Development of a robot for RoboCup Small Size League, utilizing a distributed control architecture for a multi-robot system development platform by Smit, Albert

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Obstetric-risk objects: a multi-site, feminist ethnography of private-sector obstetric, maternal and unborn, caring concerns in Cape Town by Daniels, Nicole Miriam

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Geometric optimization for the maximum heat transfer density rate from cylinders rotating in natural convection

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Development and application of a multi-criteria decision-support framework for planning rural energy supply interventions in low-income households in South Africa by Dzenga, Bruce

“…The framework developed includes a multi-objective optimisation technique that produced an approximation of a Pareto front linked to an a priori aggregation function and a value function to select the best alternatives. …”
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Particle swarm optimization for constrained multimodal function optimization by Strelitz, Benjamin Steenveld

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Set-based particle swarm optimization for portfolio optimization by Erwin, Kyle Harper

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Evaluation of host transcriptional biomarkers in the diagnosis of TB disease and optimization of multi-colour immunophenotyping assay from the QuantiFERON® TB GOLD Plus cell sedime... by Ndou, Sedzani

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Modeling and optimization of remanufacturing operations of spent products for sustainability by Heikal, Eman

“…However, there is no decision making system the manufacturers could use for cost / benefit assessment of disassembling and recovering these products that considers the following points: (1) evaluating the value of recovering the whole product versus value associated with recovering its disassembled items , (2) using Multi-Objective Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) to assign spent products and their items to various recovery alternatives considering their received physical conditions, (3) selection of operations for items is not limited by a fixed regular production-hour capacity for each operation, (4) model assumptions, constraints, and formulation that satisfy the three aspects of sustainability, which are economic, social responsibility, and environmental aspects in one step model , (5) considering other vital dimensions which are the quality of recovered products and the minimum batch size for vending recycled materials, (6) utilizing the recycling operation in the optimum way that increases revenue from vending isolated materials. …”
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The heterogeneous meta-hyper-heuristic : from low level heuristics to low level meta-heuristics

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Particle swarm optimisation in dynamically changing environments - an empirical study

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Optimizing Rehabilitation and Maintenance of Hospitals by Ahmed, Mohamed

“…The model features through five modules, (1) Database module that stores the hospitals data, (2) Backward Markov chain module that estimates the transition probability matrix, (3) Deterioration prediction module that predict the future condition of the asset, (4) Rehabilitation Cost optimization and (5) Multi-objective rehabilitation schedule optimization that conducts a tradeoff between the modified rehabilitation cost and the number of unserved patients. …”
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Methods and techniques for topology optimization. by Wilcox, D. D.

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Time-cost-quality trade-off analysis for construction projects by ElBassuony, Mahmoud

“…For the aforementioned purpose, three various Microsoft Excel based TCQT models have been developed as follows: • First, a simplified model is developed with the objective of optimizing the total duration, cost, and quality of simple construction projects utilizing the GA-based Excel add in Evolver. • Second, a stochastic model is developed with the objective of optimizing the total duration, cost, and quality of construction projects applying the PERT approach in order to consider uncertainty associated with the performance of execution options and the whole project. • Third, an advanced multi objective optimization model is developed utilizing a self-developed optimization tool having the following capabilities: 1. …”
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Parallel competing algorithms in global optimization

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Parallel competing algorithms in global optimization

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Development of a test suite for single object tracking algorithms in video by Donnelly, Kieran

“…Ten performance metrics were adapted from multi-object to single-object tracking. Nine tracking algorithms were then run on each of the 18 test video clips at varying resolutions to produce 375 tracking observations for analysis. …”
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Development of processing schemes for high-value utilization of pumpkin by-products by Chifomboti, Lindah Phambala

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Aspects of multi-class nearest hypersphere classification by Coetzer, Frances

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Optimized Security-aware VM placement algorithm

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Using metaheuristics with the ranking and selection indifference-zone procedure MMY in problems with many objectives by Prinsloo, Trudie

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