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TISAX - optimization of IT risk management in the automotive industry
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Multi-response optimization on the effect of wet and eco-friendly cryogenic turning of D2 steel using Taguchi-based grey relational analysis
PublicationMaterial removal processes, including turning and milling, are still commonly used operations for manufacturing most of mechanical components in modern industry. Apart from the cutting parameters, the cooling method has the great impact on the technological efects and, above all, on the environmental friendliness of production. In this study, multi-response optimization on the efect of wet and cryogenic machining is performed during...
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Energy consumption optimization in wastewater treatment plants: Machine learning for monitoring incineration of sewage sludge
PublicationBiomass management in terms of energy consumption optimization has become a recent challenge for developed countries. Nevertheless, the multiplicity of materials and operating parameters controlling energy consumption in wastewater treatment plants necessitates the need for sophisticated well-organized disciplines in order to minimize energy consumption and dissipation. Sewage sludge (SS) disposal management is the key stage of...
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Example of Using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Nelder–Mead Method for Flow Improvement in Axial Last Stage of Gas–Steam Turbine
PublicationThis article focuses principally on the comparison baseline and the optimized flow efficiency of the final stage of an axial turbine operating on a gas–steam mixture by applying a hybrid Nelder– Mead and the particle swarm optimization method. Optimization algorithms are combined with CFD calculations to determine the flowpaths and thermodynamic parameters. The working fluid in this study is a mixture of steam and gas produced...
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Optimization-Based High-Frequency Circuit Miniaturization through Implicit and Explicit Constraint Handling: Recent Advances
PublicationMiniaturization trends in high-frequency electronics have led to accommodation challenges in the integration of the corresponding components. Size reduction thereof has become a practical necessity. At the same time, the increasing performance demands imposed on electronic systems remain in conflict with component miniaturization. On the practical side, the challenges related to handling design constraints are aggravated by the...
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Model Correction and Optimization Framework for Expedited EM-Driven Surrogate-Assisted Design of Compact Antennas
PublicationDesign of compact antennas is a numerically challenging process that heavily relies on electromagnetic (EM) simulations and numerical optimization algorithms. For reliability of simulation results, EM models of small radiators often include connectors which—despite being components with fixed dimensions—significantly contribute to evaluation cost. In this letter, a response correction method for antenna models without connector,...
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Inverse and forward surrogate models for expedited design optimization of unequal-power-split patch couplers
PublicationIn the paper, a procedure for precise and expedited design optimization of unequal power split patchcouplers is proposed. Our methodology aims at identifying the coupler dimensions that correspond to thecircuit operating at the requested frequency and featuring a required power split. At the same time, thedesign process is supposed to be computationally efficient. The proposed methodology involves two typesof auxiliary models (surrogates):...
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Multiplicative Long Short-Term Memory with Improved Mayfly Optimization for LULC Classification
PublicationLand Use and Land Cover (LULC) monitoring is crucial for global transformation, sustainable land control, urban planning, urban growth prediction, and the establishment of climate regulations for long-term development. Remote sensing images have become increasingly important in many environmental planning and land use surveys in recent times. LULC is evaluated in this research using the Sat 4, Sat 6, and Eurosat datasets. Various...
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Optimization of electrochemical doping approach resulting in highly photoactive iodine-doped titania nanotubes
PublicationThe paper focuses on the optimization procedure concerning the synthesis method resulting in highly ordered titania nanotubes doped with iodine atoms. The doping process was based on the electrochemical treatment of a titania nanotube layer immersed in a potassium iodide (KI) solution acting as an iodine precursor. A number of endeavors were undertaken in order to optimize the doping conditions. Electrolyte concentration, reaction...
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Artificial Neural Network based fatigue life assessment of riveted joints in AA2024 aluminum alloy plates and optimization of riveted joints parameters
PublicationThe objective of this paper is to provide the fatigue life of riveted joints in AA2024 aluminum alloy plates and optimization of riveted joints parameters. At first, the fatigue life of the riveted joints in AA2024 aluminum alloy plates is obtained by experimental tests. Then, an artificial neural network is applied to estimate the fatigue life of riveted lap joints based on the number of lateral and longitudinal holes, punch pressure,...
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Optimization of Stabilizing Systems in Protection of Cultural Heritage: The Case of the Historical Retaining Wall in the Wisłoujście Fortress
PublicationThe aim of the paper is to propose new quantitative criteria for selecting the optimal method of securing and repairing a historical object, which take into account Structural, Conservation and Architectural aspects (the S–C–A method). Construction works on cultural heritage sites tend to be challenging and require an interdisciplinary approach. Therefore, they are strictly related to the philosophy of sustainable development which...
