Determination of mutual inductance in the WPT system based on the electromagnetic coupling mode is crucial for system design and efficiency optimization. The analytic formulas and experimental methods which only aim at a coupling coil with a certain type of configuration and parameters are not universal approaches. Therefore they can’t serve as a design basis for the system optimization. This p...

Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) are important measures for reducing agricultural non-point source (NPS) pollution. However, selection of BMPs for placement in a watershed requires optimizing available resources to maximize possible water quality benefits. Due to its iterative nature, the optimization typically takes a long time to achieve the BMP trade-off results which is not desirable ...

An integrated optimization model was developed for the spatial distribution of agricultural crops in order to efficiently utilize agricultural water and land resources simultaneously. The model is based on the spatial distribution of crop suitability, spatial distribution of population density, and agricultural land use data. Multi-source remote sensing data are combined with constraints of opt...

In this paper, we present a novel method of optimization of a single-mode cavity used for sintering ceramics. The goal of the optimization is to maximize the electric energy stored in the dielectric and minimize spatial variations of tashis field in the domain occupied by the material. Results of simulations of two configurations are discussed.

A great challenge facing geocomputation and spatial analysis is spatial optimization, given that it involves various high-dimensional, nonlinear, and complicated relationships. Many efforts have been made with regard to this specific issue, and the strong ability of artificial immune system algorithms has been proven in previous studies. However, user-friendly professional software is still una...

T The aim of this study was to investigate the variability of stride length and stride frequency between athletes of different performance levels in the 100m and then verify the influence of these kinematic parameters on the phases of the race and technical efficiency. Data from a group of 8 average male sprinters (mean performance 11.18) and the men’s 100m finalists in 1991 IAAF World Champion...

As manufacturers in various industries evolve toward predominantly make-to-order production to better serve their customers’ needs, increasing product mix flexibility emerges as a necessary strategy to provide adequate market responsiveness. However, the implications of increased flexibility on overall system performance are widely unknown. We develop analytical models and an optimization-based...

This document supports the main paper by providing further explanations, results, a worked example, and detailed pseudocode for our optimization techniques. Section 1 explains our lens optimization in detail, which determines optical aspherical lens shapes and complementary focal surfaces given an input lens width size in pixels and the field of view. Section 2 presents our discrete light field...

The data structures suitable for indexing of large spatial objects in databases are considered. Some generalizations of existing tree methods concerned approximation of spatial objects and composite optimization criteria are proposed. The efficient algorithms, including one for spatial join operation, providing for optimize considered methods are described. The results of experimental measureme...

To explore the effect of spatial locality, crowding differential evolution is incorporated with spatial locality for multimodal optimization. Instead of random trial vector generations, it takes advantages of spatial locality to generate fitter trial vectors. Experiments were conducted to compare the proposed algorithm (CrowdingDE-L) with the state-of-the-art algorithms. Further experiments wer...