This article aims to create a theoretical evaluation model based on decision support methods for the residential house construction materials and elements selection. The research and analyses of most of the scientists are invoked on individual elements and materials of the building, which have an impact on different aspects of sustainability. Meanwhile, the integrated model covering all the key...

In real-world multiobjective optimisation, where problem complexity is typically high, systems are increasingly reliant on distributed computation to reduce processing times. While a number of successful distributed techniques have been proposed, they are dependent on high degrees of commonality between communicating processes – requiring homogeneity with respect to platform, environment or imp...

This paper draws on the “human reliability” concept as a structure for gaining insight into the maintenance workforce assessment in a process industry. Human reliability hinges on developing the reliability of humans to a threshold that guides the maintenance workforce to execute accurate decisions within the limits of resources and time allocations. This concept offers a worthwhile point of de...

The phenomenological model of Khossravi and Connors (1992) has been adopted to calculate the electrophoretic mobility of drugs at different concentrations of solvents in a binary mixture. The accuracy and predictability of the model have been evaluated employing 14 experimental data sets by using average percentage mean deviation (APMD). The obtained APMD for correlative and predictive studies ...

Evolutionary Computation niching methods, such as Fitness Sharing and Crowding, are aimed at simultaneously locating and maintaining multiple optima to increase search robustness, typically in multi-modal function optimization. Such methods have been shown to be useful for both single and multiple objective optimisation problems. Niching methods have been adapted in recent years for other optim...

We present an optimisation for Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) that reduces the amount of variables a constraint delays on. This optimisation reduces the overhead of delaying on variables as well as the needless reawakening of delayed constraint. A correctness proof of the optimisation based on the refined operational semantics establishes the validity of the optimisation and sheds light on pos...

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a severe bacterial infectious disease with high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. In recent years, industrialised countries have implemented vaccines targeting IMD in their National Immunisation Programmes (NIPs). In 2002, the Netherlands successfully implemented a single dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine at the age of 14 months a...

Encoding is a fundamental part of any EA. The solution encoding, and its interactions with the EA’s operators, should be designed to minimise arbitrary search bias. A multidimensional encoding suitable for fully specified fuzzy logic rulebases is investigated, and is shown to have better convergence than traditional single-dimensional encoding. By comparison with 2-point and uniform crossover, ...

This paper considers the set-point optimisation problem under plant-model mismatch. Three iterative optimisation strategies, the two-step method, the integrated system optimisation and parameter estimation (ISOPE) method and the gradientmodification optimisation method are compared for a nonlinear chromatographic separation process using different structurally mismatched models as nominal proce...