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Tolerance-Aware Multi-Objective Optimization of Antennas by Means of Feature-Based Regression Surrogates
PublicationAssessing the immunity of antenna design to fabrication tolerances is an important consideration, especially when the manufacturing process has not been predetermined. At the same time, the antenna parameter tuning should be oriented toward improving the performance figures pertinent to both electrical (e.g., input matching) and field properties (e.g., axial ratio bandwidth) as much as possible. Identification of available trade-offs...
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Fast Multi-Objective Aerodynamic Optimization Using Sequential Domain Patching and Multifidelity Models
PublicationExploration of design tradeoffs for aerodynamic surfaces requires solving of multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems. The major bottleneck here is the time-consuming evaluations of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model used to capture the nonlinear physics involved in designing aerodynamic surfaces. This, in conjunction with a large number of simulations necessary to yield a set of designs representing the best possible...
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Machine Learning Assisted Interactive Multi-objectives Optimization Framework: A Proposed Formulation and Method for Overtime Planning in Software Development Projects
PublicationMachine Learning Assisted Interactive Multi-objectives Optimization Framework: A Proposed Formulation and Method for Overtime Planning in Software Development Projects Hammed A. Mojeed & Rafal Szlapczynski Conference paper First Online: 14 September 2023 161 Accesses Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNAI,volume 14125) Abstract Software development project requires proper planning to mitigate risk and...
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Fast Multi-Objective Optimization of Narrow-Band Antennas Using RSA Models and Design Space Reduction
PublicationComputationally efficient technique for multi-objective design optimization of narrow-band antennas is presented. In our approach, the corrected low-fidelity antenna model (obtained through coarse-discretization EM simulations) is enhanced using frequency scaling and response correction, sampled, and utilized to obtain a fast response surface approximation (RSA) antenna surrogate. The RSA model is constructed in the reduced design space....
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Ln2(SeO3)2(SO4)(H2O)2 (Ln=Sm, Dy, Yb): A Mixed‐Ligand Pathway to New Lanthanide(III) Multifunctional Materials Featuring Nonlinear Optical and Magnetic Anisotropy Properties
PublicationBottom-up assembly of optically nonlinear and magnetically anisotropic lanthanide materials involving precisely placed spin carriers and optimized metal-ligand coordination offers a potential route to developing electronic architectures for coherent radiation generation and spin-based technologies, but the chemical design historically has been extremely hard to achieve. To address this, we developed a worthwhile avenue for creating...
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Experimental investigation and process parameter optimization of sheet metal bending by line heating method
PublicationThe present study is concerned with the experimental investigation of sheet metal deforming by line heating method that incorporates the combined effect of traverse speed of the torch, thickness of the sheet metal, and the number of passes of the torch. For the numerical analysis of metal bending by line heating, the
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Tool Wear Monitoring Using Improved Dragonfly Optimization Algorithm and Deep Belief Network
PublicationIn recent decades, tool wear monitoring has played a crucial role in the improvement of industrial production quality and efficiency. In the machining process, it is important to predict both tool cost and life, and to reduce the equipment downtime. The conventional methods need enormous quantities of human resources and expert skills to achieve precise tool wear information. To automatically identify the tool wear types, deep...
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Nested Kriging with Variable Domain Thickness for Rapid Surrogate Modeling and Design Optimization of Antennas
PublicationDesign of modern antennas faces numerous difficulties, partially rooted in stringent specifications imposed on both electrical and field characteristics, demands concerning various functionalities (circular polarization, pattern diversity, band-notch operation), but also constraints imposed upon the physical size of the radiators. Conducting the design process at the level of full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulations, otherwise...
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Low-Cost Quasi-Global Optimization of Expensive Electromagnetic Simulation Models by Inverse Surrogates and Response Features
PublicationConceptual design of contemporary high-frequency structures is typically followed by a careful tuning of their parameters, predominantly the geometry ones. The process aims at improving the relevant performance figures, and may be quite expensive. The reason is that conventional design methods, e.g., based on analytical or equivalent network models, often only yield rough initial designs. This is especially the case for miniaturized...
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Thermally stimulated currents in amorphous solids at mixed carrier recombination, Part I: Non-equilibrium approximation
PublicationPodano opis teoretyczny prądów termicznie stymulowanych dla przypadku mieszanej rekombinacji nośników ładunku, przy założeniu początkowego zapełnienia głębokich stanów pułapkowych oraz silnie nierównowagowego rozkładu nośników w aktywnych pułapkach. Otrzymane wyrażenia zweryfikowano za pomocą obliczeń numerycznych dla przypadku wykładniczego rozkładu pułapek.
