Engineering Computations: Volume 34 Issue 1

Editorial

Wen-Hsiang Hsieh

Speeding up estimation of the Hurst exponent by a two-stage procedure from a large to small range

Yen-Ching Chang

The Hurst exponent has been very important in telling the difference between fractal signals and explaining their significance. For estimators of the Hurst exponent, accuracy and…

Inconsistency detection and data fusion in USAR task

Pei-Ju Lee, Peng-Sheng You, Yu-Chih Huang, Yi-Chih Hsieh

The historical data usually consist of overlapping reports, and these reports may contain inconsistent data, which may return incorrect results of a query search. Moreover, users…

Observer-based control for a singular Markovian jumping system

Ching-Min Lee

For most practical control system problems, the state variables of a system are not often available or measureable due to technical or economical constraints. In these cases, an…

Fault diagnosis for rolling bearing based on SIFT-KPCA and SVM

Yujie Cheng, Hang Yuan, Hongmei Liu, Chen Lu

The purpose of this paper is to propose a fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings, in which the fault feature extraction is realized in a two-dimensional domain using scale…

Optimum process mean, standard deviation and specification limits settings under the Burr distribution

Chung-Ho Chen, Chao-Yu Chou

The quality level setting problem determines the optimal process mean, standard deviation and specification limits of product/process characteristic to minimize the expected total…

Novel motion estimation algorithm for image stabilizer

Shyang-Jye Chang, Ray-Hong Wang

The motion vector estimation algorithm is very widely used in many image process applications, such as the image stabilization and object tracking algorithms. The conventional…

Optimized GNSS RTK measurement planning for effective point occupation via heuristic analysis

Dalibor Bartonek, Jiri Bures, Otakar Svabensky

This paper aims to deal with the formulation of the technological principle for precise positioning using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) in railway engineering during…

Design of an adaptive intelligent control scheme for switched reluctance wind generator

Chih-Ming Hong, Cong-Hui Huang, Fu-Sheng Cheng

This paper aims to present the analysis, design and implementation of functional link-based recurrent fuzzy neural network (FLRFNN) for the control of variable-speed switched…

Study of laser displacement measurement data abnormal correction algorithm

Zeguang Yi, Nan Pan, Yi Liu, Yu Guo

This paper aims to reduce and eliminate the abnormal peaks which, because of the reflection in the process of laser detection, make it easier to proceed with further analysis.

Using a grid computing-based meta-evolutionary mining approach for the microarray data cancer-categorization

Tai-Wei Chiang, Ta-Cheng Chen

The categorization response model through gene expression patterns turns into one of the most favorable utilizations of the microarray technology. In this study, the aim is to…

An artificial intelligent approach to the bicycle repositioning problems

Peng-Sheng You, Pei-Ju Lee, Yi-Chih Hsieh

Many bike rental organizations permit customers to pick-up bikes from one bike station and return them at a different one. However, this service may result in bike imbalance, as…

Risk analysis model for regional railroad investment

Sunduck Suh, Wonho Suh, Jung In Kim

The purpose of this study is to model risks in financial analysis. These risks associated with uncertainties in the projects should be properly addressed to ensure proper decision…

A study of 3D model similarity based on surface bipartite graph matching

Jihua Wang, Huayu Wang

This study aims to compute 3D model similarity by extracting and comparing shape features from the neutral files.

Generalized finite element analysis of high-rise wall-frame structural systems

HongJun Son, Jonghwan Park, Heecheul Kim, Young Hak Lee, Dae-Jin Kim

This paper aims to propose a generalized finite element technique that can accurately approximate the solution of the flexural-shear cantilever model of wall-frame structures…