This work considers several composite objective functions and uses the sequential simplex optimization technique to evaluate the performance of a proposed objective function in locating optimal instrumental operating ...
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This work considers several composite objective functions and uses the sequential simplex optimization technique to evaluate the performance of a proposed objective function in locating optimal instrumental operating conditions for simultaneous multiple-element determinations by inductively coupled plasma spectrometry. The proposed objective function, combined with a generalized approach to optimization, can be applied to any group of analysis elements and is of value in routine optimization procedures for simultaneous multiple-element methods of analysis.
We propose a novel method for the selection of optimal beam angles in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). The proposed approach uses an objective function based metric called "target-to-critical organ o...
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We propose a novel method for the selection of optimal beam angles in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). The proposed approach uses an objective function based metric called "target-to-critical organ objective function ratio" to find out the optimal gantry angles. The beams are ranked based on this metric and are accordingly chosen for IMRT optimization. We have used the Pinnacle TPS (Philips Medical System V 16.2) for performing the IMRT optimization. In order to validate our approach, we have applied it in four clinical cases: Head and Neck, Lung, Abdomen and Prostate. Basically, for all clinical cases, two set of plans were created with same clinical objectives, namely Equal angle plan (EA Plan) and Suitable angle Plan (SA Plan). In the EA plans, the beam angles were placed in an equiangular manner starting from the gantry angle of 0 degrees. In the corresponding SA plans, the beam angles were decided using the guidance provided by the algorithm. The reduction in OAR mean dose and max dose obtained in SA plans is about 3 to 16% and 3 to 15% respectively depending upon the treatment site while obtaining equal target coverage as compared to their EA counterparts. It takes approximately 15-25 min to find the optimal beam angles. The results obtained from the clinical cases indicate that the plan quality is considerably improved when the beam angles are optimized using the proposed method.
Force field (FF) based molecular modeling is an often used method to investigate and study structural and dynamic properties of (bio-)chemical substances and systems. When such a system is modeled or refined, the forc...
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作者:
Xi, ZeWang, XiangangLuo, XiaoweiTsinghua Univ
Inst Nucl & New Energy Technol Collaborat Innovat Ctr Adv Nucl Energy Technol Key Lab Adv Reactor Engn & SafetyMinist Educ Beijing 100084 Peoples R China
The definition of objective functions is vital when optimizing parameters of an array or an acoustic field. However, the present selections are often qualitative or empirical, this may lead to imprecise optimization. ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780738112091
The definition of objective functions is vital when optimizing parameters of an array or an acoustic field. However, the present selections are often qualitative or empirical, this may lead to imprecise optimization. In this paper, an objective function selection framework is proposed based on principal component regression method (PCR). A regression equation is built among inspection results and acoustic field characteristics. The remarkable acoustic characteristics are selected as objective functions in optimization. An inspection example using a linear array is simulated, the effectiveness of the framework is proven by the simulation. This work can be applied to medical ultrasonic and non-destructive testing domains.
An objective function that closely represents the maximum optical pathlength difference on the entire grating surface for designing a flat-field holographic concave grating is proposed. Compared to design methods that...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781510657038;9781510657021
An objective function that closely represents the maximum optical pathlength difference on the entire grating surface for designing a flat-field holographic concave grating is proposed. Compared to design methods that minimize certain aberration coefficients of the optical pathlength function, the present objective function has a clearer physical meaning of optical pathlength difference and guarantees a smaller spot size. Compared to design methods that minimize the spot size based on ray tracing, the present method requires less computing time, but is equally effective in minimizing spot size, and it even provides a better image quality in the sagittal direction.
Convolutional neural network(CNN) has become a promising method for Synthetic aperture radar(SAR) target recognition. Existing CNN models aim at seeking the best separation between classes, but rarely care about the s...
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Convolutional neural network(CNN) has become a promising method for Synthetic aperture radar(SAR) target recognition. Existing CNN models aim at seeking the best separation between classes, but rarely care about the separability of them. We performs a separability measure by analyzing the property of linear separability, and proposes an objective function for CNN to extract linearly separable features. The experimental results indicate the output features are linearly separable,and the classification results are comparable with the other state of the art techniques.
