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  • Open Access
13 Citations
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On the Periodic Solutions for the Perturbed Spatial Quantized Hill Problem

  • Elbaz I. Abouelmagd,
  • Sawsan Alhowaity,
  • Zouhair Diab,
  • Juan L. G. Guirao and
  • Mahmoud H. Shehata

17 February 2022

In this work, we investigated the differences and similarities among some perturbation approaches, such as the classical perturbation theory, Poincaré–Lindstedt technique, multiple scales method, the KB averaging method, and averaging th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,208 Views
15 Pages

We examine the modified Hill three-body problem by incorporating the oblateness of the primary body and focus on its asymptotic orbits. Specifically, we analyze and characterize homoclinic and heteroclinic connections associated with the collinear eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,092 Views
17 Pages

The current work performs a numerical study on periodic motions of the Hill three-body problem. In particular, by computing the stability of its basic planar families we determine vertical self-resonant (VSR) periodic orbits at which families of thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,519 Views
14 Pages

28 February 2023

This paper proposes a probabilistic hill-climbing algorithm, called PH, for the single-source transportation problem (STP). PH is a tree search algorithm in which each node contains an assignment problem (AP) transformed from the STP being solved. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,445 Views
16 Pages

Out-of-Plane Equilibrium Points in the Photogravitational Hill Three-Body Problem

  • Aguda E. Vincent,
  • George A. Tsirogiannis,
  • Angela E. Perdiou and
  • Vassilis S. Kalantonis

15 October 2024

This paper investigates the movement of a negligible mass body (third body) in the vicinity of the out-of-plane equilibrium points of the Hill three-body problem under the effect of radiation pressure of the primaries. We study the effect of the radi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,544 Views
13 Pages

24 September 2019

In this work, sufficient conditions for computing periodic solutions have been obtained in the circular Hill Problem with regard to arbitrary disturbing forces. This problem will be solved by means of using the averaging theory for dynamical systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,080 Views
13 Pages

In this work, we derived a new type model for spatial Hill’s system considering the created perturbation by the parameter effect of the continuation fractional potential. The new model is considered a reduced system from the restricted three-bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,835 Views
13 Pages

A Global Neighborhood with Hill-Climbing Algorithm for Fuzzy Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem

  • Juan Carlos Seck-Tuoh-Mora,
  • Nayeli Jazmín Escamilla-Serna,
  • Leonardo Javier Montiel-Arrieta,
  • Irving Barragan-Vite and
  • Joselito Medina-Marin

12 November 2022

The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSSP) continues to be studied extensively to test new metaheuristics and because of its closeness to current production systems. A variant of the FJSSP uses fuzzy processing times instead of fixed times. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,537 Views
26 Pages

9 June 2020

This paper considers the general lot sizing and scheduling problem with rich constraints exemplified by means of rework and lifetime constraints for defective items (GLSP-RP), which finds numerous applications in industrial settings, for example, the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,340 Views
33 Pages

The stability properties of the Hill equation are discussed, especially those of the Mathieu equation that characterize ion motion in electrodynamic traps. The solutions of the Mathieu-Hill equation for a trapped ion are characterized by employing th...

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  • Open Access
232 Views
16 Pages

29 December 2025

Safety is the most important requirement in flight operations. This also affects the application for an extreme lightweight glider in this paper. Essential properties are the target weight below 120 kg and the electric propulsion. The unsymmetric ine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,222 Views
13 Pages

16 September 2022

The paper is devoted to studying the behavior of solutions of the Cauchy problem for large values of time—more precisely, obtaining an asymptotic expansion characterizing the behavior of the solution of the Cauchy problem for a one-dimensional...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,026 Views
26 Pages

17 August 2022

The main goal of this article is to study the behavior of solutions of non-stationary problems at large timescales, namely, to obtain an asymptotic expansion characterizing the behavior of the solution of the Cauchy problem for a one-dimensional seco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,874 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2024

The artificial potential field algorithm has been widely applied to mobile robots and robotic arms due to its advantage of enabling simple and efficient path planning in unknown environments. However, solving the local minimum problem is an essential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,887 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of Equilibrium Points in Quantized Hill System

  • Abdullah A. Ansari,
  • Sawsan Alhowaity,
  • Elbaz I. Abouelmagd and
  • Shiv K. Sahdev