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Enhancing CO2 Conversion to CO over Plasma-Deposited Composites Based on Mixed Co and Fe Oxides
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Using a square-wave signal for fault diagnosis of analog parts of mixed-signal electronic embedded systems
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia nowe podejście do detekcji i lokalizacji pojedynczych katastroficznych i parametrycznych uszkodzeń części analogowych w mieszanych sygnałowo elektronicznych systemach wbudowanych. Podejście składa się z trzech etapów: tworzenia słownika uszkodzeń na podstawie krzywych identyfikacyjnych, etapu pomiarowego w którym układ badany pobudzany jest falą prostokątną generowaną przez mikrokontroler a odpowiedź jest próbkowana...
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Self-testing of analog parts of mixed-signal electronic microsystems based on multiple sampling of time responses
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono nowe podejście samo-testowania toru analogowego zakończonego przetwornikiem A/C w mieszanych sygnałowo elektronicznych systemach wbudowanych sterowanych mikrokontrolerami. Bazuje ono na nowej metodzie diagnostycznej opartej na przekształceniu transformującym zbiór próbek odpowiedzi czasowej układu badanego na pobudzenie impulsem prostokątnym na rodzinę krzywych identyfikacyjnych umieszczonych w przestrzeni...
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Mixed ionic polaron transport and rapid crystallization in (Bi, Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O glass.
PublicationPrzedstawiono rezultaty pomiarów zmiennoprądowego przewodnictwa elektrycznego w szkłach (Bi,Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O. Zaobserwowano dwa mechanizmy przewodnictwa.Zaproponowano hopping małych polaronów i dyfuzję jonów Cu(I) jako mechanizmy przewodnictwa.
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FE-modelling of concrete behaviour under mixed mode conditions with non-local and cohesive constitutive models.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki symulacji rys zaokrąglonych w elementach betonowych w warunkach mieszanego sposobu obciążenia. Symulacje wykonano przy zastosowaniu modelu rys kohezyjnych i modeli mechaniki ośrodka ciągłego z nielokalnym osłabieniem.. Wyniki symulacji porównano z doświadczeniami.
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Modelling of reinforced concrete beams under mixed shear-tension failure with different continuous FE approaches
PublicationW artykule omówiono wyniki modelowania numerycznego MES zachowania się wysokich belek żelbetowych podczas zniszczenia mieszanego ścinanie-rozciąganie. Obliczenia wykonano stosując różne modele dla betonu rozszerzone o długość charakterystyczną mikrostruktury w oparciu o teorie nielokalna. Otrzymano dobrą zgodność z wynikami doświadczalnymi.
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Comparison of continuous and discontinuous constitutive models to simulate concrete behaviour under mixed mode failure conditions
PublicationW artykule porównano modele MES ciągłe i nieciągłe do symulacji zachowania betonu w warunkach mieszanego zniszczenia. W ramach modeli ciągłych zastosowano modele sprężysto-plastyczne oraz modele z redukcją sztywności sprężystej i nielokalnym osłabieniem. W ramach modeli nieciągłych zastosowano XFEM. Przedmiotem obliczeń były strefy lokalizacji i rysy w warunkach mieszanego zniszczenia wg testu doświadczalnego Nooru-Mohameda.
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Low-Cost and Precise Automated Re-Design of Antenna Structures Using Interleaved Geometry Scaling and Gradient-Based Optimization
PublicationDesign of contemporary antennas is an intricate endeavor involving multiple stages, among others, tuning of geometry parameters. In particular, re-designing antennas to different operating frequencies, makes parametric optimization imperative to ensure the best achievable system performance. If the center frequency at the current design is distant from the target one, local tuning methods generally fail, whereas global algorithms...
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Low-cost multi-criterial design optimization of compact microwave passives using constrained surrogates and dimensionality reduction
PublicationDesign of contemporary microwave circuits is a challenging task. Typically, it has to take into account several performance requirements and constraints. The design objectives are often conflicting and their simultaneous improvement may not be possible; instead, compromise solutions are to be sought. Representative examples are miniaturized microwave passives where reduction of the circuit size has a detrimental effect on its electrical...
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Intensification of catechin extraction from the bark of Syzygium cumini using ultrasonication: Optimization, characterization, degradation analysis and kinetic studies
PublicationCatechin is a prominent polyphenolic component that possesses various medicinal properties. Present work communicates the intensification and optimization of catechin extraction from the bark of Syzygium cumini tree using stirred reactor, soxhlet, ultrasonic bath, and ultrasonic horn technique. The optimization of several parameters such as type of solvent, solid to solvent ratio (1:100 w/v), speed of agitation (300 RPM), extraction...
