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Background: Chest X-ray imaging is a widely used diagnostic modality for identifying various lung diseases. Accurate multiclass classification of lung diseases enables timely treatment and improves patient survival. However, disease detection using c...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,507 Views
32 Pages

Optimal Tuning of the Speed Control for Brushless DC Motor Based on Chaotic Online Differential Evolution

  • Alejandro Rodríguez-Molina,
  • Miguel Gabriel Villarreal-Cervantes,
  • Omar Serrano-Pérez,
  • José Solís-Romero and
  • Ramón Silva-Ortigoza

8 June 2022

The efficiency in the controller performance of a BLDC motor in an uncertain environment highly depends on the adaptability of the controller gains. In this paper, the chaotic adaptive tuning strategy for controller gains (CATSCG) is proposed for the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
502 Views
33 Pages

9 August 2026

Forecasting agricultural futures prices across multiple commodities remains highly challenging due to nonlinear price dynamics, strong market volatility, and complex cross-market and cross-commodity interactions. To address these issues, this paper p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Machine Learning: Methods, Theory, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,952 Views
15 Pages

Estimating the Highest Time-Step in Numerical Methods to Enhance the Optimization of Chaotic Oscillators

  • Martín Alejandro Valencia-Ponce,
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle and
  • Luis Gerardo de la Fraga

13 August 2021

The execution time that takes to perform numerical simulation of a chaotic oscillator mainly depends on the time-step h. This paper shows that the optimization of chaotic oscillators can be enhanced by estimating the highest h in either one-step or m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization Theory and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,423 Views
63 Pages

22 October 2023

Since its original publication in 1978, Lozi’s chaotic map has been thoroughly explored and continues to be. Hundreds of publications have analyzed its particular structure and applied its properties in many fields (e.g., improvement of physica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surveys in Algorithm Analysis and Complexity Theory, Part II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,876 Views
23 Pages

To address the challenges of slow convergence speed, poor convergence precision, and getting stuck in local optima for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) three-dimensional path planning, this paper proposes a path planning method based on an Improved Huma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,314 Views
14 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization of Laser Cladding Parameters for Remanufacturing Repair of Hydraulic Support Cylinders

  • Yanyan Wang,
  • Yuan Qiu,
  • Zhijun Li,
  • Jun Tian and ,
  • Anjun Li,
  • Jiahao Li and
  • Junfeng Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 July 2024

In order to obtain the optimal cladding process parameters for repairing the inner wall of the cylinder, 316L stainless steel powder was laser clad onto 27SiMn steel, which is the base material of the inner wall of the cylinder. The CCD (Central Comb...

(This article belongs to the Section High-Energy Beam Surface Engineering and Coatings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,240 Views
35 Pages

26 December 2025

To solve the limitations of single optimization algorithms, such as premature convergence, insufficient global exploration, and high susceptibility to local optima, a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm (HOA) based on multi-subpopulation collaboration and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ensemble Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning for Solving Complex Optimization and Scheduling Problems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,510 Views
34 Pages

6 June 2023

The economic emission dispatch problem (EEDP) is a nonconvex and nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problem in the power system field. Generally, fuel cost and total emissions of harmful gases are the problem objective functions. The EEDP decision...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,896 Views
23 Pages

On the Sizing of CMOS Operational Amplifiers by Applying Many-Objective Optimization Algorithms

  • Martín Alejandro Valencia-Ponce,
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle and
  • Luis Gerardo de la Fraga

17 December 2021

In CMOS integrated circuit (IC) design, operational amplifiers are one of the most useful active devices to enhance applications in analog signal processing, signal conditioning and so on. However, due to the CMOS technology downscaling, along the ve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
975 Views
19 Pages

Application of Improved Electromagnetism-like Mechanism Algorithm on Massive Remote Sensing Image Screening

  • Yingjie Fang,
  • Kun Liu,
  • Xun Zhang,
  • Gang Lin and ,
  • Huibing Wang,
  • Lina Dong and
  • Su Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 March 2025

In recent years, remote sensing data have gradually shown a trend towards big data. The cost of the efficient storage, transmission, and processing of multi-source massive remote sensing data is very high. In practical applications, it is usually nec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Computing and Remote Sensing—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,310 Views
29 Pages

A Hybrid Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Enhanced Performance

  • Zhengfeng Jiang,
  • Daoheng Zhu,
  • Xiao-Yu Li and
  • Ling-Bo Han

27 May 2025

The traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm often exhibits defects such as of slow convergence and easily falling into a local optimum. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes an enhanced variant featuring adaptive selection....

