Post-Quantum Cryptographic Frameworks for Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Authentication Systems by Thomas L Barna, Samson Isaac, Christopher Habu, Saratu Habu, Abimbola A Joseph

“…This work contributes three key advancements: (1) an optimized NTRU implementation for medical IoT devices, (2) a novel integration of metaheuristic optimization with post-quantum cryptography, and (3) comprehensive validation across IoMT device classes. …”
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Occlusion mapping reveals the impact of flight and sensing parameters on vertical forest structure exploration with cost-effective UAV based laser scanning by Matthias Gassilloud, Barbara Koch, Anna Göritz

“…Our results offer transferable insights to optimize UAV LiDAR data acquisitions, thereby contributing to an enhanced structural metric retrieval and improved analysis of forest functional properties.…”
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Comprehensive Comparison and Validation of Forest Disturbance Monitoring Algorithms Based on Landsat Time Series in China by Yunjian Liang, Rong Shang, Jing M. Chen, Xudong Lin, Peng Li, Ziyi Yang, Lingyun Fan, Shengwei Xu, Yingzheng Lin, Yao Chen

“…When considering different forest disturbance types, COLD achieved the highest accuracies for Fire, Harvest, and Other disturbances, while CCDC was most accurate for Forestation. These findings highlight the necessity of region-specific calibration and parameter optimization tailored to specific disturbance types to improve forest disturbance monitoring accuracy, and also provide a solid foundation for future studies on algorithm modifications and ensembles.…”
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A Review of Smart Camera Sensor Placement in Construction by Wei Tian, Hao Li, Hao Zhu, Yongwei Wang, Xianda Liu, Rongzheng Yang, Yujun Xie, Meng Zhang, Jun Zhu, Xiangyu Wang

“…This comprehensive review navigates through the complexities of camera and environment models, advocating for advanced optimization techniques like genetic algorithms, greedy algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo to refine CSP strategies. …”
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Energy Aware Swarm Optimization with Intercluster Search for Wireless Sensor Network by Shanmugasundaram Thilagavathi, Bhavani Gnanasambandan Geetha

“…Challenges in WSN include a well-organized communication platform for the network with negligible power utilization. In this work, an improved binary particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm with modified connected dominating set (CDS) based on residual energy is proposed for discovery of optimal number of clusters and cluster head (CH). …”
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Non-Vertical Well Trajectory Design Based on Multi-Objective Optimization by Xiaowei Li, Yu Li, Yang Wu, Zhaokai Hou, Haipeng Gu

“…The optimization and control of the wellbore trajectory is one of the important technologies to improve drilling efficiency, reduce drilling cost, and ensure drilling safety in the process of modern oil and gas exploration and development. …”
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Multi-Objective Optimization for Green BTS Site Selection in Telecommunication Networks Using NSGA-II and MOPSO by Salar Babaei, Mehran Khalaj, Mehdi Keramatpour, Ramin Enayati

“…These algorithms were chosen due to their proven efficiency in handling NP-hard optimization problems and their ability to balance exploration and exploitation in search spaces.…”
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Location privacy protection method based on lightweight K-anonymity incremental nearest neighbor algorithm by Saite CHEN, Weihai LI, Yuanzhi YAO, Nenghai YU

“…The use of location-based service brings convenience to people’s daily lives, but it also raises concerns about users’ location privacy.In the k-nearest neighbor query problem, constructing K-anonymizing spatial regions is a method used to protects users’ location privacy, but it results in a large waste of communication overhead.The SpaceTwist scheme is an alternative method that uses an anchor point instead of the real location to complete the k-nearest neighbor query,which is simple to implement and has less waste of communication overhead.However,it cannot guarantee K-anonymous security, and the specific selection method of the anchor point is not provided.To address these shortcomings in SpaceTwist, some schemes calculate the user’s K-anonymity group by introducing a trusted anonymous server or using the way of user collaboration, and then enhance the end condition of the query algorithm to achieve K-anonymity security.Other schemes propose the anchor point optimization method based on the approximate distribution of interest points, which can further reduce the average communication overhead.A lightweight K-anonymity incremental nearest neighbor (LKINN) location privacy protection algorithm was proposed to improve SpaceTwist.LKINN used convex hull mathematical tool to calculate the key points of K-anonymity group, and proposed an anchor selection method based on it, achieving K-anonymity security with low computational and communication costs.LKINN was based on a hybrid location privacy protection architecture, making only semi-trusted security assumptions for all members of the system, which had lax security assumptions compared to some existing research schemes.Simulation results show that LKINN can prevent semi-trusted users from stealing the location privacy of normal users and has smaller query response time and communication overhead compare to some existing schemes.…”
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Efficient Optical Spatial First-Order Differentiator Based on Graphene-Based Metalines and Evolutionary Algorithms by Tian Zhang, Jia'nan Xie, Yihang Dan, Shuai Yu, Xu Han, Jian Dai, Kun Xu

