Foreword; Contents; Keynote; Variable Structure System and Its Applications; 1 Introduction; 2 Sliding Mode Control for Linear System; 2.1 Sliding Mode Design for a Linear System; 2.2 Sliding Mode Control; 2.3 Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control; 3 Direct Self-tuning Control for SISO System; 4 Modeling and Swing-Up of Furuta Pendulum; 4.1 Modeling of Furuta Pendulum by Projection; 5 Swing up Control of Pendulum; 5.1 Artificial Gravity Approach; 5.2 Nonlinear Control; 5.3 Nonlinear Sliding Mode Control; 6 Conclusion; References; Controlling Complex Dynamical Networks; Computational Mechanics.

3.1 High Velocity P/V Valve on Initial Opening (Case 1)3.2 High Velocity P/V Valve on Maximum Opening (Case 2); 3.3 Valve Oscillation Depending on Pressure Change (Case 3); 4 Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Finite Element Analysis on the Contact Stress of Class 600 Flange Joints; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Finite Element Analysis; 3 Results and Discussion; 4 Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; Computer Science; Accelerate SOMA Using Parallel Processing in GPGPU; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Mathematical Problem; 3 Optimization and Methods.

3.1 Method 1: Each Individual Has One Thread3.2 Method 2: Each Path Has One Thread with Shared Memory; 4 Experimental Results; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Comparison of Swarm and Evolutionary Based Algorithms for the Stabilization of Chaotic Oscillations; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Problem Design; 2.1 Chaotic System; 2.2 Nonlinear Oscillations Control Method; 2.3 Cost Function; 3 Used Metaheuristic; 3.1 Particle Swarm Optimizer -- PSO; 3.2 Differential Evolution; 4 Simulation Results; 4.1 Case Study 1; 4.2 Case Study 2; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References.

Implement a Modified Viscoplasticity Based on Overstress Model into Numerical Simulation of the Incremental Sheet Forming ProcessAbstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Modified Viscoplasticity Based on Overstress; 3 Implementing into FEM Software; 4 FEM Simulation and Practical Experiment; 5 Results and Discussion; 6 Conclusion; References; CFD Analysis of High Velocity P/V Valve Movement Depending on Pressure Change; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 High Velocity P/V Valve Movement; 2.1 Governing Equation of Valve Movement; 2.2 Mesh Deformation; 3 CFD Analysis for High Velocity P/V Valve.

Robust Optimization for Audio FingerPrint Hierarchy Searching on Massively Parallel with Multi-GPGPUs Using K-modes and LSH1 Introduction; 2 Basic Knowledge and Related Works; 2.1 Localitive Sensitive Hashing; 2.2 K-means and K-modes; 2.3 Related Work: Fast k-Nearest Neighbor Search Using GPU ; 3 Previous Work: Hierarchy Massively Parallel Searching; 3.1 Parallel Audio Fingerprint Searching using Single GPGPU; 3.2 Parallel Audio Fingerprint Searching using Multiple GPGPUs.

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