Iterative phase contrast CT reconstruction with novel tomographic operator and data-driven prior. by Stefano van Gogh, Subhadip Mukherjee, Jinqiu Xu, Zhentian Wang, Michał Rawlik, Zsuzsanna Varga, Rima Alaifari, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Marco Stampanoni

“…Breast cancer remains the most prevalent malignancy in women in many countries around the world, thus calling for better imaging technologies to improve screening and diagnosis. …”
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Robust Allocation of FACTS Devices in Coordinated Transmission and Generation Expansion Planning considering Renewable Resources and Demand Response Programs by Sara Mahmoudi Rashid, Ehsan Akbari, Farshad Khalafian, Mohmmad Hossein Atazadegan, Saeid Shahmoradi, Abbas Zare Ghaleh Seyyedi

“…As a main search algorithm, a hybrid combination of water cycle algorithm (WCA) and ant lion optimization (ALO) is proposed to find the optimum solution with a small standard deviation. …”
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Maximum Power Exploitation of Photovoltaic System under Fast-Varying Solar Irradiation and Local Shading by Yi-Jui Chiu, Bi Li, Chin-Ling Chen, Shui-Yang Lien, Ding Chen, Ji-Ming Yi, Yung-Hui Shih

“…In addition, under fast-varying solar irradiation and local shading, the speed, ability, and stability of the improved MPPT system with the PF-MPPT algorithm when tracking the maximum power were 9.52, 1.32, and 1.84 times of the MPPT system with the P&O algorithm and 2.18, 1.41, and 2.00 times of the MPPT system with the particle swarm optimization algorithm, respectively.…”
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Establishment of Hyperspectral Prediction Model of Water Content in Anshan-Type Magnetite by Xiaoxiao XIE, Yang BAI, Jiuling ZHANG, Yuna JIA

“…Using S-G smoothing filtering (S-G), multivariate scattering correction (MSC), standard normal transformation (SNV), second derivative (SD), reciprocal logarithm (LR) and continuum removal (CR) to preprocess the data, the spectral characteristics and their correlation with water content were analyzed. In order to further improve the prediction ability of the model, the competitive adaptive reweighting method (CARS) was used to optimize the characteristic band, and a prediction model was established by combining random forest regression (RFR), least squares support vector regression (LSSVR) and particle swarm optimization least squares support vector regression (PSO-LSSVR). …”
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Degradation and reliability assessment of accuracy life of RV reducers by XU Hang, NIE Yixuan, WEN Dongjie, REN Jihua, HONG Zhihui

“…A Gaussian process regression model optimized by genetic algorithm was established using vibration characteristic data to optimize the prediction of transmission accuracy.ResultsThe results show that the prediction accuracy based on Gaussian process regression model is significantly better than that of traditional regression model. …”
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AIBPO: Combine the Intrinsic Reward and Auxiliary Task for 3D Strategy Game by Huale Li, Rui Cao, Xuan Wang, Xiaohan Hou, Tao Qian, Fengwei Jia, Jiajia Zhang, Shuhan Qi

“…Finally, a framework of auxiliary intrinsic-based policy optimization (AIBPO) is proposed, which improves the performance of the IBPO. …”
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Power Control for Full-Duplex Device-to-Device Underlaid Cellular Networks: A Stackelberg Game Approach by Zhen Yang, Titi Liu, Guobin Chen

“…The simulation results show that the proposed game algorithm improves network performance compared with other existing schemes.…”
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High-Resolution and Robust One-Bit Direct-of-Arrival Estimation via Reweighted Atomic Norm Estimation by Rui Li, Jianchao Yang, Zheng Dai, Xingyu Lu, Ke Tan, Weimin Su

“…In recent years, one-bit quantization has attracted widespread attention in the field of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation as a low-cost and low-power solution. Many researchers have proposed various estimation algorithms for one-bit DOA estimation, among which atomic norm minimization algorithms exhibit particularly attractive performance as gridless estimation algorithms. …”
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A Multi-Strategy ALNS for the VRP with Flexible Time Windows and Delivery Locations by Xiaomei Zhang, Xinchen Dai, Ping Lou, Jianmin Hu

“…In particular, the last-mile delivery is particularly important because it serves customers directly. Improving customer satisfaction is one of the important factors to ensure the quality of service in delivery and also an important guarantee for improving the market competitiveness of logistics enterprises. …”
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF APPLICATION OF AGENT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO MODELING PROCESSES OF LOCAL HROMADAS by Yevgen Kotukh, Maryna Riabokin

“…The article also outlines a multi-step algorithm for modeling decision-making and coordination processes within the decentralized budget structure. …”
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Empc-based V2G scheduling strategy for multi-attribute EVs aggregator by Haoyang Tang, Zhilu Liu, Lin Zheng, Jianfeng Zheng, Hao Hu, Jinpei Lu, Zhijian Hu

