Earthquake Occurrence provides the reader with a review of algorithms applicable for modeling seismicity, such as short-term earthquake clustering and pseudo-periodic long-term behavior of major earthquakes.
Researchers and practitioners in food science and technology routinely face several challenges, related to sparseness and heterogeneity of data, as well as to the uncertainty in the measurements and the introduction of expert knowledge in the models.
Evolutionary computation algorithms are employed to minimize functions with large number of variables. Biogeography-based optimization (BBO)... Læs mere
Evolutionary algorithms are bio-inspired algorithms based on Darwin s theory of evolution. They are expected to provide non-optimal but good quality solutions to problems whose resolution is impracticable by exact methods.
This edited collection represents a selection of the papers presented at the 13th annual Euro-Asia research Conference held in... Læs mere
* Failure of structures can be catastrophic and life-threatening - it is therefore among the most critical of all design topics * Fatigue and fracture result in billions of dollars of damage each year.
The design of mechanical structures with improved and predictable durability cannot be achieved without a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of fatigue damage and more specifically the relationships between the microstructure of materials and their fatigue properties.
The Extractive Metallurgy series is devoted to the extraction of metals from ores and other sources, their refining to the state of either liquid or solid metal, and the various processes needed to carry out these operations.