A Method for Enhancing the Traffic Situation Awareness of Vessel Traffic Service Operators by Identifying High Risk Ships in Complex Navigation Conditions by Lei Zhang, Jiahao Ge, Floris Goerlandt, Lei Du, Tuowei Chen, Tingting Gu, Langxiong Gan, Xiaobin Li

“…First, the K-means clustering algorithm is improved using the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) to adaptively cluster ships within a waterway, segmenting the traffic in the area into multiple ship clusters. …”
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Flow shop scheduling of hybrid make-to-stock and make-to-order in a distributed precast concrete production system by Chen Chen, Jinchi Han, Ziwen Liu, Robert Lee Kong Tiong

“…Comparisons between the genetic algorithm and the whale optimization algorithm are made. …”
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Dynamic Water Scheduling in the Northwest River Delta Basin Based on Minimum Discharge Flow Control in Cross-section by WU Di, FANG Chunyan, SHANG Yunfei

“…On this basis, by taking into account both ecological water demand and socio-economic water demand, the minimum discharge flow control index of the cross-section was determined, and a fitness function was constructed. The whale optimization algorithm was used to find the optimal water allocation plan. …”
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A comprehensive techno-economic analysis for a PHEV-integrated microgrid system involving wind uncertainty and diverse demand side management policies by Bishwajit Dey, Laishram Khumanleima Chanu, Gulshan Sharma, Pitshou N. Bokoro

“…The research investigation employed the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm as an optimization technique. Numerical results show that the total operating cost (TOC) of the MG system reduced from $25,575 during the base load model to $24,521 when the proposed hybrid DSM was implemented. …”
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Electromagnetic Transient Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale New Energy Grid Connection Based on PSCAD/EMTDC by Bin CAO, Liqiang WANG, Yongfei ZHAO, Xiuqi ZHANG

“…Therefore, new requirements of the power grid simulation have been put forward from both the algorithm and the calculation scale. The electromagnetic transient model of Inner Mongolia power grid with new energy access is built based on PSCAD software to realize the accurate simulation of the electromagnetic transient of the whole network. …”
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A Novel Artificial Bee Colony Approach of Live Virtual Machine Migration Policy Using Bayes Theorem by Gaochao Xu, Yan Ding, Jia Zhao, Liang Hu, Xiaodong Fu

“…As a result, the whole approach achieves a longer-term efficient optimization for power saving. …”
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Real-time urban regional route planning model for connected vehicles based on V2X communication by Pangwei Wang, Hui Deng, Juan Zhang, Mingfang Zhang

“…Second, according to the topology structure of the current regional road network, all predicted routes are listed based on the Dijkstra algorithm. Third, the predicted travel time of each alternative route is calculated, while the predicted route with the least travel time is selected as the optimal route. …”
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Prediction of Grain Yield in Henan Province Based on Grey BP Neural Network Model by Bingjun Li, Yifan Zhang, Shuhua Zhang, Wenyan Li

“…BP neural network (BPNN) is widely used due to its good generalization and robustness, but the model has the defect that it cannot automatically optimize the input variables. In response to this problem, this study uses the grey relational analysis method to rank the importance of input variables, obtains the key variables and the best BPNN model structure through multiple training and learning for the BPNN models, and proposes a variable optimization selection algorithm combining grey relational analysis and BP neural network. …”
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Stratified Object-Oriented Image Classification Based on Remote Sensing Image Scene Division by Wen Zhou, Dongping Ming, Lu Xu, Hanqing Bao, Min Wang

“…This method firstly uses middle semantic which can reflect an image’s visual complexity to classify the remote sensing image into different scenes, and then within each scene, an improved grid search algorithm is employed to optimize the segmentation result of each scene, so that the optimal scale can be utmostly adopted for each scene. …”
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Dual Strategy Based Improved Swarm Intelligence and Stacked LSTM With Residual Connection for Land Use Land Cover Classification by Vinaykumar Vajjanakurike Nagaraju, Ananda Babu Jayachandra, Andrzej Stateczny, Swathi Holalu Yogesh, Raviprakash Madenur Lingaraju, Balaji Prabhu Baluvaneralu Veeranna

