scholarly journals APPLYING AN INTEGRATED ROUTE OPTIMIZATION METHOD AS A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF WASTE COLLECTION

2016 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W1 ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Salleh ◽  
M. S. S. Ahamad ◽  
M. S. Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Route Optimization ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Route Problem ◽  
Budget Control ◽  
The Common ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Common Understanding

Solid waste management (SWM) is very subjective to budget control where the utmost expenses are devoted to the waste collection’s travel route. The common understanding of the travel route in SWM is that shorter route is cheaper. However, in reality it is not necessarily true as the SWM compactor truck is affected by various aspects which leads to higher fuel consumption. Thus, this ongoing research introduces a solution to the problem using multiple criteria route optimization process integrated with AHP/GIS as its main analysis tools. With the criteria obtained from the idea that leads to higher fuel consumption based on road factors, road networks and human factors. The weightage of criteria is obtained from the combination of AHP with the distance of multiple shortest routes obtained from GIS. A solution of most optimum routes is achievable and comparative analysis with the currently used route by the SWM compactor truck can be compared. It is expected that the decision model will be able to solve the global and local travel route problem in MSW.

Research and Application of Genetic Algorithm in Material Handling Route for Assembly Line of Airbag

2011 ◽  
Vol 299-300 ◽  
pp. 1217-1220
Author(s):  
Jian Ye Wan ◽  
Xin Jiang ◽  
Yun Peng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Route Optimization ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Production Logistics ◽  
Materials Handling ◽  
Route Problem

According to handling route of assembly line of airbag optimization problem, handling path planning mathematical model is established. Based on natural coding genetic algorithm, combining with JH company assembly line of airbag layout and the actual situation of material handling, using MATLAB software to realize the genetic algorithm, production logistics fields materials handling route problem in the optimization method is put forward. To solve production enterprise assembly line material handling route optimization problem, and has certain directive role.

scholarly journals Route optimization to increase energy efficiency and reduce fuel consumption of communal vehicles

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (suppl.) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nebojsa Jovicic ◽  
Goran Boskovic ◽  
Goran Vujic ◽  
Gordana Jovicic ◽  
Milan Despotovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Route Optimization ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Gps Technology ◽  
Increase Energy Efficiency ◽  
Shortest Distance ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Fuel Costs ◽  
The City

Collection and transportation within the system of solid waste management may account more than 60% of the overall budget, most of which is for fuel costs. Furthermore, municipal vehicles have great environmental impact through exhaust gases emissions. The aim of this research was to estimate the potential for reduction of fuel consumption and thus the emission of CO2 through the communal vehicles route optimization. General methodology for route optimization is also presented. For the area under study, detailed field experimental research in the City of Kragujevac was conducted. Using GIS and GPS technology, whole municipally infrastructure for waste collection was scanned and all paths of communal tracks was recorded and allocated in developed database. Based on experimental and numerical results, one typical municipal vehicle route was analyzed by using ArcGis software. The obtained result indicates 2700 km of possible savings per year concerning one communal vehicle. In addition, the most fuel-economical route was extracted and compared with the original route, and with the routes extracted from criterions concerning the traffic time and shortest distance. According to available information for the City of Kragujevac and the results from this study, it was estimated that the total savings could be 20% in costs and the associated emissions.

scholarly journals An Early European Critic of Hobbes’s De Corpore

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Clucas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Philosophical Underpinning ◽  
Scholastic Tradition

