Digital Transformation in Aftersales and Warranty Management: A Review of Advanced Technologies in I4.0 by Vicente González-Prida, Carlos Parra Márquez, Pablo Viveros Gunckel, Fredy Kristjanpoller Rodríguez, Adolfo Crespo Márquez

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Hybrid Multi-Granularity Approach for Few-Shot Image Retrieval with Weak Features by Aiguo Lu, Zican Li, Yanwei Liu, Pandi Liu, Ke Wang

“…The algorithm designs a feature extraction method (AugODNet_BRA) rooted in image augmentation, which efficiently captures high-level semantic features of images with few samples, small targets, and weak features through unsupervised learning. …”
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Application of SHAP and Multi-Agent Approach for Short-Term Forecast of Power Consumption of Gas Industry Enterprises by Alina I. Stepanova, Alexandra I. Khalyasmaa, Pavel V. Matrenin, Stanislav A. Eroshenko

“…It can enable the safe operation of critical infrastructure, for instance, adjusting the operation modes of self-generation units and energy-storage systems, optimizing the power consumption schedule, and reducing electricity and power costs. …”
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An Intelligent System for Management of Medical Equipment Maintenance by Abbas Izadi, Mohamad Amin Bakhshali, Hadi Ghasemifard, Omid Sarrafzadeh

“…Results: The results demonstrate that the proposed system can accurately predict equipment failures, schedule maintenance tasks efficiently, and manage spare parts inventory effectively. This improves equipment availability and reliability, reduces maintenance costs, and ensures that spare parts are available when needed without incurring excessive inventory costs.Conclusion:Overall, the proposed intelligent system for managing medical equipment maintenance is an effective solution for healthcare facilities to optimize maintenance operations, reduce costs, and ensure patient safety.…”
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Performance evaluation of an adopted model based on big-bang big-crunch and artificial neural network for cloud applications by Pradeep Rawat, Robin Singh Bhadoria, Punit Gupta, Priti Dimri, G. P. Saroha

“…Cloud can accomplish this using efficient scheduling algorithm. This article focuses on task scheduling policy which aims to improve the performance in real-time with the least execution time, network cost and execution cost-effective at the same time. …”
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Research on 3D Obstacle Avoidance Path Planning for Apple Picking Robotic Arm by Xinyan Chen, Chun Lu, Ziliang Guo, Chengkai Yin, Xuanbo Wu, Xiaolan Lv, Qing Chen

“…The experimental results show that compared to RRT* and IRRT*, the average path cost of the optimization algorithm is reduced by 31.565 mm and 14.935 mm and the average search time is reduced by 7.18 s and 4.33 s. …”
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Enhancing 4G/LTE Network Path Loss Prediction with PSO-GWO Hybrid Approach by Messaoud Garah, Nabil Boukhennoufa

“…The Hata, COST231, Egli, and SUI models are among the most widely used in urban and suburban environments. …”
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Multidisciplinary Collaborative Reliability Analysis of the Gear Reducer based on Inverse Reliability Strategy by Wang Liangliang, Peng Jinshuan, Shao Yiming

“…To overcome the high computational cost of reliability analysis,a reliability analysis method which combines the multidisciplinary genetic algorithm collaborative optimization（ GA- CO） based on the inverse reliability strategy（ IRS） is proposed（ IRS- GA- CO）. …”
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Multi-Depot Pickup and Delivery Problem with Resource Sharing by Yong Wang, Lingyu Ran, Xiangyang Guan, Yajie Zou

“…Resource sharing (RS) integrated into the optimization of multi-depot pickup and delivery problem (MDPDP) can greatly reduce the logistics operating cost and required transportation resources by reconfiguring the logistics network. …”
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Corrosion rate prediction for long-distance submarine pipelines based on MWIWOA-SVM by Zhengshan LUO, Haipeng LYU, Jihao LUO

“…MethodsTo address these issues, Multi-Way Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm (MWIWOA) was proposed to optimize the SVM-based prediction model for the internal corrosion rate of long-distance submarine pipelines. …”
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Spatio‐temporal dynamic navigation for electric vehicle charging using deep reinforcement learning by Ali Can Erüst, Fatma Yıldız Taşcıkaraoğlu

