LATEST ADVANCES in SYSTEMS SCIENCE and COMPUTATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering (ICOSSSE '12)
Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
(CIMMACS '12)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Integrated Systems and Management for Energy, Development, Environment
and Health (ISMAEDEH '12)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Systems, Control, Power, Robotics (SCOPORO '12)
Singapore City, Singapore May 11-13, 2012
Published by WSEAS Press ISBN: 978-1-61804-094-7
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LATEST ADVANCES in SYSTEMS SCIENCE and COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering (ICOSSSE '12)
Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on
Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (CIMMACS '12)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Integrated Systems and Management for Energy, Development, Environment and Health (ISMAEDEH '12)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Systems, Control, Power, Robotics (SCOPORO '12)
Singapore City, Singapore May 11-13, 2012
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World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society
LATEST ADVANCES in SYSTEMS SCIENCE and COMPUTATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering (ICOSSSE '12)
Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
(CIMMACS '12)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Integrated Systems and Management for Energy, Development, Environment
and Health (ISMAEDEH '12)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Systems, Control, Power, Robotics (SCOPORO '12)
Singapore City, Singapore
May 11-13, 2012
Editors:
Prof. Nikos E. Mastorakis, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Prof. Valeri Mladenov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Prof. Zoran Bojkovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
International Program Committee Members:
Joseph Sifakis, France Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA Leon O. Chua, USA K. R. Rao, USA M. Kostic, USA Alex Pentland, USA Ruzena Bajcsy, USA Perry Alexander, USA Donald Bagert, USA Jongmoon Baik, Korea Tony Cowling, UK Gregory Hislop, USA Tom Horton, USA Stan Jarzabek, Singapore Timothy Lethbridge, Canada Hareton Leung, Hong Kong Michael Lutz, USA
Jim McDonald, USA Ana Moreno, Spain Shin Nakajima, Japan J. Barrie Thompson, UK Brian von Konsky, Australia A. Venetsanopoulos, Canada K. Benra, GERMANY S. Sohrab, USA
Prof.Adrijan Baric, Croatia Nadjib ACHIR, France Lionel M. Ni, Hong Kong Byrav Ramamurthy, USA Qian Zhang, Hong Kong Jiangchuan Liu, Canada Pedro Ruiz, Spain Guohong Cao, USA Sajal Das, USA
Xiaohua Jia, Hong Kong Ivan Stojmenovic, Canada Avinash Srinivasan, USA Xinbing Wang, China Weiyi Zhang, USA Yanmin Zhu, China Berna Örs Yalçin, Turkey Christer Svensson, Sweden Diego Vazquez García, Spain Dominique Dallet, France Edoardo Charbon, Switzerland Emanuel Popovici, Ireland Eric Kerherve, France Eric Tournier, France Francesco Centurelli, Italy Gaetano Palumbo, Italy
Antonio J. Acosta Jimenez, Spain Antonio Lopez-Martin, Spain
Antonio Rubio, Spain Atanas Gotchev, Finland Gianluca Setti, Italy Günhan Dündar, Turkey Hakan Kuntman, Turkey José Luis Ausín, Spain Jose Silva-Martinez, USA Juha Yli-Kaakinen, Finland Lars-Erik Wernersson, Sweden Marco Gilli, Italy
Mario Biey, Italy Massimo Alioto, Italy Dimitri Bertsekas, USA Gerhard P. Fettweis, Germany Borivoje Nikolic, USA
R. Bogdan Staszewski, The Netherlands Markku Renfors, Finland
Biswa N. Datta, USA Irwin Sandberg, USA P. Pardalos, USA A. Manikas, UK
