this paper considers the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time window in which each vehicle starts from a depot and there is no need to return to its primary depot after serving customers. the mathematical model which is developed by new approach aims to minimizing the transportation cost including the travelled distance, the latest and the earliest arrival time penalties. furthermore, ...

Nonlinear dynamic systems identification and nonlinear dynamic behavior prediction are important tasks in several areas of industrial applications. Multiple works proposed multimodel-based approaches to model nonlinear systems. Multimodeling permits to blend different model types together to form hybrid models. It advocates the use of existing, well known model types within the same model struc...

This paper describes a method for designing a lter bank for segmenting modulation features in line textures. A new version of the S-Gabor lter of Heitger et al 1] is developed in which the range of frequencies covered by the lter can be easily controlled. A method of tuning S-Gabor lters to modulation features in line textures is also presented. The candidate frequency set is obtained by select...

A fuzzy classifier using multiple ellipsoids approximating decision regions for classification is to be designed in this paper. An algorithm called Gustafson-Kessel algorithm (GKA) with an adaptive distance norm based on covariance matrices of prototype data points is adopted to learn the ellipsoids. GKA is able to adapt the distance norm to the underlying distribution of the prototype data poi...