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15 Citations
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12 June 2020

In this paper, we study the problem of developing new combinatorial generation algorithms. The main purpose of our research is to derive and improve general methods for developing combinatorial generation algorithms. We present basic general methods...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Novel Approaches in Discrete Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,909 Views
30 Pages

28 July 2014

We discuss the use of the Newton method in the computation of max(p → Εp [f]), where p belongs to a statistical exponential family on a finite state space. In a number of papers, the authors have applied first order search methods based on informatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,970 Views
27 Pages

26 May 2023

Methods of combinatorial generation make it possible to develop algorithms for generating objects from a set of discrete structures with given parameters and properties. In this article, we demonstrate the possibilities of using the method based on A...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Combinatorial Optimization, Graph, and Network Algorithms)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,961 Views
16 Pages

8 June 2016

Combinatorial method/high throughput strategies, which have long been used in the pharmaceutical industry, have recently been applied to hydrogel optimization for tissue engineering applications. Although many combinatorial methods have been develope...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrogels in Tissue Engineering)
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  • Open Access
967 Views
15 Pages

5 September 2025

A single circular DNA or polypeptide strand can be used to construct nanostructures based on the mathematical concept of strong traces. It is known that if a special face graph of a 2-connected plane graph G is a tree, then G has a thickened graph F(...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,625 Views
13 Pages

Teaching Combinatorial Principles Using Relations through the Placemat Method

  • Viliam Ďuriš,
  • Gabriela Pavlovičová,
  • Dalibor Gonda and
  • Anna Tirpáková

2 August 2021

The presented paper is devoted to an innovative way of teaching mathematics, specifically the subject combinatorics in high schools. This is because combinatorics is closely connected with the beginnings of informatics and several other scientific di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Powerful Ideas for Enriching School Mathematical Learning)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,196 Views
11 Pages

27 March 2025

This paper presents a combinatorial perspective on evaluating the permanent for a rectangular matrix. It proves that the permanent can be computed using the permanents of its largest square submatrices. The proof employs a structured combinatorial me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,864 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2017

It is shown that complex-valued boundary value problems for several classes of recurrent relations with two independent variables, of some considerable interest, are solvable on the following domain: C = { ( n , k ) : 0 ≤ k ≤ n , k ∈ N 0 , n ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry: Feature Papers 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,238 Views
20 Pages

3 December 2023

A novel approach was developed that combined LP-based row generation with optimization-based sorting to tackle computational challenges posed by budget allocation problems with combinatorial constraints. The proposed approach dynamically generated co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,660 Views
7 Pages

22 January 2019

In this paper, a new non-linear recursive sequence is firstly introduced. Then, using this sequence, a computational problem involving the convolution of the Legendre polynomial is studied using the basic and combinatorial methods. Finally, we give a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Polynomials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,745 Views
7 Pages

7 September 2019

In this paper, a second-order nonlinear recursive sequence M ( h , i ) is studied. By using this sequence, the properties of the power series, and the combinatorial methods, some interesting symmetry identities of the structural properties of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with Their Applications Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,285 Views
6 Pages

4 December 2018

In this paper, we first introduce a new second-order non-linear recursive polynomials U h , i ( x ) , and then use these recursive polynomials, the properties of the power series and the combinatorial methods to prove some identities inv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Polynomials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,230 Views
9 Pages

8 January 2019

The main purpose of this paper is using the elementary and combinatorial methods to study the properties of the Catalan numbers, and give two new identities for them. In order to do this, we first introduce two new recursive sequences, then with the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,145 Views
8 Pages

18 December 2018

The aim of this paper is to research the structural properties of the Fibonacci polynomials and Fibonacci numbers and obtain some identities. To achieve this purpose, we first introduce a new second-order nonlinear recursive sequence. Then, we obtain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Polynomials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,837 Views
8 Pages

7 November 2018

In this paper, firstly, we introduced a second order non-linear recursive sequence, then we use this sequence and the combinatorial methods to perform a deep study on the computational problem concerning one kind sums, which includes the Chebyshev po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
13,422 Views
47 Pages

Proof-of-Useful-Work: BlockChain Mining by Solving Real-Life Optimization Problems

  • Milan Todorović,
  • Luka Matijević,
  • Dušan Ramljak,
  • Tatjana Davidović and ,
  • Dragan Urošević,
  • Tatjana Jakšić Krüger and
  • Đorđe Jovanović
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 September 2022

