calculus and optimization techniques

... Singapore) Vol 1: Multi-Objective Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering ed: Gade Pandu Rangaiah Vol 2: Stochastic Global Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical ... world In addition, optimization is useful in understanding and modeling physical phenomena and processes Without the use of sophisticated optimization techniques, chemical and other manufacturing ... processes and manufacturing In view of its importance and usefulness, optimization has attracted the interest of chemical engineers and researchers in both industry and academia, and these engineers and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:36

... mean and variance of demand are known Roels and Perakis [96] generalized this model to incorporate additional moments and information on the shape of the demand On the other hand, if the demand ... 81 4.4.1 Randomly Generated Instances 83 4.4.2 Instances from Billionnet and Elloumi [25] and Pardalos and Rodgers [95] Conclusions and Future Work ... when µ = randn(N, 1), σ = 62 rand(N, 1) 4.2 85 Gap and CPU time for different parameters u when µ = randn(N, 1), σ = 85 4.3 Gap and CPU...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:29

... (AI) techniques have been widely used to solve optimization problems which are not easy to handle by conventional optimization approaches Recently, techniques such as genetic algorithm (GA), and ... optimized This puts a high demand on optimization methods When existing AI based optimization techniques such as the GA and SA are utilized, the high problem dimension and large search space may ... my life and thank my bothers, Cen Lei and Cen Weidong, my sister Cen Wei for their care, encouragement and love I also would like to thank my husband, Liu Ming for his encouragement and accompanying...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:10

... Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent Optimization Techniques Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck Fl Luigi Carro Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent Optimization Techniques Automatic ... dynamic optimization techniques Therefore, binary Translation and different types of reuse, with several examples, are evaluated Finally, works that combine both reconfigurable systems and dynamic techniques ... for her understanding and support To Antônio and Léia, for the continuous encouragement To Ulisses, may his journey be full of joy To Érika, for all our moments To Cesare, Esther and Beti, for...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2016, 11:22

... useful only for positive operands The standard library functions div and ldiv take two integers or long integers and return the quotient and remainder in the quot and rem fields of a structure ... advanced C programming techniques, such as opaque pointers and pointers to pointers, and thus serve as nontrivial examples of those techniques, which are useful in systems programming and data structure ... effort, and they almost always become converts to interface-based design C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2013, 22:04

... (1) where mn, µn, and krn are the mobility, viscosity, and relative permeability of the non-wetting phase (CO2) respectively and mw, µw, and krw are the mobility, viscosity, and relative permeability ... (Zhang and Agarwal, 2012) It is designated as GA-TOUGH2, and has been validated by conducting several benchmark studies [3, 4] In this paper, we consider the optimization of two engineering techniques ... previous research, we successfully developed an optimization module for TOUGH2 using a genetic algorithm (GA) GA belongs to a class of optimization techniques that are inspired by the biological...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... “skull” and click OK Save and close your skull file Return to your gas mask file and define this image as a Brush preset too, by using the same Edit menu command Name this preset “mask” and click ... on your black stencil art Next, target your background layer and select the Magic Wand tool Add light and dark areas Adding light and dark areas within your stencil art helps to create a genuine ... Layers palette and select the Brush tool Press “d” to set the foreground color to black and then paint within the selection here and there on the new layer Alter brush opacity and diameter as...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 20:15

... Layers palette and use the Magic Wand to select her face, neck, and hand regions that are surrounded by black outlines Leave the selection active and then target the underlying layer Expand the selection ... foreground color and fill the active selection with it Deselect and target the black layer again Use the Magic Wand to select her hair highlights Return to the underlying layer and expand the selection ... Control(PC)/Command(Mac)-g to group them Expand the group and Control(PC)/ Command(Mac)-click the bottom layer to load a selection from the layer’s contents Target the group and then click on...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 11:15

... illustration, using different resource files and a different position on the canvas Use the hand.jpg and hand-thermal.jpg files for your first two channels and subsequent layers Then follow the process ... Creative Techniques and Working Methods Virtual scissors and glue In order to get that authentic cut -and- paste look, you have to take a very simplistic approach to isolating elements and compositing ... head Open up the band.jpg file and use the Polygonal Lasso tool to draw a polygonal selection around one of the band members Control(PC)/ Command(Mac)-click inside the selection and drag the contents...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 11:15

