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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,790 Views
20 Pages

5 April 2021

In this paper, we explore the performance of the distance-weighting probabilistic data association (DWPDA) approach in conjunction with the loopy sum-product algorithm (LSPA) for tracking multiple objects in clutter. First, we discuss the problem of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Sensor Fusion for Object Detection and Tracking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,074 Views
10 Pages

10 October 2024

This paper addresses the problem of mitigating unknown partial path overlaps in communication systems. This study demonstrates that by utilizing the front-end insight of communication systems along with the sum–product algorithm applied to fact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,259 Views
16 Pages

16 January 2019

Accurate localization of the radio transmitter is an important work in radio management. Previous research is more focused on two-dimensional (2-D) scenarios, but the localization of an unknown radio transmitter under three-dimensional (3-D) scenario...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Fusion and Novel Technologies in Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,559 Views
22 Pages

Winograd’s algorithms are an effective tool for calculating the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). These algorithms described in well-known articles are traditionally represented either with the help of sets of recurrent relations or with the he...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficient Algorithms and Architectures for DSP Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,434 Views
19 Pages

Joint Semi-Blind Self-Interference Cancellation and Equalisation Processes in 5G QC-LDPC-Encoded Short-Packet Full-Duplex Transmissions

  • Bao Quoc Vuong,
  • Roland Gautier,
  • Hien Quang Ta,
  • Lap Luat Nguyen and ,
  • Anthony Fiche and
  • Mélanie Marazin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 March 2022

The paper proposes a joint semi-blind algorithm for simultaneously cancelling the self-interference component and estimating the propagation channel in 5G Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC)-encoded short-packet Full-Duplex (FD) transmiss...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,482 Views
12 Pages

A Survey on Old and New Approximations to the Function ϕ(x) Involved in LDPC Codes Density Evolution Analysis Using a Gaussian Approximation

  • Francesca Vatta,
  • Alessandro Soranzo,
  • Massimiliano Comisso,
  • Giulia Buttazzoni and
  • Fulvio Babich

Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are currently being deeply analyzed through algorithms that require the capability of addressing their iterative decoding convergence performance. Since it has been observed that the probability distribution func...

(This article belongs to the Section Review)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,643 Views
14 Pages

Role of the Product λ′(0)ρ′(1) in Determining LDPC Code Performance

  • Francesca Vatta,
  • Fulvio Babich,
  • Flavio Ellero,
  • Matteo Noschese and ,
  • Giulia Buttazzoni and
  • Massimiliano Comisso
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 December 2019

The objective of this work is to analyze the importance of the product λ ′ ( 0 ) ρ ′ ( 1 ) in determining low density parity check (LDPC) code performance, as far as its influence on the weight distribution func...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
867 Views
12 Pages

Indoor visible light positioning is susceptible to specular interference, which reduces the accuracy of positioning. From the perspective of increasing the number of identity documents (IDs), this paper proposes a light source authentication algorith...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,234 Views
16 Pages

23 July 2024

By employing the generating function approach, 16 triple sums for circular binomial products of binomial coefficients are examined. Recurrence relations and generating functions are explicitly determined. These symmetric sums may find potential appli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polynomial Sequences and Their Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
15,757 Views
28 Pages

Optimization of Warehouse Operations with Genetic Algorithms

  • Mirosław Kordos,
  • Jan Boryczko,
  • Marcin Blachnik and
  • Sławomir Golak

13 July 2020

We present a complete, fully automatic solution based on genetic algorithms for the optimization of discrete product placement and of order picking routes in a warehouse. The solution takes as input the warehouse structure and the list of orders and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,299 Views
17 Pages

25 January 2018

In this paper, we propose a vectorized noncircular MUSIC (VNCM) algorithm based on the concept of the coarray, which can construct the difference and sum (diff–sum) coarray, for direction finding of the noncircular (NC) quasi-stationary sources. Util...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,583 Views
24 Pages

The Rényi Entropies Operate in Positive Semifields

  • Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete and
  • Carmen Peláez-Moreno

8 August 2019

We set out to demonstrate that the Rényi entropies are better thought of as operating in a type of non-linear semiring called a positive semifield. We show how the Rényi’s postulates lead to Pap’s g-calculus where the functi...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,646 Views
13 Pages

A Fast Factorisation of Semi-Primes Using Sum of Squares

  • Anthony Overmars and
  • Sitalakshmi Venkatraman

For several centuries, prime factorisation of large numbers has drawn much attention due its practical applications and the associated challenges. In computing applications, encryption algorithms such as the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) cr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,349 Views
25 Pages