“…The DSBES and stacked LSTM with residual connection achieve higher accuracy values of 99.71%, 98.66%, 97.59%, and 99.24% for UCM, AID, NWPU, and EuroSAT datasets, respectively, as compared to VGG19 and optimal guidance whale optimization algorithm–bidirectional long short-term memory.…”
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Designing a green forward and reverse logistics network with an IoT approach considering backup suppliers and special disposal for epidemics management by Sina Abbasi, Sara Damavandi, Amirhossein RadmanKian, Kian Zeinolabedinzadeh, Yigit Kazancoglu

“…This study presents two problem-solving techniques: the LP-metric method for small problems and the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) for medium and large-scale issues. …”
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Multidimensional Meteorological Variables for Wind Speed Forecasting in Qinghai Region of China: A Novel Approach by He Jiang, Luo Shihua, Yao Dong

“…Finally, all the forecasting values of IMFs will be summed by assigning weights that are carefully determined by the whale optimization algorithm (WOA). The proposed forecasting approach has been applied on six datasets that were collected in Qinghai province and is compared with several state-of-the-art wind speed forecasting models. …”
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An efficient tuning method for networked control systems by Debashish Pal, Shiv Kumar Bhagat, G. Shanmugasundar, Ranjan Kumar Ghadai

“…To reach this goal, this study uses a meta-heuristic optimization method called the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) along with a fuzzy-PID controller for a Networked Control System (NCS) plant. …”
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Planning and Evaluation of Water-Dropping Strategy for Fixed-Wing Fire Extinguisher Based on Multi-Resolution Modeling by Xiyu Wang, Yuanbo Xue, Yongliang Tian, Hu Liu, Zhiyong Cai

“…Case studies validate the system’s capability to forecast fire and smoke propagation, plan a water-dropping trajectory based on the fire line, optimize flight paths based on the trajectory, and simulate as well as evaluate the whole firefighting mission process. …”
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Hydrodynamic Performance and Motion Prediction Before Twin-Barge Float-Over Installation of Offshore Wind Turbines by Mengyang Zhao, Xiang Yuan Zheng, Sheng Zhang, Kehao Qian, Yucong Jiang, Yue Liu, Menglan Duan, Tianfeng Zhao, Ke Zhai

“…For this, this study employs the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) to optimize the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network. …”
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Simulation and Prediction of Springback in Sheet Metal Bending Process Based on Embedded Control System by Jinhan Xu, Jun Yan, Yan Huang, Dawei Ding

“…Subsequently, an enhanced WOA-BP (Whale Optimization Algorithm—Backpropagation) model, integrating Latin hypercube sampling and neural network techniques, is deployed to anticipate and counteract these springback errors. …”
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Enhancing grid frequency regulation in low inertia modern multi‐area power systems using cascaded non‐integer control approaches with BESS‐based virtual inertia by Tushar Kanti Roy, Amanullah Maung Than Oo

“…It should be noted that improper controller parameters can worsen frequency deviations and system stability. Hence, a whale optimization algorithm optimizes control parameters using the integral time absolute error based objective function. …”
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Theoretical and computational investigations on estimation of viscosity of ionic liquids for green adsorbent: Effect of temperature and composition by Zhaoxiong Han

“…The dataset comprises categorical information on Cation and Anion, along with numeric variables T(K) and xIL (mol%), serving as inputs for the models, while Viscosity (Pa.s) represents the output variable. The models are optimized using the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) to fine-tune hyperparameters, enhancing their predictive performance. …”
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Prediction model of middle school student performance based on MBSO and MDBO-BP-Adaboost method by Rencheng Fang, Tao Zhou, Baohua Yu, Zhigang Li, Long Ma, Tao Luo, Yongcai Zhang, Xinqi Liu

“…Firstly, the model incorporates the good point set initialization, triangle wandering strategy and adaptive t-distribution strategy to obtain the Modified Dung Beetle Optimization Algorithm (MDBO), secondly, it uses MDBO to optimize the weights and thresholds of the BP neural network, and lastly, the optimized BP neural network is used as a weak learner for Adaboost. …”
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Degradation Type-Aware Image Restoration for Effective Object Detection in Adverse Weather by Xiaochen Huang, Xiaofeng Wang, Qizhi Teng, Xiaohai He, Honggang Chen

“…In the training phase, we jointly optimize the whole framework on a mixed weather dataset, including degraded images and clean images. …”
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