Wasfy B. Mikhael, USA Massimo Conti, Italy Mikko Valkama, Finland Ming-Dou Ker, Taiwan Moncef Gabbouj, Finland Olli Vainio, Finland Orla Feely, Ireland B. Ciciani, Italy David Bader, USA Terry Braun, USA David E. Breen, USA T. Kaczorek, POLAND Wlodzislaw Duch, POLAND Sidney Burrus, USA
Leonid G. Kazovsky, USA Georgios B. Giannakis, USA Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, USA Brian A. Barsky, USA Tara ALI-YAHIYA, France Akos Zarandy, Hungary Ana Rusu, Sweden Guy Pujolle, France Michel Riguidel, France
Angel Rodríguez-Vázquez, Spain Jussi Ryynänen, Finland
Lars Svensson, Sweden Ryszard S. Choras, POLAND Jae Choi, USA
Min-Hyung Choi, USA
Edward J. Delp, USA
Ge Jin, USA
M. H. Kim, South Korea Sean Mooney, USA John Quackenbush, USA Daniel Rubin, USA Joel Saltz, USA Y. Shin, South Korea
Alexandros Stamatakis, Switzerland Ivona Brandic, Austria
Frédéric Desprez, France Simon Dobson, UK Ada Gavrilovska, USA Keith Jeffery, UK Dan Marinescu, USA Omer Rana, UK Ryan Riley, Qatar
Mikhail Smirnov, Germany Jerrerson Tan, Australia Albert Zomaya, Australia Houman Houmayun, USA Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Norway Fadi Kurdahi, USA
Walid Najjar, USA Salwa Nassar, Egypt Preeti R. Panda, India Calvin Ribbens, USA Rishad A Shafik, UK
Christos Papadopoulos, USA Mohamed Riduan Abid, Morocco Josephine Antoniou, Cyprus George Atia, USA
Ezedin Baraka, UAE Ossi Mokryn, Israel Andreas Pitsillides, Cyprus Kamil Sarac, USA
Abd-Elhamid Taha, Canada Zouheir Trabels, UAE Jong-Kook Kim, Korea Ishfaq Ahmad, USA
Yoongeun Choi, South Korea Youngsun Han, South Korea Alex Jones, USA
Sherif Khattab, Egypt
Hwangnam Kim, South Korea Israel Koren, USA
Sangheon Pack, South Korea Sanjay Ranka, USA
Sehyun Yang, South Korea Dakai Zhu, USA
Ophir Frieder, USA
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Italy Ranieri Baraglia, Italy Luca Becchetti, Italy Steve Beitzel, USA Roi Blanco, Spain Francesco Bonchi, Spain
Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Spain Rebecca Cathey, USA
Abdur Chowdhury, USA Fabio Crestani, Switzerland Debora Donato, USA Bin Gao, China Nazli Goharian, USA Gregory Grefenstette, France Stefano Leonardi, Italy Claudio Lucchese, Italy Salvatore Orlando, Italy Iadh Ounis, UK
Gabriella Pasi, Italy Raffaele Perego, Italy Diego Puppin, USA Greg Pfister, USA Nicola Tonellotto, Italy Rossano Venturini, Italy Wai Gen Yee, USA Jay Smith, USA
Chaker El Amrani, Morocco Shoukat Ali, Ireland
Othmane Bouhali, Qatar Luis D. Briceno, USA Florian Feldhaus, Germany Stefan Freitag, Germany Jaafar Gaber, France
Muthucumaru Maheswaran, Canada Tomás Fernández Pena, Spain Jerry Potter, USA
Francisco Fernández Rivera, Spain John Antonio, USA
Amr Bayoumi, Egypt Hazem Abbas, Egypt Juergen Becker, Germany Ali Elmorsy, UAE Kris Gaj, USA
Benedict Gaster, USA Reiner Hartenstein, Germany Volodymyr Kindratenko, USA José Nuñez-Yañez, UK Marco Platzner, Germany Viktor Prasanna, USA Sridhar Radhakrishnan, USA Mohamed Taher, Egypt Monte Tull, USA Vaidyanathan, USA Brian F. Veale, USA Jose Moreira, USA
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, USA Houda Benbrahim, Morocco Dalila Chiadmi, Morocco
Muhammad Elrabaa, Saudi Arabia Houda lamehamedi, USA
Gokul Kandiraju, USA
Hironori Kasahara, Japan
Emilio Luque, Spain
Ana Milanova, USA
Wolfgang Nagel, Germany
Liria Sato, Brazil Evan Speight, USA Carlos Varela, USA Wei-Jen Wang, Taiwan Lamia Yusuf, USA Ricky Kwok, China Moustafa Youssef, Egypt Nizar Al-Holou, USA Salah A. Aly, USA Yu Chen, USA Ahmed Hemly, USA Anura P. Jayasumana, USA Meilong Jiang, USA Ahmed Kamal, USA Zhen Kong, USA
Vincent K. N. Lau, China Wing Cheong Lau, China Xiaohui Lin, China
M. Yahya "Medy" Sanadidi, USA Chengwen Xing, China
Mohammed Younis, USA M. Coates, Canada A. Chronopoulos, USA C. Elks, USA
