A Mathematical Model for Suppliers' Evaluation and Purchasing Spare Parts (A case study: Ferdowsi Power Plant, Mapna Operation and Repair Company) by Alireza Rashidi Komijan, Ahmad Masoudifar

“…Findings: The results show that determining the group for each part, considering the two dimensions of supply risk and the vitality of the part provides a suitable management tool for equipment supply management. The zero and one integer planning model is appropriate for order allocation problems. …”
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An improved meta-heuristic algorithm to optimize the fractional-order controller for an industrial manipulator with a parallelogram structure by Nazila Nikdel

“…In addition, the efficiency of the fractional-order controller is compared with its integer-order counterpart, and the results show a significant improvement in system performance.Originality/Value: The proposed controller can control the system well despite its complexity and non-linearity. …”
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Direct probing of energy gaps and bandwidth in gate-tunable flat band graphene systems by Jin Jiang, Qixuan Gao, Zekang Zhou, Cheng Shen, Mario Di Luca, Emily Hajigeorgiou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mitali Banerjee

“…Moreover, we extract integer and fractional quantum Hall gaps to further demonstrate the strength of this method. …”
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Optimal transmission for scalable video coded streaming in cellular wireless networks with the cooperation of local peer-to-peer network by Guangsheng Feng, Junyu Lin, Qian Zhao, Huiqiang Wang, Hongwu Lv, Bingyang Li, DongDong Su

“…To optimize the cellular and peer-to-peer transmission arrangement, we first formulate it as a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem, which becomes more complicated when the number of user equipments increases. …”
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Production scheduling with multi-robot task allocation in a real industry 4.0 setting by Zohreh Shakeri, Khaled Benfriha, Mohsen Varmazyar, Esma Talhi, Anthony Quenehen

“…The case study is based on a real Industry 4.0 scenario, where the layout restricts each robotic arm’s access, requiring strategic buffer placement for part transfers. A Mixed-Integer Programming (MILP) model aims to minimize makespan, followed by a new Genetic Algorithm (GA) using Roy and Sussman’s Alternative Graph. …”
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NEMS generated electromechanical frequency combs by Sasan Rahmanian, Hamza Mouharrar, Rana Abdelrahman, Masoud Akbari, Yasser S. Shama, Kevin Musselman, David Muñoz-Rojas, Skandar Basrour, Eihab Abdel Rahman

“…A biased voltage signal drives the electrical resonator at resonance which is set to match an integer submultiple of twice the mechanical resonator’s resonance. …”
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ALBERTA: ALgorithm-Based Error Resilience in Transformer Architectures by Haoxuan Liu, Vasu Singh, Michal Filipiuk, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari

“…We address this shortcoming by providing a software-directed, checksum-based error detection technique aimed at protecting the most vulnerable general matrix multiply (GEMM) layers in the transformer models that use either floating-point or integer arithmetic. Results show that our approach achieves over 99&#x0025; coverage for errors (single bit-flip fault model) that result in a mismatch with <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$&lt; $</tex-math></inline-formula>0.2&#x0025; and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$&lt; $</tex-math></inline-formula>0.01&#x0025; computation and memory overheads, respectively. …”
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Optimal Topology Management for Software-Defined Networks Minimizing Latency and Using Network Slicing by Andrés Viveros, Pablo Adasme, Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi

“…Thus, the main highlights of the paper are to formally represent the problem utilizing two equivalent mixed-integer quadratic programming models. The first one represents the user requirements of each slice by using a membership matrix. …”
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Order Batching in Warehouses by Minimizing Total Tardiness: A Hybrid Approach of Weighted Association Rule Mining and Genetic Algorithms by Amir Hossein Azadnia, Shahrooz Taheri, Pezhman Ghadimi, Muhamad Zameri Mat Saman, Kuan Yew Wong

“…Next, a batching model based on binary integer programming has been formulated to maximize the associations between orders within each batch. …”
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Maximum Closeness Centrality k-Clubs: A Study of Dock-Less Bike Sharing by Ali Rahim Taleqani, Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Jill Hough

“…For the proposed problem, we first derive its computational complexity and show that it is NP-hard (by reduction from the 3-SATISFIABILITY problem), and then provide an integer programming formulation. Due to its computational complexity, the problem cannot be solved exactly in a large-scale setting, as is such of an urban area. …”
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Competition for food in macroplankton animals in the Vistula Lagoon by Krzysztof W. Opaliński

“…Additionally, some quantities of the shrimp Neomysis integer can be found. These species use the same food resources, i.e. small zooplankton, but they occupy different habitats. …”
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Advantages of Logarithmic Signatures in the Implementation of Crypto Primitives by Yevhen Kotukh, Hennadii Khalimov

“…Two hard problems have been widely used in public-key cryptography: integer factorization and the discrete logarithm problem. …”
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Hybrid optimization of EDLP and high-low pricing strategies by Hamed Karimi

“…To enhance the model's practical applicability, particularly in small-scale scenarios, the nonlinear problem is transformed into a Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) model, facilitating its solvability. …”
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An Ultra-Wideband Reference Frequency Chirp Generator Utilizing Fractional Frequency Divider With High Linearity by Bent Walther, Lukas Polzin, Marcel van Delden, Thomas Musch

“…For this reason, we present a novel architecture combining a fixed-integer phase-locked loop (PLL) with a fast-modulated frequency divider. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Long Short-Term Memory Network for Optimizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Information Transmission by Yufei He, Ruiqi Hu, Kewei Liang, Yonghong Liu, Zhiyuan Zhou

“…This issue is framed as a mixed-integer nonconvex optimization challenge, which traditional optimization algorithms and reinforcement learning (RL) methods often struggle to address effectively. …”
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Optimization of Rider Scheduling for a Food Delivery Service in O2O Business by Guiqin Xue, Zheng Wang, Guan Wang

“…We introduce a two-stage model that adopts the method of mixed-integer programming (MIP), characterize relevant aspects of the scenario, and propose an optimization algorithm for scheduling riders. …”
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Application of Unit Commitment with Market Pool in a Peaking Power Generation Firm in the Philippines for a Cost Reduction Case Study by Luke Rey Santillan, Kenn Brylle Senen, Robert Wamilda, Lanndon Ocampo, Rafael Seva, Reuella J. Bacalso, Alaine Liggayu

“…The case requires a solution of the mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem. Results show that the proposed UC-based problem yields optimal costs and the cost disparity from the current scheduling scheme is approximately at 27% which may be considered as potential cost savings. …”
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Designing a multi-period multi-stage supply chain network under uncertainty by Maryam Hemmati, Masoud Rabbani, Mohammad Reza Mehregan

“…To optimize this supply chain, a multi-objective Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model has been developed to formulate the problem. …”
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On a problem of Nathanson related to minimal asymptotic bases of order $h$ by Chen, Shi-Qiang, Sándor, Csaba, Yang, Quan-Hui

“…For integer $h\ge 2$ and $A\subseteq \mathbb{N}$, we define $hA$ to be the set of all integers which can be written as a sum of $h$, not necessarily distinct, elements of $A$. …”
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Chaotic evolutionary multi-objective optimization for multivariate pair trading in tehran stock exchange: the distance approach by Hossein Nikoo, Jamal Barzgari khanagha, Hamid Reza Mirzaei

“…The problem is developed in the form of a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model, and due to non-convex constraints and exponential solution space, a multi-objective genetic algorithm is used to obtain multivariate pair combinations. …”
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