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Item Open Access Fast model predictive control and its application to energy management of hybrid electric vehicles(Intechopen, 2011-06-24) Fekri, Sajjad; Assadian, FrancisModern day automotive engineers are required, among other objectives, to maximize fuel economy and to sustain a reasonably responsive car (i.e. maintain driveability) while still meeting increasingly stringent emission constraints mandated by the government. Towards this end, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) have been introduced which typically combine two different sources of power, the traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) with one (or more) electric motors, mainly for optimising fuel efficiency and reducing Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and greenhouse gases (GHG) (Fuhs, 2008).Item Open Access A two-step optimisation method for dynamic weapon target assignment problem(Intechopen, 2013-01-30) Leboucher, Cédric; Shin, Hyo-Sang; Siarry, Patrick; Chelouah, Rachid; Le Ménec, Stéphane; Tsourdos, AntoniosThe weapon target assignment (WTA) problem has been designed to match the Command & Control (C2) requirement in military context, of which the goal is to find an allocation plan enabling to treat a specific scenario in assigning available weapons to oncoming targets. The WTA always get into situation weapons defending an area or assets from an enemy aiming to destroy it. Because of the uniqueness of each situation, this problem must be solved in real-time and evolve accordingly to the aerial/ground situation. By the past, the WTA was solved by an operator taking all the decisions, but because of the complexity of the modern warfare, the resolution of the WTA in using the power of computation is inevitable to make possible the resolution in real time of very complex scenarii involving different type of targets. Nowadays, in most of the C2 this process is designed in order to be as a support for a human operator and in helping him in the decision making process. The operator will give its final green light to proceed the intervention.