Acknowledgements Now that I become closer and closer to the end of this adventure, I would like to deeply thank some people who helped me — in different ways and at different stages of my PhD — to achieve this goal. First of all, I want to thank my advisors: Carlo Meloni, for having introduced me to the fascinating world of research, for his being always so supportive to me, and for his willing...

Совершенствование методов расчета устойчивости грунтовых откосов представляет собой важную задачу, решение которой необходимо при размещении зданий и сооружений на склонах для предотвращения оползневых процессов. В большинстве существующих поверхность скольжения оползневого тела принимается круглоцилиндрической, что не всегда соответствует реальной картине. Цель работы: разработка методики коэф...

A 3D surface is required to transform to 2D surface to achieve device specific projection. In this paper, the genetic modeling is applied for this transformation and projection. The method used the possible connectivity as the population set and applied different combinations of genetic operators to optimize and filter the connectivity. The surface regulation is provided using Delaunay Triangul...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has undergone many changes since its introduction in 1995. Being a stochastic algorithm, PSO and its randomness present formidable challenge for the theoretical analysis of it, and few of the existing PSO improvements have make an effort to eliminate the random coefficients in the PSO updating formula. This paper analyzes the importance of the randomness in the...