With the development of infrared detection and imaging technology, infrared cameras (IRCs) play an important role in many fields, such as military, industry, and civilian. Additionally, the requirements for the size, performance, and intelligence of...
As space systems evolve towards cis-lunar missions and beyond, the demand for precise yet low-size, -weight, and -power (SWaP) clocks and synchronization methods becomes increasingly critical. We introduce a novel clock synchronization approach based...
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) increasingly rely on vision-based perception for safe navigation and maritime surveillance, while onboard computing is constrained by strict size, weight, and power (SWaP) budgets. Although deep convolutional neural n...
The memory demand of modern applications has been rapidly increasing with the continuous growth of data volume across industrial and academic domains. As a result, computing devices (i.e., IoT devices, smartphones, and tablets) often experience memor...
Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (micro-UAVs) require compact radar arrays under severe Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) constraints. Spread Spectrum Digital Beamforming (SSDBF) reduces receiver hardware by multiplexing multiple antenna channels...
Lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have limited space, low payload capacity, and constrained power supply capabilities. Therefore, their payloads are constrained by size, weight, and power (SWaP). Thus, designing edge-side signal processing...
Orbital remote sensing platforms increasingly rely on CNN-based object detection for real-time situational awareness. However, deploying these models on spaceborne edge devices is challenging because of stringent Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constr...
Despite the rapid expansion of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications across precision agriculture, logistics, infrastructure inspection, disaster response, and aerial surveying, objective and quantitative hardware evaluation criteria for UAV com...
This paper studies the effect of variance swap in hedging volatility risk under the mean-variance criterion. We consider two mean-variance portfolio selection problems under Heston’s stochastic volatility model. In the first problem, the financ...
Light electric vehicles within the L category are expected to play a significant role in promoting sustainable urban transport, advantageous for both society and the environment. The batteries in these vehicles are well suited for swapping, necessita...
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Background: The sector-wide approach (SWAp) is an instrument of cooperation between external development partners (EDPs) and the government of a country. Its main purpose is the coordination, alignment and harmonisation of activities between EDPs and...
Applying battery electric buses (BEBs) in the city is a good means to reduce the increasing greenhouse gas emissions and crude oil dependence. Limited by the driving range and charging time, battery swap station seems to be the best option for batter...
The popular replication formula to price variance swaps assumes continuity of traded option strikes. In practice, however, there is only a discrete set of option strikes traded on the market. We present here different discrete replication strategies...
Swap is a financial contract between two counterparties who agree to exchange one cash flow stream for another, according to some predetermined rules. When the cash flows are fixed rate interest and floating rate interest, the swap is called an inter...
The flash translation layer (FTL) in SSDs introduces logical-to-physical address mapping, but this mapping alters data layout, leading to performance degradation. This issue is particularly evident in the Linux swap subsystem. While SSDs offer higher...
Intercropping is a common cultivation system in sustainable agriculture, allowing crop diversity and better soil surface exploitation. Simulation of intercropped plants with integrated soil–plant–atmosphere models is a challenging procedu...
Idle batteries in the battery swap stations (BSSs) of electric vehicles (EVs) can be used as regulated power sources. Considering the battery swap service and the frequency regulation (FR) service, this paper establishes a model of BSS cluster partic...
Indonesia is the largest producer of palm oil; it is essential to manage its palm oil industry in a sustainable manner through swapping the oil palm plantation in peatland to mineral soil to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. This study employed th...
Free space optical technology promises to revolutionize point-to-point communications systems. By taking advantage of their vastly higher frequencies, coherent optical systems outperform their radio counterparts by orders of magnitude in achievable d...
In today’s volatile supply chain environment, organizations require flexible and collaborative procurement strategies. Swap contracts, originally developed as financial instruments, have recently been adopted to address inventory imbalances&mda...
The proliferation of “Deep fake” technologies, particularly those facilitating face-swapping in images or videos, poses significant challenges and opportunities in digital media manipulation. Despite considerable advancements, existing me...
In the short time to maturity limit, it is proved that for the conditionally lognormal SABR model the zero vanna implied volatility is a lower bound for the volatility swap strike. The result is valid for all values of the correlation parameter and i...
With the rapid advances in mobile app technologies, new activities using smartphones emerge every day including social network and location-based services. However, smartphones experience problems in handling high priority tasks, and often close apps...
We initiate the study of the destruction or adversary model (Kliemann 2010) using the swap equilibrium (SE) stability concept (Alon et al., 2010). The destruction model is a network formation game incorporating the robustness of a network under a mor...
The cross fusion of quantum mechanics and information science forms quantum information science. Quantum logic gates and quantum entanglement are very important building blocks in quantum information processing. In this paper, we propose one-step sch...
