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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,180 Views
27 Pages

22 December 2019

In this paper, an improved power management strategy (PMS) for multi-agent system (MAS)-based distributed control of DC microgrid (DCMG) under communication network problems is presented in order to enhance the reliability of DCMG and to ensure the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,394 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2020

This paper solves the distributed fault detection (FD) problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS). For a heterogeneous MAS, we adopt a distributed control law to realise cooperative output regulation (COR) when no fault occurs in the MAS, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,670 Views
13 Pages

Diversity and Carbon Sequestration of Seaweed in the Ma’an Archipelago, China

  • Xunmeng Li,
  • Xu Zhao,
  • Huarong Yuan,
  • Yu Guo,
  • Jun Li,
  • Shouyu Zhang,
  • Jianqu Chen,
  • Zhenhua Wang and
  • Kai Wang

21 December 2022

Seaweed communities perform a variety of ecological services, including primary productivity supply, biological habitat construction, water purification, and acting as marine carbon sinks. The abundance of seaweed is the basis for the assessment of e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,016 Views
16 Pages

29 November 2021

To address the control of uncertain multi-agent systems (MAS) with completely unknown system nonlinearities and unknown control coefficients, a global consensus method is proposed by constructing novel filters and barrier function-based distributed c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,290 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Voltage Control Scheme for Low-Voltage DC Distribution Systems Using Multi-Agent Systems

  • Trinh Phi Hai,
  • Hector Cho,
  • Il-Yop Chung,
  • Hyun-Koo Kang,
  • Jintae Cho and
  • Juyong Kim

1 January 2017

Low-voltage direct current (LVDC) distribution systems have been evolving into interesting ways of integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) and power electronics loads to local distribution networks. In LVDC distribution systems, voltage regul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
587 Views
27 Pages

21 November 2025

The shift toward decentralized energy systems and the rapid growth of renewable integration have brought renewed attention to the Multi-Area Economic Dispatch (MAED) problem. Unlike single-area dispatch, which focuses only on local balance, MAED must...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,208 Views
23 Pages

31 March 2024

The impact of communication disturbances on microgrids (MGs) needs robust and scalable Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure for efficient MG control. This work builds on advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) to provide a pract...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,893 Views
23 Pages

Assessing Habitat Suitability of Parasitic Plant Cistanche deserticola in Northwest China under Future Climate Scenarios

  • Jing Liu,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Haiyan Wei,
  • Quanzhong Zhang,
  • Xuhui Zhang,
  • Xiaoyan Zhang and
  • Wei Gu

19 September 2019

Cistanche deserticola Ma, a perennial parasitic herb of family Orobanchaceae, is mainly parasitic on the roots of the Haloxylon ammodendron Bunge. In view of this special parasitic relationship, we applied random forest (RF) model to forecast potenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,158 Views
22 Pages

Coordinated Optimal Control of AFS and DYC for Four-Wheel Independent Drive Electric Vehicles Based on MAS Model

  • Niaona Zhang,
  • Jieshu Wang,
  • Zonghao Li,
  • Nan Xu,
  • Haitao Ding,
  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Konghui Guo and
  • Haochen Xu

27 March 2023

The problem that it is difficult to balance vehicle stability and economy at the same time under the starting steering condition of a four-wheel independent drive electric vehicle (4WIDEV) is addressed. In this paper, we propose a coordinated optimal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,431 Views
22 Pages

Projecting the Impacts of Climate Change, Soil, and Landscape on the Geographic Distribution of Ma Bamboo (Dendrocalamus latiflorus Munro) in China

  • Li-Jia Chen,
  • Yan-Qiu Xie,
  • Tian-You He,
  • Ling-Yan Chen,
  • Jun-Dong Rong,
  • Li-Guang Chen and
  • Yu-Shan Zheng

29 July 2024

Ma bamboo (Dendrocalamus latiflorus Munro) is a fast-growing woody grass that offers significant economic benefits, including materials for construction, furniture, biofuel, food, and handicrafts. It also provides ecological benefits like soil conser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,044 Views
13 Pages

Delay-Dependent Stability Region for the Distributed Coordination of Delayed Fractional-Order Multi-Agent Systems

  • Abbasali Koochakzadeh,
  • Mojtaba Naderi Soorki,
  • Aydin Azizi,
  • Kamran Mohammadsharifi and
  • Mohammadreza Riazat

