The Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA) (Zitzler and Thiele 1999) is a relatively recent technique for finding or approximating the Pareto-optimal set for multiobjective optimization problems. In different studies (Zitzler and Thiele 1999; Zitzler, Deb, and Thiele 2000) SPEA has shown very good performance in comparison to other multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, and therefore it...

The competitive market and declined economy have increased the relevant importance of making supply chain network efficient. This has created many motivations to reduce the cost of services, and simultaneously, to increase the quality of them. The network as a tri-echelon one consists of Suppliers, Warehouses or Distribution Centers (DCs), and Retailer nodes. To bring the problem closer to real...

This paper proposes a new multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on the black hole algorithm with a new individual density assessment (cell density), called "adaptive multiobjective black hole algorithm" (AMOBH). Cell density has the characteristics of low computational complexity and maintains a good balance of convergence and diversity of the Pareto front. The framework of AMOBH can be d...

Most statistical machine translation systems use phrase-to-phrase translations to capture local context information, leading to better lexical choice and more reliable local reordering. The quality of the phrase alignment is crucial to the quality of the resulting translations. Here, we propose a new phrase alignment method, not based on the Viterbi path of word alignment models. Phrase alignme...

Here, we assess the association between homocysteine (Hcy) serum levels and periodontal status in a large representative sample of National Health Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Using 2001–2002 2003–2004 NHANES databases, participants with examination, medical self-reported data, blood pressure (BP) samples to determine complete count, C-reactive protein (CRP) Hcy levels. We then calcul...

Abstract The integration of Internet Things devices onto the Blockchain implies an increase in transactions that occur on Blockchain, thus increasing storage requirements. A solution approach is to leverage cloud resources for storing blocks within chain. paper, therefore, proposes two solutions this problem. first being improved hybrid architecture design which uses containerization create a s...