Blockchains (BCs) are distributed database systems, popular for their innovative, unsupervised maintenance process. They use a so-called consensus protocol to prevent inference by any third party of absolute trust. Security, privacy, consistency, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multidisciplinary Exploration for Symmetric Key Cryptography and Blockchain Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,823 Views
29 Pages

12 January 2023

This study addresses the problem of selecting the conductor sizes for medium-voltage distribution networks with radial configurations. The optimization model that represents this problem is part of the mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge and Project Management Peculiarities in Energy Sources and Energy Consumption)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,488 Views
17 Pages

The optimal combinatorial parameters of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) mediated by methylene blue (MB) with the addition of potassium iodide (KI) against Candida species have never been defined. This study aimed to optimize the combinatori...

(This article belongs to the Section Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,835 Views
17 Pages

22 November 2019

Dividing the responsibility of harmonics between customer and utility sides is necessary to improve the objectivity, rationality, and scientificalness of power measurement and power quality evaluation. On the basis of expert experience and customer n...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
452 Views
13 Pages

Existence of Multiple Solutions to a Transmission Problem

  • Yue Wang,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Chunliu Chen and
  • Zonghong Xiong

15 June 2026

The transmission problem has emerged as an important component in various application fields, including industry, agriculture, and commerce. Simultaneously, it is also one of the most common challenges encountered in daily activities such as eating,...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,565 Views
31 Pages

8 October 2023

Current research applies an energy-based design model to improve performance in existing modern buildings, in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1940’s, improving these buildings’ shading systems. This article proposes a methodology tested through...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Adaptability of Residential Planning and Design to World-Changing Events)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,052 Views
28 Pages

Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization of Trigeneration Plants Based on Metaheuristics

  • Mirko M. Stojiljković,
  • Mladen M. Stojiljković and
  • Bratislav D. Blagojević

22 December 2014

In this paper, a methodology for multi-objective optimization of trigeneration plants is presented. It is primarily applicable to the systems for buildings’ energy supply characterized by high load variations on daily, weekly and annual bases, as wel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from ECOS 2014 — the 27st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,160 Views
18 Pages

Tendency of Runoff and Sediment Variety and Multiple Time Scale Wavelet Analysis in Hongze Lake during 1975–2015

  • Yu Duan,
  • Guobin Xu,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Yijun Liu and ,
  • Shixiong Zhao and
  • Xianlu Fan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 April 2020

Hongze Lake plays a key role in flood and waterlogging prevention, analyzing the variation process and characteristics of multi-time scales will have a great practical significance to water resources management and regulation in the Huaihe River basi...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,632 Views
20 Pages

25 February 2020

The graph coloring problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem and can be applied to various engineering applications. The chromatic number of a graph G is defined as the minimum number of colors required to color the vertex set V(G) so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph-Theoretic Problems and Their New Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,222 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Modified Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm to Solve the Operations Sequencing Problem in CAPP Systems

  • Oscar Alberto Alvarez-Flores,
  • Raúl Rivera-Blas,
  • Luis Armando Flores-Herrera,
  • Emmanuel Zenén Rivera-Blas and ,
  • Miguel Angel Funes-Lora and
  • Paola Andrea Niño-Suárez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 June 2024

Operation Sequencing (OS) is one of the most critical tasks in a CAPP system. This process could be modelled as a combinatorial problem where finding a suitable solution within a reasonable time interval is difficult. This work implements a novel Dis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Combinatorial Optimization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,144 Views
18 Pages

Estimation of Land Surface Heat Fluxes Based on Landsat 7 ETM+ Data and Field Measurements over the Northern Tibetan Plateau

  • Nan Ge,
  • Lei Zhong,
  • Yaoming Ma,
  • Meilin Cheng and ,
  • Xian Wang,
  • Mijun Zou and
  • Ziyu Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 December 2019

Land surface heat fluxes consist of the net radiation flux, soil heat flux, sensible heat flux, and latent heat flux. The estimation of these fluxes is essential to the study of energy transfer in land–atmosphere systems. In this paper, Landsat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Observations, Modeling, and Impacts of Climate Extremes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,453 Views
15 Pages

