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1 Citations
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28 February 2025

The orthogonality of transmitted waveforms is an important factor affecting the performance of MIMO radar systems. The orthogonal coded signal is a commonly adopted waveform in MIMO radar, and its orthogonality depends on the used orthogonal discrete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
843 Views
23 Pages

10 September 2025

Hyperspectral band selection (BS) is an important technique to reduce data dimensionality for the classification applications of hyperspectral remote sensing images (HSIs). Recently, searching-based BS methods have received increasing attention for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,667 Views
13 Pages

30 April 2021

When no-wait constraint holds in job shops, a job has to be processed with no waiting time from the first to the last operation, and the start time of a job is greatly restricted. Using key elements of the iterated greedy algorithm, this paper propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,575 Views
18 Pages

18 March 2019

Greedy algorithm is one of the important point selection methods in the radial basis function based mesh deformation. However, in large-scale mesh, the conventional greedy selection will generate expensive time consumption and result in performance p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,635 Views
18 Pages

A Multi-Objective Parallel Iterated Greedy for Solving the p-Center and p-Dispersion Problem

  • Sergio Pérez-Peló,
  • Jesús Sánchez-Oro,
  • Ana Dolores López-Sánchez and
  • Abraham Duarte

1 December 2019

This paper generalizes the iterated greedy algorithm to solve a multi-objective facility location problem known as the Bi-objective p-Center and p-Dispersion problem ( B p C D ). The new algorithm is coined as Multi-objective Parallel Iterated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,851 Views
20 Pages

A Population-Based Iterated Greedy Algorithm for Maximizing Sensor Network Lifetime

  • Salim Bouamama,
  • Christian Blum and
  • Pedro Pinacho-Davidson 

24 February 2022

Finding dominating sets in graphs is very important in the context of numerous real-world applications, especially in the area of wireless sensor networks. This is because network lifetime in wireless sensor networks can be prolonged by assigning sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,825 Views
25 Pages

22 January 2023

As multi-factory production models are more widespread in modern manufacturing systems, a distributed blocking flowshop scheduling problem (DBFSP) is studied in which no buffer between adjacent machines and setup time constraints are considered. To a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
791 Views
22 Pages

Graph Knowledge-Enhanced Iterated Greedy Algorithm for Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling Problem

  • Yingli Li,
  • Biao Zhang,
  • Kaipu Wang,
  • Liping Zhang,
  • Zikai Zhang and
  • Yong Wang

25 July 2025

This study presents a graph knowledge-enhanced iterated greedy algorithm that incorporates dual directional decoding strategies, disjunctive graphs, neighborhood structures, and a rapid evaluation method to demonstrate its superior performance for th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,086 Views
25 Pages

25 May 2023

This paper studies the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with blocking constraints (BHFSP). To better understand the BHFSP, we will construct its mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model and use the Gurobi solver to demonstrate its correctness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,569 Views
25 Pages

26 September 2024

Research on helicopter dispatching has received considerable attention, particularly in relation to post-disaster rescue operations. The survival chances of individuals trapped in emergency situations decrease as time passes, making timely helicopter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,934 Views
32 Pages

The Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Human Resources: MILP Models, Decoding Procedures, NEH-Based Heuristics, and an Iterated Greedy Algorithm

  • Victor Fernandez-Viagas,
  • Luis Sanchez-Mediano,
  • Alvaro Angulo-Cortes,
  • David Gomez-Medina and
  • Jose Manuel Molina-Pariente

22 September 2022

In this paper, we address the permutation flow shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent and non-anticipatory setup times. These setups are performed or supervised by multiple servers, which are renewable secondary resources (typically human re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,937 Views
15 Pages

5 February 2024

In this paper, we propose an Iterative Greedy-Universal Adversarial Perturbations (IGUAP) approach based on an iterative greedy algorithm to create universal adversarial perturbations for acoustic prints. A thorough, objective account of the IG-UAP m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,007 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2023

