Nowadays, optimization of process parameters in manufacturing process deals with a number of objectives. However, the optimization of such process becomes more complex if selected attributes are conflicting in nature. Therefore, to overcome this problem in this study a SDM based PSO algorithm is...

In today s world, supply chains are facing market dynamics dominated by strong global competition, high labor costs, shorter product life cycles, and environmental regulations. Supply chains have evolved to keep pace with the rapid growth in these business dynamics, becoming longer and more...

The company's sustainable competitive advantage derives from its capacity to create value for customers and to adapt the operational practices to changing situations. Business processes are the heart of each company. Therefore process excellence has become a key issue. This book introduces a...

Risk management in a Virtual Enterprise (VE) is an important issue due to its agility and diversity of its members and its distributed characteristics. In this paper, we develop a risk management model for the VE. More specifically, we introduce a Distributed Decision Making (DDM) model for risk...

Risk management in a Virtual Enterprise (VE) is an important issue due to its agility and diversity of its members and its distributed characteristics. In this paper, we develop a risk management model for the VE. More specifically, we introduce a Distributed Decision Making (DDM) model for risk...

In Bioinformatics, sequence analysis is the basic important concept that provides information for structural and functional analysis. Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a keystone problem in the sequence analysis that is used for constructing phylogenetic tree, finding motif, gene expression,...

In this paper a predictor model using Legendre Neural Network is proposed for one day ahead prediction of financial time series data. The Legendre Neural Network (LENN) is a single layer structure that possess faster convergence rate and reduced computational complexity by increasing the...

This paper demonstrates a novel local search approach based on an adaptive (time variant) search space index improving the exploration ability as well as diversity in multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization. The novel strategy searches for the neighbourhood particles in a range which...

A machine vision system with single monochrome CCD camera and backlight was developed for tool positioning and verification. While evaluating the performance of the developed vision system, the experiments showed that the output of machine vision system was not comparable to the output of...

Since two of the most important disadvantages of the classical nonlinear regression methods, such as Levenberg-Marquardt (LM), are to calculate error derivative function and use an initial point to get the results, PSO algorithm, which lies in the category of population based meta-heuristic...