Mehdi Zandiyehvakili¹, Babak Aminnejad^2,*, Alireza Lork³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.32, No.1, pp. 499-512, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.021461

Abstract This article presents a methodology to optimize the maintenance planning model and minimize the total maintenance costs of a typical school building. It makes an effort to provide a maintenance schedule, focusing on maintenance costs. In the allocation of operations to the school equipment, the parameter of its age was also taken into account. A mathematical optimization model to minimize the school maintenance cost in a three-year period was provided in the GAMS software with CPLEX solver. Finally, the optimum architecture of the Perceptron multi-layer neural network was used to predict the schedule of equipment operations and maintenance costs. The… More >

Emad Felemban¹, Faizan Ur Rehman^2,*, Akhlaq Ahmad², Muhamad Felemban³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1361-1375, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020235

Abstract Managing events pose a unique challenge to the stakeholders and authorities to control the crowd in all three phases of the event (pre, during and post), ensuring crowd safety. One of the fundamental keys to provide crowd safety is to consider the mobility infrastructure hosting the crowd, i.e., routes, areas, entrances and exits. During Hajj, where millions of pilgrims worldwide fulfil the annual event’s rites, mina encampment incorporates pilgrims performing recurring stoning ritual conducted over multi-level Jamarat bridge. Pilgrims mobility through the available complex road network, to and back from the Jamarat bridge, forces upon authorities in charge to set… More >

Fuyun Zhu, Guoqing Wu^*

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.6, pp. 1703-1712, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.015602

Abstract Accurate power load forecasting plays an important role in the power dispatching and security of grid. In this paper, a mathematical model for power load forecasting based on the random forest regression (RFR) was established. The input parameters of RFR model were determined by means of the grid search algorithm. The prediction results for this model were compared with those for several other common machine learning methods. It was found that the coefficient of determination (R²) of test set based on the RFR model was the highest, reaching 0.514 while the corresponding mean absolute error (MAE) and the mean squared… More >

Din Prathumwan¹, Inthira Chaiya², Kamonchat Trachoo^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3645-3657, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018241

Abstract Lumbar spine stenosis (LSS) is a narrowing of the spinal canal that results in pressure on the spinal nerves. This orthopedic disorder can cause severe pain and dysfunction. LSS is a common disabling problem amongst elderly people. In this paper, we developed a finite element model (FEM) to study the forces and the von Mises stress acting on the spine when people bend down. An artificial lumbar spine (L3) was generated from CT data by using the FEM, which is a powerful tool to study biomechanics. The proposed model is able to predict the effect of forces which apply to… More >

HUAN YIN¹, LIZHEN WANG¹, YUBO FAN¹, BINGMEI M. FU^1,2,*

BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.5, pp. 1187-1199, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.016650

Abstract Primary cilium is an antenna-like and non-motile structure protruding from the apical surface of most mammalian cells including endothelial cells lining the inner side of all the blood vessels in our body. Although it has been over a century since primary cilia were discovered, the investigation about their mechano-sensing and other roles in maintaining normal functions of cardiovascular system has just started in recent years. This focused review aims to give an update about the current literature for the role of endothelial primary cilia in blood flow mechano-sensing and shear stress-shielding. To do this, we first summarized the characteristic features… More >

P. Veeresha¹, Esin Ilhan², D. G. Prakasha³, Haci Mehmet Baskonus⁴, Wei Gao^5,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.3, pp. 1013-1036, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.014988

Abstract In this paper, we analyze the behaviour of solution for the system exemplifying model of tumour invasion and metastasis by the help of q-homotopy analysis transform method (q-HATM) with the fractional operator. The analyzed model consists of a system of three nonlinear differential equations elucidating the activation and the migratory response of the degradation of the matrix, tumour cells and production of degradative enzymes by the tumour cells. The considered method is graceful amalgamations of q-homotopy analysis technique with Laplace transform (LT), and Caputo–Fabrizio (CF) fractional operator is hired in the present study. By using the fixed point theory, existence… More >

Mohamed S. Mohamed^1,*, Sayed K. Elagan¹, Saad J. Almalki¹, Muteb R. Alharthi¹, Mohamed F. El-Badawy², Amr M. S. Mahdy¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 3615-3628, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017208

Abstract In this article, we have shown that bacterial DNA could act like some coils which interact with coil-like DNA of host cells. By decreasing the separating distance between two bacterial cellular DNA, the interaction potential, entropy, and the number of microstates of the system grow. Moreover, the system gives its energy to the medium and the temperature of the host body grows. This could be seen as fever in diseases. By emitting some special waves and changing the temperature of the medium, the effects of bacterial waves could be reduced and bacterial diseases could be controlled. Many investigators have shown… More >

Ajay Arunachalam^1,*, Vinayakumar Ravi², Moez Krichen³, Roobaea Alroobaea⁴, Saeed Rubaiee⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1807-1829, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016692

Abstract Broadcasting is a basic technique in Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET), and it refers to sending a packet from one node to every other node within the transmission range. Flooding is a type of broadcast where the received packet is retransmitted once by every node. The naive flooding technique, floods the network with query messages, while the random walk technique operates by contacting the subsets of every node’s neighbors at each step, thereby restricting the search space. One of the key challenges in an ad-hoc network is the resource or content discovery problem which is about locating the queried resource. Many… More >

J. B. Shukla¹, Shikha Singh², Jitendra Singh², Sunil Kumar Sharma^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1859-1875, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012095

Abstract In this research, we proposed a non-linear SIS model to study the effect of variable interaction rates and non-emigrating population of the human habitat on the spread of bacteria-infected diseases. It assumed that the growth of bacteria is logistic with an intrinsic growth rate is a linear function of infectives. In this model, we assume that contact rates between susceptibles and infectives as well as between susceptibles and bacteria depend on the density of the non-emigrating population and the total population of the habitat. The stability theory has been analyzed to analyzed to study the crucial role played by bacteria… More >

Ajay Arunachalam^1,*, Vinayakumar Ravi², Moez Krichen³, Roobaea Alroobaea⁴, Jehad Saad Alqurni⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 983-1001, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015371

Abstract One of the key challenges in ad-hoc networks is the resource discovery problem. How efficiently & quickly the queried resource/object can be resolved in such a highly dynamic self-evolving network is the underlying question? Broadcasting is a basic technique in the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), and it refers to sending a packet from one node to every other node within the transmission range. Flooding is a type of broadcast where the received packet is retransmitted once by every node. The naive flooding technique floods the network with query messages, while the random walk scheme operates by contacting subsets of each… More >