Inquiry Calculus and the Issue of Negative Higher Order Informations

  • H. R. Noel Van Erp,
  • Ronald O. Linger and
  • Pieter H. A. J. M. Van Gelder

18 November 2017

In this paper, we will give the derivation of an inquiry calculus, or, equivalently, a Bayesian information theory. From simple ordering follow lattices, or, equivalently, algebras. Lattices admit a quantification, or, equivalently, algebras may be e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,319 Views
15 Pages

Harmonic Index and Harmonic Polynomial on Graph Operations

  • Juan C. Hernández-Gómez,
  • J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez,
  • José M. Rodríguez and
  • José M. Sigarreta

1 October 2018

Some years ago, the harmonic polynomial was introduced to study the harmonic topological index. Here, using this polynomial, we obtain several properties of the harmonic index of many classical symmetric operations of graphs: Cartesian product, coron...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Graph Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,986 Views
36 Pages

31 December 2019

We present a novel derivation of the multipole interaction (energies, forces and fields) in spherical harmonics, which results in an expression that is able to exactly reproduce the results of earlier Cartesian formulations. Our method follows the de...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,645 Views
17 Pages

13 December 2024

We study a multi-product production and inventory planning problem with uncertain demand in the cold rolling stage of steel production processes. The problem is to determine the production amount of each product in each planning period so that the su...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,517 Views
17 Pages

T-Eigenvalues of Third-Order Quaternion Tensors

  • Zhuo-Heng He,
  • Mei-Ling Deng and
  • Shao-Wen Yu

8 May 2025

In this paper, theories, algorithms and properties of eigenvalues of quaternion tensors via the t-product termed T-eigenvalues are explored. Firstly, we define the T-eigenvalue of quaternion tensors and provide an algorithm to compute the right T-eig...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
14,184 Views
30 Pages

Comparison of Satellite Reflectance Algorithms for Estimating Phycocyanin Values and Cyanobacterial Total Biovolume in a Temperate Reservoir Using Coincident Hyperspectral Aircraft Imagery and Dense Coincident Surface Observations

  • Richard Beck,
  • Min Xu,
  • Shengan Zhan,
  • Hongxing Liu and ,
  • Richard A. Johansen,
  • Susanna Tong,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Song Shu,
  • Qiusheng Wu and
  • Yan Huang
  • + 17 authors+ 12 authors

29 May 2017

We analyzed 27 established and new simple and therefore perhaps portable satellite phycocyanin pigment reflectance algorithms for estimating cyanobacterial values in a temperate 8.9 km2 reservoir in southwest Ohio using coincident hyperspectral aircr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,341 Views
13 Pages

A Levenberg-Marquardt Method for Tensor Approximation

  • Jinyao Zhao,
  • Xuejuan Zhang and
  • Jinling Zhao

10 March 2023

This paper presents a tensor approximation algorithm, based on the Levenberg–Marquardt method for the nonlinear least square problem, to decompose large-scale tensors into the sum of the products of vector groups of a given scale, or to obtain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in AI-Enabled Human-Centric Collaborative Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,379 Views
24 Pages

17 February 2025

With the rapid development of e-commerce, the scattered storage mode has been widely applied in B2C distribution centers in which there is a large assortment and quantity of small-sized, time-sensitive orders. Under the scattered storage mode, obtain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,154 Views
24 Pages

10 November 2021

The time-dependent vehicle routing problem of time windows of fresh agricultural products distribution have been studied by considering both economic cost and environmental cost. A calculation method for road travel time across time periods is design...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing Application to Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,157 Views
27 Pages

A Variable Neighborhood Search Approach for the Dynamic Single Row Facility Layout Problem

  • Gintaras Palubeckis,
  • Armantas Ostreika and
  • Jūratė Platužienė

22 June 2022

The dynamic single row facility layout problem (DSRFLP) is defined as the problem of arranging facilities along a straight line during a multi-period planning horizon with the objective of minimizing the sum of the material handling and rearrangement...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optimization Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,739 Views
15 Pages

Stochastic computing (SC) is a computational paradigm that represents numbers using Bernoulli processes. It is attractive due to its low power, low hardware complexity, and excellent noise tolerance properties. An SC algorithm that approximates arbit...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,299 Views
20 Pages

19 April 2025

With the rapid development of industrial internet, blockchain, and other new-generation information technology, the shared manufacturing model provides a new way to address the problems of low resource utilization of the traditional manufacturing ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
15,083 Views
19 Pages

4 January 2010

Infiltration-route analysis is a military application of geospatial information system (GIS) technology. In order to find susceptible routes, optimal-path-searching algorithms are applied to minimize the cost function, which is the summed result of d...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,884 Views
21 Pages

Methodology for the Definition of Durum Wheat Yield Homogeneous Zones by Using Satellite Spectral Indices

  • Elio Romano,
  • Simone Bergonzoli,
  • Ivano Pecorella,
  • Carlo Bisaglia and
  • Pasquale De Vita

