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A Multithreaded Algorithm for the Computation of Sample Entropy

  • George Manis,
  • Dimitrios Bakalis and
  • Roberto Sassi

15 June 2023

Many popular entropy definitions for signals, including approximate and sample entropy, are based on the idea of embedding the time series into an m-dimensional space, aiming to detect complex, deeper and more informative relationships among samples....

(This article belongs to the Collection Parallel and Distributed Computing: Algorithms and Applications)
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  • Open Access
52 Citations
14,024 Views
26 Pages

30 November 2020

The Gerchberg–Saxton (G-S) algorithm is a phase retrieval algorithm that is widely used in beam shaping and optical information processing. However, the G-S algorithm has difficulty obtaining the exact solution after iterating, and an approxima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Entropy Algorithms for Image, Video, and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,579 Views
11 Pages

3 July 2014

Economic dispatch is an important non-linear optimization task in power systems. In this process, the total power demand is distributed amongst the generating units such that each unit satisfies its generation limit constraints and the cost of power...

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  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,409 Views
20 Pages

18 June 2019

The random placement of a large-scale sensor network in an outdoor environment often causes low coverage. In order to effectively improve the coverage of a wireless sensor network in the monitoring area, a coverage optimization algorithm for wireless...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,939 Views
11 Pages

1 April 2016

The fireworks algorithm (FA) is a new parallel diffuse optimization algorithm to simulate the fireworks explosion phenomenon, which realizes the balance between global exploration and local searching by means of adjusting the explosion mode of firewo...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,163 Views
21 Pages

Low-Carbon Control of Integrated Energy by Combining Cuckoo Search Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

  • Dandan Wang,
  • Jian Guan,
  • Hongyan Liu,
  • Hanwen Zhang and ,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Lijian Zhang and
  • Jingzheng Dong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 April 2025

With the increasing severity of global climate change, low-carbon development has become a key issue in the energy industry. As an effective way to optimize energy utilization and reduce carbon emissions, integrated energy system is receiving increas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Low Carbon Sustainability in the Digital Age)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,915 Views
21 Pages

In the process of fabric production, various types of defects affect the quality of a fabric. However, due to the wide variety of fabric defects, the complexity of fabric textures, and the concealment of small target defects, current fabric defect de...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,840 Views
18 Pages

Clustering is an unsupervised learning method. Density Peak Clustering (DPC), a density-based algorithm, intuitively determines the number of clusters and identifies clusters of arbitrary shapes. However, it cannot function effectively without the co...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,210 Views
10 Pages

Improvement of PBFT Algorithm Based on CART

  • Jian Liu,
  • Wenlong Feng,
  • Yu Zhang and
  • Feiyang He

In response to the problems of the practical Byzantine fault-tolerant algorithm (PBFT), such as random selection of master nodes and poor scalability, a CART-based PBFT optimization algorithm is proposed, namely the C-PBFT algorithm. First, the intro...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,951 Views
19 Pages

30 August 2018

In order to more realistically reflect the penetrating and crushing process of a PELE (Penetration with Enhanced Lateral Efficiency) projectile, the stochastic failure algorithm and crack-softening algorithm were added to the corresponding material i...

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  • Open Access
227 Citations
13,046 Views
21 Pages

A Novel K-Means Clustering Algorithm with a Noise Algorithm for Capturing Urban Hotspots

  • Xiaojuan Ran,
  • Xiangbing Zhou,
  • Mu Lei,
  • Worawit Tepsan and
  • Wu Deng

25 November 2021

With the development of cities, urban congestion is nearly an unavoidable problem for almost every large-scale city. Road planning is an effective means to alleviate urban congestion, which is a classical non-deterministic polynomial time (NP) hard p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing Application to Engineering Design)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,939 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2023

Recently, a hypothesis providing a detailed equation for the Plantower CF_1 algorithm for PM2.5 has been published. The hypothesis was originally validated using eight independent Plantower sensors in four PurpleAir PA-II monitors providing PM2.5 est...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
61 Citations
4,645 Views
29 Pages

24 February 2022

Data clustering is a complex data mining problem that clusters a massive amount of data objects into a predefined number of clusters; in other words, it finds symmetric and asymmetric objects. Various optimization methods have been used to solve diff...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,767 Views
23 Pages

26 July 2025

With the advancement of computer vision and image processing technologies, scene recognition has gradually become a research hotspot. However, in practical applications, it is necessary to detect the categories and locations of objects in images whil...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,338 Views
14 Pages

