It is safe to say that every invention that has changed the world has depended on materials.
At present, the demand for the development of materials and the invention or design of new …

Since permanent magnet direct current (DC) motors are mainly used in various industrial
automation applications, the demand for electric motors is increasing rapidly. However, in …

Cuckoo search (CS) is one of the well-known evolutionary techniques in global optimization.
Despite its efficiency and wide use, CS suffers from premature convergence and poor …

Protein–ligand docking is an essential step in modern drug discovery process. The
challenge here is to accurately predict and efficiently optimize the position and orientation of …

Abstract The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a complex retrovirus that progressively
deteriorates the immune system of infected patients, eventually causing death. Although …

Introduction to Nature-Inspired Optimization brings together many of the innovative
mathematical methods for non-linear optimization that have their origins in the way various …

State-of-charge estimation is an essential part of a battery management system. Charging
and discharging batteries involve complex chemical processes that could lead to undesired …

Multiblock polymers are a fascinating class of soft materials owing to their spontaneous self-
assembly into a variety of ordered mesophases at the nanoscale. However, controlling the …

Soft matter with diverse functionalities that are easily designable has fascinated tremendous
research interests in the past several decades. Nevertheless, the inherent confluence of time …

Abstract Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) may be defined as Recurrent Neural Networks that
allow causal reasoning. According to the transformation function used for updating the …