Optimizing reaction conditions to improve the yield is fundamental for chemical synthesis and industrial processes. Experiments can only be performed under a small portion of reaction conditions for a system, so a str...
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Optimizing reaction conditions to improve the yield is fundamental for chemical synthesis and industrial processes. Experiments can only be performed under a small portion of reaction conditions for a system, so a strategy of experimental design is required. Bayesian optimization, a global optimization algorithm, was found to outperform human decision-making in reaction optimization. Similarly, heuristic algorithms also have the potential to solve optimization problems. In this work, we optimize these reaction conditions for Buchwald-Hartwig and Suzuki systems by predicting reaction yields with three heuristic algorithms and three encoding methods. Our results demonstrate that particle swarm optimization with numerical encoding is better than the genetic algorithm or simulated annealing. Moreover, its performance is comparable to Bayesian optimization without the computational costs of descriptors. Particle swarm optimization is simple and easy to perform, and it can be implemented into laboratory practice to promote chemical synthesis.
Meta-heuristic algorithms, especially evolutionary algorithms, have been frequently used to find near optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. The evaluation of such algorithms is often conducted thro...
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Meta-heuristic algorithms, especially evolutionary algorithms, have been frequently used to find near optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. The evaluation of such algorithms is often conducted through comparisons with other algorithms on a set of benchmark problems. However, even if one algorithm is the best among all those compared, it still has difficulties in determining the true quality of the solutions found because the true optima are unknown, especially in dynamic environments. It would be desirable to evaluate algorithms not only relatively through comparisons with others, but also in absolute terms by estimating their quality compared to the true global optima. Unfortunately, true global optima are normally unknown or hard to find since the problems being addressed are NP-hard. In this paper, instead of using true global optima, lower bounds are derived to carry out an objective evaluation of the solution quality. In particular, the first approach capable of deriving a lower bound for dynamic capacitated arc routing problem (DCARP) instances is proposed, and two optimization algorithms for DCARP are evaluated based on such a lower bound approach. An effective graph pruning strategy is introduced to reduce the time complexity of our proposed approach. Our experiments demonstrate that our approach provides tight lower bounds for small DCARP instances. Two optimization algorithms are evaluated on a set of DCARP instances through the derived lower bounds in our experimental studies, and the results reveal that the algorithms still have room for improvement for large complex instances.
The paper presents the process of optimizing the duty cycle of a rotary crane. The minimization of the carried load's trajectory was chosen as the objective function. The research was conducted using the genetic a...
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The paper presents the process of optimizing the duty cycle of a rotary crane. The minimization of the carried load's trajectory was chosen as the objective function. The research was conducted using the genetic algorithm and the particle swarm algorithm. The influence of particular algorithm parameters on the obtained optimal solution was characterized. For the obtained best case, the inverse kinematics problem was solved, allowing us to determine the control functions of individual crane members. The presented redundant system was solved with the use of an algorithm for temporarily limiting the movement of specific kinematic pairs. On the basis of the obtained results, it was determined which of the algorithms used is more favorable, taking into account the crane's operational safety and lifting capacity.
To realize the optimized design of the automotive cyber-physical system, it is required to consider the interplay between the communication and computation. However, the existing research about the design of the contr...
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To realize the optimized design of the automotive cyber-physical system, it is required to consider the interplay between the communication and computation. However, the existing research about the design of the controller area network (CAN) with flexible data rate (CAN FD) ignores this, it only considers the minimization of the bandwidth utilization and neglects the fact that it would trigger too many unnecessary message receiving interrupts (MRIs) on message receiving electronic control units. To address this problem, this article formulates a tradeoff problem that balances the bandwidth utilization and the number of unnecessary MRIs during the design of the CAN FD. We first propose an algorithm to analyze the number of unnecessary MRIs triggered by the packed messages, and then, two heuristic algorithms, namely, the Top-Down approach and the Hybrid approach, are proposed to resolve the tradeoff problem for midsized and large signal sets, respectively. The experiment results show that compared with the state-of-the-art algorithm, the Top-Down approach reduces the unnecessary MRIs by 10.48 & x0025;-99.89 & x0025;with only 0.02 & x0025;-1.32 & x0025;bandwidth utilization overhead, the Hybrid approach reduces the unnecessary MRIs by 23.15 & x0025;-99.63 & x0025;with only 0.13 & x0025;-2.07 & x0025;bandwidth utilization overhead.
One of the ultimate goals of robotics research is to create autonomous robots. Progress toward this goal requires advances in many domains, including automatic motion planning. The "basic problem" in motion ...
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One of the ultimate goals of robotics research is to create autonomous robots. Progress toward this goal requires advances in many domains, including automatic motion planning. The "basic problem" in motion planning is to construct a collision-free path for a moving object among fixed obstacles. In this paper, we consider one of the most popular approaches to path planning: hierarchical approximate cell decomposition. This approach consists of constructing successive decompositions of the robot's configuration space into rectangloid cells and searching the connectivity graph built at each level of decomposition for a path. Despite its conceptual simplicity, an efficient implementation of this approach raises many delicate questions that have not yet been addressed. The major contributions of this paper are 1) a novel approach to cell decomposition based on "constraint reformulation" and 2) a new algorithm for hierarchical search with a mechanism for recording failure conditions. We have implemented these algorithms in a path planner and experimented with this planner on various examples (some of which are reported in this paper). These experiments show that our planner is significantly (approximately 10 times) faster than previous planners based on the same general approach.
