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2 Citations
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30 May 2025

Acoustic metasurfaces play a key role in building acoustics, noise control, and acoustic cloaking by regulating the acoustic wave scattering characteristics through subwavelength structures. The design of diffusely reflecting metasurfaces aims to ach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Metamaterials: Structure, Properties and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
827 Views
33 Pages

9 February 2026

To address the energy management challenge for methanol range-extended series hybrid systems in port tugboats, characterized by highly transient and intermittent operations, this study proposes a real-time energy management strategy based on the Twin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable and Low Carbon Development in the Energy Sector—2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,840 Views
21 Pages

20 August 2022

This paper presents an adaptive PID using stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) power system. PEMFC is a nonlinear system that encounters external disturbances such as inlet gas pressures an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microgrids Integrating Renewable Energy Sources, Fuel Cells and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,157 Views
26 Pages

A Hybrid Stochastic Deterministic Algorithm for Solving Unconstrained Optimization Problems

  • Ahmad M. Alshamrani,
  • Adel Fahad Alrasheedi,
  • Khalid Abdulaziz Alnowibet,
  • Salem Mahdi and
  • Ali Wagdy Mohamed

23 August 2022

In this paper, a new deterministic method is proposed. This method depends on presenting (suggesting) some modifications to existing parameters of some conjugate gradient methods. The parameters of our suggested method contain a mix of deterministic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Methods in Industrial Engineering and Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,904 Views
37 Pages

Applications of Optimization Methods in Automotive and Agricultural Engineering: A Review

  • Wenjing Zhao,
  • Libin Duan,
  • Baolin Ma,
  • Xiangxin Meng and ,
  • Lifang Ren,
  • Deying Ye and
  • Shili Rui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 September 2025

The automotive and agricultural industries face increasingly stringent demands with technological advancements and rising living standards, resulting in substantially heightened engineering complexity. In this background, optimization methods become...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,621 Views
19 Pages

This paper analyses the condition necessary to guarantee no divergence for Caputo’s fractional order gradient descent (C-FOG) algorithm on multivariate functions. C-FOG is self-organizing, computationally efficient, simple, and understandable....

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,330 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2023

In this paper, an improved Internet of Things (IoT) network security situation assessment model is designed to solve the problems arising from the existing IoT network security situation assessment approach regarding feature extraction, validity, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Frameworks and Methods for Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
323 Views
47 Pages

8 September 2026

In distributed optimization, communication bottlenecks and computational heterogeneity are two critical challenges that undermine system scalability and efficiency. To address these issues, we propose a synchronous algorithm, CC-GT (Conjugate Compres...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
621 Views
17 Pages

23 June 2026

Optimizing the injection molding of short-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (SFRTs) is a persistent challenge due to the complex interplay between processing parameters and final mechanical performance. To address this, we developed and validated a mac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Processing and Applications of Polymer Composite Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,950 Views
21 Pages

Communication-Efficient Zeroth-Order Adaptive Optimization for Federated Learning

  • Ping Xie,
  • Xiangrui Gao,
  • Fan Li,
  • Ling Xing and ,
  • Yu Zhang and
  • Hanxiao Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 April 2024

Federated learning has become a prevalent distributed training paradigm, in which local devices collaboratively train learning models without exchanging local data. One of the most dominant frameworks of federated learning (FL) is FedAvg, since it is...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,841 Views
34 Pages

3 October 2025

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the application of fractional calculus in modern optimization methods, with a focus on its impact in artificial intelligence (AI) and computational science. We examine how fractional-order derivatives h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Order Systems and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,544 Views
24 Pages

Enhancing the Prediction of Influent Total Nitrogen in Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System–Gradient-Based Optimization Algorithm

  • Misbah Ikram,
  • Hongbo Liu,
  • Ahmed Mohammed Sami Al-Janabi,
  • Ozgur Kisi and ,
  • Wang Mo,
  • Muhammad Ali and
  • Rana Muhammad Adnan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2024

For the accurate estimation of daily influent total nitrogen of sewage plants, a novel hybrid approach is proposed in this study, where a gradient-based optimization (GBO) algorithm is employed to adjust the hyper-parameters of an adaptive neuro-fuzz...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,707 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2023

There is a complex coupling relationship between the structural parameters and various performance indicators of a permanent magnet eddy current coupler. In order to obtain the optimal combination of structural parameters that can improve the overall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electromagnetic Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,001 Views
22 Pages

30 October 2024

In modern architecture, the structural safety of buildings largely depends on the compressive strength of high-performance concrete (HPC), which is determined by the complex nonlinear relationships between its components. In order to more accurately...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,227 Views
20 Pages

