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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,354 Views
21 Pages

A novel approach for a robust computation of positional relations of two-dimensional geometric features is presented which guarantees reliable results, provided that the initial data is valid. The method is based on the use of integer coordinates and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,668 Views
31 Pages

Optimal Microgrid Protection Coordination for Directional Overcurrent Relays Through Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization

  • León F. Serna-Montoya,
  • Sergio D. Saldarriaga-Zuluaga,
  • Jesús M. López-Lezama and
  • Nicolás Muñoz-Galeano

16 April 2025

Microgrids (MGs) are revolutionizing modern power systems by enabling decentralized energy production, renewable energy integration, and enhanced grid resilience. However, the increasing complexity of MGs, particularly with the integration of Distrib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,996 Views
20 Pages

3 December 2020

This paper extends and generalizes former inventory models that apply algebraic methods to derive optimal supply chain inventory decisions. In particular this paper considers the problem of coordinating production-inventory decisions in an integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,139 Views
17 Pages

18 March 2019

This paper proposes a coordinated active–reactive power optimization model for an active distribution network with energy storage systems, where the active and reactive resources are handled simultaneously. The model aims to minimize the power...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
431 Views
13 Pages

8 November 2025

This paper presents an after-sales service optimization problem (ASOP) that integrates technician scheduling with spare parts inventory management, multi-day planning horizons, team coordination requirements, and customer satisfaction modeling. We de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
774 Views
19 Pages

Path-Based Progression Optimization Model for Multimodal Traffic System Signal Coordination

  • Qi Cao,
  • Changjian Wu,
  • Shunchao Wang,
  • Hongtian Liu and
  • Weihan Chen

28 September 2025

Passive transit signal priority (TSP) strategies are widely recognized as effective tools for mitigating bus delays along urban arterials. However, existing TSP models primarily focus on through movements of transit vehicles, leading to potential del...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,945 Views
18 Pages

Benchmarking Procurement Cost Saving Strategies for Wood Supply Chains

  • Christoph Kogler,
  • Sophie Schimpfhuber,
  • Clemens Eichberger and
  • Peter Rauch

13 August 2021

Intense international competition pushes the actors of wood supply chains to implement efficient wood supply chain management incorporating coordinated cost-saving strategies to remain competitive. In order to observe the effects of individual and co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,522 Views
26 Pages

14 April 2023

Future power systems with a high share of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) in the energy portfolio will have an increasing need for active power balancing. The integration of controllable and more flexible distributed energy resources (DER...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,613 Views
15 Pages

8 January 2025

Correctly fixing the integer ambiguity of GNSS is the key to realizing the application of GNSS high-precision positioning. When solving the float solution of ambiguity based on the double-difference model epoch by epoch, the common method for resolvi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,487 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2022

The efficiency of track utilization is one of the important factors for train operation in marshalling stations, and it can not only affect the turnover efficiency of trains, but also determine the capacity of railway stations. This paper presents an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,223 Views
31 Pages

16 December 2025

While the Seokguram Grotto is celebrated in art history for its sculptural mastery, its architectural identity as a constructed stone dome—distinct from excavated caves—remains under-researched. Existing studies have largely relied on geo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,756 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Stochastic Mixed-Integer-Linear-Logical Programming Model for Optimal Coordination of Hybrid Storage Systems in Isolated Microgrids Considering Demand Response

  • Marcos Tostado-Véliz,
  • Ali Asghar Ghadimi,
  • Mohammad Reza Miveh,
  • Daniel Sánchez-Lozano,
  • Antonio Escamez and
  • Francisco Jurado

25 October 2022

Storage systems and demand-response programs will play a vital role in future energy systems. Batteries, hydrogen or pumped hydro storage systems can be combined to form hybrid storage facilities to not only manage the intermittent behavior of renewa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,771 Views
18 Pages

4 August 2021

This study aims to plan a cost-minimizing charging schedule for electric buses with fast charging stations. The paper conceptualizes the problem as a three-stage procedure, which is oriented around the participation of an electric bus aggregator in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,104 Views
20 Pages

