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30 May 2021

In this paper, a new self-adaptive step size algorithm to approximate the solution of the split minimization problem and the fixed point problem of nonexpansive mappings was constructed, which combined the proximal algorithm and a modified Mann’s ite...

(This article belongs to the Collection Mathematical Analysis and Applications)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,660 Views
13 Pages

1 January 2020

In this work, we aim to investigate the convex minimization problem of the sum of two objective functions. This optimization problem includes, in particular, image reconstruction and signal recovery. We then propose a new modified forward-backward sp...

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1 Citations
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12 December 2021

The underlying function in reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) may be degraded by outliers or deviations, resulting in a symmetry ill-posed problem. This paper proposes a nonconvex minimization model with ℓ0-quasi norm based on RKHS to depi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue PDE, Optimization Modeling and Symmetry in Multi-Dimensional Data and Low-Level Vision Tasks)
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28 June 2023

This paper considers a 1D time-domain inverse scattering problem for the Helmholtz equation in which penetrable scatterers are to be determined from boundary measurements of the scattering data. It is formulated as a coefficient identification proble...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods in Waves-Based Inverse Problems at Different Scales)
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3 Citations
1,842 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2023

This paper is devoted to studying the influence of the structure of a complex system on its integral risk. When solving risk management problems, it often becomes necessary to take into account structural effects, which most often include risk transf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Games, Propagation Processes and Control in Complex Systems)
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8 Citations
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On the Dual and Inverse Problems of Scheduling Jobs to Minimize the Maximum Penalty

  • Alexander A. Lazarev,
  • Nikolay Pravdivets and
  • Frank Werner

10 July 2020

In this paper, we consider the single-machine scheduling problem with given release dates and the objective to minimize the maximum penalty which is NP-hard in the strong sense. For this problem, we introduce a dual and an inverse problem and show th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Novel Approaches in Discrete Optimization)
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1 Citations
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Sufficient Conditions for the Existence and Uniqueness of Minimizers for Variational Problems under Uncertainty

  • Mansi Verma,
  • Chuei Yee Chen,
  • Adem Kılıçman,
  • Gafurjan Ibragimov and
  • Fong Peng Lim

5 October 2022

Fuzzy variational problems have received significant attention over the past decade due to a number of successful applications in fields such as optimal control theory and image segmentation. Current literature on fuzzy variational problems focuses o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Uncertainty Analysis, Decision Making and Optimization)
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12 Citations
2,906 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2019

Multistep composite implicit and explicit extragradient-like schemes are presented for solving the minimization problem with the constraints of variational inclusions and generalized mixed equilibrium problems. Strong convergence results of introduce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point, Optimization, and Applications)
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1 Citations
1,861 Views
10 Pages

A New Approach for Proximal Split Minimization Problems

  • Abdellatif Moudafi and
  • André Weng-Law

2 January 2025

We provide an alternative formulation of proximal split minimization problems, a very recently developed and appealing strategy that relies on an infimal post-composition approach. Then, forward–backward and Douglas–Rachford splitting alg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Functional Analysis and Applications: 2nd Edition)
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2 Citations
2,055 Views
14 Pages

20 December 2022

In algorithm development, symmetry plays a vital part in managing optimization problems in scientific models. The aim of this work is to propose a new accelerated method for finding a common point of convex minimization problems and then use the fixe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Analysis and Fixed Point Theory)
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13 April 2026

Recently, a great amount of attention has been focused on the study of fractional and nonlocal operators of the elliptic type both for pure mathematical research and in view of concrete real-world applications. We are interested in proving the existe...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fractional Calculus, Symmetry Phenomenon and Probability Theory for PDEs, and ODEs)
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4 Citations
2,086 Views
15 Pages

24 November 2022

In this paper, we propose a new accelerated common fixed-point algorithm for two countable families of G-nonexpansive mappings. Weak convergence results are obtained in the context of directed graphs in real Hilbert spaces. As applications, we apply...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Abstract Fractional Integro-Differential Equations and Fixed Point Theory with Applications)
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18 May 2019

We prove the existence of radially symmetric solutions and the validity of Euler–Lagrange necessary conditions for a class of variational problems with slow growth. The results are obtained through the construction of suitable superlinear pertu...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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12 October 2025

Finding an optimal solution of the min-max programming problem with addition-overlap function constraints has been studied in the literature. Since the definition of overlap functions is very general and has no explicit formulations, a bisection meth...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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3 Citations
2,953 Views
20 Pages

2 July 2021

For the past few decades, various algorithms have been proposed to solve convex minimization problems in the form of the sum of two lower semicontinuous and convex functions. The convergence of these algorithms was guaranteed under the L-Lipschitz co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Problems and Applications of Fixed Point Theory)
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1 Citations
2,465 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)
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4 Citations
2,738 Views
13 Pages

21 May 2022

A new accelerated algorithm for approximating the common fixed points of a countable family of G-nonexpansive mappings is proposed, and the weak convergence theorem based on our main results is established in the setting of Hilbert spaces with a symm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Equations and Inequalities 2021)
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4 Citations
1,839 Views
18 Pages

11 April 2023

In this paper, we propose two novel inertial forward–backward splitting methods for solving the constrained convex minimization of the sum of two convex functions, φ1+φ2, in Hilbert spaces and analyze their convergence behavior under so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Trends and Challenges in the Theory of Nonlinear Analysis and Its Applications)
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15 Citations
5,492 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2016

To gain more competitive advantages and attract more customers from the turbulent business environment, manufacturing firms today must offer a wide variety of products to marketplaces. The existence of component commonality in multi-product fabricati...

