dr Raka Jovanović

Contact:

        rakabog@yahoo.com

 

 Journals:

  1. An Efficient Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Blocks Relocation Problem, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Stefan Voss, European Journal of Operational Research (2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.09.038 (draft)
  2. Optimizing Truck Visits to Container Terminals with Consideration of Multiple Drays of Individual Drivers, Jovanovic R., Journal of Optimization. 2018;2018.
  3. A GRASP approach for solving the Blocks Relocation Problem with Stowage Plan, Jovanovic R, Tanaka S, Nishi T, Voß S. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal. 2018:1-28.(draft)
  4. A hierarchical optimization model for a network of electric vehicle charging stations. Kong C, Jovanovic R, Bayram IS, Devetsikiotis M., Energies. 2017 May 11;10(5):675.
  5. A heuristic approach for dividing graphs into bi-connected components with a size constraint,  Raka Jovanovic, Tatsushi Nishi, Stefan Voß, Journal of Heuristics, DOI: 10.1007/s10732-017-9331-3 (2017) (draft)
  6. Residential Demand Response Scheduling with Consideration of Consumer Preferences, Raka Jovanovic , Abdelkader Bousselham and Islam Safak Bayram, Applied Sciences (Special Issue Smart Grid: Convergence and Interoperability) Vol. 6(16) (2016).
  7. On the divergence of gradient expansions for kinetic energy functionals in the potential functional theory, Alexey Sergeev, Raka Jovanovic, Sabre Kais and Fahhad H Alharbi, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol. 49, No. 285202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/49/28/285202  (2016)
  8. An ant colony optimization algorithm for partitioning graphs with supply and demand, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Stefan Voß, Applied Soft Computing DOI:10.1016/j.asoc.2016.01.013, (2016) (draft)
  9. Cuckoo Search Inspired Hybridization of the Nelder- Mead Simplex Algorithm Applied to Optimization of Photovoltaic Cells, Raka Jovanovic, Sabre Kais, Fahhad H Alharbi,  Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 961-973, (2016)
  10. Correction to kinetic energy density functional using exactly solvable model, Alexey Sergeev, Raka Jovanovic, Sabre Kais and Fahhad H Alharbi, Physica Scripta,   Vol. 90, No. 12 (2015) 125401(draft)
  11. PV panel single and double diode models: Optimization of the parameters and temperature dependence, Nicolas Barth, Raka Jovanovic, Said Ahzi, Mohammad A. Khaleel, Solar Energy Materials and Solar  Cells (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.09.003 (draft)
  12. A mixed integer program for partitioning graphs with supply and demand emphasizing sparse graphs, Raka Jovanovic, Stefan Voß, Optimziation Letters (2015), DOI: 10.1007/s11590-015-0972-6

13.                        Partitioning of Supply/Demand Graphs with  Capacity Limitations - An Ant Colony Approach, Raka Jovanovic, Abdelkader Bousselham, Stefan Voß, Journal of Combinatorial Optimzation (2015),  DOI: 10.1007/s10878-015-9945-z

14.                        A Heuristic Method for Solving the Problem of Partitioning Graphs With Supply and Demand, Raka Jovanovic, Abdelkader Bousselham, Stefan Voß, Annals of Operations Research (2015) DOI: 10.1007/s10479-015-1930-5

15.                        A Multi-Heuristic Approach for Solving The Pre-Marshalling Problem, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Stefan Voß, Central European Journal of Operations Research (2015), DOI: 10.1007/s10100-015-0410-y

16.                        Spectral Method for Solving the Nonlinear Thomas-Fermi Equation Based on Exponential Functions, Raka Jovanovic, Sabre Kais, and Fahhad H. Alharbi,  Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 2014, Article ID 168568, 8 pages (2014) doi:10.1155/2014/168568

17.                        A Chain Heuristic for the Blocks Relocation Problem, Raka Jovanovic, Stefan Voß, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 75, (2014), pp.  79–86

