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Bio-Inspired Swarm Confrontation Algorithm for Complex Hilly Terrains

  • He Cai,
  • Fu Ma,
  • Ruifeng Ni,
  • Weiyuan Xu and
  • Huanli Gao

This paper explores a bio-inspired swarm confrontation algorithm specifically designed for complex hilly terrains in the context of electronic games. The novelty of the proposed algorithm lies in its utilization of biologically inspired strategies to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,532 Views
25 Pages

21 June 2023

The Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 evoked academic interest in various aspects of international security and stability. The main objective of this study was to elicit the essential features and indicators for gauging the curre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,199 Views
15 Pages

A Swarm Confrontation Method Based on Lanchester Law and Nash Equilibrium

  • Xiang Ji,
  • Wanpeng Zhang,
  • Fengtao Xiang,
  • Weilin Yuan and
  • Jing Chen

In this paper, more efficient allocation of forces is analyzed in the future air confrontation among unmanned aerial vehicle swarms. A novel method is proposed for swarm confrontation based on the Lanchester law and Nash equilibrium. Due to the huge...

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  • Open Access
2,234 Views
25 Pages

This paper considers the confrontation problem for two tank swarms of equal size and capability in a complex urban scenario. Based on the Unity platform (2022.3.20f1c1), the confrontation scenario is constructed featuring multiple crossing roads. Thr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,192 Views
20 Pages

15 July 2022

The efficiency of target damage is to measure the effect of projectile attacks. Because there is antagonism at the intersection of projectiles and targets, it is very difficult to establish scientific damage assessment strategy model and a numerical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
6,197 Views
19 Pages

With the development of information technology, the degree of intelligence in air confrontation is increasing, and the demand for automated intelligent decision-making systems is becoming more intense. Based on the characteristics of over-the-horizon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,425 Views
22 Pages

2 November 2019

Multi-Robot Confrontation on physics-based simulators is a complex and time-consuming task, but simulators are required to evaluate the performance of the advanced algorithms. Recently, a few advanced algorithms have been able to produce considerably...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
919 Views
15 Pages

Hierarchical Decision Making-Based Intelligent Game Confrontation on UAV Swarm

  • Guannan Chang,
  • Siyuan Ren,
  • Shuna Zhang and
  • Xiaofeng Zhang

21 November 2025

To address the challenge of decision making in close-range air combat for fixed-wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) swarms, this paper proposes a distributed Hierarchical Cooperative Soft Actor-Critic with maximum entropy (HC-SAC) framework. A top-level...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,203 Views
34 Pages

Recent Progress of AI-Based Intelligent Air-Confrontation Technology Test and Verification Framework

  • Feng Wang,
  • Biao Chen,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Zhekai Pang,
  • Zhu Shao,
  • Yanhui Liu and
  • Heyuan Huang

27 October 2025

Artificial intelligence technology is profoundly reshaping the aviation field, driving the accelerated evolution of air confrontation patterns toward intelligence and autonomy. Given that experimental aircraft platforms are key means to verify intell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,148 Views
16 Pages

13 May 2019

This paper proposes a multi-objective decision-making model for underwater countermeasures based on a multi-objective decision theory and solves it using the multi-objective discrete particle swarm optimization (MODPSO) algorithm. Existing decision-m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,431 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm confrontation jamming offers a cost-effective and long-range countermeasure against hostile swarms. Intelligent decision-making is a key factor in ensuring its effectiveness. In response to the low-timeliness probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,529 Views
37 Pages

5 January 2025

This paper considers the swarm confrontation problem for two teams of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Different from most of the existing works where the two teams are identical, we consider the scenario of two heterogenous teams. In particular, one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,823 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2024

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) confrontation is becoming an increasingly important combat mode in intelligent air combat. The confrontation highly relies on the intelligent collaboration and real-time decision-making of the UAVs. Thus,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,271 Views
24 Pages

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is regarded as having a significant role in modern warfare. The demand for UAV swarms with the capability of attack-defense confrontation is urgent. The existing decision-making methods of UAV swarm confrontati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,603 Views
20 Pages

1 August 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) confrontation scenarios play a crucial role in the study of agent behavior selection and decision planning. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms serve as a universally effective method guiding agents towa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,304 Views
19 Pages

Communication-based train controls (CBTC) systems play a major role in urban rail transportation. As CBTC systems are no longer isolated from the outside world but use other networks to increase efficiency and improve productivity, they are exposed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,273 Views
16 Pages

7 December 2021

Objective: In practical applications, an image of a face is often partially occluded, which decreases the recognition rate and the robustness. Therefore, in response to this situation, an effective face recognition model based on an improved generati...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,001 Views
29 Pages

The utilization of street view big data is increasingly being used to uncover visual characteristics and spatial perceptions of urban streets. However, there is a lack of studies that combine street view big data for perceptual evaluation in underdev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,172 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Missile Avoidance Algorithm for UAV Based on Multi-Head Attention Mechanism and Dual Population Confrontation Game