21 May 2021

One of the main questions facing precision agriculture is the evaluation of different algorithms for the delineation of homogeneous management zones. In the present study, a new approach based on the use of time series of satellite imagery, collected...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Cropping Systems and Bare Soils Monitoring and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,626 Views
13 Pages

25 April 2021

In this study, an algorithm for reliability evaluation is proposed in order to assess the discount policy based on its effect on an air transport network. An air transport network is a typical stochastic air transport network (SATN) because its capac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Methods in Industrial Engineering and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,228 Views
24 Pages

Algorithm Selection for Edge Detection in Satellite Images by Neutrosophic WASPAS Method

  • Romualdas Bausys,
  • Giruta Kazakeviciute-Januskeviciene,
  • Fausto Cavallaro and
  • Ana Usovaite

10 January 2020

Nowadays, integrated land management is generally governed by the principles of sustainability. Land use management usually is grounded in satellite image information. The detection and monitoring of areas of interest in satellite images is a difficu...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advanced Methodologies for Sustainability Assessment: Theory and Practice)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,231 Views
15 Pages

Cooperative Localization and Time Synchronization Based on M-VMP Method

  • Zhongliang Deng,
  • Shihao Tang,
  • Buyun Jia,
  • Hanhua Wang and ,
  • Xiwen Deng and
  • Xinyu Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 November 2020

Localization estimation and clock synchronization are important research directions in the application of wireless sensor networks. Aiming at the problems of low positioning accuracy and slow convergence speed in localization estimation methods based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,163 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2022

The demand for automated game development assistance tools can be fulfilled by computational creativity algorithms. The procedural generation is one of the topics for creative content development. The main procedural generation challenge for game lev...

(This article belongs to the Topic Soft Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
4,463 Views
18 Pages

Developed Design of Battle Royale Optimizer for the Optimum Identification of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

  • Keyvan Karamnejadi Azar,
  • Armin Kakouee,
  • Morteza Mollajafari,
  • Ali Majdi and ,
  • Noradin Ghadimi and
  • Mojtaba Ghadamyari
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 August 2022

One of the most appropriate electricity production systems is solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), which are important because they are highly efficient, flexible to fuel, and have fewer environmental degradation effects. A new optimum technique has been...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sustainable Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,468 Views
41 Pages

An Integrated Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for the Assessment of Public Private Partnerships in Transportation Projects

  • Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader,
  • Tarek Zayed,
  • Hassan El Fathali,
  • Ghasan Alfalah and ,
  • Abobakr Al-Sakkaf and
  • Osama Moselhi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 August 2023

Public–private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects have attracted attention over the past few years. In this regard, the selection of private partners is an integral decision to ensure its success. The selection process needs to identify,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,483 Views
21 Pages

14 July 2014

Production processes in Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMS) often involve groups of parts sharing the same technological requirements in terms of tooling and setup. The issue of scheduling such parts through a flow-shop production layout is known as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-inspired Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,673 Views
24 Pages

15 February 2023

In a distributed frequency-modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) radar system, the echo data collected are not continuous in the azimuth direction, so the imaging effect of the traditional range-Doppler (RD) algorithm is poor. Sparse Bayesian learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,862 Views
22 Pages

A Genetic Hyper-Heuristic for an Order Scheduling Problem with Two Scenario-Dependent Parameters in a Parallel-Machine Environment

  • Lung-Yu Li,
  • Jian-You Xu,
  • Shuenn-Ren Cheng,
  • Xingong Zhang and ,
  • Win-Chin Lin,
  • Jia-Cheng Lin,
  • Zong-Lin Wu and
  • Chin-Chia Wu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 November 2022

Studies on the customer order scheduling problem have been attracting increasing attention. Most current approaches consider that either component processing times for customer orders on each machine are constant or all customer orders are available...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,961 Views
17 Pages

24 September 2021

Cooperative localization (CL) of underwater multi-AUVs is vital for numerous underwater operations. Single-transponder-aided cooperative localization (STCL) is regarded as a promising scheme for multi-AUVs CL, benefiting from the fact that an accurat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,520 Views
20 Pages

27 September 2022

We consider the problem of estimating tail probabilities of random sums of scale mixture of phase-type distributions—a class of distributions corresponding to random variables which can be represented as a product of a non-negative but otherwis...

