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Yuan, S. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Bai, Y. (author)Chemical plants face safety hazards and security threats that may induce catastrophic scenarios. Safety and security barriers are employed widely to protect chemical plants from accidental and intentional undesired events and mitigate consequences. Managing safety and security barriers effectively and economically is a research topic with...journal article 2023
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Kheybari, Siamak (author), Davoodi Monfared, Mansoor (author), Salamirad, Amirhossein (author), Rezaei, J. (author)To design a bioethanol supply chain, along with the transportation and operational costs, it is vital to consider more factors categorized into three sustainability pillars (i.e. economy, social and environment). In this paper, to develop a mathematical model for bioethanol supply chain (BSC), we propose a two-phase methodology; in the first...journal article 2023
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Wang, Kai (author), Hua, Yu (author), Huang, Lianzhong (author), Guo, Xin (author), Liu, Xing (author), Ma, Zhongmin (author), Ma, Ranqi (author), Jiang, X. (author)Optimization of ship energy efficiency is an efficient measure to decrease fuel usage and emissions in the shipping industry. The accurate prediction model of ship energy usage is the basis to achieve optimization of ship energy efficiency. This study investigates the sequential properties of the actual voyage data from a VLOC. On this basis,...journal article 2023
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Mohammadkarimi, M. (author), Darabi, Mostafa (author), Maham, Behrouz (author)Due to the limited number of radio frequency (RF) chains in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receivers using analog beamforming/hybrid beamforming, there is a restriction in scheduling the number of users in each transmission time interval. Therefore, fast and low-complexity user scheduling methods based on...conference paper 2022
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Krcek, M. (author), Fronte, Daniele (author), Picek, S. (author)Fault injection attacks require the adversary to select suitable parameters for the attack. In this work, we consider laser fault injection and parameters like the location of the laser shot $(x,\ y)$, delay, pulse width, and intensity of the laser. The parameter selection process can be translated into an optimization problem. A very popular...conference paper 2021
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Dehghanipour, Mohammad Hassan (author), Karami, Hojat (author), Ghazvinian, Hamidreza (author), Kalantari, Zahra (author), Dehghanipour, A. (author)Evaporation from surface water plays a crucial role in water accounting of basins, water resource management, and irrigation systems management. As such, the simulation of evaporation with high accuracy is very important. In this study, two methods for simulating pan evaporation under different climatic conditions in Iran were developed. In...journal article 2021
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van der Weide, Tim (author), Deng, Q. (author), Santos, Bruno F. (author)Long-term heavy maintenance check schedules are crucial in the aviation industry since airlines need them to prepare the required maintenance tools, workforce, and aircraft spare parts. However, most airlines adopt a manual approach to plan the heavy maintenance check schedules in current practice. This manual process relies on the experience of...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Qingzhou (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Chen, Qiuwen (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Diao, Kegong (author), Zhang, Kejia (author), Huang, Yuan (author)Improving the resilience of water distribution systems (WDSs) to handle natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes) is a critical step toward sustainable urban water management. This requires the water utility to be able to respond quickly to such disaster events, and in an organized manner, to prioritize the use of available resources to restore...journal article 2020
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Lin, N.M. (author), Tian, X. (author), Rutten, M.M. (author), Abraham, E. (author), Maestre, José M. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)This paper presents an extended Model Predictive Control scheme called Multi-objective Model Predictive Control (MOMPC) for real-time operation of a multi-reservoir system. The MOMPC approach incorporates the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II), multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and the receding horizon principle to solve...journal article 2020
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Sedighiani, K. (author), Diehl, M. (author), Traka, K. (author), Roters, F. (author), Sietsma, J. (author), Raabe, D. (author)A severe obstacle for the routine use of crystal plasticity models is the effort associated with determining their constitutive parameters. Obtaining these parameters usually requires time-consuming micromechanical tests that allow probing of individual grains. In this study, a novel, computationally efficient, and fully automated approach is...journal article 2020
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Kirimtat, Ayca (author), Ekici, B. (author), Çubukçuoglu, C. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author), Tasgetiren, Mehmet Fatih (author)Floating neighborhoods are innovative and promising urban areas for challenges in the development of cities and settlements. However, this design task requires a lot of considerations and technical challenges. Computational tools and methods can be beneficial to tackle the complexity of floating neighborhood design. This paper considers the...book chapter 2019
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Eslami Baladeh, Aliakbar (author), Cheraghi, Morteza (author), Khakzad, N. (author)Optimal selection of safety measures (SMs) is a challenging task for safety managers due to its importance, complexity, and incapability of traditional approaches in considering all the aspects of SMs optimal selection. Sophisticated mathematical models can be used to overcome the limitations of traditional approaches. However, setting the...journal article 2019
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Haji Heidari Varnosfaderani, Mehdi (author), Mozaffarzadeh, M. (author), Upputuri, Paul Kumar (author), Pramanik, Manojit (author)Traditional optical devices rely on light propagation along a straight path. However, when the light propagates through a blurred medium, its direction get scattered by microscopic particles. This inhomogeneous distortion results in a diffused focus point. Light scattering is one of the main limitations for the optical imaging. This...conference paper 2019
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Nakayama, S. (author), Blacquière, G. (author), Ishiyama, Tomohide (author)Blended acquisition along with efficient spatial sampling is capable of providing high-quality seismic data in a cost-effective and productive manner. While deblending and data reconstruction conventionally accompany this way of data acquisition, the recorded data can be processed directly to estimate subsurface properties. We establish a...journal article 2019
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Li, Y. (author), Cai, Wei (author), Kana, A.A. (author)This paper introduces a novel technique to design the level of service (LOS) for facilities or sub spaces of buildings for the purpose of evacuation planning. LOS is a standard qualitative indicator used to describe flow characteristics in a pedestrian environment. Some evacuation planners use LOS to help determine the network parameters when...journal article 2019
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Digna, R.F.M.O. (author), Castro-Gama, Mario (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Mohamed, Yasir A. (author), Corzo, Gerald (author), Uhlenbrook, S. (author)The Eastern Nile Basin is facing a number of transboundary issues, including water resources development, and the associated impacts. The Nile Basin, particularly the Eastern Nile Sub-basin, is considered as one of a few international river systems of potential conflicts between riparian countries. The Eastern Nile is characterized by the...journal article 2018
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Bauer, F. (author), Kennel, R.M. (author), Hackl, C.M. (author), Campagnolo, F. (author), Patt, M. (author), Schmehl, R. (author)As an alternative to conventional wind turbines, this study considered kites with onboard wind turbines driven by a high airspeed due to crosswind flight (“drag power”). The hypothesis of this study was, that if the kite's lift coefficient is maximized, then the power, energy yield, allowed costs and profit margin are also maximized. This...journal article 2018
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Panichella, A. (author), Alexandru, Carol V. (author), Panichella, Sebastiano (author), Bacchelli, A. (author), Gall, Harald C. (author)Research has yielded approaches to predict future defects in software artifacts based on historical information, thus assisting companies in effectively allocating limited development resources and developers in reviewing each others' code changes. Developers are unlikely to devote the same effort to inspect each software artifact predicted...conference paper 2016
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Di Nucci, Dario (author), Panichella, A. (author), Zaidman, A.E. (author), De Lucia, Andrea (author)Test case prioritization (TCP) is aimed at finding an ideal ordering for executing the available test cases to reveal faults earlier. To solve this problem greedy algorithms and meta-heuristics have been widely investigated, but in most cases there is no statistically significant difference between them in terms of effectiveness. The fitness...conference paper 2015