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11 Citations
1,747 Views
21 Pages

Developing a Hybrid Algorithm Based on an Equilibrium Optimizer and an Improved Backpropagation Neural Network for Fault Warning

  • Jiang Liu,
  • Changshu Zhan,
  • Haiyang Wang,
  • Xingqin Zhang,
  • Xichao Liang,
  • Shuangqing Zheng,
  • Zhou Meng and
  • Guishan Zhou

14 June 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape with the advent of intelligent technologies, ensuring smooth equipment operation and fostering stable business growth rely heavily on accurate early fault detection and timely maintenance. Mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,805 Views
27 Pages

21 April 2022

With the rapid development of the economy, the quality of power systems has assumed an increasingly prominent influence on people’s daily lives. In this paper, an improved equilibrium optimizer (IEO) is proposed to solve the optimal power flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
727 Views
32 Pages

Dynamic Heterogeneous Search-Mutation Structure-Based Equilibrium Optimizer

  • Xiangdong Wu,
  • Kaoru Hirota,
  • Yaping Dai and
  • Shuai Shao

8 May 2025

Aiming at the issues of population diversity attenuation, insufficient search efficiency, and susceptibility to a local optimum in the equilibrium optimizer (EO), a dynamic heterogeneous search-mutation structure-based equilibrium optimizer (DHSMEO)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,124 Views
37 Pages

10 February 2025

To strengthen the population diversity and search capability of equilibrium optimizer (EO), a dynamic multi-population mutation architecture-based equilibrium optimizer (DMMAEO) is proposed. Firstly, a dynamic multi-population guidance mechanism is c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,966 Views
30 Pages

An Improved Equilibrium Optimizer with a Decreasing Equilibrium Pool

  • Lin Yang,
  • Zhe Xu,
  • Yanting Liu and
  • Guozhong Tian

13 June 2022

Big Data is impacting and changing the way we live, and its core lies in the use of machine learning to extract valuable information from huge amounts of data. Optimization problems are a common problem in many steps of machine learning. In the face...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,530 Views
20 Pages

Experimental Study on the Application of Polymer Agents in Offshore Oil Fields: Optimization Design for Enhanced Oil Recovery

  • Xianjie Li,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Yaqian Zhang,
  • Cuo Guan,
  • Zheyu Liu,
  • Ke Hu,
  • Ruokun Xian and
  • Yiqiang Li

20 January 2025

The Bohai oilfield is characterized by severe heterogeneity and high average permeability, leading to a low water flooding recovery efficiency. Polymer flooding only works for a certain heterogeneous reservoir. Therefore, supplementary technologies f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Views
19 Pages

4 December 2025

To address the challenges of renewable energy curtailment under normal conditions and severe power outages under extreme scenarios, this paper proposes a hydrogen-integrated comprehensive energy system (H-IES) configuration method aimed at enhancing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,813 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable Recovery of Polyphenols and Carotenoids from Horned Melon Peel via Cloud Point Extraction

  • Vanja Travičić,
  • Teodora Cvanić,
  • Senka Vidović,
  • Lato Pezo,
  • Alyssa Hidalgo,
  • Olja Šovljanski and
  • Gordana Ćetković

10 September 2024

Using natural plant extracts as food additives is a promising approach for improving food products’ quality, nutritional value, and safety, offering advantages for both consumers and the environment. Therefore, the main goal of this study was t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,195 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2023

Despite the benefits of inventory transshipment, numerous behavioral experiments have revealed that retailers often deviate from the Nash-equilibrium ordering quantities, which in turn impacts the potential advantages. Motivated by this issue, we dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,460 Views
23 Pages

The Augmented Weak Sharpness of Solution Sets in Equilibrium Problems

  • Ruyu Wang,
  • Wenling Zhao,
  • Daojin Song and
  • Yaozhong Hu

22 January 2024

This study considers equilibrium problems, focusing on identifying finite solutions for feasible solution sequences. We introduce an innovative extension of the weak sharp minimum concept from convex programming to equilibrium problems, coining this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,727 Views
22 Pages

