Accurate reliability estimates can be obtained by using software reliability models only in the later phase of software testing. However, for cost effective and timely, management prediction in the early phase is important. Non-homogenerous Poisson process (NHPP) models and Artificial Neural Network...

An ACO-PSO Hybrid Algorithm Solving Path Planning Problem based on Swarm Intelligence(SI) is proposed. The problem first is described and some corresponding definitions are presented. Ant colony optimization (ACO) is used to establish the corresponding solution, and some material algorithm steps are...

Nowadays, the change of marketplace require manufacturing system to diversify from mass customization style to step-mass customization style, thus lead to the manufacturing value orientation change from product oriented to custom oriented, main manufacturing strategy change from cost, quality etc. to...

It is hard to set up catastrophe potential function by using conventional methods and choose control variables of catastrophe potential function. So the method of setting up potential function is given to analyze the brittleness of complex system by means of relations among systems. The feasibility of...

A hybrid of artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to training feedforward neural network. After the two algorithms are introduced respectively, the hybrid algorithm based on the two is expressed. The hybrid not only has the artificial fish behaviors of swarm...

In this work, a new multisensor data fusion architecture integrating neural network and fuzzy logic techniques is introduced, which has the ability of fast adjusting acceleration parameter and covariance of measurement noise of sensors. In this architecture, the neural network estimates acceleration...

Case-based reasoning can be used to explain many creative design processes since creativity stems from using old solutions in novel ways. However the process of case-based creative design is usually not very efficient and not easy to implement due to the complexity of creative design problems. This paper...

Aiming at the longitudinal temperature was affected by many reasons, and the control principle of combining the intermittent heating control with the heating gas flow adjustment was adopted. Control strategy and an integrated model of coke oven heating based on hybrid intelligent control methods were...

The traditional analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method can only compare a very limited number of decision alternatives. When there are hundreds or thousands of alternatives to be compared, the pairwise comparison manner is obviously infeasible. In this paper we propose a hybrid AHP/DEA methodology to...