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21 April 2024

The practical implementation of massive multi-user multi-input–multi-output (MU-MIMO) downlink communication systems power amplifiers that are energy efficient; otherwise, the power consumption of the base station (BS) will be prohibitive. Cons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory for MIMO Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,913 Views
15 Pages

29 August 2022

In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising method by coupling with L0, L1 and L2 gradient minimization. Our proposed method smoothes the gradient difference between image pixels and noise pixels and sharpens the edges by increasing the steepne...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,201 Views
16 Pages

6 March 2024

The subspace minimization conjugate gradient (SMCG) methods proposed by Yuan and Store are efficient iterative methods for unconstrained optimization, where the search directions are generated by minimizing the quadratic approximate models of the obj...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,976 Views
22 Pages

Effective charging techniques must consider factors such as charging efficiency, lifecycle, charging time (CT), and battery temperature. Currently, most charging strategies primarily focus on CT and charging losses (CL), overlooking the crucial influ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Section Collection Series: New Horizons and Recent Advances in Power Electronics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,155 Views
11 Pages

13 February 2021

Under mixed sparse line-of-sight/non-line-of-sight (LOS/NLOS) conditions, how to quickly achieve high positioning accuracy is still a challenging task and a critical problem in the last dozen years. To settle this problem, we propose a constrained L1...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,971 Views
17 Pages

11 May 2017

In traditional localization methods for synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the range sum estimation and Doppler centroid estimation (DCE) are required. The DCE error can influence the localization accuracy greatly. In addition, the target height informa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Systems for the Societal Challenges)
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  • Open Access
768 Views
21 Pages

Algorithm for Scaling Variables in Minimization Methods

  • Elena Tovbis,
  • Vladimir Krutikov and
  • Lev Kazakovtsev

1 February 2026

Eliminating poor scaling of variables of minimized functions is a pressing issue in solving high-dimensional minimization problems where it is impossible to use methods that change the metric of the space with full-scale metric matrices. In this pape...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,170 Views
14 Pages

This article describes development and confirmatory testing of a method to study the evaporation of a volatile solvent containing ignitable ingredients in an isolated subsurface structure, a type of confined space. Accidental spillage and surreptitio...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,903 Views
24 Pages

A Family of Multi-Step Subgradient Minimization Methods

  • Elena Tovbis,
  • Vladimir Krutikov,
  • Predrag Stanimirović,
  • Vladimir Meshechkin and ,
  • Aleksey Popov and
  • Lev Kazakovtsev
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 May 2023

For solving non-smooth multidimensional optimization problems, we present a family of relaxation subgradient methods (RSMs) with a built-in algorithm for finding the descent direction that forms an acute angle with all subgradients in the neighborhoo...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,622 Views
24 Pages

Compact Combustion Mechanisms of Typical n-Alkanes Developed by the Minimized Reaction Network Method

  • Jiangtao Shentu,
  • Yanrong Lu,
  • Yiwei Li,
  • Juanqin Li and ,
  • Yebing Mao and
  • Xiangyuan Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2023

The existing combustion kinetic modeling method which aims at developing phenomenological combustion mechanisms characterized by multiple reactions confronts several challenges, including the conflicts between computing resources and mechanism scales...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Feature Papers in Physical Chemistry, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,870 Views
10 Pages

Minimally Invasive Sampling Methods for Molecular Sexing of Wild and Companion Birds

  • Maria-Carmen Turcu,
  • Anamaria Ioana Paștiu,
  • Lucia-Victoria Bel and
  • Dana Liana Pusta

3 November 2023

Birds are highly social and must be paired in order to increase their welfare. Most bird species are monomorphic; therefore, molecular sexing helps provide appropriate welfare for birds. Moreover, early sex determination can be of great value for bir...

(This article belongs to the Section Birds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,178 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2021

3D surface roughness measurement is still a less mature procedure than its 2D version. The size of the evaluation area is not as standardized as the measurement length in the 2D version. The purpose of this study is to introduce a method for minimizi...