... the layer to multiply and move it down and to the right with the Move tool Duplicate this layer and then move it up and to the left a little And finally, duplicate this layer and use FreeTransform ... background, select all by typing Control(PC)/Command(Mac)-A and copy by typing Control(PC)/Command(Mac)-C 17 Return to your working file and type Control(PC)/Command(Mac)-V to paste the copied art into ... copy, and then paste the copied art into the working file as a new layer Select the Magic Wand tool and this time, disable the Contiguous option Leave all other Magic Wand settings as they were and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 10:15

... Control(PC)/Command(Mac)-A and copy by typing Control(PC)/Command(Mac)-C Return to your working file and, with the selection still active, paste into the active selection by typing Control(PC)/ Command(Mac)-Shift-V ... SelectϾModifyϾExpand from the menu and expand the selection by pixel If your current background color is not set to black, press the “d” key After expanding, type Control(PC)/Command(Mac)-Delete ... Real World Photoshop What you’ll learn in this chapter Creative Techniques and Working Methods Prior planning and observation Planning and forethought is an integral part of the creative process...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 10:15

... the corners and midpoint handles of the bounding box to increase the eye in size and alter the proportion so that it is larger and wider than the original Press Enter on the keyboard and then repeat ... your imagery as well as work with color and texture, layer stacking and duplication is essentially the nuts and bolts of what we’re doing here Visualization and implementation Apart from the instructional ... white, click and drag to unmask areas of the layer, blending them back into visibility The key to successful masking is to add and remove as needed, drawing gradients and switching back and forth...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 17:15

... adding details and signs of age to the right side of her face Work on the nose area, and add more pores and wrinkles Build up masked layers and remember to use color range, multiply, and the darken ... gradient opacity to 25% and then, while holding down the Shift key, click and drag from the top of the canvas down a little Do this from the bottom up, and then in from the left and right sides so ... channel set to CMYK and drag the left and right input level sliders closer to the center of the histogram Then select the black channel and perform a similar adjustment Click OK and target the adjustment...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 17:15

... matter, 38 subtracting and combining, 27 third character, 33–34 tongue and forehead, 29 tool choice tip, 25 tools and techniques, 22 unique characters, 39 for color, 210–212 and drawings, 293 dry ... darken and Load the path as a selection and then open up the background.psd file again Use the Rectangular Marquee to select a section of the painting and copy it Return to your working file and ... refinement, 363–364 soft focus, 362 surrealism project, 399 tone and color, 360 tools and techniques, 356 Airbrush option, 48, 52 Airbrush techniques, 42 Alien creature, 34, 36, 217 Align Horizontal...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 12:15

... matter, 38 subtracting and combining, 27 third character, 33–34 tongue and forehead, 29 tool choice tip, 25 tools and techniques, 22 unique characters, 39 for color, 210–212 and drawings, 293 dry ... darken and Load the path as a selection and then open up the background.psd file again Use the Rectangular Marquee to select a section of the painting and copy it Return to your working file and ... refinement, 363–364 soft focus, 362 surrealism project, 399 tone and color, 360 tools and techniques, 356 Airbrush option, 48, 52 Airbrush techniques, 42 Alien creature, 34, 36, 217 Align Horizontal...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 12:15

... V1H  and X1T  = V1T  into the two equations implicit in (1.10) The solution of these equations for
0 and V0 is the same as the solution of (1.3) and (1.4), and results again in (1.6) and ... Example 1.1, where S0 = 4, u = and d = Then S0, S1 , S2 and S3 are all random variables For example, S2HHT  = u2 S0 = 16 The “random variable” S0 is really not random, since S0! = for all ... function mapping into IR, and thus technically a random variable, albeit a degenerate one A random variable maps into IR, and we can look at the preimage under the random variable of sets in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 19:15

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Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:15

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Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:15

... functions such as sin, cos and tan; their reciprocals sec, cosec and cot; and exp and log 5.4 Proposition Let f and g be differentiable at a, and let k be a constant Then k.f , f + g and f g are differentiable ... f and g are functions and k is a constant, then k.f , f + g, f g and (often) f /g are also functions 4.16 Proposition Let f and g be continuous at a, and let k be a constant Then k.f , f + g and ... left and right hand limits agree (and disagree with f (2), so f is not continuous at 2) Note our convention: if f (x) → and always f (x) ≥ as x → 2−, we say that f (x) tends to from above, and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 04:15