6 March 2023

Delay and especially delay in the transmission of agents’ information, is one of the most important causes of disruption to achieving consensus in a multi-agent system. This paper deals with achieving consensus in delayed fractional-order multi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,482 Views
14 Pages

In this paper, the problem of distributed adaptive consensus tracking control for second-order nonlinear heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) with input quantization is considered. A distributed output feedback control scheme based on a K-filter...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,860 Views
5 Pages

Residential Electricity Tariffs in Europe: Current Situation, Evolution and Impact on Residential Flexibility Markets

  • Youssef Oualmakran,
  • Juan Manuel Espeche,
  • Mario Sisinni,
  • Thomas Messervey and
  • Zia Lennard

Residential flexibility (a.k.a demand response) is a key component of smart grids to reduce our carbon footprint, to have reliable power (balance between power and demand, and avoiding congestion) and more affordable electricity tariffs. However, to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,895 Views
24 Pages

Routing Based Multi-Agent System for Network Reliability in the Smart Microgrid

  • Niharika Singh,
  • Irraivan Elamvazuthi,
  • Perumal Nallagownden,
  • Gobbi Ramasamy and
  • Ajay Jangra

25 May 2020

Microgrids help to achieve power balance and energy allocation optimality for the defined load networks. One of the major challenges associated with microgrids is the design and implementation of a suitable communication-control architecture that can...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,058 Views
20 Pages

Towards Agrirobot Digital Twins: Agri-RO5—A Multi-Agent Architecture for Dynamic Fleet Simulation

  • Jorge Gutiérrez Cejudo,
  • Francisco Enguix Andrés,
  • Marin Lujak,
  • Carlos Carrascosa Casamayor,
  • Alberto Fernandez and
  • Luís Hernández López

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent-based architecture for a Unity3D simulation of dynamic agrirobot-fleet-coordination methods. The architecture is based on a Robot Operating System (ROS) and Agrobots-SIM package that extends the existing packag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,682 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2015

This paper presents a voltage control method using multiple distributed generators (DGs) based on a multi-agent system framework. The output controller of each DG is represented as a DG agent, and each voltage-monitoring device is represented as a mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,065 Views
16 Pages

Polycondensation Resins by Flavonoid Tannins Reaction with Amines

  • Francisco-Jose Santiago-Medina,
  • Antonio Pizzi,
  • Maria Cecilia Basso,
  • Luc Delmotte and
  • Alain Celzard

25 January 2017

Reaction of a condensed flavonoid tannin, namely mimosa tannin extract with a hexamethylene diamine, has been investigated. For that purpose, catechin was also used as a flavonoid model compound and treated in similar conditions. Solid-state cross-po...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,923 Views
34 Pages

Control Strategies of DC Microgrids Cluster: A Comprehensive Review

  • Zaid Hamid Abdulabbas Al-Tameemi,
  • Tek Tjing Lie,
  • Gilbert Foo and
  • Frede Blaabjerg

12 November 2021

Multiple microgrids (MGs) close to each other can be interconnected to construct a cluster to enhance reliability and flexibility. This paper presents a comprehensive and comparative review of recent studies on DC MG clusters’ control strategies. Dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
485 Views
16 Pages

Cornus mas: From Plant Taxonomy and Distribution Area to Highly Valorization of Phytochemicals by Microencapsulation in Biopolymeric Matrices Containing Probiotics

  • Iuliana-Maria Enache,
  • Nicoleta Stănciuc,
  • Aida Mihaela Vasile,
  • Rodica Mihaela Dinică,
  • Eliza Țupu and
  • Camelia Vizireanu

29 October 2025

In this study, a comprehensive approach to the taxonomy and the distribution areas of Cornus mas (commonly known as cornelian cherry) is presented, considering the superior valorization of bioactive compounds through co-microencapsulation in a unique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,084 Views
16 Pages

A Spawn Mobile Agent Itinerary Planning Approach for Energy-Efficient Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Huthiafa Q. Qadori,
  • Zuriati A. Zulkarnain,
  • Zurina Mohd Hanapi and
  • Shamala Subramaniam

3 June 2017

Mobile agent (MA), a part of the mobile computing paradigm, was recently proposed for data gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The MA-based approach employs two algorithms: Single-agent Itinerary Planning (SIP) and Multi-mobile agent Itiner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,401 Views
13 Pages

