Engineering Computations: Volume 33 Issue 6

A contactless door lock controlled by portable devices

In our contemporary living environment, most people want, not only to maintain privacy and security, but also to avoid losing the keys or passwords for their doors at home…

People and their smartphones – mapping mobile interaction in the modern connected world

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a balanced study group consisting of 152 participants interact with, operate, customize, and control their smartphone applications…

A GSA-based adaptive fuzzy PID-controller for an active suspension system

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel design for determining the optimal hybrid fuzzy PID-controller of an active automobile suspension system, employing the…

Torque ripple reduction of switched reluctance motor using fuzzy control

Extensive efforts have been conducted on the improvement of torque ripple in switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive. The purpose of this paper is to estimate initial on time of…

Integration and optimization of multiple big data processing platforms

The purpose of this paper is to integrate and optimize a multiple big data processing platform with the features of high performance, high availability and high scalability in big…

Explore a fuzzy based design evaluation for safety syringe innovative design

Abuse and reuse of syringes will let nursing professionals suffer serious risk of cross-infection of diseases. The purpose of this paper is to propose a flexible and extensible…

Numerical investigation of CuO-water nanofluid turbulent convective heat transfer in square cross-section duct under constant heat flux

The purpose of this paper is to numerically investigate the convective heat transfer of water-based CuO nanofluids flowing through a square cross-section duct under constant heat…

Pole placement design of proportional-integral observer with stochastic perturbations

– The purpose of this paper is to present a proportional-integral (PI) observer design on a linear system with stochastic noises.

Wiener filter applied with a multi-channel method for EBT2 film dosimetry

EBT2 film, a convenient quality assurance (QA) tool with high 2D dosimetry resolution, has been widely used in the dosimetry application of radiation therapy with lots of benefits…

Energy-efficient scheduling algorithm for real-time job set

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scheduling problem of real-time jobs executing on a DVS processor. The jobs must complete their executions by their deadlines and…

A self-testing cloud model for multi-criteria group decision making

– The purpose of this paper is to select the best scaling coefficient during the quantitative-qualitative conversion.

A novel position estimation method using accelerometer based error correction

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel position estimation method to accurately locate an object. An accelerometer-based error correction method is also developed to…

Improvement on acoustic characteristics of a small space using material selection

Recently, the acoustic characteristics of indoor spaces have been perceived to be more important due to the economic development needs of societies. At the same time, container…

Optical steganography transmission of optical CDMA signals over a public BPSK channel

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new optical steganography framework that can be applied to public optical binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) systems by transmitting a…

The construction of mobile RFID authentication mechanism and relative ownership transfer protocols for supply chain

The purpose of this paper is to complete the following works: construct RFID integration mechanism in the supply chain; build mutual authentication mechanism; and build the…

FPGA-realization of a speed control IC for induction motor drive

The purpose of this paper is to integrate the function of a speed controller for induction motor (IM) drive, such as the speed PI controller, the current vector controller, the…

Investigation of the internet adoption on senior farmers

An investigation of the internet adoption on Taiwan’s senior farmers was examined in this study. The purpose of this paper is to discuss what specialist technology tools, software…

Using fuzzy goal programming by considering personal preferences for job selection via the internet

– The purpose of this paper is to use personal fuzzy demand, assisted by system computing to find a job, using job search systems to achieve this goal.

Special issue on applied system innovation