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2004
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Ant colony optimization techniques for the vehicle routing problem
This research applies the meta-heuristic method of ant colony optimization (ACO) to an established set of vehicle routing problems (VRP). The procedure simulates the decision-maki...
John E. Bell, Patrick R. McMullen
AEI
2002
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A functional concept ontology and its application to automatic identification of functional structures
Functionality of artifacts as well as structure and behavior plays crucial roles in problem-solving such as design. This article discusses automatic identifications of functional s...
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshinobu Sano, Kouji Namba, R...
AEI
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Function-directed electrical design analysis
Functional labels provide a simple but very reusable way for defining the functionality of a system and for making use of that knowledge. Unlike more complex functional representa...
Chris J. Price
AEI
1999
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Genetic algorithms for designing multihop lightwave network topologies
Multihop lightwave networks are a means of utilizing the large bandwidth of optical fibers. In these networks, each node has a fixed number of transmitters and receivers connected...
Cenk Gazen, Cem Ersoy
AEI
2000
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A neural network approach for a robot task sequencing problem
This paper presents a neural network approach with successful implementation for the robot task-sequencing problem. The problem addresses the sequencing of tasks comprising loadin...
Oded Maimon, Dan Braha, Vineet Seth