Given economic downturns and environmental concerns, promoting innovative consumption patterns is urgently needed. Swap is a promising collaborative consumption pattern that redistributes ownership of goods without using money. In the past, no resear...
The grid ancillary service capability of bus swapping stations (BSSs) is significantly affected by environmental temperature fluctuations and the disorderly charging and discharging of batteries. This study addressed these challenges by developing a...
Current private comparison schemes primarily focus on comparing single secret integers using quantum technologies, while the area of private array content comparison remains relatively unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce a quantum private ar...
This study presents an innovative financial model that integrates the debt-for-climate swap mechanism with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, specifically designed to support Africa’s transition to clean energy. The model connects debt-for-clima...
Swap charging (SC) technology offers the possibility of swapping the batteries of electric vehicles (EVs), providing a perfect solution for achieving a long-distance freeway trip. Based on SC technology, a shared SC system (SSCS) concept is proposed...
Surpervoxels are becoming increasingly popular in many point cloud processing applications. However, few methods have been devised specifically for generating compact supervoxels from unstructured three-dimensional (3D) point clouds. In this study, w...
The driving range and replenishment problem of electric vehicles have become the main contradictions that interfere with consumers’ purchasing decisions. To alleviate these problems, battery-swap technology has been introduced into the public v...
Credit default swap (CDS) spreads measure the default risk of the reference entity and have been frequently used in recent empirical papers. To provide a rigorous econometrics foundation for empirical CDS analysis, this paper applies the augmented Di...
Model-based simulation of farmland evapotranspiration and crop growth facilitates precise monitoring of crop and farmland dynamics with high efficiency, real-time responsiveness, and continuity. However, there are still significant limitations in usi...
Face swapping is commonly assumed to act locally on the face region, which motivates placing watermarks away from the face to preserve the integrity of the face. We demonstrate that this assumption is violated in practice. Using a region-aware protoc...
The development of electric delivery trucks has attracted much attention in recent years. The purpose of this study is to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the total cost of ownership (TCO) of light-duty and medium-duty diesel trucks (DTs...
K-Means is a “de facto” standard clustering algorithm due to its simplicity and efficiency. K-Means, though, strongly depends on the initialization of the centroids (seeding method) and often gets stuck in a local sub-optimal solution. K-...
Microgrids have increased in popularity thanks to both the integration of renewable energy resources and their energy distribution capability for remote locations. Moreover, the microgrids, mainly using multiple generators connected in parallel, acqu...
Mixup is a data augmentation technique that improves prediction accuracy in classification tasks by combining representations of training samples, which makes it particularly effective in settings with limited data and during fine-tuning for downstre...
Against the background of the global low-carbon transformation, battery charging and battery swap (BaaS) have become two mainstream energy replenishment modes for battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Existing studies lack comparative Stackelberg game an...
Lithium-ion battery (LIB) wireless charging using inductive power transfer (IPT) represents a transformative pathway for transportation electrification. While applications in railway systems remain limited, early studies highlight significant promise...
This paper presents a novel approach for providing a mobile battery swapping service for electric vehicles (EVs) that is provided by a mobile battery swapping van. This battery swapping van can carry many fully charged batteries and drive up to an EV...
This study analyzes the term structures of sovereign quanto credit default swap (CDS) spreads and currency options, which are driven by anticipated currency depreciation risk following sovereign credit default (Twin Ds). We develop consistent pricing...
Meteorological droughts are natural disasters that have been linked to economic losses and casualties. Decision-makers need to understand the temporal and spatial variation of meteorological drought events at a daily to weekly scale to develop a more...
During the search for S-boxes resistant to Power Attacks, the S-box space has recently been divided into Hamming Weight classes, according to its theoretical resistance to these attacks using the metric variance of the confusion coefficient. This par...
Private array equality comparison (PAEC) aims to evaluate whether two arrays are equal while maintaining the confidentiality of their elements. Current private comparison protocols predominantly focus on determining the relationships of secret intege...
Entanglement swapping is gaining widespread attention due to its application in entanglement distribution among different parts of quantum appliances. We investigate the entanglement swapping for pure and noisy systems, and argue different entangleme...
Laser space networks are an important development direction for inter-satellite communication. Detecting the angle of arrival (AOA) of multiple satellites in a wide field of view (FOV) is the key to realize inter-satellite laser communication network...
Battery applications, such as electric vehicles, electric propulsion ships, and energy storage systems, are developing rapidly, and battery management issues are gaining attention. In this application field, a battery system with a high capacity and...
This paper aimed to investigate the drivers of sovereign credit risk spreads changes in the case of four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, namely Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Bahrain. Specifically,...
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