We study the problem of defense strategy against objective function attack(OFA) in Cognitive networks(CNs), where the network can be operated at the optimal state by adapting the parameters of its objective function. ...
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We study the problem of defense strategy against objective function attack(OFA) in Cognitive networks(CNs), where the network can be operated at the optimal state by adapting the parameters of its objective function. An OFA attacker can disrupt the parameter adaptation by interfering measures, which results in some operating parameters of the objective function deviating from their optimal settings. We first model the interactive process between the OFA attacker and defense system using differential game theory, and propose a defense strategy by introducing a new metric, namely, threat factor. Then,we obtain the optimal defense strategy by proving the existence of the saddle point of the proposed model. Moreover,this defense strategy is scale-free such that it can conquer a large number of OFAs in a decentralized way. Finally, we conduct extensive simulations to show that the proposed approach is effective.
Well production optimization is a complex and time-consuming task in the oilfield *** combination of reservoir numerical simulator with optimization algorithms is usually used to optimize well *** method spends most o...
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Well production optimization is a complex and time-consuming task in the oilfield *** combination of reservoir numerical simulator with optimization algorithms is usually used to optimize well *** method spends most of computing time in objective function evaluation by reservoir numerical simulator which limits its optimization *** improve optimization efficiency,a well production optimization method using streamline features-based objective function and Bayesian adaptive direct search optimization(BADS)algorithm is *** new objective function,which represents the water flooding potential,is extracted from streamline *** only needs to call the streamline simulator to run one time step,instead of calling the simulator to calculate the target value at the end of development,which greatly reduces the running time of the *** the well production optimization model is established and solved by the BADS *** feasibility of the new objective function and the efficiency of this optimization method are verified by three *** demonstrate that the new objective function is positively correlated with the cumulative oil *** the BADS algorithm is superior to other common algorithms in convergence speed,solution stability and optimization ***,this method can significantly accelerate the speed of well production optimization process compared with the objective function calculated by other conventional *** can provide a more effective basis for determining the optimal well production for actual oilfield development.
In this study, load frequency control (LFC) of two-area non-reheat thermal power system and multi-source power systems is addressed. A simple PID-structured controller is used as a secondary controller in these system...
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In this study, load frequency control (LFC) of two-area non-reheat thermal power system and multi-source power systems is addressed. A simple PID-structured controller is used as a secondary controller in these systems. To raise the performance of PID controller, a new multi-objective function is designed and PID controller parameters are acquired by minimizing the value of this function with symbiotic organisms search (SOS) algorithm. All electrical power systems simulated are modeled in MATLAB/Simulink environment and the optimizer is coded in MATLAB/M-file platform. In order to affirm the contribution of the work, results collected from each power system are compared with popular results published in prestigious journals. As per the comparative results, despite its simplicity, SOS:PID controller tuned via the proposed objective function is observed to result in better performance than other approaches in terms of oscillations, settling time, maximum overshoot and maximum undershoot time domain indicators of the frequency and tie-line power change curves.
With the widespread use of Internet of Things (IoT) in every aspect of human's daily life, communications of such an enormous amount of existing embedded devices in these systems arise many new challenges from pow...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538614754
With the widespread use of Internet of Things (IoT) in every aspect of human's daily life, communications of such an enormous amount of existing embedded devices in these systems arise many new challenges from power consumption, performance, and reliability perspectives. Communications in an IoT infrastructure are managed by a set of policies which are determined by objective functions (OFs). Thus, OFs are the most important contributors in facing with the mentioned challenges. In this paper, due to the lack of information on how OFs affect the primary properties of an IoT infrastructure, we have compared three well-known OFs (OF0, MRHOF, and OFFL) from power consumption, performance, and reliability perspectives. This paper would pave the way for scholars to realize which of the three mentioned areas are more affected by OFs. Our evaluation results on Contiki's IoT simulation environment (COOJA) illustrate, OFs could affect the power consumption by up to 71.2%, while their impacts on reliability and performance would be as high as 77.5% and 25.15%, respectively.
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