Adaptability becomes important in developing metaheuristic algorithms, especially tackling stagnation. Unfortunately, almost all metaheuristics are not equipped with an adaptive approach that makes them change their strategy when stagnation happens during iteration. Based on this consideration, a new metaheuristic, called balance optimizer (ABO), is proposed paper. ABO's unique focuses exploita...

The next phase of satellite technology is being characterized by a new evolution in non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellites, which conveys exciting communication capabilities to provide non-terrestrial connectivity solutions and support wide range digital technologies from various industries. NGSO systems are known for number key features such as lower propagation delay, smaller size, signal ...

Workflow brokers of existing Grid Scheduling Systems are lack of cooperation mechanism which causes inefficient schedules of application distributed resources and it also worsens the utilization of various resources including network bandwidth and computational cycles. Furthermore considering the literature, all of these existing brokering systems primarily evolved around models of centralized ...

UNLABELLED The SET-3000 G/X (clinical tomograph with high resolution and a large axial field of view) is a 3-dimensional (3D) (only) dedicated PET camera with germanium oxyorthosilicate (GSO) and bismuth germanate (BGO) scintillators. The main characteristic of the SET-3000 G/X PET scanner is 3D continuous-emission and spiral-transmission (CEST) scanning, yielding a reduction in whole-body scan...

In this paper, the state estimation (SE) problem is formulated as a general nonlinear programming problem with equality constraints and boundary limits on the state variables. The objective of this paper is to incorporate the Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) into the SE algorithm. UPFC has the potential to independently control the voltage, active and reactive power flows in the system. In ...

We explore the phase structure induced by closed string tachyon condensation of toric nonsupersymmetric conifold-like singularities described by an integral charge matrix Q = (n1 n2 − n3 − n4), ni > 0, ∑ i Qi 6= 0, initiated in hep-th/0510104. Using gauged linear sigma model renormalization group flows and toric geometry techniques, we see a cascade-like phase structure containing decays to low...

A goal of this project is to measure wave induced bubble clouds and their effect on radiance in the upper ocean and to address the fact that despite the fundamental importance of optical backscatter in the ocean it is still not possible to explain more than 5 to 10 percent of the particulate backscattering in the ocean based on known constituents even during periods with no active wave breaking...

We study a Wess-Zumino-Witten model with target space AdS3×(S×S×S)/Z2. This allows us to construct space-time N = 3 superconformal theories. By combining left-, and right-moving parts through a GSO and a Z2 projections, a new asymmetric (N ,N ) = (3, 1) model is obtained. It has an extra gauge (affine) SU(2) symmetry in the target space of the type IIA string. An associated configuration is rea...

We address the problem of inferring an undirected graph from nodal observations, which are modeled as non-stationary signals generated by local diffusion dynamics that depend on structure unknown network. Using so-called graph-shift operator (GSO), is a matrix representation graph, we first identify eigenvectors shift observations diffused signals, and then estimate eigenvalues imposing desirab...