Computation, Volume 10, Issue 6

An aging society increases the demand for emergency services, such as EMS. The more often EMS is needed by patients, the more medical staff are needed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of medical staff became a critical issue. This research aim...

The purpose of speech enhancement is to improve the quality of speech signals degraded by noise, reverberation, or other artifacts that can affect the intelligibility, automatic recognition, or other attributes involved in speech technologies and tel...

Cracks in structural components may ultimately lead to failure of the structure if not identified sufficiently early. This paper presents a crack-identification method based on time-domain. Captured time-domain data are processed into central differe...

Several applications require to estimate the power production of photovoltaic (PV) systems under partial shading conditions. For example, dynamic reconfiguration of the array connections is needed to maximize the power production under partial shadin...

Symmetry in nature is a result of biological self-organization, driven by evolutionary processes. Detected by the visual systems of various species, from invertebrates to primates, symmetry determines survival relevant choice behaviors and supports a...

Swarm robotics finds inspiration in nature to model behaviors, such as the use of pheromone principles. Pheromones provide an indirect and decentralized communication scheme that have shown positive experimental results. Real implementations of phero...

The fractional differential equations involving different types of fractional derivatives are currently used in many fields of science and engineering. Therefore, the first purpose of this study is to investigate the qualitative properties including...

Pattern recognition is a multidisciplinary area that received more scientific attraction during this period of rapid technological innovation. Today, many real issues and scenarios require pattern recognition to aid in the faster resolution of compli...

The strong and functional couplings among ecological, economic, social, and technological processes explain the complexification of human-made systems, and phenomena such as globalization, climate change, the increased urbanization and inequality of...

This paper presents a finite-element-based computational model to evaluate the thermal behaviour of composite slabs with a steel deck submitted to standard fire exposure. This computational model is used to estimate the temperatures in the slab compo...