18.                        Efficient method for localized functions using domain transformation and Fourier sine series, Raka Jovanovic, Sabre Kais and Fahhad H. Alharbi,  Molecular Physics, Vol. 112, No. 5-6, (2014),  pp. 762-769

19.                        Adaptive Lossless Prediction Based Image Compression, Raka Jovanovic, Rudolph A. Lorentz, Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences, Vol. 8, No.1  (2014), pp. 153-160

20.                        Improved ACO Algorithm with Pheromone Correction Strategy for the Traveling Salesman Problem, Raka Jovanovic and Milan Tuba, International Journal of Computers Communications & Control, Vol. 8, No. 3, (2013),  pp. 477-485

21.                        Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm with Pheromone Correction Strategy for the Minimum Connected Dominating Set Problem, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Computer Science and Information Systems ( ComSIS), Vol. 10, No. 1, 133-149 (2013)

22.                        Hybrid Seeker Optimization Algorithm for Global Optimization, Milan Tuba, Ivona Brajevic, Raka Jovanovic, Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences An International Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, 867-875 (2013)

  1. Vortex solitons near boundaries of photonic lattices, Dragana Jovic, Raka Jovanovic, Cornelia Denz, and Milivoj Belic, Physica Scripta, T149 (2012) 014040
  2. An ant colony optimization algorithm with improved pheromone correction strategy for the minimum weight vertex cover problem, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba , Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp 5360-5366 (2011)
  3. Comparison of Different Topologies for Island-Based Multi-Colony Ant Algorithms for the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Problems, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Vol. 9, No.1, 83-92 (2010)
  4. Counterpropagating surface solitons in two-dimensional photorefractive lattices, Dragana Jović, Yuri S. Kivshar, Raka Jovanović, Milivoj Belić, Optics Express, Vol. 17, No.24, 21515-21521 (2009)
  5. A Visual Αnalysis of Calculation-Paths of the Mandelbrot Set, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 7, Volume 8, pp. 1125-1124, (2009)
  6. Counterpropagating matter waves in optical lattices, S. Prvanović, D. Jović, R. Jovanović, A. Strinić, and M. Belić, Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol 116, No.45, 507-509 (2009).
  7. An Analysis of Different Variations of Ant Colony Optimization to the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Problem,  Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 6, Volume 6, pp. 936-945 (2009)
  8. An Algorithm for Creation of an Optimized Adaptive Grid for Improved Explicit Finite Difference Scheme, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, Issue 9, Volume 7, pp. 549-558 (2008)
  9. Counterpropagating beams in rotationally symmetric photonic lattices,    D. Jović, R. Jovanović, S. Prvanović, M. Petrović, and M. Belić, Optical Materials, Vol 30, No 7, pp. 1173-1176 , (2008)
  10. An Object-Oriented Framework with Corresponding Graphical User Interface for Developing Ant Colony Optimization Based Algorithms, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 12, Volume 7, pp. 1948 – 1957 (2008)
  11.  An Easy Way Of Solving Complex Mathematical Models: The Finite Difference Scheme, Raka Jovanović,  Gamasutra, Jun. 18. (2008)
  12.  Gaussian induced rotation in periodic photonic lattices, D. M. Jović, S. Prvanović, R. D. Jovanović, and M. S. Petrović, Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 13, pp. 1857-1859  (2007)
  13.  Gaussian-Induced Rotation in Triangular Photonic Lattices, D. Jovic,  S.Prvanović, R. Jovanović and M. Petrović,Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol.112, No. 5, 1067-1072, (2007)
  14.  Dancing Light: Counterpropagating Beams in Photorefractive Crystals, M.R. Belić, M.S. Petrović, D.M Jović, A.I. Strinić, D.D. Arsenović, S. Prvanović, R.D. Jovanović, and N.Z. Petrović, Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol.112, No. 5, 729-736, (2007)