This article presents an ER-based PEM strategy for PV integrated smart homes to jointly optimize their load scheduling delays, energy transactions cost, and battery degradation cost. The proposed approach incorporates...
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This article presents an ER-based PEM strategy for PV integrated smart homes to jointly optimize their load scheduling delays, energy transactions cost, and battery degradation cost. The proposed approach incorporates a MA case, where, the ER acts as a main selecting agent realized by all other system elements. This leads to a combinatorial optimization problem, which can be effectively solved by heuristic optimization methods (HOMs), namely, genetic algorithm (GA), binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO), differential evolution (DE) algorithm, and harmony search algorithm (HSA). Specifically, we investigate the impact of the hyperparameters of the HOMs on the designed ER-based PEM system. Simulations are carried out for multiple smart homes under varying weather conditions to evaluate the effectiveness of HOMs in terms of selected performance metrics. Results show that the ER-based PEM reduces the average aggregated system cost, ensures economic benefits by selling surplus energy, while meeting customers energy packet demand, satisfying their quality-of-service, and operational constraints.
The role of medicines in health systems is increasing day by day. The medicine supply chain is a part of the health system that if not properly addressed, the concept of health in that community is unlikely to experie...
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The role of medicines in health systems is increasing day by day. The medicine supply chain is a part of the health system that if not properly addressed, the concept of health in that community is unlikely to experience significant growth. To fill gaps and available challenging in the medicine supply chain network (MSCN), in the present paper, efforts have been made to propose a location-production-distribution-transportation-inventory holding problem for a multi-echelon multi-product multi-period bi-objective MSCN network under production technology policy. To design the network, a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model capable of minimizing the total costs of the network and the total time the transportation is developed. As the developed model was NP-hard, several meta-heuristic algorithms are used and two heuristic algorithms, namely, Improved Ant Colony Optimization (IACO) and Improved Harmony Search (IHS) algorithms are developed to solve the MSCN model in different problems. Then, some experiments were designed and solved by an optimization solver called GAMS (CPLEX) and the presented algorithms to validate the model and effectiveness of the presented algorithms. Comparison of the provided results by the presented algorithms and the exact solution is indicative of the high-quality efficiency and performance of the proposed algorithm to find a near-optimal solution within reasonable computational time. Hence, the results are compared with commercial solvers (GAMS) with the suggested algorithms in the small-sized problems and then the results of the proposed meta-heuristic algorithms with the heuristic methods are compared with each other in the large-sized problems. To tune and control the parameters of the proposed algorithms, the Taguchi method is utilized. To validate the proposed algorithms and the MSCN model, assessment metrics are used and a few sensitivity analyses are stated, respectively. The results demonstrate the high quality of the propose
This study focuses on a dynamic environment where data-intensive jobs and computing-intensive jobs are submitted to a grid at the same time. The authors analyse nine heuristic algorithms in a grid and give a compariso...
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This study focuses on a dynamic environment where data-intensive jobs and computing-intensive jobs are submitted to a grid at the same time. The authors analyse nine heuristic algorithms in a grid and give a comparison of them in a simulation environment. The nine heuristics are: (i) min-min, (ii) max-min, (iii) duplex, (iv) sufferage, (v) minimum execution time (MET), (vi) opportunistic load balancing (OLB), (vii) fast-fit, (viii) best-fit and (ix) adaptive scoring job scheduling (ASJS). In the simulation, different ratios between the data-intensive jobs and computing-intensive jobs are used to investigate for the performance of the nine heuristics under different arrival rates. Five parameters are used to estimate the performance of those methods. Those parameters include average execution time, average waiting time, the number of finished jobs (FB), the sum of file size that has been submitted to the grid (SFS) and the total number of instructions of all finished jobs (SINI). Simulation results show that four out of the nine heuristics have relative good performance in the job scheduling in the grid systems. They are best-fit, MET, ASJS and OLB.
The present research deals with car pooling as a means of making better use of existing infrastructure and as a means of reducing traffic congestion with all its associated induced effects. Car pooling schemes involve...
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The present research deals with car pooling as a means of making better use of existing infrastructure and as a means of reducing traffic congestion with all its associated induced effects. Car pooling schemes involve several drivers getting together to share a private vehicle simultaneously, in order to reach their destinations points according to a semi-common route rather than each driver using their own vehicle. The Car Pooling Problem belongs to the non-polynomial computational complexity family of operations problems. In the current literature there are only a few studies on this optimization problem: the research group has designed several different new automatic and heuristic data processing routines to support efficient matching in car pool schemes. These are based on savings functions and belong to two distinct macro classes of algorithms to give two different modelings of this problem. They offer average savings of more than 50% in traveled distances demonstrating the effectiveness of a trivial matching scheme for real applications.
A general model is presented to unify the explanation of different meta-heuristic algorithms. This model is based on the concept of fields of forces from physics and covers many meta-heuristic algorithms consisting of...
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A general model is presented to unify the explanation of different meta-heuristic algorithms. This model is based on the concept of fields of forces from physics and covers many meta-heuristic algorithms consisting of Genetic algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, Big Bang-Big Crunch algorithm and Harmony Search. The properties of these algorithms can be explained using the presented general model that is called the fields of forces (FOF) model. This extension provides efficient means to improve, expand, modify and hybridize the meta-heuristic algorithms. An improved and hybridized algorithm is then developed using the FOF model.
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