Supramolecular Solvent-Based Extraction of Microgreens: Taguchi Design Coupled-ANN Multi-Objective Optimization

  • Anja Vučetić,
  • Lato Pezo,
  • Olja Šovljanski,
  • Jelena Vulić,
  • Vanja Travičić,
  • Gordana Ćetković and
  • Jasna Čanadanović-Brunet

11 July 2024

Supramolecular solvent-based extraction (SUPRAS) stands out as a promising approach, particularly due to its environmentally friendly and efficient characteristics. This research explores the optimization of SUPRAS extraction for sango radish and kal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,804 Views
24 Pages

17 September 2021

There is a debate if electricity markets on the basis of energy-only markets ensure a sufficient generation capacity. Various capacity mechanisms are discussed to tackle this potential problem. Capacity auctions with reliability options are seen as o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,450 Views
18 Pages

25 April 2024

This study addresses the challenge of accurately determining the arrival time of stress wave signals in SHPB test data processing. To eliminate human error, we introduce the time-window energy ratio method and evaluate six filters for noise reduction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,898 Views
22 Pages

With the increasing demands of consumers for product grade, the C2B model of high-grade e-commerce emerges as required. In order to solve the problem of coordination and cooperation between e-commerce platforms and manufacturers, and to further devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,296 Views
20 Pages

17 November 2017

Clustering is an effective topology control method in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), since it can enhance the network lifetime and scalability. To prolong the network lifetime in clustered WSNs, an efficient cluster head (CH) optimization policy is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
794 Views
19 Pages

This study investigates dynamic behaviors within a competition Cournot duopoly framework incorporating consumer surplus, and social welfare through the bounded rationality method. The distinctive aspect of the competition game is the incorporation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,133 Views
25 Pages

As modern medical technology advances, the utilization of gene expression data has proliferated across diverse domains, particularly in cancer diagnosis and prognosis monitoring. However, gene expression data is often characterized by high dimensiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,728 Views
20 Pages

26 April 2025

Effective coordination between fiscal and monetary policy is crucial for macroeconomic stability, yet achieving it presents significant challenges due to differing objectives and institutional setups. This study evaluates the strategic interaction be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,514 Views
37 Pages

Simultaneous Optimization of Network Reconfiguration and Soft Open Points Placement in Radial Distribution Systems Using a Lévy Flight-Based Improved Equilibrium Optimizer

  • Ridha Djamel Mohammedi,
  • Djamal Gozim,
  • Abdellah Kouzou,
  • Mustafa Mosbah,
  • Ahmed Hafaifa,
  • Jose Rodriguez and
  • Mohamed Abdelrahem

25 November 2024

This research paper focuses on the application of a new method for the simultaneous reconfiguration and the optimum placing of Soft Open Points (SOPs) in Radial Distribution Systems (RDS). The proposed Lévy Flight-based Improved Equilibrium Op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,890 Views
13 Pages

A Nash Equilibrium Approach to the Brazilian Seasonalization of Energy Certificates

  • Fellipe Fernandes Goulart dos Santos,
  • Marcus Vinícius de Castro Lobato,
  • Douglas Alexandre Gomes Vieira,
  • Adriano Chaves Lisboa and
  • Rodney Rezende Saldanha

16 March 2022

This paper presents a Nash equilibrium approach to model a non-cooperative game that takes place among Brazilian hydro-generating companies in the annual process called “seasonalization”. We have “remade” the seasonalizations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
864 Views
17 Pages

23 July 2025

The urbanization-driven surge in kitchen waste necessitates optimized dry anaerobic digestion (DAD; total solids > 15%). Despite its valorization potential, this technology requires efficiency improvements due to mass transfer constraints. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,629 Views
18 Pages