23 June 2022

In this work, the quantized Hill problem is considered in order for us to study the existence and stability of equilibrium points. In particular, we have studied three different cases which give all whole possible locations in which two points are em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,325 Views
27 Pages

The paper presents a neuro-evolutionary algorithm called Hill Climb Assembler Encoding (HCAE) which is a light variant of Hill Climb Modular Assembler Encoding (HCMAE). While HCMAE, as the name implies, is dedicated to modular neural networks, the ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,221 Views
19 Pages

Dynamical Properties of Perturbed Hill’s System

  • Mohammed K. Ibrahim,
  • Taha Rabeh and
  • Elbaz I. Abouelmagd

In this work, some dynamical properties of Hill’s system are studied under the effect of continued fraction perturbation. The locations and kinds of equilibrium points are identified, and it is demonstrated that these points are saddle points a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
824 Views
19 Pages

Criterion of the Existence of a Strongly Continuous Resolving Family for a Fractional Differential Equation with the Hilfer Derivative

  • Vladimir E. Fedorov,
  • Wei-Shih Du,
  • Marko Kostić,
  • Marina V. Plekhanova and
  • Anton S. Skorynin

In the qualitative theory of differential equations in Banach spaces, the resolving families of operators of such equations play an important role. We obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of strongly continuous resolving fam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,961 Views
22 Pages

Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning Prediction of Fog-Caused Low-Visibility Events at A-8 Motor-Road in Spain

  • Sara Cornejo-Bueno,
  • David Casillas-Pérez,
  • Laura Cornejo-Bueno,
  • Mihaela I. Chidean,
  • Antonio J. Caamaño,
  • Elena Cerro-Prada,
  • Carlos Casanova-Mateo and
  • Sancho Salcedo-Sanz

This work presents a full statistical analysis and accurate prediction of low-visibility events due to fog, at the A-8 motor-road in Mondoñedo (Galicia, Spain). The present analysis covers two years of study, considering visibility time series and ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,458 Views
17 Pages

23 January 2024

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a vital role in various fields, but ensuring optimal coverage poses a significant challenge due to the limited energy resources that constrain sensor nodes. To address this issue, this paper presents a novel appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,437 Views
37 Pages

27 April 2020

Variable Mesh Optimization with Niching (VMO-N) is a framework for multimodal problems (those with multiple optima at several search subspaces). Its only two instances are restricted though. Being a potent multimodal optimizer, the Hill-Valley Evolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,367 Views
12 Pages

Fitting Parameters of a Modified Hill’s Equation and Their Influence on the Shape of the Model Hemoglobin Oxygenation Curve

  • Igor A. Lavrinenko,
  • Gennady A. Vashanov,
  • José L. Hernández Cáceres and
  • Yury D. Nechipurenko

28 February 2023

Oxygen binds to hemoglobin cooperatively, and a correct description of this binding is relevant not only for understanding the mechanisms of involved molecular processes but also for clinical purposes. Hill’s equation, derived over a hundred ye...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,391 Views
22 Pages

19 August 2022

Exposed mine gangue hills are prone to environmental problems such as soil erosion, surface water pollution, and dust. Revegetation of gangue hills can effectively combat the problem. Effective ground cover monitoring means can significantly improve...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,807 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2018

Hill’s quadratic orthotropic yield criterion is used for revealing the effect of plastic anisotropy on the distribution of stresses and strains within rotating annular polar orthotropic disks of constant thickness under plane stress. The associ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,516 Views
16 Pages

4 February 2020

Overcoming terrain obstacles presents a major problem for people with disabilities or with limited mobility who are dependent on wheelchairs. An engineering solution designed to facilitate the use of wheelchairs are assisted-propulsion systems. The o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
833 Views
17 Pages

Hille–Yosida-Type Theorem for Fractional Differential Equations with Dzhrbashyan–Nersesyan Derivative

  • Vladimir E. Fedorov,
  • Wei-Shih Du,
  • Marko Kostić,
  • Marina V. Plekhanova and
  • Darya V. Melekhina

It is a well-known fact that the Dzhrbashyan–Nersesyan fractional derivative includes as particular cases the fractional derivatives of Riemann–Liouville, Gerasimov–Caputo, and Hilfer. The notion of resolving a family of operators f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,924 Views
12 Pages