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
520 Views
16 Pages

Chaos-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of a Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Accurate Heart Disease Prediction

  • Zhiyi Song,
  • Jiaen Lin,
  • Aoqi Wang,
  • Yunlong Liu and ,
  • Mengen Li,
  • Guo Chen,
  • Zheng Xiang and
  • Yuhang Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

29 July 2026

In this paper, a hybrid machine learning approach is proposed for accurate prediction of heart disease. The features are categorized into numerical and categorical types, which are extracted independently by a deep neural network (DNN) and CatBoost,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,642 Views
22 Pages

Optimizing the Maximum Lyapunov Exponent of Fractional Order Chaotic Spherical System by Evolutionary Algorithms

  • Vincent-Ademola Adeyemi,
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle,
  • Francisco-Javier Perez-Pinal and
  • Jose-Cruz Nuñez-Perez

The main goal of this work is to optimize the chaotic behavior of a three-dimensional chaotic-spherical-attractor-generating fractional-order system and compare the results with its novel hyperchaotic counterpart. The fractional-order chaotic system...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,945 Views
22 Pages

Maximizing the Chaotic Behavior of Fractional Order Chen System by Evolutionary Algorithms

  • Jose-Cruz Nuñez-Perez,
  • Vincent-Ademola Adeyemi,
  • Yuma Sandoval-Ibarra,
  • Francisco-Javier Perez-Pinal and
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle

25 May 2021

This paper presents the application of three optimization algorithms to increase the chaotic behavior of the fractional order chaotic Chen system. This is achieved by optimizing the maximum Lyapunov exponent (MLE). The applied optimization techniques...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,170 Views
10 Pages

Optimizing the Kaplan–Yorke Dimension of Chaotic Oscillators Applying DE and PSO

  • Alejandro Silva-Juarez,
  • Gustavo Rodriguez-Gomez,
  • Luis Gerardo de la Fraga,
  • Omar Guillen-Fernandez and
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle

When a new chaotic oscillator is introduced, it must accomplish characteristics like guaranteeing the existence of a positive Lyapunov exponent and a high Kaplan–Yorke dimension. In some cases, the coefficients of a mathematical model can be va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,179 Views
22 Pages

20 September 2024

Traditional path planning algorithms typically focus only on path length, which fails to meet the low energy consumption requirements for wall-climbing robots in bridge inspection. This paper proposes an improved sparrow search algorithm based on log...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
154 Views
25 Pages

Offset-Driven Symmetric Chaos Evolution for Path Optimization

  • Mingzheng Wang,
  • Houqing Wang,
  • Yanchang Yao,
  • Jiayue Qian and
  • Yongxin Li

2 November 2026

Offset boosting enables spatial regulation of chaotic attractors, yet interactions among jointly regulated states and their computational value remain insufficiently explored. To connect correlated state regulation with intelligent search, this study...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamics Modeling, Chaos Theories and Nonlinear Control of Complex Systems: Complexity and AI-Driven to Hybrid and Distributed Computing Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,951 Views
18 Pages

8 May 2020

Inspired by the collective behavior of fish schools, the fish school search (FSS) algorithm is a technique for finding globally optimal solutions. The algorithm is characterized by its simplicity and high performance; FSS is computationally inexpensi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Application of Symmetry Group)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,677 Views
10 Pages

Chaotic Jaya Approaches to Solving Electromagnetic Optimization Benchmark Problems

  • Leandro dos S. Coelho,
  • Viviana C. Mariani,
  • Sotirios K. Goudos,
  • Achilles D. Boursianis and ,
  • Konstantinos Kokkinidis and
  • Nikolaos V. Kantartzis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 June 2021

The Jaya optimization algorithm is a simple, fast, robust, and powerful population-based stochastic metaheuristic that in recent years has been successfully applied in a variety of global optimization problems in various application fields. The essen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,819 Views
30 Pages

Weed Detection in Lily Fields Using YOLOv7 Optimized by Chaotic Harris Hawks Algorithm for Underground Resource Competition

  • Junjie Tang,
  • Huafei Wang,
  • Mingyue Zhao,
  • Ping Sun and ,
  • Yutao Hao and
  • Zhiyuan Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2025

Lilies, a key cash crop in Lanzhou, China, widely planted in coal-based fields, cultivated fields, and gardens, face significant yield and quality reduction due to weed infestation, which competes for essential nutrients, water, and light. To address...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,356 Views
15 Pages

10 August 2021

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown their superiority in military and civilian missions. In the face of complex tasks, many UAVs are usually needed to cooperate with each other. Therefore, multi-UAV cooperative target search has attracted more...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
4,696 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Adaptive Sparrow Search Algorithm Based on Chaotic Mapping and T-Distribution Mutation

  • Xiaoxu Yang,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Peng Xu and ,
  • Ling Yu,
  • Lei Zhu,
  • Huayue Chen and
  • Wu Deng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 November 2021