This study empirically examines the relationship between executive compensation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) behaviors by identifying the influence of short- and long-term incentive on the propensity and scale of M&A. When the short-ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
387 Views
19 Pages

26 November 2025

A nonparametric control chart is a type of control chart that does not rely on assumptions regarding the underlying distribution of the data. This characteristic provides greater flexibility and robustness, particularly when handling non-normal data,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,959 Views
25 Pages

Airport surface movement operations are complex processes with many types of adverse events which require resilient, safe, and efficient responses. One regularly occurring adverse event is that of runway reconfiguration. Agent-based distributed plann...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
12,396 Views
40 Pages

22 October 2022

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have been seen as an attractive area of research for civil engineering professionals to subdivide complex issues. Based on the assignment’s history, nearby agents, and objective, the agent intended to take the appropri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,370 Views
19 Pages

Genome-Wide Characterization and Analysis of R2R3-MYB Genes Related to Fruit Ripening and Stress Response in Banana (Musa acuminata L. AAA Group, cv. ‘Cavendish’)

  • Zhuo Wang,
  • Xiaoming Yao,
  • Caihong Jia,
  • Yunke Zheng,
  • Qiumei Lin,
  • Jingyi Wang,
  • Juhua Liu,
  • Zhao Zhu,
  • Long Peng and
  • Zhiqiang Jin
  • + 2 authors

28 December 2022

MYB is an important type of transcription factor in eukaryotes. It is widely involved in a variety of biological processes and plays a role in plant morphogenesis, growth and development, primary and secondary metabolite synthesis, and other life pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,778 Views
21 Pages

Optimal Power Flow with Stochastic Renewable Energy Using Three Mixture Component Distribution Functions

  • Amr Khaled Khamees,
  • Almoataz Y. Abdelaziz,
  • Makram R. Eskaros,
  • Mahmoud A. Attia and
  • Mariam A. Sameh

25 December 2022

The growing usage of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind energy, has increased the electrical system’s unpredictability. The stochastic behavior of these sources must be considered to obtain significantly more accurate conclusions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,383 Views
20 Pages

Molecular Population Genetics of Aspen Mosaic-Associated Virus in Finland and Sweden

  • Shaheen Nourinejhad Zarghani,
  • Rim Al Kubrusli,
  • Serghei Iancev,
  • Risto Jalkanen,
  • Carmen Büttner and
  • Susanne von Bargen

1 August 2023

Aspen mosaic-associated virus (AsMaV) is a newly identified Emaravirus, in the family Fimoviridae, Bunyavirales, associated with mosaic symptoms in aspen trees (Populus tremula). Aspen trees are widely distributed in Europe and understanding the popu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,151 Views
14 Pages

Direct Current Annealing Modulated Ordered Structure to Optimize Tensile Mechanical Properties of Co-Based Amorphous Metallic Microwires

  • Congliang Wang,
  • Guanyu Cao,
  • Jingshun Liu,
  • Yun Zhang,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Mingwei Zhang,
  • Lu Wang and
  • Bo Zhang

29 August 2022

Herein, the ordered structure of Co-based metallic microwires was modulated by direct current-annealing, thereby improving the tensile mechanical properties. Based on the thermophysical parameters of the metallic microwires, the annealing current int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,269 Views
15 Pages

A thermal model was built to estimate the temperature distribution in the hemispherical packaging volume of a white LED at a steady state. Inherent heat sources appeared in the white LED when its power was measured. A simplified 3D to 2D space proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,722 Views
24 Pages

22 March 2024

The Shuangwang Au deposit (with a gold resource of approximately 70 t Au), is located in the Fenxian-Taibai fore-arc basin in the West Qinling Orogen of central China. Igneous intrusions in the region include the Xiba granitic pluton and granite porp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
978 Views
16 Pages

Phylogeographic Analyses of the Viviparous Multiocellated Racerunner (Eremias multiocellata) in the Tarim Basin of China

  • Junzhe Zhang,
  • Haifan Yan,
  • Tianying Chen,
  • Wenhan Chen,
  • Yulu Chen,
  • Wen Zhong,
  • Yue Qi,
  • Wei Zhao and
  • You Li

25 April 2025

The genealogical and geographical distribution of a species offers insights into its evolutionary narrative, encompassing its population dispersion, migration, adaptation, and speciation—key aspects for comprehending the genesis and sustenance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,950 Views
12 Pages