(This article belongs to the Section Material Processing Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,619 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2022

This paper investigates the problem of elliptic localization in the absence of transmitter position. An efficient iterative method is developed to jointly evaluate the target and transmitter positions. Using the measurement information from the indir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor and Outdoor Sensor Networks for Positioning and Localization)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,459 Views
10 Pages

21 February 2023

To explore the milling characteristics of Ni-based superalloy under minimal quantity lubrication (MQL), a single-factor experiment was adopted to investigate the milling machinability of GH4169 Ni-based superalloy. The influences of milling parameter...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,757 Views
24 Pages

23 April 2020

Cost reduction is a cornerstone of the Lean administration’s sustainability through modify its algorithms scheme to become multi-useful. This paper focuses on control “movement” waste, to minimize pipeline, cabling and sewerage netw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization Algorithms Applied to Sustainable Production Processes)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,049 Views
16 Pages

Numerous studies have been conducted to minimize material costs and improve efficiency, one of which involves using the genetic algorithm (GA) for material selection. Although the GA provides the best solution, it is computationally intensive. To mit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Failure Analysis of Marine Structure II)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,425 Views
16 Pages

A Method for Maximum Coverage of the Territory by Sensors with Minimization of Cost and Assessment of Survivability

  • Volodymyr Petrivskyi,
  • Oleksii Bychkov,
  • Viktor Shevchenko,
  • Vasyl Martsenyuk and
  • Marcin Bernas

17 March 2022

In the modern technological world, there are several key factors in the construction of sensor networks. These include maximizing the coverage and minimizing the cost of the network. Like any information system, the sensor network must also meet the...

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23 Citations
3,813 Views
19 Pages

7 February 2021

In this paper, a new method of measurement matrix optimization for compressed sensing based on alternating minimization is introduced. The optimal measurement matrix is formulated in terms of minimizing the Frobenius norm of the difference between th...

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7 Citations
3,010 Views
10 Pages

26 April 2019

In this manuscript, the optimal design of geometry for a forced sloshing in a rigid container based on the entropy generation minimization (EGM) method is presented. The geometry of the vessel considered here is two dimensional rectangular. Incompres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Dynamics 2020)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,311 Views
11 Pages

26 January 2019

In power engineering, the Y b u s is a symmetric N × N square matrix describing a power system network with N buses. By partitioning, manipulating and using its symmetry properties, it is possible to derive the K G L ...

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5 Citations
2,466 Views
13 Pages

Multistage Asymmetric Rotors Coaxial Measurement Stacking Method Based on Minimization of Exciting Force

  • Yongmeng Liu,
  • Yingjie Mei,
  • Chuanzhi Sun,
  • Pinghuan Xiao and ,
  • Ruirui Li,
  • Xiaoming Wang and
  • Chengtian Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 June 2021

The unbalanced exciting force of high-speed rotary asymmetric rotor equipment is the main factor causing rotor vibration. In order to effectively suppress the vibration of the asymmetric rotor equipment, the paper establishes a multistage asymmetric...

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32 Citations
14,880 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2008

Micro drilled holes are utilized in many of today’s fabrication processes.Precision production processes in industries are trending toward the use of smaller holeswith higher aspect ratios, and higher speed operation for micro deep hole drilling. How...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Testing and Reliability Issues in MEMS Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,416 Views
21 Pages

6 August 2024

Possibilistic fuzzy c-means (PFCM) clustering is a kind of hybrid clustering method based on fuzzy c-means (FCM) and possibilistic c-means (PCM), which not only has the stability of FCM but also partly inherits the robustness of PCM. However, as an e...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,422 Views
14 Pages

30 June 2024

Retinal vessel segmentation is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring various eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and hypertension. In this study, we examine how sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) can improve RF-UNet’s generaliz...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,598 Views
19 Pages

A Sparsity-Promoted Method Based on Majorization-Minimization for Weak Fault Feature Enhancement

  • Bangyue Ren,
  • Yansong Hao,
  • Huaqing Wang,
  • Liuyang Song and ,
  • Gang Tang and
  • Hongfang Yuan
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28 March 2018

Fault transient impulses induced by faulty components in rotating machinery usually contain substantial interference. Fault features are comparatively weak in the initial fault stage, which renders fault diagnosis more difficult. In this case, a spar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Fault Detection)
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2 Citations
3,670 Views
18 Pages

14 November 2018

Many scholars have attempted to use an encryption method to resolve the problem of data leakage in data outsourcing storage. However, encryption methods reduce data availability and are inefficient. Vertical fragmentation perfectly solves this proble...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,659 Views
25 Pages

