The aim of this paper is to present a strategy describing a hybrid approach for the navigation of a mobile robot in a partially known environment. The main idea is to combine between fuzzy logic approach suitable for the navigation in an unknown environment and spiking neural networks approach for solving the problem of navigation in a known environment. In the literature, many approaches exist for the navigation purpose, for solving separately the problem in both situations. Our idea is based on the fact that we consider a mixed environment, and try to exploit the known environment parts for improving the path and time of navigation between the starting point and the target. The Simulation results, which are shown on two simulated scenarios, indicate that the hybridization improves the performance of robot navigation with regard to path length and the time of navigation.

In this paper, an Evolutionary Optimized Neural Network (EONN) based control scheme is proposed. This control scheme is based on the fact that optimizing values of a few parameters of neural network can enhance its control performance. Radial Biased Neural Network (RBNN) is chosen here and PSO, one of the most emerging global optimizing techniques, is used to optimize the parameters of a RBNN. From hidden to output layer RBNN uses Gaussian function for mapping. Spread factor (s) of this intelligent RBNN is then optimized by a modified PSO to improvise its performance. The proposed controller has been verified by implementing it for position control of a robotic manipulator. For comparison purpose, proposed scheme has been verified with RBNN and the classical PD controller. MATLAB environment has been chosen for simulation study carried out. Robustness of the proposed controller has been checked by applying it to the manipulator for three different paths.

Photovoltaic generation is the technique which uses photovoltaic cell to convert solar energy to electric energy. Nowadays, PV generation is developing increasingly fast as a renewable energy source. However, the disadvantage is that PV generation is intermittent because it depends considerably on weather conditions.
This paper proposes an intelligent control method for the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of a photovoltaic system under variable temperature and solar irradiation conditions. In this paper, a simulation study of the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for a photovoltaic system using an artificial neural network is presented. The system simulation is elaborated by combining the models established of solar PV module and a DC/DC Boost converter. Finally performance comparison between artificial neural network controller and Perturb and Observe method has been carried out which has shown the effectiveness of artificial neural networks controller to draw much energy and fast response against change in working conditions.

Cloud systems are transforming the Information Technology trade by facultative the companies to provide admission to their structure and also software products to the membership foundation. Because of the vast range within the delivered Cloud solutions, from the customer’s perspective of an aspect, it's emerged as troublesome to decide whose providers they need to utilize and then what's the thought of his or her option. Especially, employing suitable metrics is vital in assessing practices. Nevertheless, to the most popular of our knowledge, there's no methodical explanation relating to metrics for estimating Cloud products and services. QoS (Quality of Service) metrics playing an important role in selecting Cloud providers and also optimizing resource utilization efficiency. While many reports have got to devote to exploitation QoS metrics, relatively not much equipment supports the remark and investigation of QoS metrics of Cloud programs. To guarantee a specialized product is published, describing metrics for assessing the QoS might be an essential necessity. So, this text suggests various QoS metrics for service vendors, especially thinking about the consumer’s worry. This article provides the metrics list may stand to help the future study and also assessment within the field of Cloud service's evaluation.

Distributed system development (DSD) is implemented by distributed development teams that are separated by long distances and different time-zones. Communication between distributed development teams in distributed software development applies a major and critical role in the success of process. Conflicts between distributed teams bring high risks to fail a development project due to poor communication. Therefore, it is important for distributed teams to communicate effectively to complete a successful project. In this paper, the authors propose an improved solution for effective communication among distributed development team by integrating administrative and technical procedures to successfully complete a project. Survey is used as a research design to validate the proposed solution. The results show that the respondents support the proposed solution that it will solve the industry problem by providing an effective means of communication in a DSD environment.

In this paper novel feature selection approach is used for the recognition of Devanagri handwritten numerals. The numeral images used for the experiments in the study are obtained from standard benchmarking data-set created by CVPR (ISI)Kolkata. The recognition algorithm consists of four basic steps; pre-processing, feature generation, feature subset selection and classification. Features are generated from the boundary of characters, utilizing the direction based histogram of segmented compartment of the character image. The feature selection algorithm is utilizing the concept of information theory and is based on maximum relevance minimum redundancy based objective function. The classification results are obtained for a single neural network based classifier as well as for the committee of Neural Network based classifiers. The paper reports an improvement in recognition result when decision combiner based committee is used along with class related feature selection approach.

Vague sets theory separates the evidences in favour and against of an element in a set which provides better mechanism to handle impreciseness and uncertainty. This research paper aims to handle the incompleteness and impreciseness of data associated with the disk access requests. Here, we propose a new disk scheduling algorithm, Vague Disk Scheduling (VDS) Algorithm, based on vague logic. The proposed framework includes Vague-Fuzzification Technique, Priority Expression, and VDS Algorithm. The Vague-Fuzzification Technique is applied to the input data of each disk access request and generates a priority for each request in the queue. Based on the priority allotted the requests are serviced. Finally work is evaluated on different datasets and finally compared with Fuzzy Disk Scheduling (FDS) Algorithm. The results prove that VDS algorithm performs better than FDS Algorithm.

Hybrid back propagation based genetic algorithm approach is a popular way to train neural networks for weather prediction. The major drawback of this method is that weather parameters were assumed to be independent of each other and their temporal relation with one another was not considered. So in the present research a modified time series based weather prediction model is proposed to eliminate the problems incurred in hybrid BP/GA technique. The results are very encouraging; the proposed temporal weather prediction model outperforms the previous models while performing for dynamic and chaotic weather conditions.

Vehicular communication is emerging as an important ingredient for successful implement of Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS). But the development of suitable communications systems plays an important role in mobility condition. The desired system should support dynamic wireless exchange of data between nearby vehicles or road side infrastructure. In this regards multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) system is possibly the best solution. This paper deals with the performance analysis of the MIMO OFDM system in Nakagami-m channel with Doppler shift and also partial hardware implementation of baseband signal processing.

Speech enhancement is a long standing problem with various applications like hearing aids, automatic recognition and coding of speech signals. Single channel speech enhancement technique is used for enhancement of the speech degraded by additive background noises. The background noise can have an adverse impact on our ability to converse without hindrance or smoothly in very noisy environments, such as busy streets, in a car or cockpit of an airplane. Such type of noises can affect quality and intelligibility of speech. This is a survey paper and its object is to provide an overview of speech enhancement algorithms so that enhance the noisy speech signal which is corrupted by additive noise. The algorithms are mainly based on statistical based approaches. Different estimators are compared. Challenges and Opportunities of speech enhancement are also discussed. This paper helps in choosing the best statistical based technique for speech enhancement.