Preparation of Poly-(Methyl vinyl ether-co-maleic Anhydride) Nanoparticles by Solution-Enhanced Dispersion by Supercritical CO2

  • Ai-Zheng Chen,
  • Guang-Ya Wang,
  • Shi-Bin Wang,
  • Jian-Gang Feng,
  • Yuan-Gang Liu and
  • Yong-Qiang Kang

10 October 2012

The supercritical CO2-based technologies have been widely used in the formation of drug and/or polymer particles for biomedical applications. In this study, nanoparticles of poly-(methyl vinyl ether-co-maleic anhydride) (PVM/MA) were successfully fab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,585 Views
15 Pages

12 September 2023

Mineral admixtures (MA), like fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), and slag (S), are usually added to cement-based materials to improve their compactness and further enhance their mechanical properties, permeability resistance, and durability. In this stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,442 Views
19 Pages

3 May 2013

This paper proposes the mixture of Alpha-stable (MAS) distributions for modeling statistical property of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images in a supervised Markovian classification algorithm. Our work is motivated by the fact that natural scenes c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,273 Views
12 Pages

DNA N6-Methyladenine Modification in Plant Genomes—A Glimpse into Emerging Epigenetic Code

  • Jeyalakshmi Karanthamalai,
  • Aparna Chodon,
  • Shailja Chauhan and
  • Gopal Pandi

14 February 2020

N6-methyladenine (6mA) is a DNA base modification at the 6th nitrogen position; recently, it has been resurfaced as a potential reversible epigenetic mark in eukaryotes. Despite its existence, 6mA was considered to be absent due to its undetectable l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
492 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2025

The Dazhuyuan Formation (northern Guizhou) is the host stratum for bauxite deposits and enriched with critical metals like Li. We investigated sedimentary processes of the formation using detrital zircon geochronology and whole-rock geochemistry. Fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,472 Views
16 Pages

An Improved Microaneurysm Detection Model Based on SwinIR and YOLOv8

  • Bowei Zhang,
  • Jing Li,
  • Yun Bai,
  • Qing Jiang,
  • Biao Yan and
  • Zhenhua Wang

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular complication of diabetes. Microaneurysms (MAs) are often observed in the retinal vessels of diabetic patients and represent one of the earliest signs of DR. Accurate and efficient detection of MAs is cruci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,452 Views
20 Pages

Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages in the East China Seas: Implications for Provenance Analysis and Sediment Budgeting

  • Xiangtong Huang,
  • Jiaze Song,
  • Wei Yue,
  • Zhongbo Wang,
  • Xi Mei,
  • Yalong Li,
  • Fangliang Li,
  • Ergang Lian and
  • Shouye Yang

29 April 2020

Linking marine sinks to potential terrestrial sources is one of most intriguing but challenging aspects of sediment source-to-sink studies. In this study, we analyzed 23 zircon samples (3271 filtered best ages) from surface sediments of the east Chin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,431 Views
24 Pages

Emerging Roles for DNA 6mA and RNA m6A Methylation in Mammalian Genome

  • Leijie Xie,
  • Xiaosong Zhang,
  • Jiaxiang Xie,
  • Yanru Xu,
  • Xiao-Jiang Li and
  • Li Lin

9 September 2023

Epigenetic methylation has been shown to play an important role in transcriptional regulation and disease pathogenesis. Recent advancements in detection techniques have identified DNA N6-methyldeoxyadenosine (6mA) and RNA N6-methyladenosine (m6A) as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,003 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2022

Adipose tissue is related to the development and manifestation of multiple diseases, demonstrating the importance of suitable in vitro models for research purposes. In this study, adipose tissue lobuli were explanted, cultured, and used as an adipose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,682 Views
17 Pages

Genome-Wide Analysis of the UDP-Glycosyltransferase Family Reveals Its Roles in Coumarin Biosynthesis and Abiotic Stress in Melilotus albus

  • Zhen Duan,
  • Qi Yan,
  • Fan Wu,
  • Yimeng Wang,
  • Shengsheng Wang,
  • Xifang Zong,
  • Pei Zhou and
  • Jiyu Zhang

6 October 2021

Coumarins, natural products abundant in Melilotus albus, confer features in response to abiotic stresses, and are mainly present as glycoconjugates. UGTs (UDP-glycosyltransferases) are responsible for glycosylation modification of coumarins. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,038 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2021

Melilotus albus is an annual or biennial legume species that adapts to extreme environments via its high stress tolerance. NAC and MYB transcription factors (TFs) are involved in the regulation of lignin biosynthesis, which has not been studied in M....