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Optimization of hybrid parallel application execution in heterogeneous high performance computing systems considering execution time and power consumption
PublicationMany important computational problems require utilization of high performance computing (HPC) systems that consist of multi-level structures combining higher and higher numbers of devices with various characteristics. Utilizing full power of such systems requires programming parallel applications that are hybrid in two meanings: they can utilize parallelism on multiple levels at the same time and combine together programming interfaces...
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Dynamic Route Discovery Using Modified Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm in Wireless Ad-Hoc Visible Light Communication Network
PublicationIn recent times, visible light communication is an emerging technology that supports high speed data communication for wireless communication systems. However, the performance of the visible light communication system is impaired by inter symbol interference, the time dispersive nature of the channel, and nonlinear features of the light emitting diode that significantly reduces the bit error rate performance. To address these problems,...
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Fast multi-objective design optimization of microwave and antenna structures using data-driven surrogates and domain segmentation
PublicationPurpose Strategies and algorithms for expedited design optimization of microwave and antenna structures in multi-objective setup are investigated. Design/methodology/approach Formulation of the multi-objective design problem oriented towards execution of the population-based metaheuristic algorithm within the segmented search space is investigated. Described algorithmic framework exploit variable fidelity modeling, physics- and...
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Maximizing SDN resilience to node‐targeted attacks through joint optimization of the primary and backup controllers placements
PublicationIn Software Defined Networks (SDN) packet data switches are configured by a limited number of SDN controllers, which respond to queries for packet forwarding decisions from the switches. To enable optimal control of switches in real time the placement of controllers at network nodes must guarantee that the controller-to-controller and switch-to-controller communications delays are bounded. Apart from the primary controllers that...
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Multi-objective optimization of the cavitation generation unit structure of an advanced rotational hydrodynamic cavitation reactor
PublicationHydrodynamic cavitation (HC) has been widely considered a promising technique for industrial-scale process intensifications. The effectiveness of HC is determined by the performance of hydrodynamic cavitation reactors (HCRs). The advanced rotational HCRs (ARHCRs) proposed recently have shown superior performance in various applications, while the research on the structural optimization is still absent. The present study, for the...
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Expedited EM-Driven Design of Miniaturized Microwave Hybrid Couplers Using Surrogate-Based Optimization
PublicationMiniaturization of microwave hybrid couplers is important for contemporary wireless communication engineering. Using standard computer-aided design methods for development of compact structures is extremely challenging due to a general lack of computationally efficient and accurate simulation models. Poor accuracy of available equivalent circuits results from neglecting parasitic cross-couplings that greatly affect the performance...
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Rapid Multi-Criterial Antenna Optimization by Means of Pareto Front Triangulation and Interpolative Design Predictors
PublicationModern antenna systems are designed to meet stringent performance requirements pertinent to both their electrical and field properties. The objectives typically stay in conflict with each other. As the simultaneous improvement of all performance parameters is rarely possible, compromise solutions have to be sought. The most comprehensive information about available design trade-offs can be obtained through multi-objective optimization...
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Ships Shore Service Optimization Using the Queueing Theory
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Downside Risk Approach for Multi-Objective Portfolio Optimization
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Selected Multiple Criteria Supply Chain Optimization Problems
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Multi-Criteria Optimization for Fleet Size with Environmental Aspects
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A Bi-Objective Portfolio Optimization with Conditional Value-at-Risk
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Cooperative multi-provider routing optimization and income distribution
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International Network Optimization Conference, Warsaw, Poland 2015
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Profitable areas in large-scale FTTH network optimization
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The protein folding problem: global optimization of force fields
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Generalized adaptive notch filter with a self-optimization capability
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono samonastrajalny wariant tzw. uogólnionego adaptacyjnego filtru wycinającego. Automatycznym strojeniem objęte są dwa współczynniki wzmocnienia adaptacji, odpowiedzialne za śledzenie amplitud i częstotliwości parametrów identyfikowanego obiektu.
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Optimization of working conditions of thick-film LSFO bolometers
PublicationPrzedstawiono opracowaną przez autorów metodę wytwarzania bolometrów w technologii LTCC. Jako warstwy aktywne wykorzystano niestechiometryczne tlenki lantanowo-strontowo żelazowe (LSFO). Przedstawiono wyniki pomiarów wybranych właściwości bolometrów oraz charakterystyki wykorzystane w procesie doboru punktu pracy bolometru.
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The role of environmental optimization for storing bulls’ sperm cells
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