“…The results show that compared with other strategies, the proposed EMPC algorithm can achieve 4–47.4 % reduction in charging costs, significantly reduce the peak valley difference and variance of load, and improve the load curve.…”
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Efficient distributed model sharing strategy for data privacy protection in Internet of vehicles by Zijia MO, Zhipeng GAO, Yang YANG, Yijing LIN, Shan SUN, Chen ZHAO

“…Aiming at the efficiency problem of privacy data sharing in the Internet of vehicles (IoV), an efficient distributed model sharing strategy based on blockchain was proposed.In response to the data sharing requirements among multiple entities and roles in the IoV, a master-slave chain architecture was built between vehicles, roadside units, and base stations to achieve secure sharing of distributed models.An asynchronous federated learning algorithm based on motivate mechanism was proposed to encourage vehicles and roadside units to participate in the optimization process.An improved DPoS consensus algorithm with hybrid PBFT was constructed to reduce communication costs and improve consensus efficiency.Experimental analysis shows that the proposed mechanism can improve the efficiency of data sharing and has certain scalability.…”
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基于改进Kriging模型的主动学习可靠性分析方法 by 陈哲, 杨旭锋, 程鑫

“…,the differential evolution algorithm is introduced to explore the optimal parameter of Kriging model and improve the accuracy of Kriging prediction information.As a result,the training point in each iteration is guaranteed to be the global optimal one and the efficiency of ALK model is largely improved.…”
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High-Resolution Direction of Arrival Estimation of Underwater Multitargets Using Swarming Intelligence of Flower Pollination Heuristics by Nauman Ahmed, Huigang Wang, Shanshan Tu, Norah A.M. Alsaif, Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja, Muhammad Kashif, Ammar Armghan, Yasser S. Abdalla, Wasiq Ali, Farman Ali

“…For this purpose, particle swarm optimization (PSO), minimum variance distortion-less response (MVDR), multiple signal classification (MUSIC), and estimation of signal parameter via rotational invariance technique (ESPRIT) standard counterparts are employed along with Crammer–Rao bound (CRB) to improve the worth of the proposed setup further. …”
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Prediction of COD Degradation in Fenton Oxidation Treatment of Kitchen Anaerobic Wastewater Based on IPSO-BP Neural Network by Tianpeng Zhang, Pengfei Ji, Dayong Tian, Rui Xu

“…The Fenton oxidation process is used to treat kitchen anaerobic wastewater, and the effects of H2O2 dosage, Fe2+ dosage, reaction time and pH value on chemical oxygen demand (COD) degradation efficiency are explored. The improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) algorithm is used to optimize the back propagation (BP) neural network, and a prediction model of COD degradation is established based on IPSO-BP neural network. …”
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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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Dynamic energy consumption monitoring and scheduling for green buildings: A comprehensive approach by Hua Zheng, Pengming Wang

“…Meanwhile, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to solve the multi-objective scheduling problem to achieve the global objectives of energy conservation, cost reduction, and comfort optimization. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy Management Strategy for Green Ships Considering Photovoltaic Uncertainty by Yunxiang Zhao, Shuli Wen, Qiang Zhao, Bing Zhang, Yuqing Huang

“…The focus of this study is reducing the total operation cost and improving energy efficiency by jointly optimizing power generation and voyage scheduling, considering shipboard PV uncertainty. …”
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Methods to Quantitatively Evaluate the Effect of Shale Gas Fracturing Stimulation Based on Least Squares by DENG Cai, SUN Kexin, WEN Huan, HU Chaolang

“…Its significance to the industry lay in addressing the major challenge of the absence of a cost-effective, quantifiable assessment method. It offered detailed insights into the effectiveness of fracturing (in terms of the number and quality of perforations), enabling engineers to improve the fracturing stimulation process for improved production results. …”
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Research on collaborative scheduling strategies of multi-agent agricultural machinery groups by Ziyi Wang, Fan Zhang, Shiji Ma, Hailong Wang, Shunyao Zhang, Xiaozhong Gao

“…Finally, the solution is optimized through a local search strategy. In this study, three dispatch centers were selected within the maize growing area of Hebei Province, and comparative analyses were conducted for 20, 40, 50, 100 and 120 farmlands, respectively.The results indicate that the MCMPP-DRL algorithm achieves a reduction in total scheduling costs of at least 9.66%, 14.34% and 24.41% compared to Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Simulated Annealing (SA) and Genetic Algorithms(GA), respectively.The significant optimization in scheduling costs demonstrates that the MCMPP-DRL algorithm establishes a robust theoretical foundation and offers technical support for addressing complex scheduling problems involving multiple dispatch centers and multiple.…”
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