Inter-Turn Short Circuit Fault Diagnosis of PMSM

  • Xinglong Chen,
  • Peng Qin,
  • Yongyi Chen,
  • Jianjian Zhao and ,
  • Wenhao Li,
  • Yao Mao and
  • Tao Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is widely used due to its advantages of high power density, high efficiency and so on. In order to ensure the reliability of a PMSM system, it is extremely vital to accurately diagnose the incipient faults. I...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,886 Views
26 Pages

1 February 2021

Convergence speed and steady-state source separation performance are crucial for enable engineering applications of blind source separation methods. The modification of the loss function of the blind source separation algorithm and optimization of th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multi-Sensor Information Fusion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
757 Views
33 Pages

A Global Optimization Framework for Energy Efficiency of Wing–Diesel Hybrid Ships Under Distinct Sail-Statuses Based on Improved Deep Q-Network and D*Lite Algorithm

  • Cong Wang,
  • Lianzhong Huang,
  • Xiaowu Li,
  • Ranqi Ma and ,
  • Jianlin Cao,
  • Rui Zhang and
  • Haoyang Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Wing–diesel hybrid ships are a practical approach to sustainable maritime transport that harnesses wind energy to supplement diesel propulsion and reduce carbon emissions. The core optimization problem addressed in this study is the global ener...

(This article belongs to the Topic Maritime Transportation in the Blue Economy and Green Shipping Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,560 Views
25 Pages

9 July 2025

To ensure the product quality of a steel slab continuous casting machine, the mechanical alignment of the guide rolls must be monitored and corrected regularly. Misaligned guide rolls cause stress and strain in the partially solidified steel strand,...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,328 Views
19 Pages

10 October 2025

Single-point deformation monitoring models fail to reflect the structural integrity of the concrete gravity dams, and traditional regression methods also have shortcomings in capturing complex nonlinear relationships among variables. To solve these p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Hydraulic Engineering, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,638 Views
36 Pages

6 December 2020

As training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) becomes more expensive, the interest in protecting the ownership of the models with watermarking techniques increases. Uchida et al. proposed a digital watermarking algorithm that embeds the secret message into...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Theoretic Methods for Deep Learning Based Data Acquisition, Analysis and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,294 Views
16 Pages

Structural Optimization of Jet Fish Pump Design Based on a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm

  • Maosen Xu,
  • Guorui Zeng,
  • Dazhuan Wu,
  • Jiegang Mou and ,
  • Jianfang Zhao,
  • Shuihua Zheng,
  • Bin Huang and
  • Yun Ren
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 June 2022

Jet fish pumps are efficient hydraulic machinery for fish transportation. Yet, the complex flow phenomenon in it is the major potential risk for damage to fish. The dangerous flow phenomena for fish, such as radial pressure gradient and exposure stra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Key Technologies and Challenges of Hydraulic Machinery and Systems)
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  • Open Access
583 Views
25 Pages

This paper investigates a distributed convex optimization problem whose objective contains three terms: a local smooth convex function, a local nonsmooth function, and a globally shared, possibly nonsmooth, nonseparable coupling function. To solve th...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,269 Views
21 Pages

13 April 2023

Gasoline is the primary fuel used in small cars, and the exhaust emissions from gasoline combustion have a significant impact on the atmosphere. Efforts to clean up gasoline have therefore focused primarily on reducing the olefin and sulfur content o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,532 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2023

In order to improve the prediction accuracy of gas emission in the mining face, a method combining least absolute value convergence and selection operator (LASSO), whale optimization algorithm (WOA), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) was propos...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,049 Views
27 Pages

5 December 2024

Wind farm layout optimization is essential to maximize the energy production of renewable energy systems. A new layout optimization method for offshore wind farms is proposed to minimize power deficits due to the wake effect without limitation on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Paper Collection in the Section ‘Energy Science and Technology’)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,531 Views
19 Pages

Comparison and Improvement of Bioinspired Mobile Algorithms to Trace the Emission Source Based on the Simulation Scenarios

  • Denglong Ma,
  • Guofang Xie,
  • Weigao Mao,
  • Jianmin Gao and ,
  • Hang Yi and
  • Dangchao Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 April 2022

Hazardous gas emissions may have serious consequences for surrounding residents and the environment. Bioinspired mobile robots equipped with gas sensors have the potential to become a solution for precisely tracking and locating emission sources. In...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
691 Views
26 Pages

