2018 December - 24 articles
The search for efficient methods and procedures to optimize experimental designs is a vital process in field trials that is often challenged by computational bottlenecks. Most existing methods ignore the presence of some form of correlations in the d...
Parallel reservoir simulation is an important approach to solving real-time reservoir management problems. Recently, there is a new trend of using a graphics processing unit (GPU) to parallelize the reservoir simulations. Current GPU-aided reservoir...
The Hammer prototype is a query engine for corpora of Open Data that provides users with the concept of blind querying. Since data sets published on Open Data portals are heterogeneous, users wishing to find out interesting data sets are blind: queri...
The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) and multi-row workshop layout problem (MRWLP) are two major focuses in sustainable manufacturing processes. There is a close interaction between them since the FJSSP provides the material handling info...
The system identification problem becomes more challenging when the parameter space increases. Recently, several works have focused on the identification of bilinear forms, which are related to the impulse responses of a spatiotemporal model, in the...
Freight transportation is becoming an increasingly critical activity for enterprises in a global world. Moreover, the distribution activities have a non-negligible impact on the environment, as well as on the citizens’ welfare. The classical ve...
A finite-difference approach with non-uniform meshes was presented for simulating magnetotelluric responses in 2D structures. We presented the calculation formula of this scheme from the boundary value problem of electric field and magnetic field, an...
The identification of risks associated with collision for vessels is an important element in maritime safety and management. A vessel collision avoidance system is a topic that has been deeply studied, and it is a specialization in navigation technol...
In order to improve the dynamic quality of traditional sliding mode control for an active suspension system, an optimal sliding mode control (OSMC) based on a genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed. First, the overall structure and control principle of t...
In this paper, the optimal designs of type-1 and interval type-2 fuzzy systems for the classification of the heart rate level are presented. The contribution of this work is a proposed approach for achieving the optimal design of interval type-2 fuzz...
In the context of this research work, we studied the problem of privacy preserving on spatiotemporal databases. In particular, we investigated the k-anonymity of mobile users based on real trajectory data. The k-anonymity set consists of the k neares...
This paper presents a fast algorithm for texture-less object recognition, which is designed to be robust to cluttered backgrounds and small transformations. At its core, the proposed method demonstrates a two-stage template-based procedure using an o...
When financial market conditions change, traders adopt different strategies. The traders’ collective behaviour may cause significant changes in the statistical properties of price movements. When this happens, the market is said to have gone th...
Modern distributed systems are becoming increasingly complex as virtualization is being applied at both the levels of computing and networking. Consequently, the resource management of this infrastructure requires innovative and efficient solutions....
Length of stay of hospitalized patients is generally considered to be a significant and critical factor for healthcare policy planning which consequently affects the hospital management plan and resources. Its reliable prediction in the preadmission...
In the paper, we tackle the least squares estimators of the Vasicek-type model driven by sub-fractional Brownian motion:
Hinge joint damage is a typical form of damage occurring in simply supported slab bridges, which can present adverse effects on the overall force distribution of the structure. However, damage identification methods of hinge joint damage are still li...
Recently there has been an exponential growth of the number of publicly available legal resources. Portals allowing users to search legal documents, through keyword queries, are now widespread. However, legal documents are mainly stored and offered i...
Container ships must pass through multiple ports of call during a voyage. Therefore, forecasting container volume information at the port of origin followed by sending such information to subsequent ports is crucial for container terminal management...
The Map-Reduce (MR) framework has become a popular framework for developing new parallel algorithms for Big Data. Efficient algorithms for data mining of big data and distributed databases has become an important problem. In this paper we focus on al...
From a broad perspective, we study issues related to implementation, testing, and experimentation in the context of geometric algorithms. Our focus is on the effect of quality of implementation on experimental results. More concisely, we study algori...
At present, the problem of pedestrian detection has attracted increasing attention in the field of computer vision. The faster regions with convolutional neural network features (Faster R-CNN) are regarded as one of the most important techniques for...
Location recommendation is essential for various map-based mobile applications. However, it is not easy to generate location-based recommendations with the changing contexts and locations of mobile users. Skyline operation is one of the most well-est...
Considering the recent exponential growth in the amount of information processed in Big Data, the high energy consumed by data processing engines in datacenters has become a major issue, underlining the need for efficient resource allocation for more...
