Growth, technology, and environmental change—nonlinearity and non-constant returns by Wei-Bin Zhang

“…This paper proposes a growth model with endogenous technology and environmental change. …”
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Stochastic Periodic Solution and Persistence of a Nonautonomous Impulsive System with Nonlinear Self-Interaction by Weili Kong, Yuanfu Shao

“…Considering periodic environmental changes and random disturbance, we explore the dynamical behaviors of a stochastic competitive system with impulsive and periodic parameters in this paper. …”
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Estimation of Ask and Bid Prices for Geometric Asian Options by Tao Chen, Kaili Xiang, Xuemei Luo

“…In this paper, within the framework of conic finance, we provide a useful approach to evaluate the ask and bid prices of geometric Asian options and obtain the explicit formulas for the ask and bid prices. …”
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An Impulsive Two-Prey One-Predator System with Seasonal Effects by Hunki Baek

“…However, seasonal effects on prey are rarely discussed. Thus, in this paper, the dynamics of the Holling-type IV two-competitive-prey one-predator system with impulsive perturbations and seasonal effects are analyzed using the Floquet theory and comparison techniques. …”
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A DE-Based Scatter Search for Global Optimization Problems by Kun Li, Huixin Tian

“…This paper proposes a hybrid scatter search (SS) algorithm for continuous global optimization problems by incorporating the evolution mechanism of differential evolution (DE) into the reference set updated procedure of SS to act as the new solution generation method. …”
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A Hybrid Search Model for Constrained Optimization by Xiaoli Gao, Yangfei Yuan, Jie Li, Weifeng Gao

“…Experiments on two sets of test problems and Five real-world engineering design problems have shown that the proposed method performs better than or is competitive with other compared methods.…”
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Multimodal Transport System Coevolution Model Based on Synergetic Theory by Fenling Feng, Qingya Zhang

“…Compared with previous studies, this paper focuses on understanding influencing factors of system collaborative development. …”
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Cooperative Coevolution with Two-Stage Decomposition for Large-Scale Global Optimization Problems by H. D. Yue, Y. Sun

“…Therefore, a two-stage decomposition (TSD) method is proposed in this paper to decompose LSGO problems using as few computational resources as possible. …”
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The Cu–Sn multilevel gradient heterogeneous interface interpenetrative growth mechanism and its regulation strategies by Yulu Ouyang, Yahui Liu, Guoshang Zhang, Tao Huang, Weiwei Lu, Dong Liu, Aikui Liu, Kexing Song

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Presenting a Management Model for a Multiobjective Sustainable Supply Chain in the Cellulosic Industry and Its Implementation by the NSGA-II Meta-Heuristic Algorithm by Meisam Mehri Charvadeh, Shademan Pourmousa, Ajang Tajdini, Abbas Tamjidi, Vahidreza Safdari

“…As it is shown, the reduction of transportation costs to the point of establishing four centers in the recession scenario and five centers in the boom scenario becomes saturated and is no longer able to minimize the number of established centers.…”
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Promoting Variable Effect Consistency in Mixture Cure Model for Credit Scoring by Chenlu Zheng, Jianping Zhu, Xinyan Fan, Song Chen, Zhiyuan Zhang

“…Simulation shows that the proposed method has competitive performance compared with alternative methods in terms of estimation and prediction. …”
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Mixed Carbon Policies Based on Cooperation of Carbon Emission Reduction in Supply Chain by Yongwei Cheng, Dong Mu, Yi Zhang

“…We investigated the influence of mixed carbon policy with constraint of reduction targets on supply chain price, productivity, profits, carbon emissions reduction rate, and so on. The results showed that (1) high-strength carbon policies do not necessarily encourage enterprises to effectively reduce emissions, and increasing market acceptance of low carbon products or raising the price of carbon quota can promote the benign reduction; (2) perfect competitive carbon market has a higher carbon reduction efficiency than oligarch carbon market, but their optimal level of cooperation is the same and the realized reduction rate is in line with the intensity of carbon policy; (3) the policy sensitivity of the carbon trading mechanism is stronger than the carbon tax; “paid quota mechanism” can subsidize the cost of abatement and improve reduction initiative. …”
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Solving Multiobjective Optimization Problems Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm by Wenping Zou, Yunlong Zhu, Hanning Chen, Beiwei Zhang

“…Our algorithm uses the concept of Pareto dominance to determine the flight direction of a bee, and it maintains nondominated solution vectors which have been found in an external archive. The proposed algorithm is validated using the standard test problems, and simulation results show that the proposed approach is highly competitive and can be considered a viable alternative to solve multi-objective optimization problems.…”
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Protective Ceramic Coatings for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Balance-of-Plant Components by Raymond L. Winter, Prabhakar Singh, Mark K. King, Manoj K. Mahapatra, Uma Sampathkumaran

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Verification of Classification Model and Dendritic Neuron Model Based on Machine Learning by Dongbao Jia, Weixiang Xu, Dengzhi Liu, Zhongxun Xu, Zhaoman Zhong, Xinxin Ban

“…However, traditional artificial neurons still have many problems such as slow and difficult training. This paper proposes a new dendrite neuron model (DNM), which combines metaheuristic algorithm and dendrite neuron model effectively. …”
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Potential Low-cost Treatment of Tannery Effluents from Industry by Adsorption on Activated Charcoal Derived from Olive Pomace by I. Alouiz, M. Benhadj, D. Elmontassir, M. Sennoune, M.Y. Amarouch and D. Mazouzi

“…The activated charcoal was characterized before and after tannery effluent treatment using various techniques, including FT-IR, SEM, and EDX. …”
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Parking Pricing and Model Split under Uncertainty by Chengjuan Zhu, Bin Jia, Linghui Han, Ziyou Gao

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An Ontology-Enabled Case-Based Reasoning Decision Support System for Manufacturing Process Selection by Mohammed M. Mabkhot, Ali M. Al-Samhan, Lotfi Hidri

“…By applying automatic reasoning and similarity retrieving on an industrial case study, we show that ontologies enable process selection by determining competitive matching between product features, material characteristics, and process capabilities and by endorsing effective case retrieval.…”
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Model Optimization Analysis of Customer Churn Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Focus on Feature Reductions by Seyed Mohammad Sina Mirabdolbaghi, Babak Amiri

“…In order to achieve this, it is vital to have an efficient churn prediction system. In this paper, we discuss methods for reducing features using PCA, Autoencoders, LDA, T-SNE, and Xgboost. …”
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Analyzing Chinese Customers’ Switching Intention of Smartphone Brands: Integrating the Push-Pull-Mooring Framework by Jin Guo, Shan Shan, Yu Wang, Yousaf Ali Khan

“…These findings provide useful implications and insights for smartphone brands to develop competitive strategies for customer relationship management.…”
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