Engineering Computations: Volume 31 Issue 6

Cogeneration design problem: Computational complexity analysis and solution through an expert system

José Alexandre Matelli, Jonny C. Silva, Edson Bazzo

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to analyze the computational complexity of the cogeneration design problem; to present an expert system to solve the proposed problem…

Robust design of Mars entry micro-probe with evidence theory and multi-fidelity strategies

Hou Liqiang, Cai Yuanli, Zhang Rongzhi, Li Hengnian, Li Jisheng

A multi-disciplinary robust design optimization method for micro Mars entry probe (no more than 0.8 m in diameter) is proposed. The purpose of this paper is to design a Mars entry…

Gains tuning of a PI-Fuzzy controller by genetic algorithms

Carlos S. Betancor-Martín, J. Sosa, Juan A. Montiel-Nelson, Aurelio Vega-Martínez

Nowadays, in order to improve current applications, industry incorporates to their solution approaches artificial intelligence techniques and methodologies like Fuzzy Logic…

An efficient PMA-based reliability analysis technique using radial basis function

M.Q. Chau, X. Han, C. Jiang, Y.C. Bai, T.N. Tran, V.H. Truong

The performance measure approach (PMA) is widely adopted for reliability analysis and reliability-based design optimization because of its robustness and efficiency compared to…

Three level hierarchical decision making model with GA

Egidio D’Amato, Elia Daniele, Lina Mallozzi, Giovanni Petrone

The purpose of this paper is to propose a numerical algorithm able to describe the Stackelberg strategy for a multi level hierarchical three-person game via genetic algorithm (GA…