Iaeng Transactions On Engineering Technologies Volume 7

This volume contains revised and extended research articles by prominent researchers. Topics covered include operations research, scientific computing, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, communication systems, and industrial applications. The book offers the state-of-the-art advances in engineering technologies and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies. Contents:Hierarchical Multiobjective Stochastic Linear Programming Problems Based on the Fuzzy Decision (Hitoshi Yano and Kota Matsui)Nature-Inspired Algorithms of Bees, Firefly and Bat for Noisy Non-Linear Optimisation Problems (Narumon Chai-Ead, Pasura Aungkulanon and Pongchanun Luangpaiboon)Estimating the Difficulty of Exercises for Inactive Students in User-Based E-Learning (Tomoko Kashima and Shimpei Matsumoto)Nonlinear Wave Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Boundary Layer Flow (J C Chen and Weijia Chen)Impacts on Supply Chain Management and Its Flexibility Through Component Commonality and Postponement (N Altfeld, J Hinckeldeyn, J Kreutzfeldt and P Gust)Optimization of the Mean and Standard Deviation of Multiple Responses (Nuno Costa, João Lourenço and Zulema Lopes Pereira)Driving Aptitude Test for Personnel Decisions: A Case Study (Steve N H Tsang, K Chen and Alan H S Chan)Integration and Interoperability of B2B E-Commerce Model (Woon Kian Chong, Nan Zhang and Ka Lok Man)Swarm Intelligence Based Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks (Saeed Mehrjoo, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh and Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh)and other papers Readership: Professionals, academics and graduate students in industrial engineering, operations research, electrical & electronic engineering and computer engineering. Keywords:Industrial Engineering;Operations Research;Scientific Computing;Electrical Engineering;Communication Systems;Industrial Applications

This volume contains revised and extended research articles by prominent researchers. Topics covered include operations research, scientific computing, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, communication systems, and industrial applications. The book offers the state-of-the-art advances in engineering technologies and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies.

This volume contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conference. Topics covered include engineering physics, communications systems, control theory, automation, engineering mathematics, scientific computing, industrial engineering, and industrial applications. IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies: Special Issue of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2012 offers the state of art of tremendous advances in engineering technologies and physical science and applications, and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies and physical science and applications.

Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 13-15, 2013, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2013), and in London, U.K., 3-5 July, 2013, under the World Congress on Engineering 2013 (WCE 2013) respectively. IMECS 2013 and WCE 2013 were organize

Recently, many books on multiobjective programming have been published. However, only a few books have been published, in which multiobjective programming under the randomness and the fuzziness are investigated. On the other hand, several books on multilevel programming have been published, in which multiple decision makers are involved in hierarchical decision situations. In this book, we introduce the latest advances in the field of multiobjective programming and multilevel programming under uncertainty. The reader can immediately use proposed methods to solve multiobjective programming and multilevel programming, which are based on linear programming or convex programming technique. Organization of each capter is summarized as follows. In Chapter 2, multiobjective programming problems with random variables are formulated, and the corresponding interactive algorithms are developed to obtain a satisfactory solution, in which the fuzziness of human's subjective judgment for permission levels are considered. In Chapter 3, multiobjective programming problems with fuzzy random variables are formulated, and the corresponding interactive algorithms are developed to obtain a satisfactory solution, in which not only the uncertainty of fuzzy random variables but also the fuzziness of human's subjective judgment for permission levels are considered. In Chapter 4, multiobjective multilevel programming is discussed, and the interactive algorithms are developed to obtain a satisfactory solution, in which the hierarchical decision structure of multiple decision makers is reflected. In Chapter 5, two kinds of farm planning problems are solved by applying the proposed method, in which cost coefficients of crops are expressed by random variables.

IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies contains forty-nine revised and extended research articles, written by prominent researchers participating in the conference. Topics covered include circuits, engineering mathematics, control theory, communications systems, systems engineering, manufacture engineering, computational biology, chemical engineering, and industrial applications. This book offers the state of art of tremendous advances in engineering technologies and physical science and applications, and also serves as an excellent source of reference for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies and physical science and applications.

We are pleased to welcome readers to this issue of the Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR), Volume 5, Number 3. The journal reports on developments in all aspects of operational research, including the latest advances and applications. It is a primarily goal of the journal to focus on and publish practical case studies which illustrate real-life applications.