The Partial Information Decomposition, introduced by Williams P. L. et al. (2010), provides a theoretical framework to characterize and quantify the structure of multivariate information sharing. A new method (
Stability is a critical factor in structural design. Although buckling-constrained topology optimization has been investigated in previous work, the problem has not been considered under design-dependent loads. In this study, a model of buckling cons...
By enabling a satellite network with edge computing capabilities, satellite edge computing(SEC) provides users with a full range of computing service. In this paper, we construct a multi-objective optimization model for task offloading with data-depe...
Digital microfluidic biochips are widely used for automated biochemical and diagnostic applications such as molecular analysis, immunoassays, and point-of-care testing. Among them, micro-electrode-dot-array (MEDA) biochips enable fine-grained droplet...
State-of-the-art methods for metonymy resolution (MR) consider the sentential context by modeling the entire sentence. However, entity representation, or syntactic structure that are informative may be beneficial for identifying metonymy. Other appro...
Data integrity is crucial for ensuring data correctness and quality and is maintained through integrity constraints that must be continuously checked, especially in data-intensive systems like OLTP. While DBMSs handle very simple cases of constraints...
As airport operations expand and ground handling becomes more complex, airport vehicle scheduling has evolved into a system-level decision problem constrained by operational rules, task dependencies, and resource availability. However, existing appro...
This work develops an adaptive control scheme for MIMO nonlinear non-lower-triangular systems with asymmetric full-state constraints and unknown gain functions. First, in order to maintain the state constraints, a function that depends solely on the...
Because they account for realistic effects in opportunistic maintenance modeling, dependency hypotheses are extremely diverse in the literature. Despite recent reviews, a clear view of the dependency hypotheses is currently missing in the literature,...
We review the hypothetical interactions predicted beyond the Standard Model which could be constrained by using the results of tabletop laboratory experiments. These interactions are described by the power-type potentials with different powers, Yukaw...
Intricate structures with minimal weight and maximum stiffness are demanded in many practical engineering applications. Topology optimization is a method for designing these structures, and the rise of additive manufacturing technologies has opened t...
This paper addresses the tracking control for an n-link flexible-joint robot system with full-state constraints and external disturbances. First, a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) is introduced to asymptotically estimate and suppress the influen...
This paper introduces a nonlinear Lyapunov-based Finite-Time State-Dependent Differential Riccati Equation (FT-SDDRE) control scheme, considering actuator saturation constraints and ensuring that the control system operates within safe operational li...
This article aims to increase our understanding of the syntax of manner modification by examining it from the perspective of the syntax of anaphoric dependencies. It is proposed that the two grammatical dependencies share certain abstract formal prop...
This paper presents an optimization approach for supply chain management that incorporates goal programming (GP), dependent chance constraints (DCC), and the hunger games search algorithm (HGSA). The model acknowledges uncertainty by embedding uncert...
We provide a simultaneous derivation of the Dirac bracket and of the equations of motion for second-class constrained systems when the constraints are time-dependent. The necessity of time-dependent gauge-fixing conditions is shown in the example of...
Soil constraints limit plant growth and grain yield in Australia’s grain-cropping regions, with the nature of the impact dependent on climate. In seasons with low in-crop (short for “during the crop growing season”) rainfall, soil c...
Monitoring data streams in a distributed system has attracted considerable interest in recent years. The task of feature selection (e.g., by monitoring the information gain of various features) requires a very high communication overhead when address...
We investigate the solutions of a two-dimensional Schrödinger equation in the presence of geometric constraints, represented by a backbone structure with branches, by taking a position-dependent effective mass for each direction into account. We...
Visible thermal person re-identification (VT Re-ID) is the task of matching pedestrian images collected by thermal and visible light cameras. The two main challenges presented by VT Re-ID are the intra-class variation between pedestrian images and th...
Based on a real-world application in the semiconductor industry, this article models and discusses a hybrid flow shop problem with time dependencies and priority constraints. The analyzed problem considers a production where a large number of heterog...
Scene graph generation is the basis of various computer vision applications, including image retrieval, visual question answering, and image captioning. Previous studies have relied on visual features or incorporated auxiliary information to predict...
We used the Potsdam-Allahabad Hindi eye-tracking corpus to investigate the role of wordlevel and sentence-level factors during sentence comprehension in Hindi. Extending previous work that used this eye-tracking data, we investigate the role of surpr...
This article reviews results from the literature illustrating the bottlenecks and tradeoffs of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) through the lens of information theory, thus offering a distinct perspective compared to recent works that focu...
Metabolism is crucial to cell growth and proliferation. Deficiency or alterations in metabolic functions are known to be involved in many human diseases. Therefore, understanding the human metabolic system is important for the study and treatment of...