Dynamic Hierarchical Energy-Efficient Method Based on Combinatorial Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Yuchao Chang,
  • Hongying Tang,
  • Yongbo Cheng,
  • Qin Zhao and
  • Baoqing Li andXiaobing Yuan

19 July 2017

Routing protocols based on topology control are significantly important for improving network longevity in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Traditionally, some WSN routing protocols distribute uneven network traffic load to sensor nodes, which is not...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms for Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,784 Views
14 Pages

10 December 2020

The preliminary task of a project consists of the definition of the scenarios that will guide further development work and validate the results. In this paper, we present an approach for the systematic generation of validation scenarios using a speci...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
2,461 Views
22 Pages

Interpretable Combinatorial Machine Learning-Based Shale Fracability Evaluation Methods

  • Di Wang,
  • Dingyu Jiao,
  • Zihang Zhang,
  • Runze Zhou and ,
  • Weize Guo and
  • Huai Su
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 January 2025

Shale gas, as an important unconventional hydrocarbon resource, has attracted much attention due to its great potential and the need for energy diversification. However, shale gas reservoirs with low permeability and low porosity pose challenges for...

(This article belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,924 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2023

The construction of large bridges requires significant natural resource consumption and causes widespread environmental damage, violating the concept of sustainable development. Therefore, it is necessary to build a comprehensive evaluation system fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,371 Views
23 Pages

A Space Telescope Scheduling Approach Combining Observation Priority Coding with Problem Decomposition Strategies

  • Kaiyuan Zhang,
  • Bao-Lin Ye,
  • Xiaoyun Xia,
  • Zijia Wang and ,
  • Xianchao Zhang and
  • Hai Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2024

With the increasing number of space debris, the demand for telescopes to observe space debris is also constantly increasing. The telescope observation scheduling problem requires algorithms to schedule telescopes to maximize observation value within...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,858 Views
19 Pages

With the rapid development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry, various issues, such as the suboptimal deployment of charging facilities and inadequate distribution, hinder improvements in user satisfaction with EVs. Moreover, the interests of mult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Charging Strategies for Plug-In Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,514 Views
29 Pages

Smart Root Search (SRS): A Novel Nature-Inspired Search Algorithm

  • Narjes Khatoon Naseri,
  • Elankovan A. Sundararajan,
  • Masri Ayob and
  • Amin Jula

7 December 2020

In this paper, a novel heuristic search algorithm called Smart Root Search (SRS) is proposed. SRS employs intelligent foraging behavior of immature, mature and hair roots of plants to explore and exploit the problem search space simultaneously. SRS d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Social Data and Artificial Intelligence 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,434 Views
21 Pages

Evacuation Shelter Decision Method Considering Non-Cooperative Evacuee Behavior to Support the Disaster Weak

  • Tomoki Tanaka,
  • Yuki Matsuda,
  • Manato Fujimoto,
  • Hirohiko Suwa and
  • Keiichi Yasumoto

In disaster situations, special support for the disaster weak are crucial to keep them safe. Common evacuation strategies guide individuals to the shelters closest to their present locations. If evacuees are unevenly distributed across areas, some sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,229 Views
25 Pages

An Energy Management System for PV Sources in Standalone and Connected DC Networks Considering Economic, Technical, and Environmental Indices

  • Luis Fernando Grisales-Noreña,
  • Jauder Alexander Ocampo-Toro,
  • Andrés Alfonso Rosales-Muñoz,
  • Brandon Cortes-Caicedo and
  • Oscar Danilo Montoya

8 December 2022

This research proposes an efficient energy management system for standalone and grid-connected direct current (DC) distribution networks that consider photovoltaic (PV) generation sources. A complete nonlinear programming model is formulated to repre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grid Technologies and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,384 Views
32 Pages

Continuous Metaheuristics for Binary Optimization Problems: An Updated Systematic Literature Review

  • Marcelo Becerra-Rozas,
  • José Lemus-Romani,
  • Felipe Cisternas-Caneo,
  • Broderick Crawford and ,
  • Ricardo Soto,
  • Gino Astorga,
  • Carlos Castro and
  • José García
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 December 2022

For years, extensive research has been in the binarization of continuous metaheuristics for solving binary-domain combinatorial problems. This paper is a continuation of a previous review and seeks to draw a comprehensive picture of the various ways...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,199 Views
21 Pages