 

Book Chapters :

37.                        Optimized Algorithm for Petviashvili's Method for Finding Solitons in Photonic Lattices , Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, chapter in book (thematic proceedings)  Aproximation and Computation (In Honor of Gradimir V. Milovanović) Walter Gautschi, Giuseppe Mastroianni, Themistocles M. Rassias,Eds., ISBN: 978-1-4419-6593-6, Springer-Verlag, Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Vol. 45, 1st Edition., 2010, XXII, 484 p., pp. 395-402

 

Proceedings :

1.     Energy Efficient Sink Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks by Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm. Tuba, E., Simian, D., Dolicanin, E., Jovanovic, R. and Tuba, M., 4th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) (pp. 718-723). IEEE.( 2018)

2.     Web Intelligence Data Clustering by Bare Bone Fireworks Algorithm Combined with K-Means. Tuba, E., Jovanovic, R., Hrosik, R.C., Alihodzic, A. and Tuba, M., In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (p. 7). ACM (2018).

3.     Solving the 2-connected m-dominating set problem using a GRASP approach for applications in power systems. Jovanovic, R., Bayram, I.S. and Voß, S., In Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG), 2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE. (2018)

4.     Chaotic elephant herding optimization algorithm. Tuba, E., Capor-Hrosik, R., Alihodzic, A., Jovanovic, R. and Tuba, M., In Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI), 2018 IEEE 16th World Symposium on (pp. 000213-000216). IEEE. (2018)

5.     JPEG quantization table optimization by guided fireworks algorithm. Tuba, E., Tuba, M., Simian, D. and Jovanovic, R., In International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (pp. 294-307). Springer, Cham. (2017)

6.     An algorithm for automated segmentation for bleeding detection in endoscopic images. Tuba, E., Tuba, M. and Jovanovic, R.,In Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2017 International Joint Conference on (pp. 4579-4586). IEEE. (2017)

7.     An evolutionary method for creating ensembles with adaptive size neural networks for predicting hourly solar irradiance. Jovanovic R, Pomares LM, Mohieldeen YE, Perez-Astudillo D, Bachour D., In Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2017 International Joint Conference on (pp. 1962-1967). IEEE. (2017)

8.     Digital image forgery detection based on shadow HSV inconsistency, Viktor Tuba; Raka Jovanovic; Milan Tuba, 5th International Symposium on Digital Forensic and Security (ISDFS), Pages: 1 - 6, (2017)

9.     An Algorithm for Plant Diseases Detection Based on Color Features,  Mosbah El Sghair, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, International Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 2, pp. 1—6 ( proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases (AIKED '17)   Cambridge, UK February 24-26)(2017)

10.                        An Algorithm for Coastline Extraction from Satellite Imagery, Dejan Vukadinov,  Raka  Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, International Journal of Computers, Vol. 2, pp. 8-13 (proceedings of  The 19th International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (MACMESE '17)   Berlin, Germany March 31-April 2)(2017)

11.                        Two-stage algorithm for license plate extraction, Marko Lukic, Milan Tuba and Raka Jovanovic, International Journal Of Systems Applications, Engineering & Development,  Vol. 10, pp. 335-339 ( proceedings of The 2016 International Conference Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and Systems Engineering Rome, Italy, November 5-7) (2016)

12.                        Overlapping Block-Based Algorithm for Copy-Move Forgery Detection in Digital Images,  Momcilo Brajic, Eva Tuba, Raka Jovanovic, International Journal of Computers, Vol. 1, pp. 189-196, (proceedings of ICACM '16: Applied Mathematics in Computer Simulation, Mallorca, Spain )(2016)

13.                        Convergent sum of gradient expansion of the kinetic-energy density functional up to the sixth order term using Pade approximant,  A. Sergeev , F.H. Alharbi,  R. Jovanovic,  S. Kais, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 707(1):012011(2016)

