By creating new job opportunities and developing the regional economy, the transport of goods generates significant costs, environmental and sanitary nuisances, and high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this context, collaboration is an interesting...
The increasing concern on global warming is prompting transportation sector to take into account more sustainable operation strategies. Among them, intermodal transportation (IT) has already been regarded as one of the most effective measures on carb...
In this paper, we propose robust optimisation models for the distribution network design problem (DNDP) to deal with uncertainty cases in a collaborative context. The studied network consists of collaborative suppliers who satisfy their customers’ ne...
Sustainable distribution network design for the maintenance components of electric multiple units (EMUs) is critical to reduce the problem of unreasonable resource allocation and capital occupation of high-speed railway (HSR) operations. Motivated by...
Horizontal collaboration is one of the most effective strategies applied to address issues related to sustainability and the adverse effects of commodity distribution. Although it has received increased attention in recent years, no synthesis has bee...
The mixture of data in real life exhibits structure or connection property in nature. Typical data include biological data, communication network data, image data, etc. Graphs provide a natural way to represent and analyze these types of data and the...
Foodbank networks provide adequate infrastructure and perform logistics activities to supply food to people in need on a day-to-day basis. However, in the case of a sudden event, such as a natural disaster, they must reconfigure themselves to quickly...
Water distribution networks are vital hydraulic infrastructures, essential for providing consumers with sufficient water of appropriate quality. The cost of construction, operation, and maintenance of such networks is extremely large. The problem of...
A dynamic network is the abstraction of distributed systems with frequent network topology changes. With such dynamic network models, fundamental distributed computing problems can be formally studied with rigorous correctness. Although quite a numbe...
This paper studies the multi-depot joint distribution vehicle routing problem considering energy consumption with time-dependent networks (MDJDVRP-TDN). Aiming at the multi-depot joint distribution vehicle routing problem where the vehicle travel tim...
With the wide application of distributed generation (DG) and the rapid development of alternating current/direct current (AC/DC) hybrid microgrids, the optimal planning of distributed generation connecting to AC/DC distribution networks/microgrids ha...
The DC distribution network has more advantages in power transmission, grid connection of distributed energy, and reliability of power supply when compared with AC distribution network, but there are still many problems in the development of DC distr...
In this paper, a distributed Bayesian filter design was studied for nonlinear dynamics and measurement mapping based on Kullback–Leibler divergence. In a distributed structure, the nonlinear filter becomes a challenging problem, since each sensor can...
This paper considers a class of distributed online aggregative optimization problems over an undirected and connected network. It takes into account an unknown dynamic environment and some aggregation functions, which is different from the problem fo...
The lack of information on the correlation between root causes and corresponding control criteria in the importance calculation of root causes of design problems results in less accurate determinations of core problems. Based on the interaction betwe...
In the context of the rapid development of the Internet of Vehicles, virtual reality, automatic driving and the industrial Internet, the terminal devices in the network show explosive growth. As a result, more and more information is generated from t...
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most optimized tasks studied and it is implemented in a huge variety of industrial applications. The objective is to design a set of minimum cost paths for each vehicle in order to serve a given set of...
An efficient humanitarian emergency logistics network is vital in responding to earthquake disasters. However, the asymmetric information inherent in the location and distribution stages can complicate the humanitarian emergency logistics network des...
Although the distributed generator (DG) placement and distribution network (DN) reconfiguration techniques contribute to reduce power loss, obviously the former is a design problem which is used for a long-term purpose while the latter is an operatio...
In order to achieve peak carbon and carbon neutrality targets, a high number of distributed power sources have been connected to distribution networks. How to realize the planning of a distribution network containing integrated energy under the condi...
In this paper, we propose a solution to the sustainable closed-loop supply chain (SCLSC) design problem. Three factors (economic, environmental, and social) are considered for the problem and the three following requirements are addressed while satis...
To handle the uncertainties brought by the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources and random loads, we design a stochastic multi-timescale distribution network reconfiguration (SMTDNR) framework to coordinate diverse scheduling resources...
The integration of sensing, computing, storage, and communications is one of the main research directions of current network development. To achieve the integration, an innovative design in the antenna array is essential. This paper presents a novel...
This paper is concerned with the distributed full- and reduced-order
Background: Planning power distribution networks is crucial in contemporary infrastructure development. Current distribution paradigms require not only cost minimization but also reliability and fault tolerance. However, designing meshed network topo...
