Aurelian NICOLA, Constantin POPA Ovidius University Blvd. Mamaia 124, 900527 Constanta, Romania {anicola, cpopa}@univ-ovidius.ro Abstract: Although the most important and relevant part of the scientific activity of Dr. Neculai Andrei is related to the design of efficient algorithms and software products for optimization problems, his first book, written in 1983 …
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Optimization of a Constrained Quadratic Function
Charles HAMAKER Department of Mathematics and Computer Science PO Box 3517 Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA,94575 chamaker@stmarys-ca.edu Dedicated on the occasion of his 60th birthday to Neculai Andrei in appreciation of a lifetime of contributions to mathematics, as a productive researcher, an author of valuable texts and software, …
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Xiaoyan ZENG, Mihai ANIŢESCU Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue, Building 221, Argonne, IL 60439-4844, U.S.A Candido PEREIRA, Monica REGALBUTO Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue, Building 205, Argonne, IL 60439-4837, U.S.A Mihai Aniţescu dedicates his work on …
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Mohamed Zine EL ABIDINE SKHIRI, Mohamed CHTOUROU Research Unit on Intelligent Control, Design & Optimization of Complex Systems (ICOS) Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sfax ( ENIS ), BP.W,3038, Sfax, TUNISIA Abstract: This paper investigates the use of a wavelet denoising unit based on the wavelet mutiresolution analysis on wavelet networks …
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Anis SAKLY, Basma ZAHRA, Mohamed BENREJEB Unité de recherche LARA Automatique Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, BP 37, Belvédère 1002 Tunis, Tunisie Abstract: A stability study approach of fuzzy control systems, in the continuous case and the discrete one, is presented in this paper. This approach is based on vector …
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V. DHANALAKSHMI Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, 625015, India S. ARUNACHALAM School of Computing and Technology, Manufacturing Engineering, University of East London, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, UK K. SANKARANARAYANASAMY Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, 625015, India T. PAGE Department of …
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Mircea CURILĂ University of Oradea, Department of Physics-Informatics-Chemistry str. Universităţii nr. 1, zip code 410087 Oradea, Romania Sorin CURILĂ University of Oradea, Department of Electronics str. Universităţii nr. 1, zip code 410087 Oradea, Romania Abstract: The 3D mesh geometry is spatially correlated on each direction in the Cartesian coordinate system, …
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Sébastien LE BEUX, Philippe MARQUET, Jean-Luc DEKEYSER LIFL, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe and University of Lille, France Abstract: This paper demonstrates that the Model Driven Engineering approach is reliable for the development of codesign environments dedicated to embedded systems. From a UML model of a data parallel application, the Gaspard environment …
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Kamel Ben SAAD, Ahlem MBAREK, Mohamed BENREJEB Unité de recherche LARA automatique, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis BP. 37 le Belvédère, 1002, Tunis, Tunisia Abstract: The linear tubular switched reluctance stepping motor is widely used in applications requiring high-precision linear positioning operations. But, the position evolution of this kind of …
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Neculai ANDREI1,2 1 Center for Advanced Modeling and Optimization, National Institute for R&D in Informatics, (ICI) 8-10, Averescu Avenue, Bucharest 1, Romania 2 Academy of Romanian Scientists 54, Splaiul Independenţei, Bucharest 5, Romania Abstract: Another hybrid conjugate gradient algorithm is suggested in this paper. The parameter is computed as a …
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