V. Ganesh, USA I. Gashi, UK A. Goldman, Brazil R. Guerraoui, Switzerland N. Hardavellas, USA H. Hellwagner, Austria B. Johnson, USA T. Kikuno, Japan C. Katsinis, USA Paavo Alku, Finland
Péter Szolgay Pázmány, Hungary Piotr Dudek, UK
Robert Bregovic, Finland Snorre Aunet, Norway Stanislaw Piestrak, France Svante Signell, Sweden Tor Sverre Lande, Norway Yichuang Sun, UK
Yong Lian, Singapore Yoshifumi Nishio, Japan D. Vijendra Babu, India
Natasa Pomazalova, Czech Republic Parthasarathy Subashini, India Sandeep Kumar, India
Donald Sofge, USA Additional Reviewers:
Al Emran Ismail Albert Lysko Alexandru Filip Alina Adriana Minea Álvaro Santos Amjad Mahmood
Anabela Gomes Andrea Piras Andreas Veglis Andrey Dmitriev Ankit Patel Antigona Trofor Antonios S. Andreatos Arvind Dhingra Aw Yoke Cheng Badea Ana-Cornelia
Balakrishnan Venkatalakshmi Belingher Daniel
Bhagwati Prasad C. Girija Navaneedhan
Calbureanu Popescu Madalina Xenia Catalin Ionut Silvestru
Catalin Popescu Champion Wijaya
Chandrasekaran Subramaniam Claudia-Georgeta Carstea Claudio Guarnaccia Daniela Litan Dario Assante David Vallejo Dhaval Vyas
Dr. Shaikh Abdul Hannan Dzenana Donko
Elena Zaitseva
Emmanuel Lopez-Neri F.G. Lupianez
Fernando Reinaldo Ribeiro Gabriel Badescu
Gabriela Mircea Gabriella Bognar Gillich Gilbert-Rainer Giovanni Aiello Guoxiang Liu Gyorodi Cornelia Hanmin Jung
Hsien-Lun Wong Alan Hugo Cruz-Suarez Hung-Jen Yang Igor Astrov Inácio Fonseca Ioan Susnea Jainshing Wu Jerzy Garus José A. Orosa José Metrôlho Julián Pucheta Jussi Koskinen Jyoti Mahajan K K Mishra Mishra Karthikeyan Jayaraman Katerina Hyniova Kei Eguchi
Kevin Kam Fung Yuen
Khin Wee Lai Klimis Ntalianis
Kostantinos Kalovrektis Lai Khin Wee
Ljubomir Lazic Lukas Melecky Mahdi Faraji Manuela Panoiu
Marcela Padilla-Guerrero Maria Bostenaru Dan Maria Wenisch Marida Dossena Marius Marcu Martin Skutil Masaji Tanaka
Maulahikmah Galinium Md. Jakir Hossen Md. Shamim Akhter Mehdi Shariatmadari Mihaela Dudita Mihaela Neamtu Mihai Timis Mihaiela Iliescu Mihail Negulescu Ming-Shen Jian Mohammad Al-Amri Mohammad Firoj Mithani Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab Monica Ciobanu
Montri Phothisonothai Muhammad Zakarya Muhammet Koksal Muntean Mihaela-Carmen Mustafa Yagimli
Mutamed Khatib
Naaji Antoanela Luciana Neha Srivastava
Nikhil Raj
Nor Fariza Mohd Nor Onintra Poobrasert Paulo Avila Pavel Varacha Pedro Nucci Perumal Pitchandi Philippe Fournier-Viger Poom Kumam
Radha Gupta Rajveer Mittal Rauno Pirinen Reza Sirjani Rocco Furferi Saad Alharbi Saad Bakkali Santosh Kalwar
Satish Kumar Duraiswamy Saw Chin Tan
Shiang-Yen Tan
Shu Dai
Sk. Sarif Hassan
Snezhana Georgieva Gocheva-Ilieva Stavros Ponis
Stoican Mirela Suzana Yusup Tseng Hsien-Wei Valery Vodovozov Vasile Paul Bresfelean Vipin Balyan
Wan Hussain Wan Ishak Yang Zhang
Yi-Chao Wu
Yilun Shang
Yulung Wu
Zamalia Mahmud
Zanariah Abdul Majid
Preface
This year the 11th WSEAS International Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering (ICOSSSE '12), the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (CIMMACS '12), the 1st International Conference on Integrated Systems and Management for Energy, Development, Environment and Health (ISMAEDEH '12) and the 1st International Conference on Systems, Control, Power, Robotics (SCOPORO '12) were held in Singapore City, Singapore, May 11-13, 2012. The conferences provided a platform to discuss systems theory, control systems, non-linear systems, 3D programming, intelligent machines, environment modeling, web-based simulation, graph theory, power systems, computational intelligence, materials chemistry, environmental management, strategic management, mathematical biology, biochemistry, genetics, bioengineering, alternative energy systems, hybrid systems etc. with participants from all over the world, both from academia and from industry.
