Cuiyu Wang, Xinyu Li, Yiping Gao^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.2, pp. 1849-1870, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.028098 - 26 June 2023

Abstract Job shop scheduling (JS) is an important technology for modern manufacturing. Flexible job shop scheduling (FJS) is critical in JS, and it has been widely employed in many industries, including aerospace and energy. FJS enables any machine from a certain set to handle an operation, and this is an NP-hard problem. Furthermore, due to the requirements in real-world cases, multi-objective FJS is increasingly widespread, thus increasing the challenge of solving the FJS problems. As a result, it is necessary to develop a novel method to address this challenge. To achieve this goal, a novel collaborative More >

Kuihua Huang¹, Rui Li², Wenyin Gong^2,*, Weiwei Bian³, Rui Wang¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 2077-2101, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.040215 - 21 June 2023

Abstract This work aims to resolve the distributed heterogeneous permutation flow shop scheduling problem (DHPFSP) with minimizing makespan and total energy consumption (TEC). To solve this NP-hard problem, this work proposed a competitive and cooperative-based strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm (CCSPEA) which contains the following features: 1) An initialization based on three heuristic rules is developed to generate a population with great diversity and convergence. 2) A comprehensive metric combining convergence and diversity metrics is used to better represent the heuristic information of a solution. 3) A competitive selection is designed which divides the population into a… More >

Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi¹, Kim Gaik Tay^1,*, Audrey Huong¹, Saratha Sathasivam², Majid Khan bin Majahar Ali²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 1163-1184, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.038912 - 26 May 2023

Abstract Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) ensembles have long suffered from non-efficient training, where incorrect parameter settings can be computationally disastrous. This paper examines different evolutionary algorithms for training the Symbolic Radial Basis Function Neural Network (SRBFNN) through the behavior’s integration of satisfiability programming. Inspired by evolutionary algorithms, which can iteratively find the near-optimal solution, different Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) were designed to optimize the producer output weight of the SRBFNN that corresponds to the embedded logic programming 2Satisfiability representation (SRBFNN-2SAT). The SRBFNN’s objective function that corresponds to Satisfiability logic programming can be minimized by different… More >

Mohammed Altaf Ahmed¹, T. Satyanarayana Murthy², Fayadh Alenezi³, E. Laxmi Lydia⁴, Seifedine Kadry^5,6,7, Yena Kim⁸, Yunyoung Nam^8,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 1283-1297, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035786 - 26 May 2023

Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) play a vital role in several real-time applications ranging from military to civilian. Despite the benefits of WSN, energy efficiency becomes a major part of the challenging issue in WSN, which necessitate proper load balancing amongst the clusters and serves a wider monitoring region. The clustering technique for WSN has several benefits: lower delay, higher energy efficiency, and collision avoidance. But clustering protocol has several challenges. In a large-scale network, cluster-based protocols mainly adapt multi-hop routing to save energy, leading to hot spot problems. A hot spot problem becomes a problem… More >

Uzma Afzal¹, Tariq Mahmood², Ali Mustafa Qamar^3,*, Ayaz H. Khan^4,5

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 6251-6267, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.037653 - 29 April 2023

Abstract A complex Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) is a clinical test developed within a single laboratory. It is typically configured from many feature constraints from clinical repositories, which are part of the existing Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). Although these clinical repositories are automated, support for managing patient information with test results of an LDT is also integrated within the existing LIMS. Still, the support to configure LDTs design needs to be made available even in standard LIMS packages. The manual configuration of LDTs is a complex process and can generate configuration inconsistencies because many constraints… More >

Mohammad Yamin^1,*, Tom Gedeon², Saleh Bajaba³, Mona M. Abusurrah⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5659-5674, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034005 - 29 April 2023

Abstract In recent years, the demand for biometric-based human recognition methods has drastically increased to meet the privacy and security requirements. Palm prints, palm veins, finger veins, fingerprints, hand veins and other anatomic and behavioral features are utilized in the development of different biometric recognition techniques. Amongst the available biometric recognition techniques, Finger Vein Recognition (FVR) is a general technique that analyzes the patterns of finger veins to authenticate the individuals. Deep Learning (DL)-based techniques have gained immense attention in the recent years, since it accomplishes excellent outcomes in various challenging domains such as computer vision,… More >

Yanjun Zhang¹, Yongqiang He², Jingbo Zhang¹, Yaru Zhao³, Zhihua Cui^1,*, Wensheng Zhang⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.1, pp. 363-383, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025832 - 23 April 2023

Abstract The video compression sensing method based on multi hypothesis has attracted extensive attention in the research of video codec with limited resources. However, the formation of high-quality prediction blocks in the multi hypothesis prediction stage is a challenging task. To resolve this problem, this paper constructs a novel compressed sensing-based high-quality adaptive video reconstruction optimization method. It mainly includes the optimization of prediction blocks (OPBS), the selection of search windows and the use of neighborhood information. Specifically, the OPBS consists of two parts: the selection of blocks and the optimization of prediction blocks. We combine… More >

Ierin Babu^1,*, R. MathuSoothana², S. Kumar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3621-3636, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.033791 - 15 March 2023

Abstract Educational Data Mining (EDM) is an emergent discipline that concentrates on the design of self-learning and adaptive approaches. Higher education institutions have started to utilize analytical tools to improve students’ grades and retention. Prediction of students’ performance is a difficult process owing to the massive quantity of educational data. Therefore, Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques can be used for educational data mining in a big data environment. At the same time, in EDM, the feature selection process becomes necessary in creation of feature subsets. Since the feature selection performance affects the predictive performance of any model,… More >

V. Dinesh¹, S. Srinivasan², Gyanendra Prasad Joshi³, Woong Cho^4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 687-699, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035459 - 20 January 2023

Abstract In a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), a massive quantity of data needs to be transmitted on a large scale in shorter time durations. At the same time, vehicles exhibit high velocity, leading to more vehicle disconnections. Both of these characteristics result in unreliable data communication in VANET. A vehicle clustering algorithm clusters the vehicles in groups employed in VANET to enhance network scalability and connection reliability. Clustering is considered one of the possible solutions for attaining effectual interaction in VANETs. But one such difficulty was reducing the cluster number under increasing transmitting nodes. This… More >

Mohamed Ali Rakrouki^1,2,*, Abeer Aljohani¹, Nawaf Alharbe¹, Abdelaziz Berrais², Talel Ladhari²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 1119-1134, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.028604 - 06 June 2022

Abstract In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the total tardiness in a deterministic two-machine permutation flowshop scheduling problem subject to release dates of jobs and known unavailability periods of machines. The theoretical and practical importance of minimizing tardiness in flowshop scheduling environment has motivated us to investigate and solve this interested two-machine scheduling problem. Methods that solve this important optimality criterion in flowshop environment are mainly heuristics. In fact, despite the -hardness in the strong sense of the studied problem, to the best of our knowledge there are no approximate algorithms (constructive heuristics… More >