...

We model document summarization as a nonlinear 0-1 programming problem where an objective function is defined as Heronian mean of the objective functions enforcing the coverage and diversity. The proposed model implemented on a multi-document summarization task. Experiments on DUC2001 and DUC2002 datasets showed that the proposed model outperforms the other summarization methods. Index Terms – ...

A probabilistic framework is presented that enables image registration, tissue classification, and bias correction to be combined within the same generative model. A derivation of a log-likelihood objective function for the unified model is provided. The model is based on a mixture of Gaussians and is extended to incorporate a smooth intensity variation and nonlinear registration with tissue pr...

This work presents a nonlinear control algorithm to be applied to the trajectory tracking of a pneumatic positioning system. The objective is to compensate the highly nonlinear effects that are inherent to such systems due to the dynamic behavior of pressurized air inside the chambers and to friction forces. In order to accomplish this task, the proposed algorithm employs the feedback lineariza...

This paper presents a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming model to design a group layout of a cellular manufacturing system in a dynamic environment, in which the number of cells to be formed is variable. Cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are concurrently made in a dynamic environment by the integrated model, which incorporates with an extensive coverage of important ...

In the context of a variation of the standard UFL (Uncapacitated Facility Location) problem, but with an objective function that is a separable convex quadratic function of the transportation costs, we present some techniques for improving relaxations of MINLP formulations. We use a disaggregation principal and a strategy of developing model-specific valid inequalities (some nonlinear), which e...