Meet the editors

Muhammad Sarfraz is a professor in the Department of Information Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait. His research interests include optimization, computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, soft computing, data science, and intelligent systems. Prof. Sarfraz has been a keynote/invited speaker at various platforms around the globe. He has advised/supervised more than 110 students for

their MSc and Ph.D. theses. He has published more than 400 publications, including books, journal articles, and conference papers. His publications include around seventy books as author and editor. Prof. Sarfraz is a member of various professional societies. He is the chair and a member of the international advisory committees and organizing committees of various international conferences. He is also editor in chief and editor for various international journals.

Samsul Ariffin Abdul Karim is a senior lecturer at the Fundamental and Applied Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He has been in the department for more than ten years. He obtained his BAppSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics and Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He has twenty years of experience using Mathematica and MATLAB

software for teaching and research activities. His research interests include curves and surfaces designing, geometric modeling, and wavelets applications in image compression and statistics. He has published more than 140 papers in journals and conferences as well as seven books, including two research monographs and three edited conference volumes, and thirty book chapters. He was the recipient of the Effective Education Delivery Award and Publication Award (Journal & Conference Paper), UTP Quality Day 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively. He is a Certified WOLFRAM Technology Associate, Mathematica Student Level.

Contents

for Grzegorz Shaft Sinking

*by Paweł Kamiński*

Tune Technique

*and Joichi Kusano*

*and Hossein Alaei*

*and Subhra Mullick*

for EDM Process

*and Maryam Mohd. Isa*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 95**

**Chapter 7 119**

**Chapter 8 137**

Optimization Directions for Monitoring of Ground Freezing Process

A Novel PID Robotic for Speed Controller Using Optimization Based

*by Falih Salih Mahdi Alkhafaji, Wan Zuha Wan Hasan, Nasri Sulaiman* 

Highway PC Bridge Inspection by 3.95 MeV X-Ray/Neutron Source *by Mitsuru Uesaka, Katsuhiro Dobashi, Yuki Mitsuya, Jian Yang* 

A Survey on Weapon Target Allocation Models and Applications

*by Abdolreza Asadi Ghanbari, Mousa Mohammadnia, S. Abbas Sadatinejad* 

A Review on Advanced Manufacturing Techniques and Their Applications

Stress-Strain Relationship: Postulated Concept to Understand Genetic

*by Umesh Prasad Verma, Madhurendra Narain Sinha, Pushan Kumar Dutta* 

Nature Inspired Metaheuristic Approach for Best Tool Work Combination

Incremental Linear Switched Reluctance Actuator

*by Aymen Lachheb and Lilia El Amraoui*

*by Anand J. Patel and Gülenay A. Kilic*

Mechanism Associated with a Seismic Event

*by Goutam Kumar Bose and Pritam Pain*
