Performance degradation assessment and prediction of hydraulic servo systems has attracted increasing attention in recent years. This study proposes a performance degradation assessment and prediction method based on mean ...

Identifying hazardous locations on highways is a fundamental step in safety improvement programs and projects since it provides decision makers with a basis for allocating budgets and other resources in a cost-effective ...

Today’s software systems demand increasing tremendously for sophisticated software engineering processes. However, there are a multitude of different development and each have various advantages and disadvantages, some of ...

This study implemented the hand gesture digit recognition function by using the Kinect motion sensor. This interactive motion-sensing technology was employed to track, record, and convert the trajectories of handwritten ...

Some practices arising in sport club industry include: (1) most sport clubs run their business by taking membership programs and divide their memberships into several distinct classes by applying restrictions, (2) they ...

To date, many vehicular ad hoc network unicast routing protocols have been proposed to support efficient packet transmission between vehicles in urban environments. However, when there is insufficient vehicle density during ...

The permutation flow shop problem (PFSP) has been applied to many types of problems. The PFSP is an NPhard permutation sequencing scheduling problem. A local search with simulated annealing scheme involving two phases is ...

The use of cold-formed steel for primary load bearing members in low and medium rise buildings has become an increasingly popular form of construction. The design of connections between these members is crucial to the ...