There are many logistics nuances specific to bakery factories, making the design of their distribution network especially complex. In particular, bakery products typically have a shelf life of under a week. To ensure that products are delivered to en...
This paper mainly studies the distributed optimization problems in a class of undirected networks. The objective function of the problem consists of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function. Each agent in the network needs to optimiz...
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With the gradual popularization of carbon trading, individual carbon emission behavior will come with carbon costs, which will have a significant impact on the network freight platform carrier drivers. Therefore, in order to improve the stability wit...
This paper deals with a complex optimization problem, more specifically the two-stage transportation problem with fixed costs. In our investigated transportation problem, we are modeling a distribution network in a two-stage supply chain. The conside...
This paper is concerned with the distributed field estimation problem using a sensor network, and the main purpose is to design a local filter for each sensor node to estimate a spatially-distributed physical process using the measurements of the who...
This paper presents a two-stage hybrid stochastic–robust coordination of energy management and self-healing in smart distribution networks with multiple microgrids. A multi-agent systems approach is first used for coupling energy management and...
The recent developments in the design, planning, and operation of distribution systems indicate the need for a modern integrated infrastructure in which participants are managed through the perceptions of a utility company in an economic network (e.g...
This article studies the effective design of content distribution networks over cloud computing platforms. This problem is relevant nowadays to provide fast and reliable access to content on the internet. A bio-inspired evolutionary multiobjective op...
This paper addresses the Capacitated Location Tree Problem with Interconnections, a new combinatorial optimization problem with applications in network design. In this problem, the required facilities picked from a set of potential facilities must be...
To fulfill the increasing demand on low-latency content distribution, this paper considers content distribution using generation-based network coding with the belief propagation decoder. We propose a framework to design generation-based network codes...
Aiming to solve the problem that spatially distributed similar instances cannot be distinguished in 3D point cloud instance segmentation, a 3D point cloud instance segmentation network, considering the global shape contour, was proposed. This researc...
Fault prediction of hydropower station is crucial for the stable operation of generator set equipment, but the traditional method struggles to deal with data with an imbalanced distribution and untrustworthiness. This paper proposes a fault detection...
The paper develops a multi-objective planning framework for distribution network expansion with electric vehicle charging stations. Charging loads are modeled in the first place, and then integrated into the optimal distribution network expansion pla...
This Special Issue addresses the general problem of a proper match between the demands of energy users and the units for energy conversion and storage, by means of proper design and operation of the overall energy system configuration. The focus is e...
The specificity and complexity of space networks render the traditional key management mechanism no longer applicable. The certificate-less-based distributed spatial network key management scheme proposed in this paper combines the characteristics of...
DC distribution network faults seriously affect the reliability of system power supply. Therefore, this paper proposes a fault recovery reconfiguration strategy for DC distribution networks, based on hybrid particle swarm optimization. The original p...
The deployment of three-dimensional Wireless Sensor Networks (3D WSNs) in complex environments demands robust topological control to ensure both reliable and fault-tolerant sensing and communication. In order to simultaneously achieve the two objecti...
As an imperative part of smart grids (SG) technology, the optimal operation of active distribution networks (ADNs) is critical to the best utilization of renewable energy and minimization of network power losses. However, the increasing penetration o...
The rapid development of electric vehicle (EV) technology and the consequent charging demand have brought challenges to the stable operation of distribution networks (DNs). The problem of the collaborative optimization of the charging scheduling of E...
Numerical optimization is gradually finding its way into drinking water practice. For successful introduction of optimization into the sector, it is important that researchers and utility experts work together on the problem formulation with the wate...
This paper proposed a distributed genetic algorithm (DGA) to solve the energy efficient coverage (EEC) problem in the wireless sensor networks (WSN). Due to the fact that the EEC problem is Non-deterministic Polynomial-Complete (NPC) and time-consumi...
Due to the importance of the allocation of energy microgrids in the power distribution networks, the effect of the uncertainties of their power generation sources and the inherent uncertainty of the network load on the problem of their optimization a...
With the continuous development of the networked society, the ability of cyber attackers is becoming increasingly intelligent, posing a huge threat to complex cyber–physical networks (CCPNs). Therefore, how to design a security strategy for CCP...
In recent years, energy-efficient data collection has evolved into the core problem in the resource-constrained Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Different from existing data collection models in WSNs, we propose a collaborative data collection scheme...
Water distribution networks consist of different components, such as reservoirs and pipes, and exist to provide users (households, agriculture, industry) with high-quality water at adequate pressure and flow. Water distribution network design optimiz...
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