“…In a data sharing system including transportation network, an electric vehicle (EV) and EV charging stations (EVCSs), it is aimed to determine the most convenient EVCS and the optimal path for reducing the travel, charging and waiting costs. …”
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Microservice Deployment Based on Multiple Controllers for User Response Time Reduction in Edge-Native Computing by Zhaoyang Wang, Jinqi Zhu, Jia Guo, Yang Liu

“…Finally, extensive simulation experiments were conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared with other algorithms, our algorithm significantly improves user response time, optimizes resource utilization, and reduces the total cost.…”
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Power Allocation Technology of Long Time Multi-Star Hopping Beam for LEO Satellite by Ziyi LIU, Xiaoning ZHANG, Zesong FEI

“…LEO satellites have superior development prospects due to their low cost, low latency and small path loss, and are widely used in IoT, B5G and other fields.For the LEO satellite and its coverage area will be in a moving state, a convex optimization-based long-time multi-star beam hopping power allocation algorithm was proposed to maximize the system capacity.Focused on the multi-star hopping beam scenario over a period of time, a system model was developed based on the long-time co-orbital multi-star hopping beam scenario and the long-time heterodyne multi-star hopping beam scenario respectively.The resource allocation algorithm was designed for the two long-time multi-star hopping beams with the weighted objective function as the optimization objective, considered the influence factors of inter-star interference, load balancing and inter-star resource allocation priority, a long-time skipping beam resource allocation algorithm based on convex optimization was proposed.The simulation results showed that the proposed scheme could improve the resource utilization of the system compared with the conventional schemes.…”
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Distributed Multi-Energy Trading in Energy Internet: An Aggregative Game Approach by Jingwei Hu, Enhui An, Qiuye Sun, Bonan Huang

“…Since each WE only needs to communicate with its neighbors to exchange information, this distributed process reduces communication burden and improves information security. Furthermore, a multi-energy transmission optimization model is established to determine the transmission path of the transmission energy, which can minimize the transmission cost. …”
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Reoptimization Heuristic for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem by Rodrigo Linfati, John Willmer Escobar

“…Next, the local search procedure is executed to improve the solution. A classic optimization is performed on all instances using the original and new customers’ information for later comparison to minimize distance. …”
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Reliability-Based Opportunistic Maintenance Modeling for Multi-Component Systems with Economic Dependence under Base Warranty by Rongcai Wang, Zhonghua Cheng, Enzhi Dong, Chiming Guo, Liqing Rong

“…A simulated annealing (SA) algorithm is proposed to determine the optimal maintenance cost of the system and the optimal OM threshold under BW. …”
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Manufacturing engineering production line scheduling management technology integrating availability constraints and heuristic rules by Gu Yun

“…In comparing the performance of heuristic algorithms with other algorithms, the optimization rates of heuristic algorithms with SHPSO, QLINSGA-II, and Q-Learning-Sarsa-K-mes-GA were 96.7, 90, 78.6, and 84.7%, respectively. …”
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SIC-Free Based Indoor Two-User NOMA-VLCP System by Jianli Jin, Qianlong Shang, Jianping Wang, Huimin Lu, Danyang Chen, Dongmei Yang

“…The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is employed to construct a joint optimization function that optimizes the power allocation factor of the two users and the roll-off coefficient of the square-root-raised-cosine(SRRC) filter. …”
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Advanced day-ahead scheduling of HVAC demand response control using novel strategy of Q-learning, model predictive control, and input convex neural networks by Rahman Heidarykiany, Cristinel Ababei

“…More specifically, new input convex long short-term memory (ICLSTM) models are employed to predict dynamic states in an MPC optimal control technique integrated within a Q-Learning reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to further improve the learned temporal behaviors of nonlinear HVAC systems. …”
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Joint Allocation of Power and Subcarrier for Low Delay and Stable Power Line Communication by Zhixiong Chen, Zhihui Yang, Zeng Dou

“…Finally, the performance of the algorithm is compared and analyzed by simulation. The results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the rate fluctuation and improve the system delay performance and deterministic transmission ability under the condition of ensuring the average rate optimization.…”
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