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,066 Views
16 Pages

Genome-Wide Analysis of the Rab Gene Family in Melilotus albus Reveals Their Role in Salt Tolerance

  • Caibin Zhang,
  • Fan Wu,
  • Qi Yan,
  • Zhen Duan,
  • Shengsheng Wang,
  • Bao Ao,
  • Yangyang Han and
  • Jiyu Zhang

21 December 2022

Melilotus albus is a high-quality forage, due to its high protein content, and aboveground biomass and salt tolerance. Rab (Ras-related protein in the brain) proteins are the largest GTPase family which play a key role in intracellular membrane trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,570 Views
18 Pages

6mA DNA Methylation on Genes in Plants Is Associated with Gene Complexity, Expression and Duplication

  • Yue Zhang,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Xingyu Yang,
  • Xiaofeng Gu,
  • Jinming Chen and
  • Tao Shi

10 May 2023

N6-methyladenine (6mA) DNA methylation has emerged as an important epigenetic modification in eukaryotes. Nevertheless, the evolution of the 6mA methylation of homologous genes after species and after gene duplications remains unclear in plants. To u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,372 Views
18 Pages

Revealing the Materials, Painting Techniques, and State of Preservation of a Heavily Altered Early 19th Century Greek Icon through MA-XRF

  • Georgios P. Mastrotheodoros,
  • Anastasios Asvestas,
  • Theofanis Gerodimos and
  • Dimitrios F. Anagnostopoulos

13 February 2023

Macroscopic X-ray fluorescence analysis (MA-XRF) is a non-destructive analytical technique that allows for the rapid and thorough investigation of paintings; therefore, it is nowadays increasingly involved in relevant studies. In the present work, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,388 Views
14 Pages

Structure Evolution of Ni36Al27Co37 Alloy in the Process of Mechanical Alloying and Plasma Spheroidization

  • Alina K. Mazeeva,
  • Artem Kim,
  • Nikolay E. Ozerskoi,
  • Aleksey I. Shamshurin,
  • Nikolay G. Razumov,
  • Denis V. Nazarov and
  • Anatoliy A. Popovich

29 September 2021

In this paper, a novel approach to obtain a ferromagnetic material for smart applications was implied. A combination of mechanical alloying (MA) and plasma spheroidization (PS) was applied to produce Ni36Al27Co37 spherical powder. Then its structure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,994 Views
17 Pages

26 March 2023

Abundant hydrocarbon resources were discovered in the Xiazijie fan-delta in the Triassic Baikouquan Formation in Mahu sag, Junggar Basin. However, the maximum depositional age of Baikouquan Formation and provenance of this fan-delta are still unclear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,556 Views
35 Pages

Quantitative Simulation of Gas Hydrate Formation and Accumulation with 3D Petroleum System Modeling in the Shenhu Area, Northern South China Sea

  • Pibo Su,
  • Jinqiang Liang,
  • Haijun Qiu,
  • Jianhua Xu,
  • Fujian Ma,
  • Tingwei Li,
  • Xiaoxue Wang,
  • Jinfeng Zhang,
  • Zhifeng Wan and
  • Wei Zhang
  • + 2 authors

22 December 2022

Gas hydrates have been considered as a new energy that could replace conventional fossil resources in the future because of their high energy density, environmental friendliness, and enormous reserves. To further analyze the potential distribution of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,209 Views
17 Pages

19 March 2024

Groundwater overexploitation for agricultural irrigation is prone to lead to numerous ecological concerns. This study delved into the present distribution and recent trend of groundwater levels in the plain areas of the Hexi Corridor in Northwest Chi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,070 Views
15 Pages

The Autophagy-Related Musa acuminata Protein MaATG8F Interacts with MaATG4B, Regulating Banana Disease Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4

  • Huoqing Huang,
  • Yuzhen Tian,
  • Yile Huo,
  • Yushan Liu,
  • Wenlong Yang,
  • Yuqing Li,
  • Mengxia Zhuo,
  • Dandan Xiang,
  • Chunyu Li and
  • Siwen Liu
  • + 1 author

23 January 2024

Banana is one of the most important fruits in the world due to its status as a major food source for more than 400 million people. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (Foc TR4) causes substantial losses of banana crops every year,...

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