A Vector Line Simplification Algorithm Based on the Douglas–Peucker Algorithm, Monotonic Chains and Dichotomy

  • Bo Liu,
  • Xuechao Liu,
  • Dajun Li,
  • Yu Shi and ,
  • Gabriela Fernandez and
  • Yandong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

When using the traditional Douglas–Peucker (D–P) algorithm to simplify linear objects, it is easy to generate results containing self-intersecting errors, thus affecting the application of the D–P algorithm. To solve the problem of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geo-Information Technology and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,649 Views
19 Pages

Machine learning algorithms have been widely used to deal with a variety of practical problems such as computer vision and speech processing. But the performance of machine learning algorithms is primarily affected by their hyper-parameters, as witho...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
2,586 Views
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An Improved Coppersmith Algorithm Based on Block Preprocessing

  • Lu Zhang,
  • Baodong Qin,
  • Wen Gao and
  • Yiyuan Luo

5 January 2024

Since Coppersmith proposed the use of the LLL algorithm to solve univariate modular polynomial equations at EUROCRYPT’96, it has sparked a fervent research interest in lattice analysis among cryptographers. Despite its polynomial-time nature, t...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
1,001 Citations
24,912 Views
34 Pages

23 January 2022

Optimization is an important and fundamental challenge to solve optimization problems in different scientific disciplines. In this paper, a new stochastic nature-inspired optimization algorithm called Pelican Optimization Algorithm (POA) is introduce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Sensor Networks and Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,882 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing the K-Means Algorithm through a Genetic Algorithm Based on Survey and Social Media Tourism Objectives for Tourism Path Recommendations

  • Mohamed A. Damos,
  • Jun Zhu,
  • Weilian Li,
  • Elhadi Khalifa and ,
  • Abubakr Hassan,
  • Rashad Elhabob,
  • Alaa Hm and
  • Esra Ei
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Social media platforms play a vital role in determining valuable tourist objectives, which greatly aids in optimizing tourist path planning. As data classification and analysis methods have advanced, machine learning (ML) algorithms such as the k-mea...

(This article belongs to the Topic Geocomputation and Artificial Intelligence for Mapping)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,538 Views
33 Pages

14 January 2021

In this paper, we present a hybrid genetic-hierarchical algorithm for the solution of the quadratic assignment problem. The main distinguishing aspect of the proposed algorithm is that this is an innovative hybrid genetic algorithm with the original,...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,295 Views
15 Pages

11 March 2019

In the real word, optimization problems in multi-objective optimization (MOP) and dynamic optimization can be seen everywhere. During the last decade, among various swarm intelligence algorithms for multi-objective optimization problems, glowworm swa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms Recent Advances and Applications)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,868 Views
21 Pages

6 May 2025

The density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is able to cluster arbitrarily structured datasets. However, the clustering result of this algorithm is exceptionally sensitive to the neighborhood radius (Eps) and noise points...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,453 Views
29 Pages

Homogeneity Distance Classification Algorithm (HDCA): A Novel Algorithm for Satellite Image Classification

  • Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei,
  • Iman Daryaei,
  • Amir Sedighi,
  • Qihao Weng and
  • Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

6 March 2019

Image classification is one of the most common methods of information extraction from satellite images. In this paper, a novel algorithm for image classification based on gravity theory was developed, which was called “homogeneity distance clas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Ecosystem Health)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,397 Views
14 Pages

30 March 2024

The social media app TikTok was launched in the US in 2017 with a very specific purpose: sharing 15-s clips of singing and dancing to popular songs. Seven years and several billion downloads later, it is now the go-to app for Gen Z Internet users and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Valorization of Religion by Media)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,131 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2023

In this paper, a point cloud coarse–fine registration method based on a new improved version of the whale optimization algorithm (NIWOA) and iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm is proposed; we use three strategies to improve the whale optim...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,644 Views
26 Pages

Prompt Update Algorithm Based on the Boolean Vector Inner Product and Ant Colony Algorithm for Fast Target Type Recognition

  • Quan Zhou,
  • Jie Shi,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Bin Kong and ,
  • Shang Gao and
  • Weibo Zhong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 October 2024

In recent years, data mining technology has become increasingly popular, evolving into an independent discipline as research deepens. This study constructs and optimizes an association rule algorithm based on the Boolean vector (BV) inner product and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,917 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2025

