Load forecasting is one of the main required studies for power system expansion planning
and operation. In order to capture the nonlinear and complex pattern in yearly peak load and …

Based on an attainable cost-effective homemade arc-discharge fiber heating and pulling
setup, a fast and highly controllable process for fabricating low-loss adiabatic optical …

Multilayer network design represents an important problem class when interwoven design
decisions must be simultaneously considered. Examples of such cases are the selection of …

Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma is an uncommon cause of acute spinal cord
compression. This is a rare idiopathic condition that leads to acute onset of neurologic deficits, …

The present work is focused on the biostratigraphic analysis, paleoecological interpretations,
and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of sediments of the Asmari Formation. The Asmari …

One major difficulty in seepage analyses is finding the position of phreatic surface which is
unknown at the beginning of solution and must be determined in an iterative process. The …

In the present study, some modifications on the firefly algorithm are presented to improve its
performance. The firefly algorithm is a recently developed robust metaheuristic optimization …

Vibration characteristics of a plate with six-bolt single-lap joint are investigated in both
experimental tests and finite element (FE) method. The FE results are obtained using nonlinear …

In the present study, an optimization approach based on the firefly algorithm (FA) is combined
with a finite element simulation method (FEM) to determine the optimum design of pump …

Classical Lagrangian relaxations for the multicommodity capacitated fixed-charge network
design problem are the so-called flow and knapsack relaxations, where the resulting …