Predicting Trip Duration and Distance in Bike-Sharing Systems Using Dynamic Time Warping by Ahmed Ali, Ahmad Salah, Mahmoud Bekhit, Ahmed Fathalla

“…Accurate prediction of ride duration allows a better estimate of bike availability at stations, while distance predictions assist in maintenance planning based on bike usage patterns. …”
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Damage Identification in Large-Scale Structures Using Time Series Analysis and Improved Sparse Regularization by Huihui Chen, Xiaojing Yuan

“…Compared to the moth-flame optimization (MFO) algorithm and traditional regularization methods, for both noise-free and noise polluted data, the iteration curves illustrate that the proposed method can achieve convergence within about 200 iterations, while the MFO algorithm is always trapped into local optima; meanwhile, the traditional regularization method needs more iterations or even cannot meet the preset tolerance. …”
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A novel flexible near-infrared endoscopic device that enables real-time artificial intelligence fluorescence tissue characterization. by Gareth Gallagher, Ra'ed Malallah, Jonathan P Epperlein, Jeffrey Dalli, Niall Hardy, Abhinav Jindal, Pol G MacAonghusa, Ronan A Cahill

“…Jaccard Index comparison of the AI -generated flow regions against manually delineated flow regions resulted in 79% accuracy. While further clinical validation of the AI-NIR polyp classification method is on-going (in the Horizon Europe Awarded CLASSICA project), other use case applications of NIR colonoscopy include simpler perioperative perfusion assessment in patients undergoing colorectal resection and combination with targeted agents in development thus encouraging continuing development and design optimization of this flexible NIR imaging probe to enable clinical and commercial translation.…”
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Physical Information Neural Network-Based Seepage Behavior Analysis of Earth and Rock Dams by XUE binghan, HUANG zhenhua, LEI Jianwei, FANG Hongyuan

“…Impermeable boundary conditions are imposed on these initial free-surface nodes, while other boundaries are assigned conditions according to the physical model. …”
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RIS-Aided Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems: STAR-RIS Versus Passive RIS? by Prajwalita Saikia, Anand Jee, Keshav Singh, Cunhua Pan, Wan-Jen Huang, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

“…The proposed algorithm is also shown to be effective in delivering nearly optimal design outcomes in scenario where the channel state information is imperfect (ICSI). …”
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Cooperative Guidance Strategy Under Uncontrollable Velocity Conditions by Hao Cui, Ke Zhang, Minghu Tan, Jingyu Wang

“…This method employs the multi-agent proximal policy optimization (MAPPO) algorithm to construct a continuous action space framework for intelligent cooperative guidance. …”
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AI-Assisted Pump Operation for Energy-Efficient Water Distribution Systems by Niuosha Hedaiaty Marzouny, Rebecca Dziedzic

“…The LLM-assisted framework was compared with a genetic algorithm optimization. The results demonstrated that the proposed method outperformed the GA, achieving an energy reduction of 66.98%.…”
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Meta-learning assisted robust control of universal quantum gates with uncertainties by Shihui Zhang, Zibo Miao, Yu Pan, Sibo Tao, Yu Chen

“…The inner reinforcement learning network focuses on decision making for specific optimization problems, while the outer meta-learning network adapts to varying environments and provides feedback to the inner network. …”
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Query scheduling based on cloud-edge multi-data warehouse architecture and cost prediction model by GAO Xuning, YANG Song, LI Mingzhe, ZHANG Yanfeng

“…The scheduling framework and optimization algorithm achieve significant performance improvement on SSB and TPC-DS datasets. …”
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Query scheduling based on cloud-edge multi-data warehouse architecture and cost prediction model by GAO Xuning, YANG Song, LI Mingzhe, ZHANG Yanfeng

“…The scheduling framework and optimization algorithm achieve significant performance improvement on SSB and TPC-DS datasets. …”
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Selecting the Strategic Port of “the Belt and Road” Based on the Global Network by Zihui Yang, Qingchun Meng, Chanjuan Li

“…Under “the Belt and Road” initiative, China promoted cooperation between domestic enterprises and international ports vigorously, which brought back fruitful results, while the rational selection of strategic pivots ports and the optimization of the layout of the port network are important guarantees to a further promotion to the economic development of “the Belt and Road” ports and give full play to the driving and radiation role of strategic pivots ports. …”
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Distributed blockchain assisted secure data aggregation scheme for risk-aware zone-based MANET by V R. Sugumaran, E. Dinesh, R. Ramya, Elangovan Muniyandy

“…Data aggregation is secured through a Two-Step Secure (STS) method and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), while optimal routing is achieved using the Improved Elephant Herd Optimization (IEHO) algorithm. …”
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Management of Calcified Coronary Lesions by Khaled Al-Shaibi, Aditya Bharadwaj, Atul Mathur, Ashish Jaikishen, Robert Riley

“…A variety of treatment options for these lesions exist, including specialized balloons, atherectomy, and intravascular lithotripsy. While there is currently no universally accepted algorithm for choosing between these treatment strategies, several different algorithms exist, and the optimization of these treatment regimens will continue to evolve in the coming years. …”
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An Efficient Multiparty Threshold ECDSA Protocol against Malicious Adversaries for Blockchain-Based LLMs by Jing Wang, Xue Yuan, Yingjie Xu, Yudi Zhang

“…When compared with some related schemes, this optimization speeds up both the key generation and signing phases with constant rounds while maintaining security against malicious adversaries.…”
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Computational Construction of Sequential Efficient Designs for the Second-Order Model by Norah Alshammari, Stelios Georgiou, Stella Stylianou

“…By relaxing the restriction of non-replicated points within equally spaced intervals, our approach maintains space-filling properties while allowing greater flexibility for model-specific optimization. …”
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Network security situation assessment based on dual attention mechanism and HHO-ResNeXt by Dongmei Zhao, Guoqing Ji, Shuiguang Zeng

“…To solve these problems, this paper combines ResNeXt with the Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) module and the Contextual Transformer (COT) block to construct a model to assess network conditions. The optimal hyperparameters of the model are selected by the Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) algorithm. …”
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An efficient hybrid framework with knowledge transfer for solving capacitated vehicle routing problems by Yanlin Wu, Yanguang Cai, Chuncheng Fang

“…This study proposes a hybrid framework (HF) that addresses these limitations through four key components: (1) An improved Clarke–Wright savings algorithm for rapid initialization of high-quality solutions, (2) an incremental auxiliary task formulation that optimizes knowledge transfer while minimizing computational overhead, (3) a similarity prediction strategy enabling efficient offspring selection without additional evaluations, and (4) the framework integrates enhanced search strategy and diversity maintenance strategy to prevent premature convergence. …”
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Intelligent resource scheduling scheme for UAV swarm collaborative sensing by ZHAO Pengcheng, LI Tianyang, LENG Supeng, XIONG Kai

“…Furthermore, a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm with an attention mechanism was employed to solve the optimization problem, enabling agents to extract critical environmental features more effectively. …”
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Stability of optical knots in atmospheric turbulence by D. G. Pires, D. Tsvetkov, H. Barati Sedeh, N. Chandra, N. M. Litchinitser

“…Additionally, we propose an optimization algorithm to maximize the distance between the phase singularities at each longitudinal plane, facilitating measurements of optical knots and improving their performance in the presence of turbulence.…”
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Variational Quantum Simulation: A Case Study for Understanding Warm Starts by Ricard Puig, Marc Drudis, Supanut Thanasilp, Zoë Holmes

“…While our main focus is on this case study of variational quantum simulation, we end by discussing how our results work in other iterative settings.…”
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