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5 Citations
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23 November 2022

Given several nonnegative matrices with a single pattern of allocation among their zero/nonzero elements, the average matrix should have the same pattern as well. This is the first tenet of the pattern-multiplicative average (PMA) concept, while the...

(This article belongs to the Section E3: Mathematical Biology)
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8 Citations
4,153 Views
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Inertial Method for Bilevel Variational Inequality Problems with Fixed Point and Minimizer Point Constraints

  • Seifu Endris Yimer,
  • Poom Kumam,
  • Anteneh Getachew Gebrie and
  • Rabian Wangkeeree

11 September 2019

In this paper, we introduce an iterative scheme with inertial effect using Mann iterative scheme and gradient-projection for solving the bilevel variational inequality problem over the intersection of the set of common fixed points of a finite number...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Optimization, Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Problems)
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13 Citations
5,546 Views
25 Pages

This paper presents a comprehensive approach for minimizing makespan in the challenging two-stage hybrid flowshop with dedicated machines, a problem known to be strongly NP-hard. This study proposed a constraint programming approach, a novel heuristi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
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2 Citations
2,699 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2024

Cost reduction and staff retention are important optimization objectives in home healthcare (HHC) systems. Home healthcare operators need to balance their objectives by optimizing resource use, service delivery and profits. Minimizing total travel di...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
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3 Citations
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12 Pages

2 November 2023

The growth in containerized shipping has led to the expansion of seaports, resulting in the emergence of multiple terminals. While multi-terminal systems increase port capacity, they also pose significant challenges to container transportation, parti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seas of Change: Advancing Sustainable Maritime and Freight Transportation via Decarbonization and Digitalization in Green Shipping Corridors)
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4 Citations
2,226 Views
29 Pages

26 July 2023

In this research, for a given time interval, which is the general period of melanoma treatment, a bilinear control model is considered, given by a system of differential equations, which describes the interaction between drug-sensitive and drug-resis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Control Theory and Its Applications in Medical and Biological Sciences)
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17 Citations
3,230 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2019

In this paper, based on the very recent work by Nandal et al. (Nandal, A.; Chugh, R.; Postolache, M. Iteration process for fixed point problems and zeros of maximal monotone operators. Symmetry 2019, 11, 655.), we propose a new generalized viscosity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point, Optimization, and Applications)
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2,699 Views
42 Pages

10 October 2023

We consider a finite horizon multi-model linear-quadratic optimal control problem. For this problem, we treat the case where the problem’s functional does not contain a control function. The latter means that the problem under consideration is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Analysis and Control of Systems with Uncertainties II)
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20 Citations
3,091 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2019

In this paper, a new algorithm for finding a common element of a split equality fixed point problem for nonexpansive mappings and split equality equilibrium problem in three Banach spaces is introduced. Also, some strong and weak convergence theorems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Fractional Calculus with Applications)
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2 Citations
2,597 Views
11 Pages

18 February 2023

The optimal control currently decides the minimum energy consumption within the problems attached to subways. Among other things, we formulate and solve an optimal bi-control problem, the two controls being the acceleration and the feed-back of a Rie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends in Convex Analysis and Mathematical Inequalities)
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14 Citations
5,451 Views
16 Pages

The no idle permutation flow shop scheduling problem (NIPFSP) is a popular NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, which exists in several real world production processes. This study proposes a novel hybrid estimation of the distribution algorith...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Economic and Management Systems: Perspectives of Uncertainty and Data Driven Optimization)
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2 Citations
2,937 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of a Fractional Variational Problem Associated with Cantilever Beams Subjected to a Uniformly Distributed Load

  • Apassara Suechoei,
  • Parinya Sa Ngiamsunthorn,
  • Waraporn Chatanin,
  • Chainarong Athisakul and ,
  • Somchai Chucheepsakul and
  • Danuruj Songsanga
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In this paper, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of minimizers of a fractional variational problem generalized from the energy functional associated with a cantilever beam under a uniformly distributed load. We apply the fractional Euler&nd...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Differential Operators and Their Applications)
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10 Citations
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11 Pages

8 June 2016

In the pursuit of finding subclasses of the makespan minimization problem on unrelated parallel machines that have approximation algorithms with approximation ratio better than 2, the graph balancing problem has been of current interest. In the graph...