28 November 2024

To enhance the interests of all stakeholders in the multi-microgrid integrated energy system and to promote photovoltaic consumption, this paper proposes a master–slave game operation optimization strategy for a multi-microgrid system consideri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
768 Views
23 Pages

A Qualitative Analysis and Discussion of a New Model for Optimizing Obesity and Associated Comorbidities

  • Mohamed I. Youssef,
  • Robert M. Maina,
  • Duncan K. Gathungu and
  • Amr Radwan

1 August 2025

This paper addresses the problem of optimizing obesity, which has been a challenging issue in the last decade based on recent data revealed in 2024 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The current work introduces a new mathematical model of the dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
3,216 Views
21 Pages

5 March 2021

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning problem is a type of complex multi-constraint optimization problem that requires a reasonable mathematical model and an efficient path planning algorithm. In this paper, the fitness function including f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,871 Views
14 Pages

19 October 2023

2D iodine structures under high pressures are more attractive and valuable due to their special structures and excellent properties. Here, electronic transport properties of such 2D iodine structures are theoretically studied by considering the influ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,064 Views
17 Pages

27 December 2021

Nash Equilibrium (NE) plays a crucial role in game theory. The relaxation method in conjunction with the Nikaido–Isoda (NI) function, namely the NI-based relaxation method, has been widely applied to the determination of NE. Genetic Algorithm (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,786 Views
18 Pages

11 July 2024

Form aesthetic principles represent an aesthetic consciousness developed through long-term human labor practices, which are crucial for the design and evaluation of product form. The equilibrium aesthetic principle is a vital component of the form ae...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,171 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2022

The rapid development of sharing bicycles has facilitated the last mile of travel and provided new opportunities for the sustainable development of metro transportation. However, there is still insufficient literature on how to promote the bicycle&nd...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,852 Views
27 Pages

A Review on the Complementarity Modelling in Competitive Electricity Markets

  • Christos N. Dimitriadis,
  • Evangelos G. Tsimopoulos and
  • Michael C. Georgiadis

1 November 2021

In recent years, the ever-increasing research interest in various aspects of the electricity pool-based markets has generated a plethora of complementarity-based approaches to determine participating agents’ optimal offering/bidding strategies and mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
198 Views
35 Pages

Contemporary neural and generative architectures are deficient in self-preservation mechanisms and sustainable stability. In uncertain or noisy situations, they frequently demonstrate oscillatory learning, overconfidence, and structural deterioration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,561 Views
24 Pages

13 November 2023

Dual credit policy (DCP) is a market-based mechanism introduced by the Chinese government to promote the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry and improve energy savings in China. To offer sufficient impetus for the NEV industry while providing sufficien...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,506 Views
24 Pages

Operational Temperature Optimization in Hydrogen Turbine Blades via Time-Fractional Conformable Sensitivity Analysis

  • Josué Neftalí Gutiérrez-Corona,
  • Oscar Oswaldo Sánchez-Sánchez,
  • Marco Antonio Polo-Labarrios and
  • Guillermo Fernandez-Anaya

7 May 2025

This study focuses on optimizing the thermal performance of hydrogen turbine blades through a sensitivity analysis using generalized fractional calculus. The approach is designed to capture the transient temperature dynamics and optimize thermal prof...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,090 Views
32 Pages

19 April 2025

The increasing reliance on and remote accessibility of automated industrial systems have shifted SCADA networks from being strictly isolated to becoming highly interconnected systems. The growing interconnectivity among systems enhances operational e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
911 Views
23 Pages

25 September 2025

H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, is a subtype of the influenza A virus that can infect humans, pigs, and birds. Sensitivity analysis and optimal control studies play a crucial role in understanding the dynamics of H1N1 influenza. In this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,490 Views
14 Pages

23 October 2023

With the increasingly complicated sources of lead smelting materials, it is becoming more difficult to optimize process parameters during the bottom-blowing lead oxidation smelting process. Building a bottom-blowing lead smelting thermodynamic model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
615 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2025

