2024 February - 39 articles
When dealing with engineering design problems, designers often encounter nonlinear and nonconvex features, multiple objectives, coupled decision making, and various levels of fidelity of sub-systems. To realize the design with limited computational r...
Reinforcement learning is an important technique in various fields, particularly in automated machine learning for reinforcement learning (AutoRL). The integration of transfer learning (TL) with AutoRL in combinatorial optimization is an area that re...
Power flow problems can be solved in a variety of ways by using the Newton–Raphson approach. The nonlinear power flow equations depend upon voltages
The role of academic advising has been conducted by faculty-student advisors, who often have many students to advise quickly, making the process ineffective. The selection of the incorrect qualification increases the risk of dropping out, changing qu...
High-value timber species with economic and ecological importance are usually distributed at very low densities, such that accurate knowledge of the location of these trees within a forest is critical for forest management practices. Recent technolog...
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of approaches to the determination of isocontours and isosurfaces from given data sets. Different algorithms are reported in the literature for this purpose, which originate from various application areas,...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be a very efficient class of machine learning (ML) architectures for handling multidimensional data by maintaining data locality, especially in the field of computer vision. Data pooling, a major co...
An important element of modern telecommunications is wireless radio networks, which enable mobile subscribers to access wireless networks. The cell area is divided into independent sectors served by directional antennas. As the number of mobile netwo...
Electric scooter sharing mobility services have recently spread in major cities all around the world. However, the bad parking behavior of users has become a major source of issues, provoking accidents and compromising urban decorum of public areas....
The intelligent identification of coal gangue on industrial conveyor belts is a crucial technology for the precise sorting of coal gangue. To address the issues in coal gangue detection algorithms, such as high false negative rates, complex network s...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of global mortality and responsible for millions of deaths annually. The mortality rate and overall consequences of cardiac disease can be reduced with early disease detection. However, conventional diagnos...
One of the fundamental challenges in analyzing wind turbine performance is the occurrence of torque creep under load and without load. This phenomenon significantly impacts the proper functioning of torque transducers, thus necessitating the utilizat...
This paper reviews the application of artificial neural network (ANN) models to time series prediction tasks. We begin by briefly introducing some basic concepts and terms related to time series analysis, and by outlining some of the most popular ANN...
Molecular genetic techniques allow for the diagnosing of hereditary diseases and congenital abnormalities prenatally. A high variability of treatments exists, engendering an inappropriate clinical response, an inefficient use of resources, and the vi...
The Adding-Doubling (AD) algorithm is a general analytical solution of the radiative transfer equation (RTE). AD offers a favorable balance between accuracy and computational efficiency, surpassing other RTE solutions, such as Monte Carlo (MC) simula...
In this study, we created an accurate model for a homogenous smart structure. After modeling multiplicative uncertainty, an ideal robust controller was designed using μ-synthesis and a reduced-order H-infinity Feedback Optimal Output (Hifoo) contr...
Solving combinatorial problems on complex networks represents a primary issue which, on a large scale, requires the use of heuristics and approximate algorithms. Recently, neural methods have been proposed in this context to find feasible solutions f...
In the ever-evolving landscape of tomographic imaging algorithms, this literature review explores a diverse array of themes shaping the field’s progress. It encompasses foundational principles, special innovative approaches, tomographic impleme...
Fake news is an explosive subject, being undoubtedly among the most controversial and difficult challenges facing society in the present-day environment of technology and information, which greatly affects the individuals who are vulnerable and easil...
In the directed co-graph edge-deletion problem, we are given a directed graph and an integer k, and the question is whether we can delete, at most, k edges so that the resulting graph is a directed co-graph. In this paper, we make two minor contribut...
With the rising popularity of the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), there is an increasing demand for more human-like car-following performance. In this paper, we consider the role of heterogeneity in car-following behavior within car-followi...
The automated design of dispatching rules (DRs) with genetic programming (GP) has become an important research direction in recent years. One of the most important decisions in applying GP to generate DRs is determining the features of the scheduling...
In the present paper, we efficiently solve the two-body problem for extreme cases such as those with high eccentricities. The use of numerical methods, with the usual variables, cannot maintain the perihelion passage accurately. In previous articles,...
This is the third edition of a Special Issue of Algorithms; it is of a rather different nature compared to other Special Issues in the journal, which are usually dedicated to a particular subject in the area of algorithms [...]
The rapid proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, virtualization, and smart devices has led to a massive annual production of over 400 zettabytes of network traffic data. As a result, it is crucial for com...
This paper introduces an agent-based model grounded in the ACO algorithm to investigate the impact of partitioning ant colonies on algorithmic performance. The exploration focuses on understanding the roles of group size and number within a multi-obj...
Our paper compares the correctness, efficiency, and maintainability of human-generated and AI-generated program code. For that, we analyzed the computational resources of AI- and human-generated program code using metrics such as time and space compl...
In this work, we consider the problem of shape-based time-series clustering with the widely used Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance. We present a novel two-stage framework based on Sparse Gaussian Modeling. In the first stage, we apply Sparse Gaussi...
Efficient yet sufficient exploration remains a critical challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), especially for Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with vast action spaces. Previous approaches have commonly involved projecting the original action space...
Understanding customer emotions and preferences is paramount for success in the dynamic product design landscape. This paper presents a study to develop a prediction pipeline to detect the aspect and perform sentiment analysis on review data. The pre...
Gantry-type dual-axis platforms can be used to move heavy loads or perform precision CNC work. Such gantry systems drive a single axis with two linear motors, and under heavy loads, a high driving force is required. This can generate a pulling force...
Ordinary kriging (OK) is a popular interpolation method for its ability to simultaneously minimize error variance and deliver statistically optimal and unbiased predictions. In this work, the adaptive moving window kriging with K-means clustering (AM...
Two recent studies addressed the problem of reducing transitional turbulence in applications developed in C# on .NET. The first study investigated this problem in desktop and Web GUI applications and the second in virtual and augmented reality applic...
The binary number system is the basic number representation in computing. We can encode natural numbers with finite 0-1 sequences. The representation of natural numbers is based on this system. However, this poses problems and is technically not perf...
In this paper, we recover the European option volatility function
The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is widely used for optimization purposes across various domains, such as in precision agriculture, vehicular ad hoc networks, path planning, and for the assessment of mathematical test functions towards...
In this study, we present a federated learning approach that combines a multi-branch network and the Oort client selection algorithm to improve the performance of federated learning systems. This method successfully addresses the significant issue of...
In the context of academic expert finding, this paper investigates and compares the performance of information retrieval (IR) and machine learning (ML) methods, including deep learning, to approach the problem of identifying academic figures who are...
The opportunities provided by new information technologies, object-oriented programming tools, and modern operating systems for solving boundary value problems in CFD described by partial differential equations are discussed. An approach to organizin...
