Control of Traffic Systems in Buildings (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

Part I: Transportation Systems.- Introduction.- Passenger Transportation Systems.- Cargo Transportation Systems.- External Connections and Related Systems.- Part II: Modeling and Simulation.- General Modeling Concepts.- Queuing Models.- Modeling Techniques for Discrete Event Systems.- Scheduling Models with Transportation.- Part III: Intelligent Control Methods for Transportation Systems.- Analytical and Heuristic Control of Transportation Systems.- Adaptive Control by Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning.- Genetic Algorithms for Control System Optimization.- Control Systems by Evolutionary Strategies and Particle Swarm Optimization.- Intelligent Control by Combinatorial Optimization.- Part IV: Topics in Modern Control for Transportation Systems.- The 'S-ring': A Transportation System Model for Benchmarking.- Elevator Group Control by Neural Networks and Stochastic Approximation.- Optimal Control by Evolutionary Strategies and Particle Swarm Optimisation.- AGVs and Elevators in High-rise Buildings.- Optimal Control of Multi-car Elevator Systems by Genetic Algorithms.- Analysis and Optimization for Automated Vehicle Routing on Single Loop.- Tabu-based Optimization for Input/Output Scheduling in a Single Warehouse.- Program Listings.