Energy conversion applications are directly affected through the employment of turbomachines and their efficiencies. Energy importance and wide-spread application of turbomachines, make it crucial to optimize their components. ...

This paper proposes a new adaptive load frequency controller based on a 'dynamic wavelet network (DWN)' that has lag dynamics, nonorthogonal mother wavelets as activation function and interconnection weights. A DWN is ...

Strategic planning is a vital management tool for projecting the long-range business goals and is not only for big businesses, but also applicable to small businesses in spite of their limited resources. To do this ...

The process of supplier selection is one of the key processes in the industry since the suppliers play a key role in regards to the competitive advantage. It is therefore important to identify and select good suppliers. ...

In this study, a hybrid intelligent solution system including neural networks, genetic algorithms and simulated annealing has been proposed for the inverse kinematics solution of robotic manipulators. The main purpose of ...

In this study, a vehicle routing problem with hard time windows (VRPHTW) that appears to meet demands of customers' service within time intervals in a supermarket chain is solved. In VRPHTW, to reach a solution by an exact ...

Base shear (V) is the maximum lateral force that will occur due to seismic ground motion at the base of a structure. Calculations of base shear depend on a lot of factors such as soil conditions, level of ductility, ...