18 January 2023

In this paper, the novel heuristic search algorithm called Smart Root Search (SRS) was examined for solving a set of different-sized service time–cost optimization in cloud computing service composition (STCOCCSC) problems, and its performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,795 Views
29 Pages

23 July 2022

In order to analyze the lateral response of piles subjected to combinational loads located at sloping ground, a simplified physical model is proposed and developed based on the Timoshenko beam theory and tri-parameter elastic foundation beam model. I...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,458 Views
41 Pages

A Novel Learning-Based Binarization Scheme Selector for Swarm Algorithms Solving Combinatorial Problems

  • José Lemus-Romani,
  • Marcelo Becerra-Rozas,
  • Broderick Crawford,
  • Ricardo Soto and ,
  • Felipe Cisternas-Caneo,
  • Emanuel Vega,
  • Mauricio Castillo,
  • Diego Tapia,
  • Gino Astorga and
  • José García
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

12 November 2021

Currently, industry is undergoing an exponential increase in binary-based combinatorial problems. In this regard, metaheuristics have been a common trend in the field in order to design approaches to successfully solve them. Thus, a well-known strate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metaheuristic Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,291 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2023

Heterogeneous architecture-based systems-on-chip enable the development of flexible and powerful multifunctional RF systems. In complex and dynamic environments where applications arrive continuously and stochastically, real-time scheduling of multip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress and Future Development of Real-Time Systems on Chip)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,609 Views
24 Pages

Building displacement is a common operation to resolve the spatial conflicts between map features, and it has important theoretical value and practical application significance for multi-scale mapping. The prerequisite for a successful displacement o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,650 Views
16 Pages

Flexible Fusion Structure-Based Performance Optimization Learning for Multisensor Target Tracking

  • Quanbo Ge,
  • Zhongliang Wei,
  • Tianfa Cheng,
  • Shaodong Chen and
  • Xiangfeng Wang

6 May 2017

Compared with the fixed fusion structure, the flexible fusion structure with mixed fusion methods has better adjustment performance for the complex air task network systems, and it can effectively help the system to achieve the goal under the given c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Sensor Information Fusion: Theory and Applications 2017)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,445 Views
35 Pages

15 November 2016

In selective chromatography and electromigration methods, supramolecular recognition of selectands and selectors is due to the fast and reversible formation of association complexes governed by thermodynamics. Whereas the selectand molecules to be se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chromatographic Separation of Enantiomers: Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Stig Allenmark on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,771 Views
13 Pages

Although a number of combinatorial/high-throughput approaches have been developed for biomaterial hydrogel optimization, a gradient sample approach is particularly well suited to identify hydrogel property thresholds that alter cellular behavior in r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
9,549 Views
12 Pages

7 November 2011

A combinatorial hydrothermal reaction has been used to prepare pure and additive (Sb, Cu, Nb, Pd, and Ni)-loaded In2O3 hollow spheres for gas sensor applications. The operation of Pd- and Cu-loaded In2O3 sensors at 371 °C leads to selective H2S detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing at the Nano-Scale: Chemical and Bio-Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,273 Views
5 Pages

13 March 2019

The main purpose of this paper is to find explicit expressions for two sequences and to solve two related conjectures arising from the recent study of sums of finite products of Catalan numbers by Zhang and Chen.

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,249 Views
30 Pages

1 November 2025

The Dung Beetle Optimizer (DBO) has shown promise in solving complex optimization problems, yet it often suffers from premature convergence and limited accuracy. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes the Enhanced Reproductive Dung Beetle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Swarm Intelligence Optimization Algorithms and Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,549 Views
22 Pages

14 March 2025

Polyominoes are shapes formed by joining edge-connected unit squares in the square lattice. We review their symmetry classification using dihedral group actions and enumerate their distinct, coloured variants, called “chrominoes”, which a...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
771 Views
24 Pages

25 April 2026

Programmable quantum simulators based on Rydberg atom arrays provide a versatile platform for data-driven quantum simulation of strongly correlated systems, combinatorial optimization problems, and artificial quantum materials. In this review, we pre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Material Design, Discovery, and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
28 Pages

7 September 2026

Developing new quality productive forces (NQPF) is an important direction for accelerating China’s high-quality development and advancing Chinese-style modernization. Based on the connotation and characteristics of NQPF, this study constructs a...

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