Discrete Optimization: The Case of Generalized BCC Lattice

  • Gergely Kovács,
  • Benedek Nagy,
  • Gergely Stomfai,
  • Neşet Deniz Turgay and
  • Béla Vizvári

20 January 2021

Recently, operations research, especially linear integer-programming, is used in various grids to find optimal paths and, based on that, digital distance. The 4 and higher-dimensional body-centered-cubic grids is the nD (n4) equivalent of the 3D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,845 Views
10 Pages

25 November 2018

Considering the Weierstrass data as ( ψ , f , g ) = ( 2 , 1 - z - m , z n ) , we introduce a two-parameter family of Henneberg-type minimal surface that we call H m , n for positive integers ( m , n ) by using t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,067 Views
13 Pages

8 June 2017

Magnetometers provide compass information, and are widely used for navigation, orientation and alignment of objects. As magnetometers are affected by sensor biases and eventually by systematic distortions of the Earth magnetic field, a calibration is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,038 Views
17 Pages

9 February 2019

The concept of the grid is broadly used in digital geometry and other fields of computer science. It consists of discrete points with integer coordinates. Coordinate systems are essential for making grids easy to use. Up to now, for the triangular gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,376 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2023

Satellite positioning is one of the main navigation technologies in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the accuracy of which has an important impact on the safety, stability, and flexibility of UAVs. The parameters of integer ambiguity are important fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,658 Views
17 Pages

30 June 2022

Cluster mixture models for liquid water at higher pressures suggest the need for water clusters of higher coordination and density than those commonly based on tetrahedral H-bonding motifs. We show here how proton-ordered water clusters of increased...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,898 Views
21 Pages

The study addresses the formidable challenge of calculating atomic coordinates for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using density functional theory (DFT), a process that can endure for days. To tackle this issue, the research leverages the Genetic Programming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,954 Views
30 Pages

A coordinated control for the volt-var optimization (VVO) problem is presented using load tap changer transformers, voltage regulators, and capacitor banks with the integration of a PV-based microgrid. The harmony search (HS) algorithm, which is a me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
382 Views
40 Pages

5 January 2026

Active distribution networks (ADNs) with high DER penetration require coordinated decisions to ensure voltage security, limit losses, and support low-carbon targets. However, most reconfiguration-centric studies prioritize loss/cost and rarely integr...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,217 Views
8 Pages

This paper proposes a robotic system for fruit harvesting, which includes a mobile platform with a fruit basket, on which a parallel platform is installed, and in the center of the moving platform a telescopic link is installed for harvesting fruit f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,251 Views
16 Pages

Sequential Ambiguity Resolution Method for Poorly-Observed GNSS Data

  • Haiyang Li,
  • Guigen Nie,
  • Shuguang Wu and
  • Yuefan He

27 May 2021

Integer ambiguity resolution is required to obtain precise coordinates for the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). Poorly observed data cause unfixed integer ambiguity and reduce the coordinate accuracy. Previous studies mostly used denoise fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,466 Views
23 Pages

A Subdivision Method to Unify the Existing Latitude and Longitude Grids

  • Chengqi Cheng,
  • Xiaochong Tong,
  • Bo Chen and
  • Weixin Zhai

As research on large regions of earth progresses, many geographical subdivision grids have been established for various spatial applications by different industries and disciplines. However, there is no clear relationship between the different grids...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Views
22 Pages

18 February 2026

In Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), high-precision position coordinates are typically determined by establishing a double-difference carrier phase observation model and resolving the integer ambiguities within it. Therefore, the ability to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,316 Views
24 Pages

Vector Arithmetic in the Triangular Grid

  • Khaled Abuhmaidan,
  • Monther Aldwairi and
  • Benedek Nagy

20 March 2021

Vector arithmetic is a base of (coordinate) geometry, physics and various other disciplines. The usual method is based on Cartesian coordinate-system which fits both to continuous plane/space and digital rectangular-grids. The triangular grid is also...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,622 Views
28 Pages