14.                        Hierarchical multiobjective RFID network planning using firefly algorithm, Bacanin, N.; Tuba, M.; Jovanovic, R., International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research (ICTRC), Abu Dhabi, May 17-19, pp.282-285  (2015)

15.                        Self-consistent approach to solving the 1D Thomas-Fermi equation using an exponential basis set, Hamid Badri, Fahhad H. Alharbi and Raka Jovanovic , ICNAAM 2014 , AIP Conference Proceedings. 1648, 850095 (2015)

16.                        A greedy method for optimizing the self-adequacy of microgrids presented as partitioning of graphs with supply and demand, Jovanovic R, Bousselham A, In: The 2nd International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference Ouarzazate, Morocco October 17-19, pp. 565 - 570, (2014)

17.                        Parallelization of the Cuckoo Search Using CUDA Architecture, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Ivona Brajevic, Recent Advances in Mathematics  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Simulation, Modelling (ASM '13) Cambridge, MA, USA January 30 - February 1, pp. 137 – 142, (2013) (draft)

18.                        Parallelization of the Local Threshold and Boolean Function Based Edge Detection Algorithm Using CUDA,  R. Jovanovic, M. Tuba, Dana Simian, Proceedings of the 5th Congress on Applied Computing, pp. 157-161 (2012)

19.                        Software Framework for Testing JPEG Quantization Tables for Iris Recognition, A. Tuba, J. Arezina, R. Jovanovic ,  Applied Mathematics in Electrical and Computer  Engineering, Proceedings of the American Conference on Applied Mathematics (AMERICAN-MATH '12), Harvard, Cambridge, USA, January 25-27, pp. 417-422 (2012)

20.                        A Combined Image Approach to Compression of Volumetric Data Using Delaunay Tetrahedralization ,R. Jovanovic, R. A. Lorentz, IET Image Processing Conference, University of Westminster, London, UK pp. 1-6 (2012) (draft)

  1. Compression of Volumetric Data Using Delaunay Triangulation , Raka Jovanovic, Rudolph A. Lorentz, Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO-2011), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 19 – 21, pp.**-** (2011)
  2. Ant Colony Optimization Applied to Minimum Weight Dominating Set Problem, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, New Aspects of Automatic,  Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS International Conference Control, Modeling and Simulation on Automatic Control, Modelling & Simulation, Catania, Italy, May 29-31, pp. 322-326(2010)
  3. Two Algorithms for Numerical Simulation of Counter Propagating Matter Waves In Optical Lattices, Raka Jovanovic, Dragana Jovic, Slobodan Prvanovic, Aleksandra Strinic, Milivoj Belic, Milan Tuba, Recent Advances in Applied Mathematics, Proceedings of the American Conference on Applied Mathematics (American-Math '10), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, January 27-29, pp. 212-216(2010) 
  4. RDIF a preprocessing Filter for HDF5,  Raka Jovanovic, Rudolph A. Lorentz, Recent Advances in Applied Mathematics, Proceedings of the American Conference on Applied Mathematics (American-Math '10), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, January 27-29, pp. 222-227(2010) 
  5. A New Visualization Algorithm for the Mandelbrot Set,  Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, Recent Advances in Mathematics and Computers in Biology and   Chemistry,  Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Chemistry (MCBC'09), Prague, Czech Republic  March 23-25,  pp. 162- 167(2009)
  6. Analysis of Parallel Implementations of the Ant Colony Optimization Applied to the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Problem, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Optimization, Budapest, Hungary, September 3-5,   pp. 254-259(2009)
  7. A New Visualization Algorithm for the Mandelbrot Set,  Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, Recent Advances in Mathematics and Computers in Biology and   Chemistry,  Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Chemistry (MCBC'09), Prague, Czech Republic  March 23-25,  pp. 162- 167(2009)
  8. A Comparative Assessment of Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Problem, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases, Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases (AIKED'09), A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks, Artificial Intelligence Series, WSEAS Press, ISBN 978-960-474-051-2,    Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 2009, pp. 490-494, (2009)
  9. An Algorithm for Multi-Resolution Grid Creation Applied to Explicit Finite Difference Scheme , Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian,  NEW ASPECTS OF COMPUTERS, Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTERS, pp.1123-1229, (2008)
  10. Developing an Object-Oriented Framework for Solving Problems Using Ant Colony Optimization, Raka Jovanovic, Milan Tuba, Dana Simian, Recent Advances In Mathematical And Computational Methods In  Science And Engineering,, Proceedings of 10th WSEAS Int. Conf. On Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science And Engineering , MACMESE'08, , pp. 528 – 533. (2008)

