Hysteretic optimization (HO) is a recently proposed optimization method based on the well-known demagnetization process of magnetic materials in physics. In this study, we apply HO to the protein folding problem, an a...
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Hysteretic optimization (HO) is a recently proposed optimization method based on the well-known demagnetization process of magnetic materials in physics. In this study, we apply HO to the protein folding problem, an attractive problem in computational biology, by generalizing the external field. The experimental results with benchmark problems show the proposed method is competitive with other popular algorithms, such as extremal optimization.
Finding the ground states of Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) spin glass, the mean-filed spin glass model with strongly connected variables, is well known as a typical NP-hard problem. This paper presents a modified extre...
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Finding the ground states of Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) spin glass, the mean-filed spin glass model with strongly connected variables, is well known as a typical NP-hard problem. This paper presents a modified extremal optimization (EO) framework to approximate its grounds states. The basic idea behind the proposed framework is to generalize the evolutionary probability distribution of the original EO algorithm. The experimental results show that the modified EO algorithms provide better performances than the original one and further support the observation that power-law is not the only good evolutionary distribution in EO, others such as exponential and hybrid distributions may be better choices.
Much of the previous work in the protein field focused on the 2D protein folding due to its simplicity but ignored the 3D protein folding problem. In this paper, based on the work of 2D protein folding problem by prim...
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Much of the previous work in the protein field focused on the 2D protein folding due to its simplicity but ignored the 3D protein folding problem. In this paper, based on the work of 2D protein folding problem by primary extremal optimization (EO) algorithm, we study the more complicated 3D protein folding problem with its variation (τ-EO) for the first time. The parameter τ is set as a random value near a constant in each iteration. For the protein with not too long sequence, the experimental results show that the proposed EO algorithm is very efficient.
The combinatorial optimization occurs in many real-world problems including the fields of engineering, physics and economics. It has been recognized that some problems with highly degenerate states are difficult to so...
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The combinatorial optimization occurs in many real-world problems including the fields of engineering, physics and economics. It has been recognized that some problems with highly degenerate states are difficult to solve in terms of many existing optimization algorithms. This paper proposes a novel stochastic method with modified extremal optimization (EO) and nearest neighbor search to deal with these problems. It starts from making use of the recent discovered statistical property to generate the initial configurations by the nearest neighbor search and then further explores the complex configuration spaces by a modified EO approach that applies more general probability distributions-based evolution mechanism. The experimental results with some hard instances of traveling salesman problem (TSP), a popular benchmark for combinatorial optimization problems demonstrate that the proposed method may provide better performance than other physics-inspired algorithms such as simulated annealing, EO and self-organized algorithm.
In this paper, we focus on two questions common in tunneling project:(i) how to identify the unmeasured stratum; (ii) how to make the project safe under the uncertain condition automatically. The basic ideal of the pr...
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In this paper, we focus on two questions common in tunneling project:(i) how to identify the unmeasured stratum; (ii) how to make the project safe under the uncertain condition automatically. The basic ideal of the presented approach is to establish a soil identification model with statistical information of geological site investigation and then to update the model with Field Penetration Index (FPI) and Torque Penetration Index (TPI) extracted from shield machine tunneling process data. Based on this soft-sensor model, project risk can be evaluated and controlled with process monitoring techniques, work experience and other measures. Belief rule-base inference methodology using the evidential reasoning (RIMER) approach is introduced to establish this system, as the following advantages which make it possible to provide a more accurate result than traditional IF-THEN rule-base method: (i) a new rule base knowledge representation scheme which is designed with belief degrees embedded in all possible consequents of a rule; (ii) the inference in such a rule base is implemented using the evidential reasoning (ER) approach. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the potential applications of the proposed methodology.
To avoid the secondary pollution in the regeneration procedure of conventional water treatment methods with absorbents and develop new functional nanocomposite utilizing the surface adsorption property of ZnO, the ZnO...
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In this work, we propose a simplified least squares formulation (SLSF) for dynamic material balancing in chemical processes, which are often described by differential-algebraic equations. We compare the SLSF with trad...
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In this work, we propose a simplified least squares formulation (SLSF) for dynamic material balancing in chemical processes, which are often described by differential-algebraic equations. We compare the SLSF with traditional techniques, such as steady state data reconciliation (SSDR) and Kalman filter (KF). We also modify the SLSF when its assumptions can't be totally satisfied in some practical settings. Using chemical systems examples, we demonstrate that the SLSF can well deal with the practical dynamic material balancing problems.
In this paper, a robust control approach is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems that contain both nonlinear dynamics uncertainty and an unknown time-varying control direction, which is the multiplier of the cont...
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In this paper, a robust control approach is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems that contain both nonlinear dynamics uncertainty and an unknown time-varying control direction, which is the multiplier of the control term. In particular, the unknown control direction is allowed to switch its sign for an unlimited number of times. A new Nussbaum gain is designed and integrated with robust controller to tackle the sign-switching unknown control direction. It is proven that the proposed control approach can yield asymptotic convergence and guarantee the boundedness of the closed-loop signals.
Congestion in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) not only causes severe information loss but also leads to excessive energy consumption. To address this problem, a novel scheme for congestion avoidance, detection and all...
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Congestion in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) not only causes severe information loss but also leads to excessive energy consumption. To address this problem, a novel scheme for congestion avoidance, detection and alleviation (CADA) in WSNs is proposed in this paper. By exploiting data characteristics, a small number of representative nodes are chosen from those in the event area as data sources, so that the source traffic can be suppressed proactively to avoid potential congestion. Once congestion occurs inevitably due to traffic mergence, it will be detected in a timely way by the hotspot node based on a combination of buffer occupancy and channel utilization. Congestion is then alleviated reactively by either dynamic traffic multiplexing or source rate regulation in accordance with the specific hotspot scenarios. Extensive simulation results under typical congestion scenarios are presented to illuminate the distinguished performance of the proposed scheme.
In this paper, the procedure and results of modeling angular dynamics of a miniature helicopter in hover is presented using both mechanism reasoning and information from flight test data. The goal is to derive an angu...
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