16 October 2022

The main purpose of the work was examining various methods of decomposition of a network optimization problem of simultaneous routing and bandwidth allocation based on Lagrangian relaxation. The problem studied is an NP-hard mixed-integer nonlinear o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
364 Views
12 Pages

1 January 2026

Accurate mapping of electromagnetic field distributions is crucial in the analysis and design of electromechanical devices such as electric machines. Fractional calculus is a tool currently under development that allows classical models to be general...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,173 Views
26 Pages

Solving Integer Ambiguity Based on an Improved Ant Lion Algorithm

  • Wuzheng Guo,
  • Yuanfa Ji,
  • Xiyan Sun and
  • Xizi Jia

17 February 2025

In GNSS, a double-difference carrier phase observation model is typically employed, and high-accuracy position coordinates can be obtained by resolving the integer ambiguity within the model through algorithmic processing. To address the challenge of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,012 Views
16 Pages

16 July 2022

In recent years, connected automated vehicles (CAVs) have attracted much attention, and the coordination strategy of CAVs in isolated intersections has been widely discussed. However, these algorithms for isolated intersections cannot be directly app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,967 Views
19 Pages

28 April 2021

In this paper, we proposed the exactly solvable model of non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems. This model describes open quantum systems with memory and periodic sequence of kicks by environment. To describe these systems, the Lindblad equa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,341 Views
20 Pages

Multi-period Market Operation of Transmission-Distribution Systems Based on Heterogeneous Decomposition and Coordination

  • Cong Liu,
  • Jingyang Zhou,
  • Yi Pan,
  • Zhiyi Li,
  • Yifei Wang,
  • Dan Xu,
  • Qiang Ding,
  • Zhiqiang Luo and
  • Mohammad Shahidehpour

14 August 2019

The integration of shiftable/curtailment distribution generators (DGs) along with quick-response storage has not only increased the transaction’s flexibility but also puzzled the bidding willingness of transmission-connected market players (TMP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,332 Views
18 Pages

Short-Term Optimal Scheduling of a Cascade Hydro-Photovoltaic System for Maximizing the Expectation of Consumable Electricity

  • Shuzhe Hu,
  • Jinniu Miao,
  • Jingyang Wu,
  • Liqian Zhao,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Fanyan Meng,
  • Chao Wei,
  • Xiaoqin Zhang and
  • Benrui Zhu

24 January 2025

Fully leveraging the regulatory role of cascade hydropower in river basins and realizing complementary joint power generation between cascade hydropower and photovoltaic (PV) systems is a crucial approach to promoting the consumption of clean energy....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,359 Views
16 Pages

Urban Rail Transit Rolling Stock Scheduling Optimization with Shared Depot

  • Jia Feng,
  • Guowei Li,
  • Yuxin Shi,
  • Zhengzhong Li and
  • Shanshan Liu

14 November 2022

This paper presents a coordinated model to optimize the rolling stock scheduling of two urban rail transit lines with a shared train depot. The proposed integrated and extended integrated optimization problems are transformed into mixed integer linea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,977 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2017

This paper presents a novel switching frequency optimized space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) scheme for cascaded multilevel inverters. The proposed SVPWM is developed in a α′β′ coordinate system, in which the voltage vectors have only intege...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,460 Views
14 Pages

Event-Triggered Intervention Framework for UAV-UGV Coordination Systems

  • Wu Wang,
  • Junyou Guo,
  • Guoqing Tian,
  • Yutao Chen and
  • Jie Huang

20 December 2021

Air-ground coordination systems are usually composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). In such a system, UAVs can utilize their much more perceptive information to plan the path for UGVs. However, the correctness a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
378 Views
21 Pages

Day-Ahead Coordinated Reactive Power Optimization Dispatching Based on Semidefinite Programming