  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Junhao Song,
  • Chengyang Tao,
  • Zitao Su,
  • Zhiqiang Xu,
  • Weijia Feng,
  • Zhaoxiang Zhang and
  • Yuelei Xu

21 May 2025

In recent years, UAVs have faced increasingly severe and diversified missile threats. To address the challenge that reinforcement learning-based missile evasion algorithms struggle to adapt to various unknown missile types, we introduce a risk-sensit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,019 Views
10 Pages

Coping with Cybervictimization: The Role of Direct Confrontation and Resilience on Adolescent Wellbeing

  • Antonella Brighi,
  • Consuelo Mameli,
  • Damiano Menin,
  • Annalisa Guarini,
  • Francesca Carpani and
  • Phillip T. Slee

Background. Recent studies have consistently identified the negative consequences of cyberbullying on adolescent mental health. Nevertheless, not all cybervictims are alike, and in the last few years some evidence has appeared indicating that faced w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,279 Views
21 Pages

15 April 2020

Due to the wide integration of information technology in equipment and weapons, a stable and reliable power supply has become one of the pivotal factors in modern warfare to achieve victory. As a critical infrastructure to provide continuous energy s...

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  • Open Access
516 Views
16 Pages

31 December 2025

In Ivy Road’s new game Wanderstop (March 2025), the player character is so burned out from their lifetime as a workaholic warrior that they find themselves trapped and forced to serve tea in a charming, purgatorial teashop until they finally le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,644 Views
19 Pages

13 February 2024

The regression model has higher requirements for the quality and balance of data to ensure the accuracy of predictions. However, there is a common problem of imbalanced distribution in real datasets, which directly affects the prediction accuracy of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,267 Views
24 Pages

18 September 2024

We introduce the Ising Network Opinion Formation (INOF) model and apply it to the analysis of networks of six Wikipedia language editions. In the model, Ising spins are placed at network nodes/articles and the steady-state opinion polarization of spi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,072 Views
24 Pages

16 April 2020

In this paper, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and knowledge transfer are used to achieve the effective control of the learning agent for the confrontation in the multi-agent systems. Firstly, a multi-agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG)...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,841 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2022

To perform robotic lung resections with views similar to those in thoracotomy, we devised a vertical port placement and confronting upside-down monitor setting: the three-arm, robotic “open-thoracotomy-view approach (OTVA)”. We described...

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  • Open Access
2,304 Views
16 Pages

28 April 2024

This paper interrogates the skepticism surrounding comparative ethics, particularly the question of its relevance in a world where ethical decision-making processes are primarily presumed to be dictated by one universalist culture. The paper argues t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,365 Views
34 Pages

18 August 2025

The prediction of the tactical maneuver trajectory of target aircraft is an important component of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomous air-to-air confrontation. In view of the shortcomings of low accuracy and poor real-time performance in the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,420 Views
21 Pages

10 July 2024

In order to scientifically evaluate the target damage effect of uncertain intersection between projectile and target confrontation game, this paper establishes a basic model of target damage in the intersection between projectile and target game, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,082 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2021

Communities across the United States face a widespread water crisis including risks of contamination, rate increases, shut-offs for non-payment, and dilapidating infrastructure. Against this background, a right to water movement has emerged which has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,612 Views
19 Pages

19 August 2015

The article expresses the philosophical thoughts of an Italian philosopher, G.Vattimo and his development of the philosophy of M. Heidegger and essential aspects of Vattimo’s philosophy of religion. In the first part, we clarify Vattimo’s interpretat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,044 Views
21 Pages

22 September 2022

The effectiveness of multiple UAVs at attacking the enemy target and defending against the attacking UAVs simultaneously gained researchers’ attention due to their cost efficiency and high mission success rates. This paper explores the UAV swar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,069 Views
13 Pages

Development of a Set of Synthetic Diagnostics for the Confrontation between 2D Transport Simulations and WEST Tokamak Experimental Data

  • Ivan Kudashev,
  • Anna Medvedeva,
  • Manuel Scotto d’Abusco,
  • Nicolas Fedorszak,
  • Stefano Di Genova,
  • Vladislav Neverov and
  • Eric Serre

29 September 2022

Transport codes are frequently used for describing fusion plasmas with the aim to prepare tokamak operations. Considering novel codes, such as SolEdge3X-HDG, synthetic diagnostics are a common technique used to validate new models and confront them w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,522 Views
21 Pages

29 November 2021

Most current studies on multi-agent evolution based on deep learning take a cooperative equilibrium strategy, while interactive self-learning is not always considered. An interactive self-learning game and evolution method based on non-cooperative eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,699 Views
22 Pages

29 January 2024

False data injection attacks are executed in the electricity markets of smart grid systems for financial benefits. The attackers can maximize their profits through modifying the estimated transmission power and changing the prices of market electrici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,587 Views
12 Pages

