Introduction: Expensive chemical tests are usually applied to control the efficiency of wastewater treatment plants. However, the cost of measuring these parameters is one of the challenges of the wastewater treatment plants. Using statistical methods has been evaluated for possibility of calculating expensive parameters by measuring the inexpensive parameters in this study. Materials and Meth...

The n-queens problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem which has been proved to be NP-hard. The goal is to place n non-attacking queens on an n×n chessboard. In this paper, the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), which is a recent evolutionary metaheuristic method, has been applied for solving the n-queens problem. As another variation, the ICA was combined with a local sea...

In a graph G=(V,E), where every vertex is assigned 0, 1 or 2, f an assignment such that 0 has at least one neighbor 2 and all vertices labeled by are independent, then called outer independent Roman dominating function (OIRDF). The domination strengthened if 1, 3, each two neighbors double (OIDRDF). weight of (OIDRDF) OIRDF the sum f(v) for v?V. (double) number (?oidR(G)) ?oiR(G) minimum taken ...

Based on a sequential communication game, semi-device-independent certification of an unsharp instrument has recently been demonstrated [K. Mohan, A. Tavakoli, and N. Brunner, New J. Phys. 21, 083034 (2019)]. In this paper, we provide self-testing protocols in the prepare-measure scenario to certify multiple unsharpness parameters along with states measurement settings. This is achieved through...