Their success is reflected in the papers received, with participants coming from several countries, allowing a real multinational multicultural exchange of experiences and ideas.
The accepted papers of these conferences are published in this Book that will be sent to international indexes. They will be also available in the E-Library of the WSEAS. Extended versions of the best papers will be promoted to many Journals for further evaluation.
Conferences such as these can only succeed as a team effort, so the Editors want to thank the International Scientific Committee and the Reviewers for their excellent work in reviewing the papers as well as their invaluable input and advice.
The Editors
Table of Contents
Plenary Lecture 1: Learning Management and Web Mining 14
Imre J. Rudas, Peter Toth
Plenary Lecture 2: Multi-Input Control Systems in Biomedical Applications 16 Urszula Ledzewicz
Plenary Lecture 3: The Geometric Effect on the Evolution of a Long Bubble in a Circular Tube 17 Kuang-Yuan Kung
Plenary Lecture 4: Numerical Method in Optimization as a Multi-stage Decision Control System 18 B. S. Goh
Measuring Sustainable Development, Some Empirical Evidence from Australia Sustainable Indicators
19 Mahsa Faramarzi Asli, Seyed Majid Mofidi Shemirani
Numerical Method in Optimization as a Multi-stage Decision Control System 25 B. S. Goh
Optimal Control of Multi-input Systems for Cancer Chemotherapy 31 Urszula Ledzewicz, Heinz Schattler, Siamak Mahmoudian Dehkordi, Mostafa Reisi
Risk and Uncertainties of Physiological Processes Handled by the Fuzzy Implementation 37 Imre Rudas, Márta Takács, Edit Tóth Laufer
Numerical Simulation of Blood Flow in the System of Human Coronary Arteries with and without Bypass Graft
43 Buraskorn Nuntadilok, Benchawan Wiwatanapataphee, Meechoke Chuedoung, Thanongchai
Siriapisith
Symbolic Analysis of Maximizing Efficiency of Photovoltaic Power Generation Circuits 49 Eko Setiawan, Ichijo Hodaka, Yuta Yamamoto
Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Laminar Flow for CO2 and Microalgae Suspension in the HLTP
53 Ujjwal Kumar Deb, Kittisak Chayantrakom, Yongwimon Lenbury, Benchawan Wiwatanapataphee
Performance Improvement on Local Polynomial Periodogram 59
Shan Luo, Guoan Bi
System Identification Approach to Diagnostics for Switching Circuits 64 Yuta Yamamoto, Ichijo Hodaka, Eko Setiawan
Effect of the Silo-Bottom Design on the Granular Behaviour during Discharging Process 68 Wariam Chuayjan, Pichit Boonkrong, Benchawan Wiwatanapataphee
Coexistence for a Stage-Structured Predator Sharing a Prey 74
Suwicha Boonrangsiman, Kornkanok Bunwong
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Programming ABB Industrial Robot for an Accurate Handwriting 80 Abigo Izabo, Tarig Faisal Mahmud Iwan, H. M. A. A. Al-Assadi, Hanif Ramli
A New Neural - Active Force Control Architecture in High Precision SCARA System 86 Hanif Ramli, Azmi Patar, H. M. A. A. Al-Assadi, M. A. Ayub
Web Mining Usage and Quality Assurance 91
Imre J. Rudas, Peter Toth
Finite Element Method Analysis of an Electric Field in Wire-Cylinder Electrode Configuration during Corona Discharge
97 K. Kantouna, L. Ekonomou, G. P. Fotis, G. E. Chatzarakis
Neural Network Modeling for Fiberboard Properties Prediction 104 Faridah Sh. Ismail, Nordin Abu Bakar
Fast and Robust Video Copy Detection Schemes Based On Video Signature 109 Cherry Aly, M. Waleed Fakhr
Enhanced Generalized Reduced Gradient Method for Optimal Embedded Generation Planning 115 M. F. Alhajri, M. R. Alrashidi, T. S. Almoneef
Emotional Chaotic Cuckoo Search for the Reconstruction of Chaotic Dynamics 123 Jiann-Horng Lin, I-Ho Lee
Comparison of Feature Selection and Classification Algorithms for Restaurant Dataset Classification
129 Komkid Chatcharaporn, Narodom Kittidachanupap, Kittisak Kerdprasop, Nittaya Kerdprasop
Association Rule Discovery with Constraint Logic Programming 135 Phaichayon Kongchai, Nittaya Kerdprasop, Kittisak Kerdprasop