Parametric Optimization of Spiked Blunt Bodies in Supersonic Flow Using Surrogate-Assisted Machine Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms

  • Jonathan Arturo Sánchez Muñoz,
  • Christian Lagarza-Cortés,
  • Jorge Ramírez-Cruz,
  • Juan Manuel Silva-Campos and
  • Gustavo Flores-Eraña

29 April 2026

This study presents a surrogate-assisted evolutionary optimization framework for parametric design under limited data conditions, integrating computational fluid dynamics (CFD), machine learning, and evolutionary algorithms to optimize spiked blunt b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hypersonic and Supersonic Flow Process and Control Method)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,448 Views
23 Pages

Fractal Dimension as a Criterion for the Optimal Design and Operation of Water Distribution Systems

  • Santiago Gómez,
  • Camilo Salcedo,
  • Laura González and
  • Juan Saldarriaga

28 April 2025

The fractal dimension is a non-Euclidean measurement of how a fractal fills space and how irregular that arrangement is. Water distribution systems are non-Euclidean fractals whose fractal dimensions have provided insight into mathematical models to...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,147 Views
17 Pages

Gradient Optimization Algorithm for Structural Optimization and Performance Analysis of the Solar Air Collector

  • Yaran Wang,
  • Yuran Zhang,
  • Fang Ji,
  • Wei Fan and ,
  • Yan Jiang,
  • Rui Zhao,
  • Jiaxuan Pu,
  • Zhihao He and
  • Shen Wei
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 March 2025

The solar air collector (SAC) is one of the key technologies for space heating, with various designs proposed to enhance heat collection, but increasing design complexity makes determining the optimal structure more challenging. In this paper, a grad...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,087 Views
28 Pages

7 April 2026

Non-convex stochastic optimization presents fundamental mathematical challenges across machine learning, wireless networks, data center resource allocation, and optical wireless communication systems, where complex loss landscapes with multiple local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,002 Views
16 Pages

Performance of Gradient-Based Optimizer on Charging Station Placement Problem

  • Essam H. Houssein,
  • Sanchari Deb,
  • Diego Oliva,
  • Hegazy Rezk and ,
  • Hesham Alhumade and
  • Mokhtar Said
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 November 2021

The electrification of transportation is necessary due to the expanded fuel cost and change in climate. The management of charging stations and their easy accessibility are the main concerns for receipting and accepting Electric Vehicles (EVs). The d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinspired Intelligent Algorithms for Optimization, Modeling and Control: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,268 Views
19 Pages

29 August 2025

Solar greenhouses are an important component of modern facility agriculture, and the dynamic changes in their internal environment directly affect crop growth and yield. Among these factors, crop transpiration releases water vapor through transpirati...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,637 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2024

Traffic sensors are vital to the development and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems, providing essential data for traffic monitoring, management, and transportation infrastructure planning. However, optimizing the placement of these sens...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,761 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2023

Powered parafoils, known for their impressive load-bearing capacity and extended endurance, have garnered significant interest. However, the parafoil system is a highly complex nonlinear system. It primarily relies on the steering gear to change flig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disruptive Trends in Automation Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,221 Views
17 Pages

Environmental Prediction Model of Solar Greenhouse Based on Improved Harris Hawks Optimization-CatBoost

  • Jie Yang,
  • Guihong Ren,
  • Yaxin Wang,
  • Qi Liu and ,
  • Jiamin Zhang,
  • Wenqi Wang,
  • Lingzhi Li and
  • Wuping Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

29 February 2024

Solar greenhouses provide a favorable climate environment for the production of counter-seasonal crops in northern China. The greenhouse environment is a key factor affecting crop growth, so accurate prediction of greenhouse environment changes helps...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and IoT for Promoting Green Operation and Sustainable Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,747 Views
18 Pages

Optimizing Latent Factors and Collaborative Filtering for Students’ Performance Prediction

  • Juan A. Gómez-Pulido,
  • Arturo Durán-Domínguez and
  • Francisco Pajuelo-Holguera

12 August 2020

The problem of predicting students’ performance has been recently tackled by using matrix factorization, a popular method applied for collaborative filtering based recommender systems. This problem consists of predicting the unknown performance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,683 Views
21 Pages

Transonic buffet is a phenomenon of large self-excited shock oscillations caused by shock wave-boundary layer interaction, which is one of the common flow instability problems in aeronautical engineering. This phenomenon involves unsteady flow, which...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
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  • Open Access
551 Views
26 Pages