 

 

Conferences:

 

  1.     Three dimensional time-dependent Gaussian induced rotation of beams in optically induced periodic fixed photonic lattices,     D. M. Jović, S. Prvanović, R. D. Jovanović, and M. Petrović,      14th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics (June 1-5, 2007- Palermo, Italy).
  2. Optimized Algorithm for Multi Resolution Grid Creation and Use With an Explicit 2+1 Finite Difference Scheme , Raka Jovanović,  PAMM (Pannonian Applied Mathematical Meetings) Conference, (2008, Balatonalmádi, Hungary)
  3. Software implementation of Petviashvili’s method for finding solutions in photonic lattices,   Raka Jovanović, Dragana Jović, Milan Petrović, Milan Tuba,     PAMM (Pannonian Applied Mathematical Meetings) Conference, (2007,        Balatonalmádi, Hungary)
  4. Implementacije metoda eliminacije kvantora u nekim matematičkim teorijama, Žarko Mijajlović, Aleksandar Jovanović, Miomir Ristić, Nataša Dobrasinović, Vladimir Aleksić,  Vladimir Filipović, Marijana Janković, Olja Jovanović, Raka Jovanović, Marijana Lukić, Ivona Marić,  Goran Marković, Maja Milicić, Vladimir Perović, Srđan Sevo,  8. Kongres Matematičara Jugoslavije, (Beograd, 21-24. januara) 2001.

 

 

Benchmark Data sets :

1.     Benchmark Data for Minimum Weighted Dominating Set Problem

2.     Benchmark Data for the Problem of Partitioning Graphs With Supply and Demand

3.     Benchmark Data for the Problem of Partitioning Supply /Demand Graphs With Capacity Limitations

 

Msc Thesis :

   “Softverska implementacija opšteg simulatora”,2007

      Program, Power Point

 PhD Thesis :

“Побољшање метода мрављих колонија за решавање НП-Комплетних Оптимизационих  задатака на Графовима”, 2012

“Improvement of the Ant Colony Optimization for Solving NP-Complete Problems on Graphs” , 

PowerPoint

Software:

  1. Graf-Ant  a Framework for developing Ant Colony Optimization   applications. Executable and project can be downloaded. This is under development not a stable version. Alpha version will be uploaded soon.

 

  1. RakaBrot a fractal generator program for Buddhabrot, Calculation-Path and Time-Spent Fractal images. Executable and project can be downloaded. This is under development not a stable version. Alpha version will be uploaded soon.

 

  1. RDIF a preprocessing Filter, is a general preprocessing filter for HDF5 based on the Lorenzo predictor. It is used in combination with existing HDF5 compression/preprocessing filters and general increases the level of compression of data being stored. Visit website.

 

  1. Software for the CS algorithm presented in the article : “Cuckoo Search Inspired Hybridization of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm Applied to Optimization of Photovoltaic Cells'' (Visit MatWorks FileExchange)

 

 

 

Courses:

 

Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Faculty of Computer Science, Megatrend University, Belgrade

 

Held selected topics  for several courses at Hamad bin Khalifa University :   

CSE 503:  Advanced   Mathematics

CSE 507 Advanced Systems Optimization

CSE 506: Numerical Methods for Scientists & Engineers