  • Binbin Xu,
  • Mengqi Liu,
  • Yilin Zhong,
  • Peijie Cong,
  • Bo Zhu,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Yujun Li and
  • Zhengchun Du

17 October 2025

With access to new energy sources, the problem of reactive power optimization and dispatching has become increasingly important for research. However, the reactive power optimization problem is a mixed integer nonlinear optimization problem. In order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,361 Views
9 Pages

The Spherical Harmonic Family of Beampatterns

  • Kevin J. Parker and
  • Miguel A. Alonso

15 November 2022

The free space solution to the wave equation in spherical coordinates is well known as a separable product of functions. Re-examination of these functions, particularly the sums of spherical Bessel and harmonic functions, reveals behaviors which can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,714 Views
14 Pages

13 February 2023

This paper proposes a timetable coordination method for transfer problems in a bus transit system. With a given bus network, a stochastic mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model has been formulated to obtain coordinated bus timetables with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,851 Views
21 Pages

25 October 2018

Sustainable supply chain management is important for most firms in today’s competitive environment. This study considers a supply chain environment under which the firm needs to make decisions regarding from which supplier and what quantity of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,881 Views
22 Pages

In digital product and ion scheduling centers, order–factory allocation, factory–mold allocation, and mold routing can be performed centrally and efficiently to maximize the utilization of manufacturing resources (molds). Therefore, in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,167 Views
20 Pages

Coordinated Energy Scheduling of a Distributed Multi-Microgrid System Based on Multi-Agent Decisions

  • Yuyan Sun,
  • Zexiang Cai,
  • Ziyi Zhang,
  • Caishan Guo,
  • Guolong Ma and
  • Yongxia Han

6 August 2020

Regarding the different ownerships and autonomy of microgrids (MGs) in the distributed multi-microgrid (MMG) system, this paper establishes a multi-stage energy scheduling model based on a multi-agent system (MAS). The proposed mechanism enables a mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,976 Views
11 Pages

Constrained MLAMBDA Method for Multi-GNSS Structural Health Monitoring

  • Haiyang Li,
  • Guigen Nie,
  • Dezhong Chen,
  • Shuguang Wu and
  • Kezhi Wang

15 October 2019

Deformation monitoring of engineering structures using the advanced Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has attracted research interest due to its high-precision, constant availability and global coverage. However, GNSS application requires pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
426 Views
12 Pages

16 December 2025

X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra are employed to characterise the coordination numbers of metallic elements within materials. However, conventional XANES analysis methods frequently rely on preconceived assumptions regarding the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,148 Views
18 Pages

In this paper, a nuclear accident emergency response system based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and bus collaboration is designed for radiation field estimation and evacuation. When a nuclear accident occurs, the radiation field is estimated fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,213 Views
17 Pages

30 June 2018

The stationary reference receiver with precisely known coordinates is difficult to establish in some special real-time relative positioning applications. To improve the relative position estimation accuracy and the reliability simultaneously for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,387 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2022

In the present work, a neotype chaotic product trigonometric map (PTM) system is proposed. We demonstrate the chaotic characteristics of a PTM system by using a series of complexity criteria, such as bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, approxim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
364 Views
33 Pages

Integrated Curve and Setting Optimization for DOCRs in Microgrid Environments with a BRKGA-MILP Matheuristic

  • León F. Serna-Montoya,
  • Sergio D. Saldarriaga-Zuluaga,
  • Jesús M. López-Lezama,
  • Nicolás Muñoz-Galeano and
  • Juan G. Villegas

28 November 2025

Guaranteeing the effective coordination of directional overcurrent relays (DOCRs) within microgrids (MGs) is a complex nonlinear problem due to bidirectional power flows, varying fault current levels, and the need for adaptive operation across multip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,681 Views
24 Pages

16 February 2015

According to the topological structure of wind-storage-load complementation microgrids, this paper proposes a method for energy coordinative optimization which focuses on improvement of the economic benefits of microgrids in the prediction framework....

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