Aiming at the problems of the basic sparrow search algorithm (SSA) in terms of slow convergence speed and the ease of falling into the local optimum, the chaotic mapping strategy, adaptive weighting strategy and t-distribution mutation strategy are i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing Application to Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
357 Views
29 Pages

HDE-CGWO-Based Optimal Load Frequency Control for Nonlinear Power Systems

  • Yaya Li,
  • Qing Hu,
  • Xingyue Liu,
  • Yu Jiang and ,
  • Xuanqi Liao and
  • Kaibo Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2026

In modern power-system load frequency control (LFC), proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controllers are widely used because of their simple structure and ease of implementation. However, the combined effects of communication delay and...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
505 Views
22 Pages

19 January 2026

To improve the safety of road transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF), this paper proposes a novel approach for risk identification and chaotic synchronous control in SNF road transportation systems. Firstly, a dynamic risk evolution model for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,785 Views
30 Pages

To address the drawbacks of the traditional snake optimization method, such as a random population initialization, slow convergence speed, and low accuracy, an adaptive t-distribution mixed mutation snake optimization strategy is proposed. Initially,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
49 Pages

16 September 2026

Metaheuristic optimizers often suffer from premature convergence, diversity loss, and stagnation in complex search landscapes. This study proposes HCQ-SGuA, a plant-growth-inspired framework that strengthens the Sowing phase through structured popula...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,845 Views
25 Pages

Load Balancing Using Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Enabled Internet of Everything in Healthcare Domain

  • Ibrahim Aqeel,
  • Ibrahim Mohsen Khormi,
  • Surbhi Bhatia Khan,
  • Mohammed Shuaib and ,
  • Ahlam Almusharraf,
  • Shadab Alam and
  • Nora A. Alkhaldi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 June 2023

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its subsequent evolution into the Internet of Everything (IoE) is a result of the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, implementing these technologies comes with...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
669 Views
32 Pages

Ivy Optimization Algorithm Combining Sine–Cosine Operator and Adaptive T-Distribution and Its Engineering Application

  • Zhenkun Lu,
  • Jianyong Zhu,
  • Dingfeng Lu,
  • Hongze Lv and ,
  • Haolin Gan and
  • Zicong An
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The Ivy Optimization Algorithm (IVY) is a novel swarm intelligence optimization algorithm that simulates the phototropic growth mechanism of plants. To comprehensively improve the overall optimization performance, this paper proposes an enhanced Ivy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Biological and Bio-Inspired Algorithms: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,008 Views
32 Pages

An Extended Tissue-like P System Based on Membrane Systems and Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization for Image Segmentation

  • Lin Wang,
  • Xiyu Liu,
  • Jianhua Qu,
  • Yuzhen Zhao and ,
  • Zhenni Jiang and
  • Ning Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 January 2022

An extended membrane system using a tissue-like P system with evolutional symport/antiport rules and a promoter/inhibitor, which is based on the evolutionary mechanism of quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) and improved QPSO, named CQP...

(This article belongs to the Topic Bioreactors: Control, Optimization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2026

Recurrence analysis is a powerful tool for revealing the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of complex systems and identifying the wear states of friction systems. To investigate the influence of multiple factors—including sampling length, signa...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
498 Views
22 Pages

To address node redundancy and coverage holes in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployment, this paper proposes an Improved Northern Goshawk Optimization (INGO) algorithm with multiple enhancements. It integrates a Diverse Chaotic Map Initialization S...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,669 Views
18 Pages

The prediction of a stall precursor in an axial compressor is the basic guarantee to the stable operation of an aeroengine. How to predict and intelligently identify the instability of the system in advance is of great significance to the safety perf...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of Big Data and Deep Learning in Engineering Analysis and Design)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
37 Citations
16,371 Views
8 Pages

Forecasting and modeling time series is a crucial aspect of economic research for academics and business practitioners. The ability to predict the direction of stock prices is vital for creating an investment plan or determining the optimal time to m...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Mathematics and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,441 Views
24 Pages

30 August 2022

The rapid and accurate identification of photovoltaic (PV) model parameters is of great significance in solving practical engineering problems such as PV power prediction, maximum power point tracking and battery failure model recognition. Aiming at...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
204 Views
49 Pages

10 October 2026

Improvements to bio-inspired optimisers usually answer generic defects with generic operators. This paper instruments the red-billed blue magpie optimizer (RBMO) and measures what fails. Both operators scale their step by differences between populati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
600 Views
28 Pages

