SIC 2014

Mihai TĂLMACIU1, Victor LEPIN2 1“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Bacău, Romania mtalmaciu@ub.ro 2 The Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus lepin@im.bas-net.by Abstract: During the last decades, numerous studies have been undertaken on the classes of net-free graphs, claw-free graphs, and the relationship between them. The …

Dan CHANG1, Baowei CHEN2, Danqing LI1, Xiaoying HAN1 1 School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University 3 Shangyuancun, Haidian District, Beijing, 100044, China dchang@bjtu.edu.cn, 11120690@bjtu.edu.cn, 12120653@bjtu.edu.cn 2 Junior College, Zhejiang Wanli University 1519 Shengmo Rd, Jinzhou District, Ningbo, 315101, China Chenbaowei-gryx@163.com Abstract: With the rapid development and wide use …

Syed Usama KHALID BUKHARI1, Remus BRAD2, Constantin BĂLĂ – ZAMFIRESCU2 1 Faculty of Engineering, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu 10, Victoriei Blvd, Sibiu 550024, Romania syedusama@gmail.com 2 Computer Science Department, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu 10, Victoriei Blvd, Sibiu 550024, Romania remus.brad@ulbsibiu.ro, constantin-bala.zamfirescu@ulbsibiu.ro Abstract: The processing of images is currently …

Yiyi ZHAO1, Gang KOU2 1 School of Economics and Management, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, 611731, China 2 School of Business Administration, Southwest University of Finance and Economics of China Chengdu, 610074, China Abstract: Opinion dynamics is a complex collective behavior in human societies. When individuals …

Dinu Călin SECUI, Simona DZIŢAC, Gabriel BENDEA, Codruţa BENDEA, Cristina HORA University of Oradea University Street, Oradea, 410087, Romania csecui@uoradea.ro, gbendea@uoradea.ro, simona.dzitac@gmail.com, cbendea@uoradea.ro, chora@uoradea.ro Abstract: The paper presents a modified harmony search algorithm (MHS), useful for solving the economic dispatch (ED) problem assuming a non-linear cost function and various technical …

Carlos GUERRERO, Antoni JAUME-I-CAPÓ University of Balearic Islands Crta. Valldemossa km 7.5, Palma, E-07122, Spain carlos.guerrero@uib.es, antoni.jaume@uib.es Abstract: Motivation is essential in the learning process of university students, and teachers should have a wide range of strategies to address this issue. The emergence of social technologies has had a considerable …

Milos SUBOTIC, Milan TUBA Faculty of Computer Science, Megatrend University, 29, Bulevar Umetnosti, Belgrade, 11070, Serbia milos.subotic@gmail.com; tuba@ieee.org Abstract: Swarm intelligence metaheuristics have been successfully used for hard optimization problems. After the initial introduction phase such algorithms are further improved by modifications and hybridizations. Parallelization is usually introduced for performance …

Amira Y. HAIKAL, Mostafa A. EL-HOSSEINI Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University 35516, Egypt amirayh@gmail.com; melhosseini@gmail.com Abstract: The proposed paper outlines the design and implementation of smart robotic arm that is equipped with a vision system. Three main parts cooperate to perform the control of the proposed arm. Image processing, inverse …

Muhammad ZOHAIB1, Syed Mustafa PASHA1, Nadeem JAVAID1, Abdus SALAAM2, Jamshed IQBAL1 1 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Islamabad, Pakistan zohaib.ciit@yahoo.com; mustafa.pasha@comsats.edu.pk; nadeemjavaid@comsats.edu.pk; jamshed.iqbal@comsats.edu.pk 2 Iqra National University, Peshawar, Pakistan salam@inu.edu.pk Abstract: This paper proposes a novel obstacle avoidance algorithm for autonomous mobile robot control. The proposed approach brings a solution …

Oscar L. VERA-PÉREZ1, Alejandro MESEJO-CHIONG1, Antoni JAUME-I-CAPÓ2, Manuel GONZÁLEZ-HIDALGO2 1 Facultad de Matemática y Computación, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba 2 Unitat de Gràfics, Visió i Intelligència Artificial, Departament de Ciències Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain antoni.jaume@uib.es Abstract: The choice of the parameters has strong influence …