A Hybrid ISSA-XGBoost Model for Predicting Wellbore Leakage

  • Kai Bai,
  • Jiaqi Chen,
  • Senlin Yin,
  • Chaojie Wei and ,
  • Yuzhou Yan and
  • Junjie Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 June 2026

As critical underground engineering structures, wellbores may suffer complex structural deterioration and hidden safety hazards may be encountered during drilling. Multi-source sensor monitoring data provides an effective data basis for structural he...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,613 Views
17 Pages

11 January 2025

With the advancement of autonomous driving technology, vehicle lane-change decision (LCD) has become a critical issue for improving driving safety and efficiency. Traditional deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods face challenges such as slow conv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Technologies and Models for Integrated Transportation and Intelligent Transportation Networks)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,943 Views
21 Pages

5 February 2023

In the field of adversarial attacks, the generative adversarial network (GAN) has shown better performance. There have been few studies applying it to malware sample supplementation, due to the complexity of handling discrete data. More importantly,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
867 Views
32 Pages

An Interdisciplinary Optimization Framework for Intelligent Robotic Workstation Base Placement

  • Arnoldo Fernandez-Ramirez,
  • Roxana Garcia-Andrade,
  • Nain de la Cruz,
  • Carlos Hernandez-Santos and ,
  • Amadeo Hernandez,
  • Elisa Urquizo-Barraza,
  • Enrique Cuan-Duron and
  • Alejandro Manzanares-Maldonado
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 May 2026

The optimal placement of robotic manipulators within industrial workstations is a critical problem that directly affects task feasibility, accessibility, and operational efficiency. Improper base positioning can lead to joint saturation, reduced mani...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interdisciplinary Approaches in Intelligent Engineering and Industrial Processes)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,562 Views
30 Pages

27 September 2025

This paper addresses the challenge of segmenting consumer behavior in contexts characterized by both numerical regularities and semantic variability. Traditional models, such as RFM-based segmentation, capture the transactional dimension but neglect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Numerical Algorithms and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,903 Views
30 Pages

Two-Stage Global–Local Aerodynamic/Stealth Optimization Method Based on Space Decomposition

  • Wei Zhang,
  • Lin Zhou,
  • Bowen Shu,
  • Xian Chen and ,
  • Zhenghong Gao and
  • Jiangtao Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The design of the flying wing airfoil must consider aerodynamic stealth and trim requirements, with their coupling exacerbating the complexity of the design problem by introducing multiple local minimum points in design space. In addition, it would n...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,666 Views
34 Pages

20 March 2025

The kinematic complexity and multi-actuator dependence of Delta-type manipulators render them vulnerable to performance degradation from faults. This study presents a novel approach to Active Fault-Tolerant Control (AFTC) for Delta-type parallel robo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing for Automatic Control and Measurement System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,059 Views
33 Pages

10 September 2025

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease that annually affects 100–400 million people worldwide. Early detection of dengue enables easy treatment planning and helps reduce mortality rates. This study proposes three Swarm-based Metaheurist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,476 Views
22 Pages

WSNs play a critical role in many applications that require network reliability, such as environmental monitoring, healthcare, and industrial automation. Thus, fault detection and self-healing are two effective mechanisms for addressing the challenge...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,258 Views
19 Pages

9 September 2020

We develop online graph learning algorithms from streaming network data. Our goal is to track the (possibly) time-varying network topology, and affect memory and computational savings by processing the data on-the-fly as they are acquired. The setup...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficient Graph Algorithms in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,363 Views
17 Pages

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Joint Low-Carbon Optimization for User-Side Shared Energy Storage–Distribution Networks

  • Lihua Zhong,
  • Tong Ye,
  • Yuyao Yang,
  • Feng Pan and ,
  • Lei Feng,
  • Shuzhe Qi and
  • Yuping Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 August 2024

As global energy demand rises and climate change poses an increasing threat, the development of sustainable, low-carbon energy solutions has become imperative. This study focuses on optimizing shared energy storage (SES) and distribution networks (DN...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,701 Views
16 Pages

Thermal expansion is inevitable for space structures under the alternating temperature of outer space around the earth. This may lead to the thermal stress and deformation due to the mismatch of the coefficient of thermal expansion. Near-zero thermal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Spacecraft/Satellite Technologies)
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  • Open Access
617 Views
12 Pages

16 April 2026

Efficient design of desalination and brine management systems, which are central to a water circular economy, requires accurate thermodynamic data such as the osmotic coefficient. This property is key to understanding salt behavior in aqueous solutio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water and Wastewater Treatment Futures: Sustainable Solutions for a Circular Economy)

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