Classification Model Induction Based on User Preferences 141
Fonthip Koongaew, Nittaya Kerdprasop, Kittisak Kerdprasop
A Multi-threading in Prolog to Implement K-means Clustering 147
Surasith Taokok, Prach Pongpanich, Nittaya Kerdprasop, Kittisak Kerdprasop
Product Recommendation System by Approximate Search Based on Manhattan Distance Measurement
153 Vasupon Phueaknumpol, Zagon Budsabong, Kittisak Kerdprasop, Nittaya Kerdprasop
Speedup K-means Using Rotation Based Transformation 159
Vitavat Vitayakailert, Nittata Kerdprasop, Kittisak Kerdprasop
Effects of Information Sharing on Vender Managed Inventory Operations with Varying Replenishing Strategies
165 Chao-Hua Chen, C.-L. Chiang
Simulation of Branching Hydrogen Bonding Network in Cadence 171
Elitsa Emilova Gieva, Rostislav Pavlov Rusev, George Vasilev Angelov, Tihomir Borisov Takov, Marin Hristov Hristov
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An Effective Detection Method of Serial Arc Fault on Low Voltage Power Circuits 177 Shu-Chen Wang, Chi-Jui Wu, Yi-Jie Wang
Harmonic Analysis and Mitigation of a Power System with Specially Connected Transformers 182 Chi-Jui Wu, Yao-Hung Chan
Tracking Performance of a 3D Articulated Mobile Manipulator Using Active Force Control 186 Shariman Abdullah, M. Mailah, Tang Howe Hing
Piezoelectric Actuated In-pipe Microrobot with P-type Iterative Learning Active Force Control 192 Yaser Sabzehmeidani, M. Mailah, Mohamed Hussein
Path Navigation for Mobile Robot in a Road Roundabout Setting 198 Mohammed A. H. Ali, M. Mailah, Tang Howe Hing
Identification and Control of a Piezoelectric Patch Actuator 204 Mohd Nazmin Maslan, M. Mailah, I. Z. M. Darus
Intelligent Active Force Controller for an Anti-lock Brake System Application 210 Mohammed H. Al-Mola, M. Mailah, A. H. Muhaimin, M. Y. Abdullah
Dengue Transmission Model with Age-Dependent Survival Rates in the Presence of Wolbachia Infection
216 Asep K. Supriatna
Air Quality Forecasting through Integrated Model Using Air Dispersion Model and Neural Network
219 P. Goyal, Anikender Kumar
Indoor Climate in Mechanically Ventilated School Building 225
Merje Rebane, Taivo Tuulik, Teet-Andrus Kõiv
Influence of Lean, Resilient and Green Practices on Supply Chain Sustainability 230 Susana G. Azevedo, V. Cruz–Machado
Standardization and Production of Sustainable Housing 236
Hafida Boulekbache Mazouz
An Investigation Of Portable Green Inner Wall For Self Build Remodelled House 240 N. M. Tawil, A. R. Musa, N. A. G. Abdullah, A. I. Che Ani, H. Basri, R. A. O. K. Rahmat
Authors Index 245
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Plenary Lecture 1
Learning Management and Web Mining
Professor Dr. Imre J. Rudas Rector of Obuda University, Hungary
rudas@uni-obuda.hu
Peter Toth PhD
Director of Trefort Ágoston Centre for Engineering Education
Obuda University, Hungary toth.peter@tmpk.uni-obuda.hu
Abstract: Data mining means database application in order to reveal latent connections within the data. Data mining is a multidisciplinary area uniting among other things the scientific fields of database management, statistics and artificial intelligence.
The question may arise as to how data mining or its special area, web mining is to contribute to the evaluation and further development of electronic syllabuses and learning environments. We wish to answer that question by connecting three models: ADDIE model for the development of virtual learning environments, Kirkpatrik’s learning evaluation model and the model updated for web mining of the widespread data mining CRISP-DM model, therefore creating an integrated model for electronic syllabus development, course management and quality assurance.
Student interaction data related to electronic syllabuses and learning objects stored in virtual courses are saved in the form of database on servers. In the course of data mining these databases are analyzed by algorithms found in different programs (descriptive data mining).