1 July 2015

In regression analysis for deriving scaling laws that occur in various scientific disciplines, usually standard regression methods have been applied, of which ordinary least squares (OLS) is the most popular. In many situations, the assumptions under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information, Entropy and Their Geometric Structures)
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18 Citations
11,126 Views
19 Pages

Design of Anti-HIV Ligands by Means of Minimal Topological Difference (MTD) Method

  • Corina Duda-Seiman,
  • Daniel Duda-Seiman,
  • Dan Dragos,
  • Mihai Medeleanu and ,
  • Valentin Careja,
  • Mihai V. Putz,
  • Ana-Maria Lacrama,
  • Adrian Chiriac,
  • Remus Nutiu and
  • Dan Ciubotariu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

29 November 2006

Molecular modeling and MTD methods are useful tools to assess both qualitative(SAR) and quantitative (QSAR) chemical structure-biological activity relationships. The 1-[(2-hydroxiethoxi)-methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine congeners (HEPT ligands) show in...

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2 Citations
1,332 Views
21 Pages

13 April 2025

As the popularity of smartphones, wearable devices, intelligent vehicles, and countless other devices continues to rise, the surging demand for mobile data traffic has resulted in an increasingly crowded electromagnetic spectrum. Spectrum sharing ser...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,984 Views
14 Pages

Optimal Design of Thermal Radiative Heating of Horizontal Thin Plates Using the Entropy Generation Minimization Method

  • Ehsan Gholamalizadeh,
  • Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi and
  • Majid Oveisi

21 November 2017

Thermal radiant heating through distinct heat sources is of interest for the thermal loading of thin objects as it is used in residential applications, furnaces, and insulator designs. In this paper, an optimal design for a thermal radiant system by...

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6 Citations
3,673 Views
9 Pages

1 December 2021

Data masking is an inborn defect of measures of disproportionality in adverse drug reactions signal detection. Some improved methods which used gender and age for data stratification only considered the patient-related confounding factors, ignoring t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Decision Making in Clinical Medicine)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,134 Views
26 Pages

A Design Method for the Cogging Torque Minimization of Permanent Magnet Machines with a Segmented Stator Core Based on ANN Surrogate Models

  • Elia Brescia,
  • Donatello Costantino,
  • Paolo Roberto Massenio,
  • Vito Giuseppe Monopoli and ,
  • Francesco Cupertino and
  • Giuseppe Leonardo Cascella
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 March 2021

Permanent magnet machines with segmented stator cores are affected by additional harmonic components of the cogging torque which cannot be minimized by conventional methods adopted for one-piece stator machines. In this study, a novel approach is pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficiency and Performance Optimization of State-of-the-Art "Multi-Phase, -Level, -Cell, -Port, -Motor" Electrical Drives and Renewable Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,628 Views
16 Pages

Age of Information Minimization in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks: A Mask-Assisted Hybrid PPO-Based Method

  • Xiaoli Qin,
  • Zhifei Zhang,
  • Chanyuan Meng,
  • Rui Dong and ,
  • Ke Xiong and
  • Pingyi Fan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 April 2025

With the widespread deployment of various emerging intelligent applications, information timeliness is crucial for intelligent decision-making in vehicular networks, where vehicular edge computing (VEC) has become an important paradigm to enhance com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Communications and Networks)
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  • Open Access
1,675 Views
19 Pages

20 March 2025

In modern communication, the electromagnetic spectrum serves as the carrier for information transmission, and the only medium enabling information exchange anywhere, anytime. To adapt to the changing dynamics of a complex electromagnetic environment,...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,560 Views
14 Pages

19 November 2018

Due to their high efficiency and low cost of maintenance, brushless DC motors (BLDCMs) with trapezoidal electromotive forces (back-EMFs), have become widely used in various applications such as aerospace, electric vehicles, industrial uses, and robot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,463 Views
25 Pages

9 March 2022

The purpose of this work is to construct iterative methods for solving a split minimization problem using a self-adaptive step size, conjugate gradient direction, and inertia technique. We introduce and prove a strong convergence theorem in the frame...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,559 Views
21 Pages

We construct a stabilized finite element method for linear and nonlinear unsteady advection–diffusion–reaction equations using the method of lines. We propose a residual minimization strategy that uses an ad-hoc modified discrete system t...