Aiming at the poor warning effect and slightly low precision of signal positioning in the traditional lightning detection and warning system, the research utilizes the artificial intelligence approach to signal positioning in the lightning detection...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,596 Views
34 Pages

Firebug Swarm Optimization Algorithm: An Overview and Applications

  • Faroq Awin,
  • Yasser Alginahi and
  • Esam Abdel-Raheem

13 January 2026

This survey delves into the Firebug Swarm Optimization (FSO) algorithm, an advanced global optimization algorithm that plays a pivotal role in modern swarm intelligence optimization techniques. It explores the core principles of the FSO algorithm and...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,323 Views
16 Pages

12 May 2020

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, which has been widely studied for years, is a stochastic algorithm for solving global optimization problems. Taking advantage of the information of a global best solution, the Gbest-guided artificial bee col...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,319 Views
19 Pages

PMS6MC: A Multicore Algorithm for Motif Discovery

  • Shibdas Bandyopadhyay,
  • Sartaj Sahni and
  • Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

18 November 2013

We develop an efficient multicore algorithm, PMS6MC, for the (l; d)-motif discovery problem in which we are to find all strings of length l that appear in every string of a given set of strings with at most d mismatches. PMS6MC is based on PMS6, whic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Multi Core Parallel Computation)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,572 Views
15 Pages

An Optimized Differential Step-Size LMS Algorithm

  • Alexandru-George Rusu,
  • Silviu Ciochină,
  • Constantin Paleologu and
  • Jacob Benesty

24 July 2019

Adaptive algorithms with differential step-sizes (related to the filter coefficients) are well known in the literature, most frequently as “proportionate” algorithms. Usually, they are derived on a heuristic basis. In this paper, we intro...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,595 Views
29 Pages

21 November 2022

In optimization algorithms, there are some challenges, including lack of optimal solution, slow convergence, lack of scalability, partial search space, and high computational demand. Inspired by the process of gold exploration and exploitation, we pr...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,209 Views
31 Pages

16 June 2024

For the RRT* algorithm, there are problems such as greater randomness, longer time consumption, more redundant nodes, and inability to perform local obstacle avoidance when encountering unknown obstacles in the path planning process of autonomous veh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control Systems for Autonomous Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,259 Views
9 Pages

A Genetic Algorithm to Solve the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem

  • Murat Ersen Berberler,
  • Asli Guler and
  • Urfat G. Nurıyev

1 December 2013

In this paper, The Multidimensional Knapsack Problem (MKP) which occurs in many different applications is studied and a genetic algorithm to solve the MKP is proposed. Unlike the technique of the classical genetic algorithm, initial population is not...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,136 Views
15 Pages

Obstacle-Avoidance Path-Planning Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles Based on B-Spline Algorithm

  • Pengwei Wang,
  • Jinshan Yang,
  • Yulong Zhang,
  • Qinwei Wang and ,
  • Binbin Sun and
  • Dong Guo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To solve the problem of the real-time path-planning of autonomous vehicles for obstacle avoidance on structured roads, a path-planning approach based on the B-spline algorithm is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the mechanism of driver path planning...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,320 Views
22 Pages

Analysis and Improvement of Fireworks Algorithm

  • Xi-Guang Li,
  • Shou-Fei Han and
  • Chang-Qing Gong

17 February 2017

The Fireworks Algorithm is a recently developed swarm intelligence algorithm to simulate the explosion process of fireworks. Based on the analysis of each operator of Fireworks Algorithm (FWA), this paper improves the FWA and proves that the improved...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,606 Views
12 Pages

A New Rapid Incremental Algorithm for Constructing Concept Lattices

  • Jingpu Zhang,
  • Ronghui Liu,
  • Ligeng Zou and
  • Licheng Zeng

25 February 2019

Formal concept analysis has proven to be a very effective method for data analysis and rule extraction, but how to build formal concept lattices is a difficult and hot topic. In this paper, an efficient and rapid incremental concept lattice construct...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
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  • Open Access
133 Citations
9,333 Views
21 Pages

9 November 2022

A fusion pathfinding algorithm based on the optimized A-star algorithm, the artificial potential field method and the least squares method is proposed to meet the performance requirements of path smoothing, response speed and computation time for the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Enhancement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,129 Views
37 Pages