The primary object of the investigation was to discover by methods of web mining the most important parameters of the learning activity during the completion of virtual courses. Instead of the classic form of electronic distance learning, a combination of traditional classroom work and online or offline learning methods was used (blended learning).
In analyzing the learning activity, the examination of students’ click-series and the subsequent differentiation of student types and clusters were in the focus of attention. While the former shows what objects students visited in succession and how much time they spent processing them, the latter distinguishes between types of learning strategies. The examinations were performed at two levels, as macro and micro analyzes. The former one concentrated on learning objects whereas the latter one focused on individual web pages and their sequences.
As a result of the examination, the following aspects of learning management have been conceived:
- The formation of student communities via the application of collaborative and cooperative learning, parallel with the assurance of individual ways of learning
- The continuous involvement of students by the application of various forms of communication, the management and moderation of forum debates
- Learning management and the promotion of the creation of an adequate knowledge structure in consideration of different individual cognitive styles
- The application of a flexible syllabus structure and a varied types of media as required by the diversity of learning styles
- Assistance of the formation and development of self-regulating learning in students
- The advocation of the reproductive and productive application of the acquired material by a frequent allotment of tasks and problem situations
- The establishment of the relation with former skills (constructive pedagogical approach).
Brief Biography of the Speakers: Dr. Peter Toth Peter is a professor of Trefort Ágoston Centre for Engineering Education at Obuda University, Hungary where he is participating in technical initial teacher training and in-service training courses. Currently he is a director of the Centre.
He earned his MSc in Engineering Education at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Peter Toth has Ph.D degree in Educational Research from Eötvös Loránd University.
He plays leading role in planning, development and managing traditional and virtual engineering programs. Dr. Toth is doing research on pedagogy of virtual learning environment, improvement of problem-solving thinking and analyzing of spatial abilities in engineering education. His actual research area is analysis of students’ activities and behavior in virtual learning environment by web mining methods.
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He has been contributing in some European researches and projects on pedagogical aspects of e-learning and development of creativity and abilities of future engineers and teachers as well. He is member of Committee for Teacher Training of Hungarian Rectors’ Conference and secretary of Informatics Section of Pedagogical Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Toth has issued about 60 papers in several journals and conference proceedings.
Imre J. Rudas graduated from Bánki Donát Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971, received the Master Degree in Mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, the Ph.D. in Robotics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987, while the Doctor of Science degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He received his first Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia and the second one from
“Polytechnica” University of Timisoara, Romania.
He is active as a full university professor. He served as the Rector of Budapest Tech from August 1, 2003 for a period of four years, and was reelected for three years in 2007. From 2010 Budapest Tech is changed to Óbuda University and he was elected as the rector for five years.
He is a Fellow of IEEE, Senior Administrative Committee member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, member of Board of Governors of IEEE SMC Society, Chair of IEEE Hungary Section and Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering.
He is the treasurer of IFSA (International Fuzzy System Association), he had been the President of Hungarian Fuzzy Association for ten years.
He serves as an associate editor of some scientific journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, member of editorial board of Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, member of various national and international scientific committees. He is the founder of the IEEE International Conference Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES) and IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics (ICCC), and some international symposia. He has served as General Chairman and Program Chairman of numerous scientific international conferences.
His present areas of research activity are Computational Cybernetics, Robotics with special emphasis on Robot Control, Soft Computing, Computed-aided Process Planning, Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Sets. He has published books, more than 500 papers in books, various scientific journals and international conference proceedings. He received more than 750 citations for his publications.
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Plenary Lecture 2
Multi-Input Control Systems in Biomedical Applications
Professor Urszula Ledzewicz Distinguished Research Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois 62025, USA
Ε-mail: uledzew@siue.edu
Abstract: Cancer research has made tremendous progress in the past decades and new treatments are emerging.
Especially promising are combinations of traditional treatments like chemotherapy or radiotherapy with novels ones such as tumor anti-angiogenesis, an indirect cancer treatment approach that targets the vasculature of the tumor, or immunotherapy, which gives a boost to the immune system, in the hope of achieving synergistic effects. With novel approaches the underlying biological mechanisms are often not fully understood and several important questions such as how to best schedule these therapies over time still need to be answered. In clinical trials, because of the great complexity of the underlying medical problem, the scheduling of drugs is pursued in expensive, exhaustive, medically guided trial-and-error approaches. But these difficult scheduling questions are far from being answered, especially when more than one treatment is involved. Hence there exists a strong opportunity for mathematical modeling and analysis to be useful here.