24 January 2021

Rigid plastic material models are suitable for modeling metal forming processes at large strains where elastic effects are negligible. A distinguished feature of many models of this class is that the velocity field is describable by non-differentiabl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,582 Views
16 Pages

9 August 2024

During the third millennium cal BC, the Indus communities exploited great quantities of chert from the Rohri Hills mines in Upper Sindh for making different types of artifacts. This paper discusses the way chert was transported to the Indus Civilizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,218 Views
15 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Step Size Determination for Hill Climbing Metaheuristics

  • Sándor Szénási,
  • Gábor Légrádi and
  • Gábor Kovács

21 May 2025

Machine Learning-assisted metaheuristics is a new and promising research topic, combining the advantages of both method families. Metaheuristics are widely used general problem solvers that can be fine-tuned by prior knowledge about the search space;...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,237 Views
15 Pages

An Exact Axisymmetric Solution in Anisotropic Plasticity

  • Yaroslav Erisov,
  • Sergei Surudin,
  • Fedor Grechnikov and
  • Elena Lyamina

8 May 2021

A hollow cylinder of incompressible material obeying Hill’s orthotropic quadratic yield criterion and its associated flow rule is contracted on a rigid cylinder inserted in its hole. Friction occurs at the contact surface between the hollow and solid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,280 Views
12 Pages

Soil Seed Bank in a Pre-Erosion Cereal-Grass Crop Rotation

  • Regina Skuodienė and
  • Vilija Matyžiūtė

7 October 2022

Soil erosion by water is a serious environmental problem. It is very important to form agrophytocenosis, which is productive on hilly terrain and could effectively protect the soil from erosion. The aim of the study was to examine the impact of a hil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,152 Views
15 Pages

13 September 2021

The upper bound theorem is used in conjunction with Hill’s quadratic yield criterion for determining the force required to upset a solid cylinder. The kinematically admissible velocity field accounts for the singular behavior of the real velocity fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,727 Views
13 Pages

Drinking Water Investigation of Hill Tribes: A Case Study in Northern Thailand

  • Suntorn Sudsandee,
  • Krailak Fakkaew,
  • Vivat Keawdounglek,
  • Pussadee Laor,
  • Suwalee Worakhunpiset and
  • Tawatchai Apidechkul

Hill tribes are a group of people who live in remote areas in northern Thailand. They typically use untreated water for drinking, that can lead several health problems. The six main hill tribes—Akha, Hmong, Karen, Lahu, Lisu, and Yao—were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,880 Views
18 Pages

Decay Properties for Transmission System with Infinite Memory and Distributed Delay

  • Hicham Saber,
  • Abdelkader Braik,
  • Noureddine Bahri,
  • Abderrahmane Beniani,
  • Tariq Alraqad,
  • Yousef Jawarneh and
  • Khaled Zennir

We consider a damped transmission problem in a bounded domain where the damping is effective in a neighborhood of a suitable subset of the boundary. Using the semigroup approach together with Hille–Yosida theorem, we prove the existence and uni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,701 Views
9 Pages

New Criteria of Oscillation for Linear Sturm–Liouville Delay Noncanonical Dynamic Equations

  • Taher S. Hassan,
  • Martin Bohner,
  • Iambor Loredana Florentina,
  • Amir Abdel Menaem and
  • Mouataz Billah Mesmouli

1 December 2023

In this work, we deduce a new criterion that guarantees the oscillation of solutions to linear Sturm–Liouville delay noncanonical dynamic equations; these results emulate the criteria of the Hille and Ohriska types for canonical dynamic equatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
9,752 Views
12 Pages

5 August 2020

Over the last thirty years, Bangladesh has been experiencing hill cutting problems and subsequent landslide occurrence in its southeastern hilly region. Since 2000, landslides have caused over 500 deaths, mostly in informal settlements in southeast B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,304 Views
21 Pages

Hydrocarbon Charging and Accumulation in the Permian Reservoirs of the Wumaying Buried Hill, Huanghua Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

  • Runze Yang,
  • Xianzheng Zhao,
  • Changyi Zhao,
  • Xiugang Pu,
  • Haitao Liu,
  • Hongjun Li,
  • Lixin Fu and
  • Ying Tang