Introduction: The significance of psychotherapeutic micro-processes, such as nonverbal facial expressions and relationship quality, is widely known, yet hitherto has not been investigated satisfactorily. In this exploratory study, we aim to examine t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,542 Views
19 Pages

Changes in Peptaibol Production of Trichoderma Species during In Vitro Antagonistic Interactions with Fungal Plant Pathogens

  • Parisa Rahimi Tamandegani,
  • Tamás Marik,
  • Doustmorad Zafari,
  • Dóra Balázs,
  • Csaba Vágvölgyi,
  • András Szekeres and
  • László Kredics

Trichoderma species are widely used as biofungicides for the control of fungal plant pathogens. Several studies have been performed to identify the main genes and compounds involved in Trichoderma–plant–microbial pathogen cross-talks. However, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,586 Views
17 Pages

18 March 2022

Path planning is a key technology for the autonomous mobility of intelligent robots. However, there are few studies on how to carry out path planning in real time under the confrontation environment. Therefore, based on the deep deterministic policy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,344 Views
13 Pages

14 August 2025

The center–periphery paradigm has impacted on multiple disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. While criticized and revised for its duality, this paradigm has been most instrumental in tracing shifts in the dynamic positioning of wor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,937 Views
13 Pages

9 August 2021

A general complex model is considered for collective dynamical strategic decision-making with explicitly interconnected factors reflecting both psychic (internal state) and behavioral (external-action, result of activity) components of agents’ activi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,058 Views
19 Pages

Study on the Effectiveness of Water Mist on Suppressing Thermal Runaway in LiFePO4 Batteries

  • Qian Li,
  • Jinshan Yu,
  • Guangzhen Liu,
  • Xiaoguang Ma,
  • Wei Si,
  • Xiangyu Hu,
  • Guoqing Zhu and
  • Tong Liu

4 September 2023

Lithium-ion batteries experience rapid temperature increases with a high risk of combustion and explosion during thermal runaway, and water mist has been considered as one of the most effective cooling strategies. The water mist field can be impacted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,534 Views
23 Pages

14 May 2025

This paper presents a structured methodology for identifying and addressing key communication challenges in the forestry sector, using the Czech Republic (CZ) as a case study. The approach integrates the CIMO model, problem tree analysis, SWOT evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,179 Views
15 Pages

Native Trichoderma Isolates from Soil and Rootstock to Fusarium spp. Control and Growth Promotion of Humulus lupulus L. Plantlets

  • Alejandra J. Porteous-Álvarez,
  • Alexia Fernández-Marcos,
  • Daniela Ramírez-Lozano,
  • Sara Mayo-Prieto,
  • Rosa E. Cardoza,
  • Santiago Gutiérrez and
  • Pedro A. Casquero

Fusarium genus is a wide host phytopathogen causing significant losses in multiple crops, including hops. There is limited information on the sustainable management of Fusarium spp. in hop fields. Trichoderma is an endophytic fungus used in agricultu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,087 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2020

In the more recent scholarly literature on media, pop culture or celebrity studies, there has been a growing tendency to identify media, stardom and other pop culture forms of cult with religion. An increasing number of concepts have sprung up such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,178 Views
19 Pages

Sensitivity and Specificity of Qualitative Visual Field Tests for Screening Visual Hemifield Deficits in Right-Brain-Damaged Stroke Patients

  • Maria De Luca,
  • Fabrizio Zeri,
  • Alessandro Matano,
  • Concetta Di Lorenzo,
  • Maria Paola Ciurli,
  • Martina Mulas,
  • Virginia Pollarini,
  • Stefano Paolucci and
  • Davide Nardo

29 February 2024

A timely detection of visual hemifield deficits (VHFDs; hemianopias or quadrantanopias) is critical for both the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients. The present study determined the sensitivity and specificity of four qualitative visual field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,422 Views
28 Pages

27 June 2025

A conflict is a situation where multiple stakeholders have different evaluations over possible scenarios or states. Conflict analysis is an essential tool for understanding and resolving complex conflicts, especially in scenarios involving multiple s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,670 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2025

Biological control of plant diseases is important for crop production. Botrytis cinerea and Fusarium graminearum are two common pathogenic fungi which result in great harm to crop production, processing, and storage of foodstuffs. Yeasts have unique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,347 Views
14 Pages

Simulation/Experiment Confrontation, an Efficient Approach for Sensitive SAW Sensors Design

  • Bilel Achour,
  • Ghada Attia,
  • Chouki Zerrouki,
  • Najla Fourati,
  • Kosai Raoof and
  • Nourdin Yaakoubi

3 September 2020

Sensitivity is one of the most important parameters to put in the foreground in all sensing applications. Its increase is therefore an ongoing challenge, particularly for surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors. Herein, finite element method (FEM) simula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,428 Views
7 Pages

1 December 2024

(1) Background: This study describes an exploration of the potential of cultural, religious, and spiritual diversity to trigger one’s psychological self-image and open the possibility of personal identity transformation as a tool for deep inter...

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