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Zitong Wang, Yan Pei and Jianqiang Li
The multi-objective optimization problem is difficult to solve with conventional optimization methods and algorithms because there are conflicts among several optimization objectives and functions. Through the efforts of researchers and experts from diff...
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Richard J. Arend
The creation school of opportunity formation is a relatively new partial theory of entrepreneurship built upon a relatively new approach to theorizing. Given their significant respective impacts, we critically evaluate both that school and that approach ...
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Hanqing He, Peng Shi and Yushan Zhao
The pursuit of excellent performance in meta-heuristic algorithms has led to a myriad of extensive and profound research and achievements. Notably, many space mission planning problems are solved with the help of meta-heuristic algorithms, and relevant s...
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Miao Zhang, Peng Jiao, Yong Peng and Quanjun Yin
Cloud computing has been studied and used extensively in many scenarios for its nearly unlimited resources and X as a service model. To reduce the latency for accessing the remote cloud data centers, small data centers or cloudlets are deployed near end-...
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José M. Villegas, Camilo Caraveo, David A. Mejía, José L. Rodríguez, Yuridia Vega, Leticia Cervantes and Alejandro Medina-Santiago
The optimization is essential in the engineering area and, in conjunction with use of meta-heuristics, has had a great impact in recent years; this is because of its great precision in search of optimal parameters for the solution of problems. In this wo...
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Marvin Kastner, Nicole Nellen, Anne Schwientek and Carlos Jahn
At container terminals, many cargo handling processes are interconnected and occur in parallel. Within short time windows, many operational decisions need to be made and should consider both time efficiency and equipment utilization. During operation, ma...
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Preeti Warrier and Pritesh Shah
The control of power converters is difficult due to their non-linear nature and, hence, the quest for smart and efficient controllers is continuous and ongoing. Fractional-order controllers have demonstrated superior performance in power electronic syste...
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Carlos Camacho-Gomez, Rocio Sanchez-Montero, Diego Martínez-Villanueva, Pablo-Luís López-Espí and Sancho Salcedo-Sanz
A novel textile U-shaped with concentric annular slot antenna prototype for LTE and 5G services has been described. In the ground plane, a meander slot has been introduced to reduce the antenna dimensions. A new multi-method metaheuristic algorithm, the ...
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Ashis Kumar Mandal, M. N. M. Kahar and Graham Kendall
The paper investigates a partial exam assignment approach for solving the examination timetabling problem. Current approaches involve scheduling all of the exams into time slots and rooms (i.e., produce an initial solution) and then continuing by improvi...
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Apolinar Velarde Martinez
The problem of scheduling parallel tasks graphs (PTGs) represented by directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in heterogeneous distributed computing systems (HDCSs) is considered an nondeterministic polynomial time (NP) problem due to the diversity of characteris...
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