The dynamics of the tumor growth and the interactions between cancer cells, healthy cells, immune system and the vasculature of the tumor can all be described as nonlinear systems with the actions of various drugs providing control inputs. In this talk, we shall present several systems describing these dynamical interactions between various types of cells under combination therapies for cancer. Starting with cell-cycle specific bilinear systems which allow the modeling of multiple drug treatments in chemotherapy, we then shall focus on dynamics given by nonlinear systems appearing in modeling of combinations of novel treatment with traditional treatments. The dimension of the systems increases if the pharmacokinetics of the therapeutic agents is taken into account.
Analyzing these systems as optimal control problems with the objective of minimizing the tumor volume, allows us to determine the form of the optimal controls representing drug protocols for these treatments. Both analytical and numerical results about the structures of optimal controls and corresponding responses of the system will be presented. Open questions and challenges will be discussed.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Urszula Ledzewicz holds a position of Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the USA. She has authored over 120 publications in refereed journals and refereed proceedings of international conferences. She is also the recipient of numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), other funding agencies as well as many university awards. Besides widely publishing, she serves as Associate Editor on editorial boards of 8 international professional journals including Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems and she edited several special issues of these journals. U. Ledzewicz’s research interests extend into the areas of optimal control theory, systems theory and their application to systems arising in biomedicine. Together with her collaborator, Heinz Schaettler of Washington University in St. Louis, she has analyzed various systems describing dynamics of cancer growth under both traditional and novel treatments. They provided new theoretical solutions for the most effective scheduling of these drugs. Their research crosses disciplinary boundaries to tackle large, real-life problems. U. Ledzewicz also puts a strong effort into disseminating her research.
She gave close to 150 presentations, including many plenary talks at the conferences and universities all over the world. Besides journal publications and presentations jointly with H. Schaettler they are working on two research monographs containing both the theory of optimal control and its applications to biomedical systems. Both books will be published by Springer Verlag in 2012.
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Plenary Lecture 3
The Geometric Effect on the Evolution of a Long Bubble in a Circular Tube
Professor Kuang-Yuan Kung
Nanya Institute of Technology Graduate School of Materials Applied Technology
Taoyuan, Taiwan R.O.C.
Ε-mail: kykoung@nanya.edu.tw
Abstract: In this paper, a long bubble elongates through a contraction tube followed by an expansion tube filled with viscoplastic fluids was studied experimentally and numerically. The effects of both tube geometry and fluid characteristics on the bubble profiles and fractional converge were evaluated.
In the experimental aspect, the bubble profiles and the fractional converge were obtained by image processing the photos captured with a high-speed camera. In the numerical analysis aspect, the continuity equation and momentum equation were converted to the equations in the form of streamline and vorticity. The differential equations were discretized with the finite difference method. Gauss-Seidel Iteration method with successive over-relaxation (SOR) were applied in the computation of the viscous fluid flows. The evolution of the bubble contour predicted by a conservative Level Set Method was applied to this study.
The results showed that the fractional converge of the fluid, the bubble profile and velocity changed due to the effects of the fluid viscosity, the gas the flow rate and the contraction/ expansion angle of the tube. The bubble profile, developing along the stream line, was changed by the effects of the inertia force, surface tension and capillary force, etc. The bubble profiles and the flow fields generated by numerical simulation were applied to explain the experimental observations. Both experimental observation and numerical simulation results were in the same trend. A good consistency was shown between our results and the related researches.
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Plenary Lecture 4
Numerical Method in Optimization as a Multi-stage Decision Control System
Professor B.S. Goh
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Email: goh2optimum@gmail.com
Abstract: The logical framework for a numerical method in optimization is as a multi-stage decision control system.
We have a sequence of closed search regions and decisions should be made within a typical local search region. A good model of this process is driving a car, where most of the time we need to drive towards a target, taking into account the general direction and the constraints at any time. In the final stages, we need new tactics to park the car, taking into account the new constraints. Thus, in the final stages when the local search region contains the optimal solution, we should use the Newton method or similar. With this new dynamic approach in a numerical method in optimization, as a multi-stage decision problem, we conclude that we should abandon the standard trust region method and the penalty function technique. In place of a trust region method, which uses a quadratic model at a current point, we replace it by an approximate greatest descent method which computes approximately a point, which is always on the boundary of the local search region, except in the final stages, when Newton iterations should be used. The trust region method is qualitatively incorrect because it constructs an iteration so that the outcome is inside or on the boundary of a typical local search region. In place of the penalty function technique, we replace it by a multiple objectives decision problem in a local search region. For an optimization problem with equality constraints, we replace the penalty function method by a scalarized multiple objectives problem over a typical local search region.