The Animadversiones in Elementorum Philosophiae by a little known Flemish scholar G. Moranus, published in Brussels in 1655 was an early European response to Hobbes’s De Corpore. Although it is has been referred to by various Hobbes scholars, such as Noel Malcolm, Doug Jesseph, and Alexander Bird it has been little studied. Previous scholarship has tended to focus on the mathematical criticisms of André Tacquet which Moranus included in the form of a letter in his volume. Moranus’s philosophical objections to Hobbes’s natural philosophy offer a fascinating picture of the critical reception of Hobbes’s work by a religious writer trained in the late Scholastic tradition. Moranus’s opening criticism clearly shows that he is unhappy with Hobbes’s exclusion of the divine and the immaterial from natural philosophy. He asks what authority Hobbes has for breaking with the common understanding of philosophy, as defined by Cicero ‘the knowledge of things human and divine’. He also offers natural philosophical and theological criticisms of Hobbes for overlooking the generation of things involved in the Creation. He also attacks the natural philosophical underpinning of Hobbes’s civil philosophy. In this paper I look at a number of philosophical topics which Moranus criticised in Hobbes’s work, including his mechanical psychology, his theory of imaginary space, his use of the concept of accidents, his blurring of the distinction between the human being and the animal, and his theories of motion. Moranus’s criticisms, which are a mixture of philosophical and theological objections, gives us some clear indications of what made Hobbes’ natural philosophy controversial amongst his contemporaries, and sheds new light on the early continental reception of Hobbes’s work.

Marriage and Sexual Relations in the New Testament World

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Loader
Keyword(s):  
Roman Society ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Social ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many ◽  
Marital Sex ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Common Understanding

After a brief overview of the social context and role of marriage and sexuality in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures, the chapter traces the impact of the Genesis creation narratives, positively and negatively, on how marriage and sexuality were seen both in the present and in depictions of hope for the future. Discussion of pre-marital sex, incest, intermarriage, polygyny, divorce, adultery, and passions follows. It then turns to Jesus’ reported response to divorce, arguing that the prohibition sayings should be read as assuming that sexual intercourse both effects permanent union and severs previous unions, thus making divorce after adultery mandatory, the common understanding and legal requirement in both Jewish and Greco-Roman society of the time. It concludes by noting both the positive appreciation of sex and marriage, grounded in belief that they are God’s creation, and the many dire warnings against sexual wrongdoing, including adulterous attitudes and uncontrolled passions.

scholarly journals Chances of education in the global world

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-55
Author(s):  
Serhiy Viktorovych Proleiev
Keyword(s):  
Personality Development ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Current State ◽  
Educational Task ◽  
The Common ◽  
Global World ◽  
Characteristic Trend ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Historical Nature

The article considers the challenge to the educational system, which arises from the sociocultural context and the conditions of the global world. The emphasis is on the cultural and historical nature of the emergence and development of the institution of education. The specifics of its current state consists in the transition from the state of "universal education" characteristic of the modern time to the localization of education in specialized groups and communities as a characteristic trend of global reality (the phenomenon of "educational archipelago"). In these conditions, school education receives a special purpose. It becomes a prerequisite for an individual’s ability to self-determination in a changing world devoid of objective unity. Accordingly, giftedness as a potential for personality development comes to the fore. The shortcomings of the common understanding of giftedness are analyzed, its relationship with the essence of man is shown. The meaning of giftedness as a negative and positive educational task is revealed. The most important result of the development of giftedness in the school is the discovery by the student of his vocation. In the form of a vocation, a person opens the semantic perspective of his life and determines the scenario of life in an adult state.

Image Enhancement with Improved Global and Local Visual Effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Adeel ◽  
Yinglei Song
Keyword(s):  
Objective Function ◽  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Visual Contrast ◽  
Global And Local

Background: In many applications of image processing, the enhancement of images is often a step necessary for their preprocessing. In general, for an enhanced image, the visual contrast as a whole and its refined local details are both crucial for achieving accurate results for subsequent classification or analysis. Objective: This paper proposes a new approach for image enhancement such that the global and local visual effects of an enhanced image can both be significantly improved. Methods: The approach utilizes the normalized incomplete Beta transform to map pixel intensities from an original image to its enhanced one. An objective function that consists of two parts is optimized to determine the parameters in the transform. One part of the objective function reflects the global visual effects in the enhanced image and the other one evaluates the enhanced visual effects on the most important local details in the original image. The optimization of the objective function is performed with an optimization technique based on the particle swarm optimization method. Results: Experimental results show that the approach is suitable for the automatic enhancement of images. Conclusion: The proposed approach can significantly improve both the global and visual contrasts of the image.

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