Iaeng Transactions on Engineering Technologies Volume 7

This volume contains revised and extended research articles by prominent researchers. Topics covered include operations research, scientific computing, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, communication systems, and industrial applications. The book offers the state-of-the-art advances in engineering technologies and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies. Contents:Hierarchical Multiobjective Stochastic Linear Programming Problems Based on the Fuzzy Decision (Hitoshi Yano and Kota Matsui)Nature-Inspired Algorithms of Bees, Firefly and Bat for Noisy Non-Linear Optimisation Problems (Narumon Chai-Ead, Pasura Aungkulanon and Pongchanun Luangpaiboon)Estimating the Difficulty of Exercises for Inactive Students in User-Based E-Learning (Tomoko Kashima and Shimpei Matsumoto)Nonlinear Wave Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Boundary Layer Flow (J C Chen and Weijia Chen)Impacts on Supply Chain Management and Its Flexibility Through Component Commonality and Postponement (N Altfeld, J Hinckeldeyn, J Kreutzfeldt and P Gust)Optimization of the Mean and Standard Deviation of Multiple Responses (Nuno Costa, João Lourenço and Zulema Lopes Pereira)Driving Aptitude Test for Personnel Decisions: A Case Study (Steve N H Tsang, K Chen and Alan H S Chan)Integration and Interoperability of B2B E-Commerce Model (Woon Kian Chong, Nan Zhang and Ka Lok Man)Swarm Intelligence Based Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks (Saeed Mehrjoo, Jamshid Shanbehzadeh and Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh)and other papers Readership: Professionals, academics and graduate students in industrial engineering, operations research, electrical & electronic engineering and computer engineering. Keywords:Industrial Engineering;Operations Research;Scientific Computing;Electrical Engineering;Communication Systems;Industrial Applications