Sio-iong Ao & Alan Hoi-shou Chan 
IAENG TRANSACT ENG SCI 2016 
Special Issue for the International Association of Engineers Conferences 2016

Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 16–18, 2016, under the International Multi Conference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2016), and in London, UK, 29 June – 1 July, 2016, under the World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2016) respectively. This volume contains 21 revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conferences. Topics covered include engineering mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, and industrial applications. The book offers state-of-the-art advances in engineering sciences and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering sciences.

• An Application of the Change-Point Estimation for the Poisson Distribution (D Ghorbanzadeh, Ph Durand and Luan Jaupi)


• Mixed Interal Equations and Their Application to Mechanics (A V Manzhirov)


• Solving for Analytical Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Model Equations Using He’s Polynomials Approach (S O Edeki, G O Akinlabi and M E Adeosun)


• A General Purpose Probabilistic Inference Engine (Feng-Jen Yang)


• Construction of Analytical Solutions to the Black-Scholes Option Valuation Model by Means of He’s Polynomials Technique (S O Edeki, O O Ugbebor and E A Owoloko)


• A Collaborative Software Developing Method by Mimicking Army Ant Altruism Behaviors (T Ichimura, T Uemoto and S Kamada)


• A Reinforcement Learning with Collective Actions for Generating a Marshaling Plan of Freight Train (Y Hirashima)


• Landslide Hazard Zonation Using Unsupervised Artificial Neural Networks (M A Dela Cerna)


• Effective Learning Algorithm for Fuzzy Inference Systems Using Neural Gas Network (Hirofumi Miyajima, Noritaka Shigei and Hiromi Miyajima)


• Road Usage Recovery in Miyagi Prefecture Following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake (Noriaki Endo)


• Scheduling Algorithm Based on GA for Tasks with Time Constraints (M Yoo and T Yokoyama)


• A Comparative Theoretical and Benchmarking Evaluation of Modern Operating System Kernels (Stergios Papadimitriou and Lefteris Moussiades)


• Enhanced Efficiency of Large Wind Power Generator Applications Using Power Factor Controller Mechanism (J K Obichere and M G Jovanovic)


• Wireless Structural Health Monitoring System by Capacitor Sensing Technique (A H M Zahirul Alam, Nurul Arfah Che Mustapha, Noor Syamira Asyiqin Amir Hassan, MD Rafiqul Islam, Sheroz Khan, Amelia Wong Azman and Muhammad Abu Eusuf)


• Automated Vermicast Production with Android Application (Mary Anne A Macabuhay, MA Teresa R Abellera and Adel E Ticsay)


• Extended Research on Prefilter Bandwidth Effects in Asynchronous Sequential Symbol Synchronizers Based on Pulse Comparison by Positive Transitions at Quarter Bit Rate (Antonio D Reis, Jose F Rocha, Atilio S Gameiro and Jose P Carvalho)


• Senti-SCRM: Sentiment Intelligence Based Social Customer Relationship Management Tool (Akshi Kumar and Vikrant Dabas)


• The Role of Tablet PC Towards Students‘ Learning in Higher Education (H K Yau, Y F Leung and C Y Yeung)


• The Latest Developments in Virtual Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems (Son Duy Dao, Kazem Abhary and Romeo Marian)


• An Improvement of Human Reliability Analyses Through the Inclusion of Operator Analysis (P A Baziuk, J NúñEz MC Leod and R Calvo Olivares and S S Rivera)


• Modeling Smart Impeller Actuated by Ni Ti Shape Memory Alloys (K O Sanusi, G F Fuhnwi and O L Ayodele)