Engineering Computations: Volume 31 Issue 8

Remote monitoring of an omnidirectional smoke detection system using texture features image processing techniques

Chun-Chi Peng, Kuei-Shu Hsu, Ming-Guo Her, Yen-Chia Peng, Jinn-Feng Jiang, Yi-Jie Chen

The purpose of this paper is to develop an early fire-alarm raising system based on video processing, and combine it with the omnidirectional projecting system. It not only gives…

Greedy immunization strategy in weighted scale-free networks

Zhang-Hui Liu, Guo-Long Chen, Ning-Ning Wang, Biao Song

– The purpose of this paper is to present a new immunization strategy for effectively solving the control of the spread of the virus.

Shortest distance estimation in large scale graphs: A landmark selection strategy based on multi-objective PSO

Yuzhong Chen, Yang Yu, Guolong Chen

Shortest distance query between a pair of nodes in a graph is a classical problem with a wide variety of applications. Exact methods for this problem are infeasible for…

Assessing the effects of audio-visual stimulation on the prefrontal EEG of good & poor sleepers

Yi-Yeh Lee, Aaron Raymond See, Shih-Chung Chen, Chih-Kuo Liang

– The purpose of this paper was to investigate the response of good and poor sleepers toward audio-visual stimulation via prefrontal theta EEG measurement.

Improved initial cluster center selection in K-means clustering

Minchen Zhu, Weizhi Wang, Jingshan Huang

It is well known that the selection of initial cluster centers can significantly affect K-means clustering results. The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved, efficient…

A neural observer for sensorless speed control of servomotors

Jenq-Ruey Horng, Ming-Shyan Wang, Tai-Rung Lai, Sergiu Berinde

Extensive efforts have been conducted on the elimination of position sensors in servomotor control. The purpose of this paper is to aim at estimating the servomotor speed without…

FPGA-based hardware implementation of arctangent and arccosine functions for the inverse kinematics of robot manipulator

Ying-Shieh Kung, Ming-Kuang Wu, Hai Linh Bui Thi and, Tz-Han Jung, Feng-Chi Lee, Wen-Chuan Chen

The inverse kinematics in robot manipulator have to handle the arctangent and arccosine function. However, the two functions are complicated and need much computation time so that…

Implementation of an automated system for microscope pathological section image with RFID management

Pei-Jarn Chen, Chia-Hong Yeng, Ma-Mi Lu, Sheng-Hsien Chen

The purpose of this paper is to establish an automated microscopic imaging database system using a set of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) management functions to provide a…

Fuzzy visual detection for human-robot interaction

Ming-Yuan Shieh, Chung-Yu Hsieh, Tsung-Min Hsieh

The purpose of this paper is to propose a fast object detection algorithm based on structural light analysis, which aims to detect and recognize human gesture and pose and then to…

A study of risk-adjusted stock selection models using genetic algorithms

Chien-Feng Huang, Tsung-Nan Hsieh, Bao Rong Chang, Chih-Hsiang Chang

Stock selection has long been identified as a challenging task. This line of research is highly contingent upon reliable stock ranking for successful portfolio construction. The…

Green technology automotive shape design based on neural networks and support vector regression

Kuo-Kuang Fan, Chun-Hui Chiu, Chih-Chieh Yang

The green technology cars have received much attention due to the air pollution and energy crisis. The purpose of this paper is to increase automotive designers’ understanding of…

Analysis of virtualized cloud server together with shared storage and estimation of consolidation ratio and TCO/ROI

Bao Rong Chang, Hsiu-Fen Tsai, Chi-Ming Chen, Chien-Feng Huang

The physical server transition to virtualized infrastructure server have encountered crucial problems such as server consolidation, virtual machine (VM) performance, workload…

Optimal high-rigidity structure design for CNC machine tools using CAE technique

Kun-Chieh Wang

For machine tools, the machining performance is mainly determined by the rigidity of the machine structure. How to design a machine tool with high rigidity is always a challenge…

A classification approach based on variable precision rough sets and cluster validity index function

Hongkang Lin

The clustering/classification method proposed in this study, designated as the PFV-index method, provides the means to solve the following problems for a data set characterized by…

The visual tracking system using a stereo vision robot

Long-Jyi Yeh, Tsung Han Lee, Kuei-Shu Hsu

The purpose of this paper is to use vision stereo to simultaneously acquire image pairs under a normal environment. Then the methods of moving edges detection and moving target…

Editorial of ICICE 2012 for the Special Issue of Engineering Computations

Steven Prior, Artde Lam, Teen-Hang Meen