A rate equation for a discrete probability distribution is discussed as a route to describe smooth relaxation towards the maximum entropy distribution compatible at all times with one or more linear constraints. The resulting dynamics follows the pat...
Integrated communication–sensing–computing (ICSC) satellites, which integrate edge computing servers on Earth observation satellites to process collected data directly in orbit, are attracting growing attention. Nevertheless, some monitor...
Animal cells display great diversity in their shape. These morphological characteristics result from crosstalk between the plasma membrane and the force-generating capacities of the cytoskeleton macromolecules. Changes in cell shape are not merely by...
Entangled semiflexible polymer networks are usually described by the tube model, although this concept has not been able to explain all experimental observations. One of its major shortcomings is neglecting the thermal fluctuations of the polymers su...
This article discusses the importance of cross-platform UX/UI designs and frameworks and their effectiveness in building web applications and websites. Third-party libraries (TPL) and plug-ins are also emphasized, as they can help developers quickly...
Binding of cell surface glycoprotein CD44 to hyaluronic acid (HA) is a key event for mediating cell adhesion, motility, metastasis, inflammatory responses and tumor development, but the regulation mechanism and its molecular basis under diverse mecha...
Some hydropower reservoirs are operated under different constraint levels. For these reservoirs, a multi-level (ML) dependent-chance (DC) model is established. In the model, only when the higher-level constraints are satisfied are the lower-level con...
While the increased automation levels of production and operation equipment have led to the improved productivity of mining activity in open pit mines, the capacity of the mine transport system has become a bottleneck. The optimisation of the mine tr...
A novel delay-dependent stability criterion for Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems with multiplicative noise is addressed in this paper subject to passivity performance. The general case of interval time-varying delay is considered for the practical c...
We propose a variational formulation for the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of discrete open systems, i.e., discrete systems which can exchange mass and heat with the exterior. Our approach is based on a general variational formulation for systems wit...
Recent research suggests that island effects may vary as a function of dependency type, potentially challenging accounts that treat island effects as reflecting uniform constraints on all filler-gap dependency formation. Some authors argue that cross...
The purpose and novelty of our study include the scrutinization of the unsteady flow and heat characteristics of the unsteady Sutterby nano-fluid flow across an elongated cone using slip boundary conditions. The bioconvection of gyrotactic micro-orga...
In order to make a warden, Willie, unaware of the existence of meaningful communications, there have been different schemes proposed including covert and stealth communications. When legitimate users have no channel advantage over Willie, the legitim...
The observed constraints on the variability of the proton to electron mass ratio μ and the fine structure constant α are used to establish constraints on the variability of the Quantum Chromodynamic Scale and a combination of the Higgs Vacuum Expecta...
In the context of large-scale renewable energy integrated into an electrical power system, the effects of power forecast errors on the power balance equation of the power system unit commitment model is considered. In this paper, the problem of solvi...
Stochastic characterizations of functions subject to constraints result in treating them as functions with non-independent variables. By using the distribution function or copula of the input variables that comply with such constraints, we derive two...
Known as a multi-objective, large-scale, and complicated optimization problem, the multi-objective optimal power flow (MOOPF) problem tends to be introduced with many constraints. In this paper, compared with the frequently-used penalty function-base...
Learning latent representations of observed data that can favour both discriminative and generative tasks remains a challenging task in artificial-intelligence (AI) research. Previous attempts that ranged from the convex binding of discriminative and...
The problem concerning facilities delocation in the retail sector is addressed in this paper by proposing a novel mixed 0-1 linear optimization model. For this purpose, the aim of the problem is to decide whether to close existing stores or consider...
This paper proves a new lemma that characterizes controllability for linear Volterra control systems and shows that the usual controllability assumption for the variational linearized system near an optimal pair is superfluous. Building on this, it e...
The clinical application of different relative biological effectiveness (RBE) models for carbon ion RBE-weighted dose calculation hinders a global consensus in defining normal tissue constraints. This work aims to update the local effect model (LEM)-...
The thermal shock resistance of ceramics depends on not only the mechanical and thermal properties of materials, but also the external constraint and thermal condition. So, in order to study the actual situation in its service process, a temperature-...
In this paper, we consider a job-shop scheduling problem with mixed blocking constraints. Contrary to most previous studies, where no blocking or only one type of blocking constraint was used among successive operations, we assume that, generally, we...
In recent years, despite the rapid growth in the number of entrepreneurial incubation platforms in China, many of them are experiencing the sustainability dilemma caused by the loss of incubated startups. However, there is a dearth of research that e...
Aerosol retrieval algorithms used in conjunction with remote sensing are subject to ill-posedness. To mitigate non-uniqueness, extra constraints (in addition to observations) are valuable for stabilizing the inversion process. This paper focuses on t...
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