Blood Glucose Control Using a Novel Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor and Repetitive Intravenous Insulin Boluses: Exploiting Natural Insulin Pulsatility as a Principle for a Future... by Nils K. Skjaervold, Dan Östling, Dag R. Hjelme, Olav Spigset, Oddveig Lyng, Petter Aadahl

“…We developed a control algorithm based on repetitive intravenous bolus injections of insulin and combined this with an intravascular blood glucose monitor. …”
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Dose-Weighted Network Pharmacology: Evaluating Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulations for Lumbar Disc Herniation by Zhou C, Xiang T, Yu Y, Ma H, Liu C, Yang F, Yang L

“…TSD, YJD, and PQT were evaluated in animal experiments, and the algorithm’s feasibility was validated through GO and KEGG pathway analysis, Thermal Hyperalgesia Test, H&E staining, Western blotting (WB), RT-PCR, and ELISA assays.Results: The computational model indicated that YJD and PQT had higher predicted efficacy compared to TSD. …”
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Global Fault-Tolerant Control of Underactuated Aerial Vehicles with Redundant Actuators by Yushu Yu, Yiqun Dong

“…The entire proposed fault-tolerant control algorithm contains a baseline controller, the fault detection and isolation scheme, and the controller reconstruction module. …”
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Online Scheduling on a Single Machine with Grouped Processing Times by Qijia Liu, Long Wan, Lijun Wei

“…When the capacity of the vehicle is infinite, we provide an online algorithm with the best competitive ratio of (5+1)/2. …”
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Unified Navigational Approach for an Autonomous Vehicle Joining a Multilane Highway from Ramp by Usman Ghumman, Kunwar Faraz, Hamid Jabbar, Mohsin I. Tiwana

“…In addition, the navigation with enhanced performance of the modified RG algorithm is also established and compared to the conventional RG algorithm. …”
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A New Linearizing Method for Sum of Linear Ratios Problem with Coefficients by Hongwei Jiao, Yongqiang Chen

“…Thus, a branch and bound algorithm for solving the sum of linear ratios problem with coefficients is put forward. …”
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Optimization of the Critical Diameter and Average Path Length of Social Networks by Haifeng Du, Xiaochen He, Wei Du, Marcus W. Feldman

“…We propose a mathematic model based on a memetic algorithm. Experimental results show that our algorithm can efficiently solve this problem as well as optimize APL.…”
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Sensitivity analysis of solutions for a system of generalized parametric nonlinear quasivariational inequalities by Zeqing Liu, Beibei Zhu, Shin Min Kang, Gwang Il Kim

“…With the properties of maximal monotone mappings, the equivalence between the class of system of generalized parametric nonlinear quasivariational inequalities and a class of fixed point problems is proved and an iterative algorithm with errors is constructed. A few existence and uniqueness results and sensitivity analysis of solutions are also established for the system of generalized nonlinear parametric quasivariational inequalities and some convergence results of iterative sequence generated by the algorithm with errors are proved.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Rotor-Stator Interaction in a Turbine Combustor by Dragos D. Isvoranu, Paul G. A. Cizmas

“…This article presents the development of a numerical algorithm for the computation of flow and combustion in a turbine combustor. …”
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Dynamic Multicompartment Refrigerated Vehicle Routing Problem with Multigraph Based on Real-Time Traffic Information by Deng-Kai Hou, Hou-Ming Fan, Ying-Chun Lv, Xiao-Xue Ren

“…The validity of the model and the algorithm are verified through the analysis of instances. …”
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Adaptive Predictive Control: A Data-Driven Closed-Loop Subspace Identification Approach by Xiaosuo Luo, Yongduan Song

“…As the predictor is the key element of the predictive controller, we propose to derive such predictor based on the subspace matrices which are obtained through the closed-loop subspace identification algorithm driven by input-output data. Taking advantage of transformational system model, the closed-loop data is effectively processed in this subspace algorithm. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Effective Properties of 3D Piezoelectric Composites by Ri-Song Qin, Yi Xiao, Haitian Lan

“…The prediction of the overall effective properties of fibre-reinforced piezocomposites has drawn much interest from investigators recently. In this work, an algorithm used in two-dimensional (2D) analysis for calculating transversely isotropic material properties is developed. …”
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Multiconstrained Ascent Trajectory Optimization Using an Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Method by Mu Lin, Zhao-Huanyu Zhang, Hongyu Zhou, Yongtao Shui

“…Finally, the algorithm is verified by numerical simulation.…”
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A Multiple-Dimensional Tree Routing Protocol for Multisink Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Ant Colony Optimization by Hui Zhou, Dongliang Qing, Xiaomei Zhang, Honglin Yuan, Chen Xu

“…The proposed protocol is as follows: (1) listening mechanism is used to establish and maintain multidimensional tree routing topology; (2) taking into consideration hops, packet losses, retransmission, and delay account, a distributed ant colony algorithm is proposed. When nodes select routes in the data transmission, the algorithm is utilized to realize the real-time optimization by coordination between nodes. …”
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An Inventory Controlled Supply Chain Model Based on Improved BP Neural Network by Wei He

“…The results show that the improved algorithm not only significantly exceeds the standard algorithm but also outperforms some other improved BP algorithms both on convergence rate and prediction accuracy.…”
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The Expanded Invasive Weed Optimization Metaheuristic for Solving Continuous and Discrete Optimization Problems by Henryk Josiński, Daniel Kostrzewa, Agnieszka Michalczuk, Adam Świtoński

“…This paper introduces an expanded version of the Invasive Weed Optimization algorithm (exIWO) distinguished by the hybrid strategy of the search space exploration proposed by the authors. …”
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Iterative Learning Consensus Control for Nonlinear Partial Difference Multiagent Systems with Time Delay by Cun Wang, Xisheng Dai, Kene Li, Zupeng Zhou

“…Furthermore, simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.…”
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Voltage Stability Bifurcation Analysis for AC/DC Systems with VSC-HVDC by Yanfang Wei, Zheng Zheng, Yonghui Sun, Zhinong Wei, Guoqiang Sun

“…Based on the steady model of VSC-HVDC, a new improved sequential iterative power flow algorithm is proposed. Then, by use of continuation power flow algorithm with the new sequential method, the voltage stability bifurcation of the system is discussed. …”
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Optimization on Production-Inventory Problem with Multistage and Varying Demand by Duan Gang, Chen Li, Li Yin-Zhen, Song Jie-Yan, Akhtar Tanweer

“…A nonlinear hybrid integer constrained optimization is modeled to minimize the total cost including setup cost and holding cost in the planning horizon. A genetic algorithm is developed for the problem. A series of computational experiments with different sizes is used to demonstrate the efficiency and universality of the genetic algorithm in terms of the running time and solution quality. …”
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Containerships Sailing Speed and Fleet Deployment Optimization under a Time-Based Differentiated Freight Rate Strategy by Hualong Yang, Yuwei Xing

“…To find the optimal solution to the model and improve the efficiency of model solution, a discretization algorithm is proposed. Numerical results verify the applicability of the proposed model and the efficiency of the algorithm. …”
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