This paper proposes a random tree algorithm based on a potential field oriented greedy strategy for the path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Potential-field-RRT (PF-RRT) discards the defect of traditional artificial potential field (APF)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,562 Views
16 Pages

A New Node Deployment and Location Dispatch Algorithm for Underwater Sensor Networks

  • Peng Jiang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Binfeng Ruan,
  • Lurong Jiang and
  • Feng Wu

9 January 2016

Considering that deployment strategies for underwater sensor networks should contribute to fully connecting the networks, a Guaranteed Full Connectivity Node Deployment (GFCND) algorithm is proposed in this study. The GFCND algorithm attempts to depl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,033 Views
17 Pages

A Robust Single-Machine Scheduling Problem with Two Job Parameter Scenarios

  • Gang Xuan,
  • Win-Chin Lin,
  • Shuenn-Ren Cheng,
  • Wei-Lun Shen,
  • Po-An Pan,
  • Chih-Ling Kuo and
  • Chin-Chia Wu

22 June 2022

In many real-world environments, machine breakdowns or worker performance instabilities cause uncertainty in job processing times, while working environment changes or transportation delays will postpone finished production for customers. The factors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,974 Views
22 Pages

17 July 2023

To address the problems of the single evolutionary approach, decreasing diversity, inhomogeneity, and meaningfulness in the destruction process when the teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm solves the no-wait flow-shop-scheduli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,978 Views
22 Pages

24 February 2022

In the field of industrial manufacturing, assembly line production is the most common production process that can be modeled as a permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP). Minimizing the late work criteria (tasks remaining after due dates arri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,022 Views
30 Pages

9 May 2019

In this paper, we propose a variable block insertion heuristic (VBIH) algorithm to solve the permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP). The VBIH algorithm removes a block of jobs from the current solution. It applies an insertion local search t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,874 Views
17 Pages

4 August 2023

This paper focuses on the joint estimation of parameters and time delays for multi-input systems that contain unknown input delays and colored noise. A greedy pursuit hierarchical iteration algorithm is proposed, which can reduce the estimation cost....

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,950 Views
21 Pages

3 March 2023

Owing to the different quantities and processing times of sub-lots, intermingling sub-lots with each other, instead of fixing the production sequence of sub-lots of a lot as in the existing studies, is a more practical approach to lot-streaming flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,368 Views
22 Pages

The rapid growth of sensing data demands compressed sensing (CS) in order to achieve high-density storage and fast data transmission. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been under intensive development for the reconstruction of high-quality images from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,465 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2023

The rapidly growing requirement for data has put forward Compressed Sensing (CS) to realize low-ratio sampling and to reconstruct complete signals. With the intensive development of Deep Neural Network (DNN) methods, performance in image reconstructi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
527 Views
19 Pages

22 June 2025

Real-time computational capability for simultaneous grasping force and displacement determination constitutes a critical enabler for stable and reliable grasping performance in dexterous robotic grasping. To accelerate the computational efficiency of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,676 Views
10 Pages

1 October 2018

The goal of phase retrieval is to recover an unknown signal from the random measurements consisting of the magnitude of its Fourier transform. Due to the loss of the phase information, phase retrieval is considered as an ill-posed problem. Convention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,275 Views
20 Pages

3 September 2019

Passive multiple sound source localization is a challenging problem in underwater acoustics, especially for a short hydrophone array in the deep ocean. Several attempts have been made to solve this problem by applying compressive sensing (CS) techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,135 Views
38 Pages

Partitioning rectangular and rectilinear shapes in n-dimensional binary images into the smallest set of axis-aligned n-cuboids is a fundamental problem in image analysis, pattern recognition, and computational geometry, with applications in object de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,240 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive Image Thresholding of Yellow Peppers for a Harvesting Robot

  • Ahmad Ostovar,
  • Ola Ringdahl and
  • Thomas Hellström

5 February 2018

The presented work is part of the H2020 project SWEEPER with the overall goal to develop a sweet pepper harvesting robot for use in greenhouses. As part of the solution, visual servoing is used to direct the manipulator towards the fruit. This requir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,735 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2022

