The objective of image segmentation is to extract meaningful objects. A meaningful segmentation selects the proper threshold values to optimize a criterion using entropy. The conventional multilevel thresholding methods are efficient for bi-level thresholding. However, they are computationally expensive when extended to multilevel thresholding since they exhaustively search the optimal threshol...

In this paper we consider optimal design problems that involve shape optimization. The goal is to determine the shape of a certain structure such that it is either as rigid or as soft as possible. To achieve this goal we combine two new ideas for an efficient solution of the problem. First, we replace the eigenvalue problem with an approximation by using the inverse iteration. Second, we use a ...

The method for solving an optimal design problem under uncertainty depends on how the latter is quantified. When sufficient information is available the popular probabilistic approach can (and should) be adopted. In reality however, we often do not have sufficient data to infer appropriate probability distributions for the uncertain quantities modeled as random variables. The amount of availabl...

This study presents design and optimization of compact efficient nanooptical couplers involving photonic crystals. Nanooptical that have single double input ports are designed to obtain transmission electromagnetic waves in desired directions. In addition, these cascaded by adding one after another realize systems. the all couplers, multilevel fast multipole algorithm, which is an full-wave sol...

Single-level parallel optimization approaches, those in which either the simulation code executes in parallel or the optimization algorithm invokes multiple simultaneous single-processor analyses, have been investigated previously and been shown to be effective in reducing the time required to compute optimal solutions. However, these approaches have clear performance limitations which point to...

One of the main challenges faced in design and construction phases of tunneling projects is the determination of maximum allowable advance step to maximize excavation rate and reduce project delivery time. Considering the complexity of determining this factor and unexpected risks associated with inappropriate determination of that, it is necessary to employ a method which is capable of accounti...

Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power mediumvoltage energy control. Using multilevel inverters application in fuel cell, solar cell & wind turbines is increasing now a day‘s rapidly. Therefore, Harmonic reduction techniques in multilevel inverters are considered very important task Over the past decades, depending upon the ...

By new advancements in vehicle manufacturing vehicle quality evaluation and assurance has become a more critical issue. In present work, the vibration transfer path analysis and vibration path ranking of a car interior has been performed. The method is similar to classical multilevel TPA methods but has distinct differences. The method is named VIVS which stands for Vehicle Interior Vibratio...