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3 November 2023

In this work, we investigate a minimization problem with a convex objective function on a domain, which is the solution set of a common fixed point problem with a finite family of nonexpansive mappings. Our algorithm is a combination of a projected s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Variational Problems and Applications, 2nd Edition)
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2 July 2024

Convergence results of the subgradient algorithm for equilibrium problems were mainly obtained using a Lipschitz continuity assumption on the given bifunctions. In this paper, we first provide a complexity result for monotone equilibrium problems wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Functional Analysis and Applications: 2nd Edition)
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4 Citations
2,297 Views
11 Pages

2 September 2019

In this paper, we introduce the new concepts of K-adjustability convexity and strictly K-adjustability convexity which respectively generalize and extend the concepts of K-convexity and strictly K-convexity. We establish some new existence and unique...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fixed Point and Best Proximity Point Problems and Their Applications)
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1 Citations
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32 Pages

9 February 2025

This paper addresses the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) with the objective of minimizing both earliness/tardiness (E/T) and intermediate storage time (IST). An extended S-graph framework that incorporates E/T and IST minimization while m...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
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2 Citations
2,899 Views
20 Pages

2 December 2020

In this paper, we present a new self-adaptive inertial projection method for solving split common null point problems in p-uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces. The algorithm is designed such that its convergence does not require prior...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization with Applications)
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Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Orbits in the Collinear Four-Body Problem: A Variational Analysis

  • Abdalla Mansur,
  • Muhammad Shoaib,
  • Iharka Szücs-Csillik,
  • Daniel Offin and ,
  • Jack Brimberg and
  • Hedia Fgaier
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9 October 2024

This paper investigated the periodic and quasi-periodic orbits in the symmetric collinear four-body problem through a variational approach. We analyze the conditions under which homographic solutions minimize the action functional. We compute the min...

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A New Machine Learning Algorithm Based on Optimization Method for Regression and Classification Problems

  • Warunun Inthakon,
  • Suthep Suantai,
  • Panitarn Sarnmeta and
  • Dawan Chumpungam

19 June 2020

A convex minimization problem in the form of the sum of two proper lower-semicontinuous convex functions has received much attention from the community of optimization due to its broad applications to many disciplines, such as machine learning, regre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mathematical Methods for Machine Learning Algorithms for Computer Aided Diagnostic Systems)
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12 February 2026

In this paper, we introduced an inertial extragradient algorithm to approximate the common solution of split fixed point, split variational inclusion and split equilibrium problems involving nonexpansive mappings and pseudomonotone Lipschitz-type bif...

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24 Citations
3,268 Views
19 Pages

Toward the Optimal Operation of Hybrid Renewable Energy Resources in Microgrids

  • Shabir Ahmad,
  • Israr Ullah,
  • Faisal Jamil and
  • DoHyeun Kim

20 October 2020

Renewable energy sources are environmentally friendly and cost-efficient. However, the problem with these renewable resources is their heavy reliance on weather conditions. Thus, at times, these solutions are not guaranteed to meet the required deman...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
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16 Citations
2,025 Views
15 Pages

6 December 2023

The quickest path problem in multistate flow networks, which is also known as the quickest path reliability problem (QPRP), aims at calculating the probability of successfully sending a minimum of d flow units/data/commodity from a source node to a d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Theory and Network Theory)
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32 Citations
9,731 Views
14 Pages

18 May 2018

This article deals with the modified Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem (MDVRP). The modification consists of altering the optimization criterion. The optimization criterion of the standard MDVRP is to minimize the total sum of routes of all vehicle...

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47 Citations
3,896 Views
25 Pages

In each iteration, the projection methods require computing at least one projection onto the closed convex set. However, projections onto a general closed convex set are not easily executed, a fact that might affect the efficiency and applicability o...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Sciences)
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7 Citations
2,046 Views
8 Pages

6 September 2019

In this paper, optimality conditions are studied for a new class of PDE and PDI-constrained scalar variational control problems governed by path-independent curvilinear integral functionals. More precisely, we formulate and prove a minimal criterion...

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1 Citations
733 Views
16 Pages

25 December 2025

In this article, we introduce a novel averaged-type iterative scheme designed for solving convex minimization problems over the set of common fixed points of a pair of demicontractive mappings. Under suitable assumptions, we prove that the proposed a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Classical and Applied Mathematics, 2nd Edition)
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2 Citations
2,404 Views
11 Pages

Minimal Impact One-Dimensional Arrays

  • Leo Egghe and
  • Ronald Rousseau

In this contribution, we consider the problem of finding the minimal Euclidean distance between a given converging decreasing one-dimensional array X in (R+)∞ and arrays of the form A a = ( a , a , … , a ︸ ,   0 , 0 , ...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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2 Citations
2,296 Views
12 Pages

6 July 2022

This paper provides a uniform boundedness theorem for a class of convex operators, such as Banach–Steinhaus theorem for families of continuous linear operators. The case of continuous symmetric sublinear operators is outlined. Second, a general...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Mathematical Analysis and Functional Analysis)
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15 Citations
2,828 Views
21 Pages

4 January 2022

We consider online algorithms with respect to the competitive ratio. In this paper, we explore one-way automata as a model for online algorithms. We focus on quantum and classical online algorithms. For a specially constructed online minimization pro...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)

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