Solving systems of linear equations is a fundamental problem in mathematics. Combining mean shift clustering (MS) with greedy techniques, a novel block version of the Kaczmarz–Motzkin method (BKMS), where the blocks are predetermined by MS clus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,259 Views
21 Pages

Color Dominance-Based Polynomial Optimization Segmentation for Identifying Tomato Leaves and Fruits

  • Juan Pablo Guerra Ibarra,
  • Francisco Javier Cuevas de la Rosa and
  • Alicia Linares Ramirez

28 October 2024

Optimization processes or methods play an essential role in the continuous improvement of various human activities, particularly in agriculture, given its vital role in food production. In precision agriculture, which utilizes technology to optimize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,000 Views
16 Pages

15 October 2019

Compressed sensing (CS) has great potential in channel estimation for millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To solve such a CS-based channel estimation problem, three categories of algorithms, namely convex r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,263 Views
25 Pages

Survey of 8 UAV Set-Covering Algorithms for Terrain Photogrammetry

  • Joshua E. Hammond,
  • Cory A. Vernon,
  • Trent J. Okeson,
  • Benjamin J. Barrett,
  • Samuel Arce,
  • Valerie Newell,
  • Joseph Janson,
  • Kevin W. Franke and
  • John D. Hedengren

16 July 2020

Remote sensing with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) facilitates photogrammetry for environmental and infrastructural monitoring. Models are created with less computational cost by reducing the number of photos required. Optimal camera locations for r...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,377 Views
18 Pages

A Randomized Greedy Heuristic for Steerable Wireless Backhaul Reconfiguration

  • Nina Skorin-Kapov,
  • Ricardo Santos,
  • Hakim Ghazzai and
  • Andreas Kassler

10 February 2021

In this paper, we consider the reconfiguration of wireless backhaul networks with mechanically steerable antennas in the presence of changing traffic demands. Reconfiguration requires the scheduling and coordination of several operations, including a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,643 Views
10 Pages

30 September 2018

To address the registration problem in current machine vision, a new three-dimensional (3-D) point cloud registration algorithm that combines fast point feature histograms (FPFH) and greedy projection triangulation is proposed. First, the feature inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,752 Views
18 Pages

A Comprehensive Investigation of Active Learning Strategies for Conducting Anti-Cancer Drug Screening

  • Priyanka Vasanthakumari,
  • Yitan Zhu,
  • Thomas Brettin,
  • Alexander Partin,
  • Maulik Shukla,
  • Fangfang Xia,
  • Oleksandr Narykov,
  • Michael Ryan Weil and
  • Rick L. Stevens

26 January 2024

It is well-known that cancers of the same histology type can respond differently to a treatment. Thus, computational drug response prediction is of paramount importance for both preclinical drug screening studies and clinical treatment design. To bui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,012 Views
15 Pages

Conjugate Gradient Hard Thresholding Pursuit Algorithm for Sparse Signal Recovery

  • Yanfeng Zhang,
  • Yunbao Huang,
  • Haiyan Li,
  • Pu Li and
  • Xi’an Fan

13 February 2019

We propose a new iterative greedy algorithm to reconstruct sparse signals in Compressed Sensing. The algorithm, called Conjugate Gradient Hard Thresholding Pursuit (CGHTP), is a simple combination of Hard Thresholding Pursuit (HTP) and Conjugate Grad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,893 Views
27 Pages

The offshore plant, due to its characteristics, is subject to many restrictions on the material and design of the pipes. Because the design of the firefighting piping depends on the pre-set fire protection design, it is possible to reduce the cost of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,162 Views
23 Pages

16 August 2021

Selecting a final machine learning (ML) model typically occurs after a process of hyperparameter optimization in which many candidate models with varying structural properties and algorithmic settings are evaluated and compared. Evaluating each candi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,367 Views
26 Pages

