For the second time the International Workshop on Responsive Com- puter Systems has brought together a group of international experts from the fields of real-time computing, distributed computing, and fault- tolerant systems.
Artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms both are areas of research which have their origins in mathematical models constructed in order to gain understanding of important natural processes.
Ten years ago, the term "e;defect correction"e; was introduced to characterize a class of methods for the improvement of an approximate solution of an operator equation.
Scientific Computation with Result Verification has been a persevering research topic at the Institute for Applied Mathematics of Karlsruhe University for many years.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices and provides an open forum for the presentation of the latest results and trends in modeling and simulation of semiconductor equipment, processes and devices.
Moderne Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme gewinnen für die Automatisierung von Maschinen, technischen Prozessen und Anlagen immer mehr an Bedeutung.
The first ICANNGA conference, devoted to biologically inspired computational paradigms, Neural Net- works and Genetic Algorithms, was held in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1993.
From the contents:Neural networks theory and applications: NNs (= neural networks) classifier on continuous data domains quantum associative memory a new class of neuron-like discrete filters to image processing modular NNs for improving generalisation properties presynaptic inhibition modelling for image processing application NN recognition system for a curvature primal sketch NN based nonlinear temporal-spatial noise rejection system relaxation rate for improving Hopfield network Oja's NN and influence of the learning gain on its dynamics Genetic algorithms theory and applications: transposition: a biological-inspired mechanism to use with GAs (= genetic algorithms) GA for decision tree induction optimising decision classifications using GAs scheduling tasks with intertask communication onto multiprocessors by GAs design of robust networks with GA effect of degenerate coding on GAs multiple traffic signal control using a GA evolving musical harmonisation niched-penalty approach for constraint handling in GAs GA with dynamic population size GA with dynamic niche clustering for multimodal function optimisationSoft computing and uncertainty: self-adaptation of evolutionary constructed decision trees by information spreading evolutionary programming of near optimal NNs
Computerunterstützung zur Lösung technischer Aufgabenstellungen ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten selbstverständlich geworden, sowohl in numerischer als auch in symbolischer (algebraischer) Form.
The aim of this book is to present important software tools, basic concepts, methods, and highly sophisticated applications of computerized symbolic manipulation to mechanics problems.
Bereits im Energieplan, den das Bundesministerium für Handel, Gewerbe und Industrie im März 1975 veröffentlicht hat, wurde bei den Möglichkeiten für die Substitution von Energieträgern auf die Elektrotraktion hingewiesen.
The goal of the volume is twofold: to help engineers to understand the design and development process and the specific techniques utilized for constructing expert systems in engineering and, secondly, to introduce computer specialists to significant applications of knowledge-based techniques in engineering.
This book, intended for people in engineering and fundamental sciences, presents an integrated mathematical methodology for advanced dynamics and control of structures and machines, ranging from the derivation of models up to the control synthesis problem.
The availability of machine-learning algorithms, and the immense computational power required to develop robust models with high accuracy, has driven researchers to conduct extensive studies in forensic science, particularly in the identification and examination of evidence found at crime scenes.
This book documents the state-of-the-art evaluation of the embryonic field of multifunctional materials and adaptive structures, more specifically in the area of active vibration suppression, shape control, noise attenuation, structural health monitoring, smart machines and micro-electro-mechanical systems with application in aircraft, aerospace, automobile, civil structures and consumer industry.
The book gives a comprehensive view of the present ability to take into account the microstructure and texture evolution in building up engineering models of the plastic behaviour of polycrystalline materials at large strains.
The book is characterized by the illustration of cases of fractal, self-similar and multi-scale structures taken from the mechanics of solid and porous materials, which have a technical interest.
The aim of this volume is to present to researchers and engineers working on problems concerned with the mechanics of solids and structures, the current state of the development and application to procedures for assessing the reliability of a system.
State-of-the-art nonlinear computational analysis of shells, nonlinearities due to large deformations and nonlinear material behavior, alternative shell element formulations, algorithms and implementational aspects, composite and sandwich shells, local and global instabilities, optimization of shell structures and concepts of shape finding methods of free from shells.
Environmental Geomechanics covers a broad class of problems where deforming geomaterials are involved, usually coupled with fluid flow and transport of some substance.
From the fundamentals of impact mechanics and biomechanics to modern analysis and design techniques in impact energy management and occupant protection this book provides an overview of the application of nonlinear finite elements, conceptual modeling and multibody procedures, impact biomechanics, injury mechanisms, occupant mathematical modeling, and human surrogates in crashworthiness.
This book provides an up-to-date presentation of a broad range of contemporary problems in inverse scattering involving acoustic, elastic and electromagnetic waves.