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3 Citations
3,485 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2020

In this paper, a lifting-penalty method for solving the quadratic programming with a quadratic matrix inequality constraint is proposed. Additional variables are introduced to represent the quadratic terms. The quadratic programming is reformulated a...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,791 Views
16 Pages

Blade Sorting Method for Unbalance Minimization of an Aeroengine Concentric Rotor

  • Chuanzhi Sun,
  • Pinghuan Xiao,
  • Xiaoming Wang and
  • Yongmeng Liu

9 May 2021

This paper proposes a blade sorting method based on the cloud adaptive genetic algorithm (CAGA), which is used to optimize the unbalanced of asymmetric rotor of aero-engine. Firstly, by analyzing the unbalance of the arrangement caused by the deviati...

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18 Citations
8,191 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2015

Binding affinity prediction of protein–ligand complexes has attracted widespread interest. In this study, a self-adaptive steered molecular dynamics (SMD) method is proposed to reveal the binding affinity of protein–ligand complexes. The SMD method i...

(This article belongs to the Section Medicinal Chemistry)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,806 Views
21 Pages

14 April 2016

This paper presents novel separate methods for finding optimal locations, sizes of multiple distributed generators (DGs) simultaneously and operational power factor in order to minimize power loss and improve the voltage profile in the distribution s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Renewable Generation)
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  • Open Access
395 Views
25 Pages

20 August 2026

This paper presents the results of research on minimizing welding distortion in a large-scale storage tank bottom made of S235JR steel with a diameter of 10,000 mm. The welding technology previously employed guaranteed flatness tolerances of the bott...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Welding Technologies)
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2 Citations
5,524 Views
20 Pages

We focus on inverse preconditioners based on minimizing F ( X ) = 1 − cos ( X A , I ) , where X A is the preconditioned matrix and A is symmetric and positive definite. We present and analyze gradient-type methods to minimize F ( X...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,259 Views
20 Pages

Loss-Optimized Design of Magnetic Devices

  • Yuhu Zhao,
  • Zhengfeng Ming and
  • Chaofan Du

Maximizing efficiency, power density, and reliability stands as paramount objectives in the advancement of power electronic systems. Notably, the dimensions and losses of magnetic components emerge as primary constraints hindering the miniaturization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Materials and Microdevices)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,815 Views
13 Pages

21 June 2022

When applying the sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm to topology optimization, using the quasi-Newton methods or calculating the Hessian matrix directly will result in a considerable amount of calculation, making it computationally infe...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,850 Views
27 Pages

22 May 2024

The work proves that under conditions of instability of the second derivatives of the function in the minimization region, the estimate of the convergence rate of Newton’s method is determined by the parameters of the irreducible part of the co...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,158 Views
26 Pages

A Hybrid Stochastic Deterministic Algorithm for Solving Unconstrained Optimization Problems

  • Ahmad M. Alshamrani,
  • Adel Fahad Alrasheedi,
  • Khalid Abdulaziz Alnowibet,
  • Salem Mahdi and
  • Ali Wagdy Mohamed

23 August 2022

In this paper, a new deterministic method is proposed. This method depends on presenting (suggesting) some modifications to existing parameters of some conjugate gradient methods. The parameters of our suggested method contain a mix of deterministic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Methods in Industrial Engineering and Management)
  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,103 Views
33 Pages

Relaxation Subgradient Algorithms with Machine Learning Procedures

  • Vladimir Krutikov,
  • Svetlana Gutova,
  • Elena Tovbis,
  • Lev Kazakovtsev and
  • Eugene Semenkin

25 October 2022

In the modern digital economy, optimal decision support systems, as well as machine learning systems, are becoming an integral part of production processes. Artificial neural network training as well as other engineering problems generate such proble...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied and Computational Mathematics for Digital Environments)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,416 Views
19 Pages

Constrained Least-Squares Parameter Estimation for a Double Layer Capacitor

  • Nayzel I. Jannif,
  • Rahul R. Kumar,
  • Ali Mohammadi,
  • Giansalvo Cirrincione and
  • Maurizio Cirrincione

18 May 2023

This paper presents an estimation of the parameters for a Double Layer Super Capacitor (DLC) that is modelled with a two-branch circuit. The estimation is achieved using a constrained minimization technique, which is developed off-line and uses a sin...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)

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