Analyzing the spatial layout equilibrium of highway transportation networks is essential for optimizing transportation networks, enhancing system efficiency and sustainability. To promote the equitable distribution and management of highway traffic r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,182 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2022

In this paper, a stochastic-meta-heuristic model (SMM) for multi-criteria allocation of wind turbines (WT) in a distribution network is performed for minimizing the power losses, enhancing voltage profile and stability, and enhancing network reliabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,607 Views
27 Pages

9 May 2024

One of the limitations of the dung beetle optimization (DBO) is its susceptibility to local optima and its relatively low search accuracy. Several strategies have been utilized to improve the diversity, search precision, and outcomes of the DBO. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,944 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2020

Understanding how nature drives entropy production offers novel insights regarding patient care. Whilst energy is always preserved and energy gradients irreversibly dissipate (thus producing entropy), increasing evidence suggests that they do so in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,588 Views
19 Pages

4 June 2024

Clarifying the intrinsic nature and formation mechanisms of the territorial spatial development non-equilibrium, optimizing the allocation of territorial resources, promoting regional balanced development, and alleviating regional development dispari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,150 Views
13 Pages

Prediction of Phase Equilibrium Conditions and Thermodynamic Stability of CO2-CH4 Gas Hydrate

  • Haoran Ma,
  • Jiaqi Liu,
  • Yunyi Zhang,
  • Jingming Li,
  • Jingyu Kan and
  • Nan Li

9 March 2024

With the large-scale promotion and application of CO2 flooding, more and more engineering problems have emerged. Due to the high CO2 mole fraction, the associated gas of CO2 flooding very easily forms solid hydrates, compared to conventional natural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,274 Views
29 Pages

The transmission efficiency of underwater acoustic is doubly constrained by absorption attenuation and geometric spreading losses, with the relative interaction between these loss mechanisms exhibiting complex dynamic variations across the frequency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,929 Views
18 Pages

This paper first portrays the equilibrium payoff of enterprise’s cooperation of environmental governance based on the Cournot model. Secondly, the evolutionary game model in complex networks is adopted to depict the evolution of environmental g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,998 Views
25 Pages

15 September 2021

An improved equilibrium optimizer (EO) algorithm is proposed in this paper to address premature and slow convergence. Firstly, a highly stochastic chaotic mechanism is adopted to initialize the population for range expansion. Secondly, the capability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,203 Views
16 Pages

30 May 2019

With the rapid growth of distributed energy sources, power grid has become a flexible and complex networked control system. However, it increases the chances of being a denial-of-service attack, which degrades the performance of the power grid, even...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,150 Views
17 Pages

18 August 2023

The Yangtze River Economic Belt, as crucial component of China’s “T-shaped” strategy for territorial development and economic layout, has been challenged by the unbalanced spatial distribution of water resources, which has seriously...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,524 Views
21 Pages

30 August 2025

This work aims to present tes-thermo, a Python library developed to solve thermodynamic equilibrium problems using the Gibbs energy minimization approach. The library is a variant of TeS v.3, a standalone executable developed for the same purpose. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,145 Views
23 Pages

29 February 2024

Here, we study vertical foreclosure in a dynamic setup with learning-by-doing production technologies. There is a downstream monopoly and an upstream duopoly, where manufacturers produce differentiated products and can gain proficiency through the ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
8,393 Views
14 Pages

3 August 2018

This study aimed to develop and optimize a novel biochar-based fertilizer composed of rice husk biochar and urea–hydrogen peroxide (UHP), which can simultaneously slowly release nitrogen and immobilize cadmium (Cd). Response surface methodology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
739 Views
26 Pages

4 October 2025

In disturbance scenarios, wheeled bipedal robots (WBRs) require effective control algorithms to restore balance. To address the trade-off between computational burden and control precision, and to enhance anti-disturbance capability, this paper propo...

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