ABSTRACT In this paper, an optimization method is proposed to improve the efficiency of a transmission equipped electric vehicle (EV) by optimizing gear shift strategy. The idea behind using a ...

Immigration is generally considered an option in genetic algorithms, but I have found immigration to be extremely useful in almost all situations where I use evolutionary optimization. The idea of ...

Some insurance firms challenged with a portfolio of high-variance risks face the classic trade-off between risk spreading and risk retaining. Using crop insurance as an example, a new solution to this ...