17 September 2025

The greater cane rat algorithm (GCRA) is a swarm intelligence algorithm inspired by the discerning and intelligent foraging behavior of the greater cane rats, which facilitates mating during the rainy season and non-mating during the dry season. Howe...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,385 Views
36 Pages

12 October 2020

Bat Algorithm (BA) and Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (ABC) are frequently used in solving global optimization problems. Many new algorithms in the literature are obtained by modifying these algorithms for both constrained and unconstrained optimiza...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Metaheuristic Computation)
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  • Open Access
339 Views
31 Pages

2 July 2026

Population-based optimization algorithms have been widely applied to optimization problems in many fields and have achieved encouraging computational results. To improve the performance of population-based optimization algorithms, it is necessary to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Swarm Intelligence and Optimization Algorithms, Variants, and Real-World Applications)
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  • Open Access
1,914 Views
24 Pages

Automatic Text Summary Method Based on Optimized K-Means Clustering Algorithm with Symmetry and Maximal-Marginal-Relevance Algorithm

  • Hongqing Song,
  • Silin Li,
  • Bao Yu,
  • Yuyan Sun and ,
  • Quanyi Tao,
  • Lei Peng and
  • Wenjun Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 December 2025

Text summary is an information processing technology that aims to extract the important information in the text and filter out the useless information. In the research literature, text summary methods generate a text summary by clustering, supervised...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,763 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2023

In this paper, we research the dynamic car sequencing problem with car body buffer (DCSPwB) in automotive mixed-flow assembly. The objective is to reorder the sequence of cars in the paint shop using the post-painted body buffers to minimize the viol...

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  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,179 Views
19 Pages

24 June 2021

This paper proposes a hybrid whale optimization algorithm (WOA) that is derived from the genetic and thermal exchange optimization-based whale optimization algorithm (GWOA-TEO) to enhance global optimization capability. First, the high-quality initia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Models and Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for Solving Complex Optimization Problems)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,088 Views
23 Pages

A Hybrid Modified Method of the Sine Cosine Algorithm Using Latin Hypercube Sampling with the Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Optimization Problems

  • Siti Julia Rosli,
  • Hasliza A Rahim,
  • Khairul Najmy Abdul Rani,
  • Ruzelita Ngadiran and ,
  • R. Badlishah Ahmad,
  • Nor Zakiah Yahaya,
  • Mohamedfareq Abdulmalek,
  • Muzammil Jusoh,
  • Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin and
  • Allan Melvin Andrew
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

27 October 2020

The metaheuristic algorithm is a popular research area for solving various optimization problems. In this study, we proposed two approaches based on the Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA), namely, modification and hybridization. First, we attempted to solve...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
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  • Open Access
88 Citations
8,682 Views
17 Pages

Optimizing Energy Consumption in the Home Energy Management System via a Bio-Inspired Dragonfly Algorithm and the Genetic Algorithm

  • Irshad Hussain,
  • Majid Ullah,
  • Ibrar Ullah,
  • Asima Bibi and ,
  • Muhammad Naeem,
  • Madhusudan Singh and
  • Dhananjay Singh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Due to the exponential increase in the human population of this bio-sphere, energy resources are becoming scarce. Because of the traditional methods, most of the generated energy is wasted every year in the distribution network and demand side. There...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transforming Future Cities: Smart City)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,229 Views
18 Pages

The Generalized Schur Algorithm and Some Applications

  • Teresa Laudadio,
  • Nicola Mastronardi and
  • Paul Van Dooren

9 November 2018

The generalized Schur algorithm is a powerful tool allowing to compute classical decompositions of matrices, such as the Q R and L U factorizations. When applied to matrices with particular structures, the generalized Schur algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Numerical Methods in Applied Sciences)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,369 Views
15 Pages

A Sparse Recovery Algorithm Based on Arithmetic Optimization

  • Qingfeng Zhang,
  • Dong Hu,
  • Chao Tang and
  • Jufang Xie

29 December 2022

At present, the sparse recovery problem is mainly solved by convx optimization algorithm and greedy tracking method. However, the former has defects in recovery efficiency and the latter in recovery ability, and neither of them can obtain effective r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Digital Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,088 Views
33 Pages

22 June 2022

The manta ray foraging optimization algorithm (MRFO) is one of the promised meta-heuristic optimization algorithms. However, it can stick to a local minimum, consuming iterations without reaching the optimum solution. So, this paper proposes a hybrid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence and Its Applications)

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