Some New Transformation Properties of the Nielsen Generalized Polylogarithm by Nina Shang, Qinghua Feng, Huizeng Qin

“…By use of these transformation formulas presented, new fast algorithms for Nielsen generalized polylogarithm Sn,p(z) can be designed. …”
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Optimization and Planning of Emergency Evacuation Routes Considering Traffic Control by Guo Li, Lijun Zhang, Zhaohua Wang

“…This paper establishes two different emergency evacuation models on the basis of the maximum flow model (MFM) and the minimum-cost maximum flow model (MC-MFM), and proposes corresponding algorithms for the evacuation from one source node to one designated destination (one-to-one evacuation). …”
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Chaotic numerical instabilities arising in the transition from differential to difference nonlinear equations by Alicia Serfaty de Markus

“…For computational purposes, a numerical algorithm maps a differential equation into an often complex difference equation whose structure and stability depends on the scheme used. …”
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Detection of Surface Crack in Building Structures Using Image Processing Technique with an Improved Otsu Method for Image Thresholding by Nhat-Duc Hoang

“…Experimental results point out that the integration of M2GLD and the Otsu method, followed by other shape analysis algorithms, can successfully detect crack defects in digital images. …”
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MODEL IDENTIFICATION AND LEVEL CONTROL OF COUPLED TANKS SYSTEM by OKUBANJO AYODEJI, OKANDEJI ALEXANDER, ALAO PETER, OLALUWOYE OLAWALE, ONAIFO FRANK, MUFUTAU OLAYEMI

“…In this paper, we examine the performance evaluation of two control algorithms, proportional derivative controller (PD) and proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID). …”
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Two ways to one goal: new strategy of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C by S. N. Batskikh

“…To analyze data of the clinical studies on chronic hepatitis C (CHC) treatment with application of new modes of combined therapy, including selective inhibitor of viral protease.Key points. New algorithms of antiviral therapy for patients infected by the 1-st virus genotype not treated earlier, and after treatment failure, implicate presence or absence of so-called «induction phase», the kernel of which is application of pegilated interferon-α and ribavirin combination at the beginning of treatment with subsequent addition of the third agent (the direct action antiviral agent). …”
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Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Microquasar Jets by Theodoros Smponias, Odysseas Kosmas

“…We adopt a semianalytical approximation for the description of the secondary particles produced from p-p collisions and develop appropriate algorithms using the aforementioned injected protons as input. …”
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Error-Mask-Adaptive Dynamic Filtering for Image Inpainting by Keunsoo Ko, Seunggyun Woo, Chang-Su Kim

“…Experimental results on diverse datasets show that the proposed EMDF algorithm outperforms existing inpainting algorithms significantly. …”
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Correlation and Spectral Properties of a Coupled Nonlinear Dynamical System in the Context of Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Modeling by Sergei Soldatenko, Denis Chichkine

“…This dynamical system is frequently applied for studying various aspects of atmospheric and climate dynamics, as well as for estimating the effectiveness of numerical algorithms and techniques used in numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and climate simulation. …”
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A Hybrid Search Model for Constrained Optimization by Xiaoli Gao, Yangfei Yuan, Jie Li, Weifeng Gao

“…Different from decomposition-based multiobjective optimization algorithms in which each subproblem is optimized by using the information of its neighboring subproblems, the neighbors of each subproblem are deFined based on corresponding direction vector only in the method. …”
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The Comparison of Tree-Sibling Time Consistent Phylogenetic Networks Is Graph Isomorphism-Complete by Gabriel Cardona, Mercè Llabrés, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel Valiente

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Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization for Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling Problem with Maintenance Activities by Jun-qing Li, Quan-ke Pan, Kun Mao

“…In addition, an efficient multiple insert mutation operator is developed for enhancing the searching ability of the algorithm. Furthermore, an ILS-based local search procedure is embedded in the algorithm to improve the exploitation ability of the proposed algorithm. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning for time-critical wilderness search and rescue using drones by Jan-Hendrik Ewers, David Anderson, Douglas Thomson

“…This paper proposes a novel algorithm using deep reinforcement learning to create efficient search paths for drones in wilderness environments. …”
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An Energy-Efficient Transmission Protocol for RNC-Based Cooperative WSNs with Partial Energy Harvesting Nodes by Yulun Cheng, Longxiang Yang

“…Moreover, we propose a novel transmission protocol by embedding the considered policy in the opportunistic reception algorithm. The decoding failure probability is then derived to examine its transmission reliability. …”
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New Robust Principal Component Analysis for Joint Image Alignment and Recovery via Affine Transformations, Frobenius and L2,1 Norms by Habte Tadesse Likassa

“…Thus, the new algorithm tackles the potential impact of outliers and heavy sparse noises via using novel ideas of affine transformations and Frobenius and L2,1 norms. …”
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Correlation between the Quality of Talent Training and Regional Economic Development Based on Multivariate Statistical Analysis Model by Yana Yuan

“…This paper incorporates machine learning algorithms to construct a multivariate statistics analysis model based on the correlation analysis model between talent training quality and regional economic development. …”
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2D DOA Estimation with a Two-Parallel Array Consisting of Two Uniform Large-Spacing Linear Arrays by Sheng Liu, Jing Zhao, Yu Zhang

“…Compared with the existed PM algorithms based on conventional uniform two-parallel linear array, the proposed PM algorithm based on the large-spacing linear arrays has higher estimation precision. …”
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Nonlinear Augmented Proportional Navigation for Midrange Rendezvous Guidance and Performance Assessment by Weilin Wang, Xumin Song

“…This paper builds on previous efforts in polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) to develop an efficient analysis technique for guidance algorithms. A large scope of uncertainty sources are considered to make state evaluation trustworthy and provide precise prediction of trajectory bias. …”
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An Enhanced Fractional Order Model of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites Actuator by R. Caponetto, S. Graziani, F. Sapuppo, V. Tomasello

“…The minimization error was attained comparing the simple genetic algorithms with the simplex method and considering the error between the experimental and model derived frequency responses as cost functions.…”
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Arithmetically Fast Position Transformation for View Synthesis and Depth Estimation by Krzysztof Wegner, Tomasz Grajek, Krzysztof Klimaszewski

“…As a result, the number of necessary arithmetic operations is reduced and some of the calculations can be reused for consecutive pixel position transformations. The presented algorithm produces identical output as an unoptimized algorithm with approximately 22% reduction of the processing time averaged over the examined representative test sequences.…”
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