3 December 2021

The Wumaying buried hill experienced multi-stage tectonic movements, which resulted in a complicated and unclear nature of the hydrocarbon accumulation process. To solve these problems, in this study—based on the structural evolution and burial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,468 Views
30 Pages

16 February 2023

The cooperative positioning problem of hypersonic vehicles regarding LEO constellations is the focus of this research study on space-based early warning systems. A hypersonic vehicle is highly maneuverable, and its trajectory is uncertain. New challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
659 Views
14 Pages

Modeling Local Search Metaheuristics Using Markov Decision Processes

  • Rubén Ruiz-Torrubiano,
  • Deepak Dhungana,
  • Sarita Paudel and
  • Himanshu Buckchash

14 August 2025

Local search metaheuristics like tabu search or simulated annealing are popular heuristic optimization algorithms for finding near-optimal solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. However, it is still challenging for researchers and practit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
4,893 Views
35 Pages

20 September 2020

Many scientific papers are devoted to solving multi-criteria problems. Researchers solve these problems, usually using methods that find discrete solutions and with the collaboration of domain experts. In both symmetrical and asymmetrical problems, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
169 Citations
10,614 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2020

In this paper, we study an electric vehicle routing problem while considering the constraints on battery life and battery swapping stations. We first introduce a comprehensive model consisting of speed, load and distance to measure the energy consump...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,323 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2018

CO2 and N2 injection is an effective enhanced oil recovery technology in the oilfield especially for low-permeability and extra low-permeability reservoirs. However, these processes can induce an asphaltene deposition during oil production. Asphalten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,779 Views
15 Pages

7 May 2019

Soil erosion is a severe environmental problem worldwide as it washes away the fertile topsoil and reduces agricultural production. Nepal, being a hilly country, has significant erosion disputes as well. It is important to cognise the soil erosion pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,787 Views
24 Pages

29 December 2014

In order to maintain the stability and security of the power system, the uncertainty and intermittency of wind power must be taken into account in economic dispatch (ED) problems. In this paper, a dynamic economic dispatch (DED) model based on chance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,793 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimisation of the Benchmark Wind Farm Layout Problem

  • Pawel L. Manikowski,
  • David J. Walker and
  • Matthew J. Craven

3 December 2021

Wind farm layout optimisation has become a very challenging and widespread problem in recent years. In many publications, the main goal is to achieve the maximum power output and minimum wind farm cost. This may be accomplished by applying single or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,637 Views
19 Pages

28 November 2023

Complex hierarchical structures and diverse personnel mobility pose challenges for many multi-level organizations. The difficulty of reasonable human resource planning in multi-level organizations is mainly caused by ignoring the hierarchical structu...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,214 Views
12 Pages

31 January 2023

In this paper, we consider the relative motion of a follower spacecraft orbiting the Earth in a near circular orbit with respect to a leader spacecraft. The relative orbital motion-control problem of the follower spacecraft is studied here. In order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,157 Views
20 Pages

A Simulated Annealing Approach for the Homogeneous Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

  • Dalia Vanessa Arce-Ortega,
  • Federico Alonso-Pecina,
  • Marco Antonio Cruz-Chávez and
  • Jesús del Carmen Peralta-Abarca

7 October 2025

This study addresses the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) known to be NP-hard. In this problem, a set of customers with varying demands is considered. To solve the problem, routes were generated for several vehicles with identical capacity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,379 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2014

Increasing and sustainable production of rice in tropical hill area is facing various problems where rice ratooning can overcome the limitations. In this study; 22 rice entries were transplanted into experimental tank placed in the hill slope followi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,924 Views
15 Pages

Study on the Solid Production Mechanism of the Fractured Granite Reservoirs-Example of YL Area in Qiongdongnan Basin

  • Xiongdi Zuo,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Lanling Shi,
  • Lei Lei,
  • Jian Wu,
  • Liangbin Dou and
  • Tiantai Li

1 December 2022

The granite buried hill gas reservoir in YL area of Qiongdongnan basin faces a serious problem of solid production, which seriously affects gas well production and reduces economic benefits; however, the solid production mechanism of fractured granit...

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