(This article belongs to the Section Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,430 Views
12 Pages

Neglected Theories of Business Cycle—Alternative Ways of Explaining Economic Fluctuations

  • Klára Čermáková,
  • Michal Bejček,
  • Jan Vorlíček and
  • Helena Mitwallyová

20 October 2021

The business cycle is a frequent topic in economic research; however, the approach based on individual strategies often remains neglected. The aspiration of this study is to prove that the behavior of individuals can originate and fuel an economic cy...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems and Data Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,709 Views
21 Pages

15 September 2022

Environmental cost refers to the cost paid by enterprises to reduce environmental pollution and resource depletion in production and operation. To help enterprises reduce environmental costs, a manufacturing environmental cost control algorithm based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,740 Views
18 Pages

Order Picking Problem: A Model for the Joint Optimisation of Order Batching, Batch Assignment Sequencing, and Picking Routing

  • Antonio Maria Coruzzolo,
  • Francesco Lolli,
  • Elia Balugani,
  • Elisa Magnani and
  • Miguel Afonso Sellitto

11 September 2023

Background: Order picking is a critical activity in end-product warehouses, particularly using the picker-to-part system, entail substantial manual labor, representing approximately 60% of warehouse work. Methods: This study develops a new linear mod...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Technological Solutions, Research Methods, Simulation and Analytical Models That Support the Development of Modern Transport Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
241 Citations
18,808 Views
16 Pages

Open Surface Water Mapping Algorithms: A Comparison of Water-Related Spectral Indices and Sensors

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Jinwei Dong,
  • Xiangming Xiao,
  • Tong Xiao and ,
  • Zhiqi Yang,
  • Guosong Zhao,
  • Zhenhua Zou and
  • Yuanwei Qin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

5 April 2017

Open surface water bodies play an important role in agricultural and industrial production, and are susceptible to climate change and human activities. Remote sensing data has been increasingly used to map open surface water bodies at local, regional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,283 Views
17 Pages

Forecasting Model of Silicon Content in Molten Iron Using Wavelet Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks

  • Ana P. Miranda Diniz,
  • Klaus Fabian Côco,
  • Flávio S. Vitorino Gomes and
  • José L. Félix Salles

23 June 2021

Silicon content forecasting models have been requested by the operational team to anticipate necessary actions during the blast furnace operation when producing molten iron, to control the quality of the product and reduce costs. This paper proposed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Ironmaking and Steelmaking Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,897 Views
17 Pages

Development of a Circular Nutrient Solution Management System Using a Cost Function

  • Yeong-Hyeon Shin,
  • Insu Kim,
  • Myongkyoon Yang,
  • Young-Kyun Jang and ,
  • Ronaldo B. Saludes,
  • Hak-Jin Kim and
  • Woo-Jae Cho
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 December 2024

In this study, an ion monitoring system using ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) was developed to maintain nutrient solutions in closed-loop hydroponic systems within plant factories. Based on this monitoring system, an algorithm and individual ion supp...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,881 Views
15 Pages

Nonlinear Logistic Model for Describing Strawberry Fruit Production

  • Maria Inês Diel,
  • Alessandro Dal Col Lucio,
  • Dilson Antonio Bisognin,
  • Gabriel de Araujo Lopes and
  • Valdeci Jose dos Santos

23 August 2024

Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) production can be evaluated as repeated measurements, since the same plant is harvested multiple times during the production season. The objectives were to evaluate the production of fresh mass and fruit n...

(This article belongs to the Section Horticultural and Floricultural Crops)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,475 Views
30 Pages

20 August 2024

Demand fluctuates in actual production. When manufacturers face demand under their maximum capacity, suspension shifts are crucial for cost reduction and on-time delivery. In this case, suspension shifts are needed to minimize idle time and prevent i...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,140 Views
20 Pages

Fast Algorithms for the Small-Size Type IV Discrete Hartley Transform

  • Vitalii Natalevych,
  • Marina Polyakova and
  • Aleksandr Cariow

This paper presents new fast algorithms for the fourth type discrete Hartley transform (DHT-IV) for input data sequences of lengths from 3 to 8. Fast algorithms for small-sized trigonometric transforms can be used as building blocks for synthesizing...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,869 Views
26 Pages

5 February 2021

The monitoring and management of consistently changing landscape patterns are accomplished through a large amount of remote sensing data using satellite images and aerial photography that requires lossy compression for effective storage and transmiss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetric and Asymmetric Data in Solution Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,258 Views
22 Pages

Novel Fuzzy Clustering Methods for Test Case Prioritization in Software Projects

  • A. D. Shrivathsan,
  • K. S. Ravichandran,
  • R. Krishankumar,
  • V. Sangeetha and ,
  • Samarjit Kar,
  • Pawel Ziemba and
  • Jaroslaw Jankowski
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2019

Systematic Regression Testing is essential for maintaining software quality, but the cost of regression testing is high. Test case prioritization (TCP) is a widely used approach to reduce this cost. Many researchers have proposed regression test case...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Criteria Decision Aid methods in fuzzy decision problems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,892 Views
9 Pages

Existing algorithms like nested sampling and annealed importance sampling are able to produce accurate estimates of the marginal likelihood of a model, but tend to scale poorly to large data sets. This is because these algorithms need to recalculate...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 39th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)

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