Typically, we seek to construct an iteration which generates a point on the boundary of a local search region so that the scalarized multiple objectives function is minimized. We only use the Newton method with Lagrange multipliers, when the optimal solution is inside the local search region. This new approach, using a multi-stage decision problem, simplifies the theory of numerical methods in optimization.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:B. S. Goh graduated from the Mathematics Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He studied for the PhD degree under the rocket pioneer D F Lawden. Singular control theory was motivated by the occurrence of singular control in rocket and aircraft trajectories. It has found wide applications in the development of the maximum sustainable policy for fisheries and other renewable resources, economics, mathematical models in cancer treatment, robotics etc. The Goh transformation developed in the mid- sixties is a well known technique for the study of singular control solutions and it was used by B S Goh to establish the Legendre-Clebsch-Goh conditions for singular control. Goh is the author of, Management and Analysis of Biological Populations, Elsevier Press, New York, 1980. This book describes the applications of optimal control theory and stability theory to fisheries management, pest control and renewable resources. Recently Goh has developed a new framework for numerical methods in optimization by defining them as control systems. This new framework simplifies the theory of numerical methods in optimization. He has worked in Australia, USA, China, Malaysia and Singapore.
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Authors Index
Abdullah, M. Y. 210
Dehkordi, S. M. 31
Mazouz, H. B. 236
Abdullah, N. A. G. 240
Ekonomou, L. 97
Muhaimin, A. H. 210
Abdullah, S. 186
Fakhr, M. W. 109
Musa, A. R. 240
Al-Assadi, H. M. A. A. 80, 86 Fotis, G. P. 97
Nuntadilok, B. 43
Alhajri, M. F. 115
Gieva, E. E. 171
Patar, A. 86
Ali, M. A. H. 198
Goh, B. S. 25
Phueaknumpol, V. 153
Al-Mola, M. H. 210
Goyal, P. 219
Pongpanich, P. 147
Almoneef, T. S. 115
Hing, T. H. 186, 198 Rahmat, R. A. O. K. 240
Alrashidi, M. R. 115
Hodaka, I. 49, 64 Ramli, H. 80, 86
Aly, C. 109
Hristov, M. H. 171
Rebane, M. 225
Angelov, G. V. 171
Hussein, M. 192
Reisi, M. 31
Ani, A. I. C. 240
Ismail, F. Sh. 104
Rudas, I. J. 37, 91
Asli, M. F. 19
Iwan, T. F. M. 80
Rusev, R. P. 171
Ayub, M. A. 86
Izabo, A. 80
Sabzehmeidani, Y. 192
Azevedo, S. G. 230
Kantouna, K. 97
Schattler, H. 31
Bakar, N. A. 104
Kerdprasop, K. 129, 135, 141 Setiawan, E. 49, 64 Basri, H. 240
Kerdprasop, K. 147, 153, 159 Shemirani, S. M. M. 19
Bi, G. 59
Kerdprasop, N. 129, 135, 141 Siriapisith, T. 43
Boonkrong, P. 68
Kerdprasop, N. 147, 153, 159 Supriatna, A. K. 216
Boonrangsiman, S. 74
Kittidachanupap, N. 129
Takács, M. 37
Budsabong, Z. 153
Kõiv, T.-A. 225
Takov, T. B. 171
Bunwong, K. 74
Kongchai, P. 135
Taokok, S. 147
Chan, Y.-H. 182
Koongaew, F. 141
Tawil, N. M. 240
Chatcharaporn, K. 129
Kumar, A. 219
Toth, P. 91
Chatzarakis, G. E. 97
Laufer, E. T. 37
Tuulik, T. 225
Chayantrakom, K. 53
Ledzewicz, U. 31
Vitayakailert, V. 159
Chen, C.-H. 165
Lee, I.-H. 123
Wang, S.-C. 177
Chiang, C.-L. 165
Lenbury, Y. 53
Wang, Y.-J. 177
Chuayjan, W. 68
Lin, J.-H. 123
Wiwatanapataphee, B. 43, 53, 68
Chuedoung, M. 43
Luo, S. 59
Wu, C.-J. 177, 182
Cruz–Machado, V. 230
Mailah, M. 186,192, 198 Yamamoto, Y. 49, 64
Darus, I. Z. M. 204
Mailah, M. 204, 210
Deb, U. K. 53
Maslan, M. N. 204
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