In yard-crane scheduling problems, as loading operations take priority over unloading, the delivery sequence of unloading from the quaysides to the yard is uncertain. The delivery sequence changes may make crane scheduling more difficult. As a result...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,846 Views
27 Pages

Adaptive Piecewise Poly-Sinc Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations

  • Omar Khalil,
  • Hany El-Sharkawy,
  • Maha Youssef and
  • Gerd Baumann

8 September 2022

We propose a new method of adaptive piecewise approximation based on Sinc points for ordinary differential equations. The adaptive method is a piecewise collocation method which utilizes Poly-Sinc interpolation to reach a preset level of accuracy for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,082 Views
14 Pages

16 March 2022

A common situation arising in flow shops is that the job processing order must be the same on each machine; this is referred to as a permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSSP). Although many algorithms have been designed to solve PFSSPs, machin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
693 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2025

Multi-agent coordination with task allocation, routing, and scheduling presents critical challenges when deploying heterogeneous robotic systems in constrained agricultural environments. These systems involve real-time sensing during their operations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
619 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2025

Distributed permutation flowshop scheduling is an NP-hard problem that has become a hot research topic in the fields of optimization and manufacturing in recent years. Multimodal optimization finds multiple global and local optimal solutions of a fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,112 Views
25 Pages

Distributed Denial of Service Attack Detection in Software-Defined Networks Using Decision Tree Algorithms

  • Ali Zaman,
  • Salman A. Khan,
  • Nazeeruddin Mohammad,
  • Abdelhamied A. Ateya,
  • Sadique Ahmad and
  • Mohammed A. ElAffendi

22 March 2025

A software-defined network (SDN) is a new architecture approach for constructing and maintaining networks with the main goal of making the network open and programmable. This allows the achievement of specific network behavior by updating and install...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,429 Views
14 Pages

A Hybrid Framework Combining Genetic Algorithm with Iterated Local Search for the Dominating Tree Problem

  • Shuli Hu,
  • Huan Liu,
  • Xiaoli Wu,
  • Ruizhi Li,
  • Junping Zhou and
  • Jianan Wang

19 April 2019

Given an undirected, connected and edge-weighted graph, the dominating tree problem consists of finding a tree with minimum total edge weight such that for each vertex is either in the tree or adjacent to a vertex in the tree. In this paper, we propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,420 Views
16 Pages

6 October 2023

UAVs can be deployed in many scenarios to provide various types of services via 6G edge communication. In these scenarios, it is necessary to obtain the position of the UAVs in a timely and accurate manner to avoid UAV collisions. In this paper, we c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
573 Views
31 Pages

Dynamic Stepsize Techniques in DR-Submodular Maximization

  • Yanfei Li,
  • Min Li,
  • Qian Liu and
  • Yang Zhou

28 April 2025

The Diminishing-Return (DR)-submodular function maximization problem has garnered significant attention across various domains in recent years. Classic methods often employ continuous greedy or Frank–Wolfe approaches to tackle this problem; how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,893 Views
17 Pages

22 August 2013

DOA (Direction of Arrival) estimation is a major problem in array signal processing applications. Recently, compressive sensing algorithms, including convex relaxation algorithms and greedy algorithms, have been recognized as a kind of novel DOA esti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,654 Views
17 Pages

18 May 2023

The differences in constraints between an automotive painting workshop and a final assembly workshop can lead to production scheduling disruptions, and using the Painted Body Store (PBS) in automotive manufacturing can optimize production scheduling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
826 Views
26 Pages

Detection of Critical Links for Improving Network Resilience

  • Nusin Akram,
  • Onur Ugurlu,
  • İlker Kocabaş and
  • Orhan Dagdeviren

Identifying and eliminating critical links in multi-hop networks is essential for enhancing overall network resilience. In this study, we propose a novel algorithm to detect links that significantly impact the pairwise connectivity of multi-hop netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,121 Views
22 Pages

27 June 2024

Feature selection is predominantly used in machine learning tasks, such as classification, regression, and clustering. It selects a subset of features (relevant attributes of data points) from a larger set that contributes as optimally as possible to...

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