18 March 2026

Trajectory optimization of manipulators is crucial for achieving efficient, low-energy-consumption, and stable operation. The standard Chicken Swarm Optimization (CSO) algorithm and its variants tend to fall into local optima during optimization, mak...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
943 Views
36 Pages

A Novel Color Image Encryption Method Based on Hierarchical Surrogate-Assisted Optimization

  • Gao-Yuan Liu,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Hui-Qi Zhao,
  • Tian-Yu Gao and
  • Zhi-Yang Chen

29 November 2025

To address the limitations of traditional image encryption algorithms in key optimization and encryption quality assessment, in this paper we propose a framework for image encryption based on surrogate-assisted differential evolution. First, we const...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,321 Views
18 Pages

19 July 2025

Aiming at the problem that the aggravation of the wheel tread wear of high-speed trains leads to the deterioration of train operation performance and an increase in re-profiling times, a multi-objective data-driven optimization design method for the...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
732 Views
20 Pages

24 May 2026

To achieve an optimal trade-off between production efficiency and energy benefits in complex manufacturing environments, this paper addresses the Green Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (GFJSP) by establishing a multi-objective mathematical model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,217 Views
22 Pages

Improved Black Widow Spider Optimization Algorithm Integrating Multiple Strategies

  • Chenxin Wan,
  • Bitao He,
  • Yuancheng Fan,
  • Wei Tan and ,
  • Tao Qin and
  • Jing Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 November 2022

The black widow spider optimization algorithm (BWOA) had the problems of slow convergence speed and easily to falling into local optimum mode. To address these problems, this paper proposes a multi-strategy black widow spider optimization algorithm (...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods: Modeling, Simulations and Optimization of Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,159 Views
21 Pages

27 October 2023

The bamboo forest growth optimization (BFGO) algorithm combines the characteristics of the bamboo forest growth process with the optimization course of the algorithm. The algorithm performs well in dealing with optimization problems, but its exploita...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,329 Views
16 Pages

Differential Evolution in Robust Optimization Over Time Using a Survival Time Approach

  • José-Yaír Guzmán-Gaspar,
  • Efrén Mezura-Montes and
  • Saúl Domínguez-Isidro

This study presents an empirical comparison of the standard differential evolution (DE) against three random sampling methods to solve robust optimization over time problems with a survival time approach to analyze its viability and performance capac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,860 Views
64 Pages

In order to solve problems with the original crayfish optimization algorithm (COA), such as reduced diversity, local optimization, and insufficient convergence accuracy, a multi-strategy optimization algorithm for crayfish based on differential evolu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
606 Views
21 Pages

PID Tuning for Micro Screw Pumps Based on an Improved Spider Wasp Algorithm

  • Zhuanzhe Zhao,
  • Deao Shen,
  • Yongming Liu,
  • Zhibo Liu and
  • Huichuang Luo

To address the issues of large overshoot, slow response, poor stability, and suboptimal control performance of traditional PID algorithms caused by the nonlinear relationship between the rotational speed and output flow rate of micro screw pump motor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,309 Views
22 Pages

This paper proposes an improved Harris Hawks Optimization (IHHO) algorithm to enhance maximum power point tracking (MPPT) performance in photovoltaic (PV) systems operating under various conditions. The IHHO introduces Tent chaotic mapping to improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,806 Views
20 Pages

Path Planning of Spacecraft Cluster Orbit Reconstruction Based on ALPIO

  • Bing Hua,
  • Guang Yang,
  • Yunhua Wu and
  • Zhiming Chen

23 September 2022

An adaptive learning pigeon-inspired optimization based on mutation disturbance (ALPIO) is proposed for solving the problems of fuel consumption and threat avoidance in spacecraft cluster orbit reconstruction. First, considering the constraints of ma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
102 Citations
12,412 Views
25 Pages

6 April 2023

The multi-objective optimization problem is difficult to solve with conventional optimization methods and algorithms because there are conflicts among several optimization objectives and functions. Through the efforts of researchers and experts from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Natural Computing: Methods and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,043 Views
26 Pages

Composition Optimization of Coating Machine Oven Manufacturing Services Based on Improved Sparrow Search Algorithm

  • Zhenjie Gao,
  • Shanhui Liu,
  • Langze Zhu,
  • Chaoyang Li and ,
  • Yangzhen Cao and
  • Gan Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Aiming at the problem of the low collaborative efficiency of outsourced processing of coating machine oven parts under the network collaborative manufacturing mode, this paper proposes a composition optimization method for coating machine oven-manufa...

(This article belongs to the Section Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
893 Views
19 Pages

30 March 2026

Cold-atom absolute gravimeters are widely used for measuring the acceleration of gravity, yet their sensitivity is often limited by ground vibrations. Existing vibration compensation algorithms struggle to strike a balance between search accuracy and...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

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