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An investigation on energy-saving scheduling algorithm of wireless monitoring sensors in oil and gas pipeline networks by Zhifeng Ma, Zhanjun Hao, Zhenya Zhao

“…Therefore, this paper proposes an energy-saving scheduling algorithm based on transformer networks, aimed at optimizing energy consumption and data transmission efficiency of wireless monitoring sensors in oil and gas pipelines. …”
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Social Network Analysis: A Novel Paradigm for Improving Community Detection by Rodrigo Hernández, Inmaculada Gutiérrez, Javier Castro

“…One of the most considered philosophies when defining this type of technique is the use of the graph’s adjacency matrix as input and the consideration of modularity as the function to be optimized. …”
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Improvement of RT-DETR model for ground glass pulmonary nodule detection. by Siyuan Tang, Qiangqiang Bao, Qingyu Ji, Tong Wang, Naiyu Wang, Min Yang, Yu Gu, Jinliang Zhao, Yuhan Qu, Siriguleng Wang

“…This article proposed an algorithm based on RT-DETR model with the following enhancement: 1) optimize the backbone network with FCGE blocks to increase the detection accuracy of small-sized and blurred edge nodules; 2) replace the AIFI module with HiLo-AIFI module to reduce redundant computation and improve the detection accuracy of pure ground glass pulmonary nodules and mixed ground glass pulmonary nodules; 3) replace the DGAK module with CCFF module to address the issue of capturing complex features and recognition of irregularly shaped ground glass nodules. …”
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Development and Comparison of Interrupt-Based and Analog-to-Digital Converter Algorithms for Seed Counting in Precision Planters by A. Ghaffarnezhad, H. Navid, H. Karimi

“…Both developed circuits featured the deployment of the STM32F103C8T6 microcontroller, renowned for its robust capabilities and cost efficiency.In the interrupt-based algorithm's development, the microcontroller's external interrupt was used, selecting its sensitivity to detect both rising and falling edges. …”
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Advancing sustainable renewable energy: XGBoost algorithm for the prediction of water yield in hemispherical solar stills by Salwa Ahmad Sarow, Hasan Abbas Flayyih, Maryam Bazerkan, Luttfi A. Al-Haddad, Zainab T. Al-Sharify, Ahmed Ali Farhan Ogaili

“…Initially explored was the effect of different sand types and bed heights on HSS performance, with the findings indicating that black sand, especially at a height of 1 cm combined with reflectors and a fan, markedly improved efficiency and production. An economic analysis revealed a significant reduction in water treatment costs with the optimized system. …”
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Using 'sentinel' plants to improve early detection of invasive plant pathogens. by Francesca A Lovell-Read, Stephen Parnell, Nik J Cunniffe, Robin N Thompson

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Optimization of external container delivery and pickup scheduling based on appointment mechanism. by Pengfei Huang, Hao Wang, Fangjiao Tan, Yuyue Jiang, Jinfen Cai

“…Through case studies, we have demonstrated the superior performance of this algorithm in addressing relevant problems. The results show that, in terms of truck operational costs, the improved algorithm reduces costs by 10.96% and 3.02% compared to traditional Ant Colony Optimization and Variable Neighborhood Search algorithms, respectively, and by 4.89% compared to manual scheduling. …”
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Medical Image Hybrid Watermark Algorithm Based on Frequency Domain Processing and Inception v3 by Yu Fan, Jingbing Li, Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Saqib Ali Nawaz, Yenwei Chen

“…Existing research has mostly focused on optimizing individual techniques, lacking comprehensive solutions that integrate the strengths of different methods. …”
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Frequency Optimization Objective during System Prototyping on Multi-FPGA Platform by Mariem Turki, Zied Marrakchi, Habib Mehrez, Mohamed Abid

“…Many scenarios are proposed to obtain the most optimized results in terms of prototyping system frequency. …”
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Optimized YOLOv8 framework for intelligent rockfall detection on mountain roads by Peng Peng, Langchao Gao, Jiachun Li, Hongzhen Zhang

“…To enable efficient detection, this study proposes a rockfall detection system based on embedded technology and an improved Yolov8 algorithm, termed Yolov8-GCB. The algorithm enhances detection performance through the following optimizations: (1) integrating a lightweight DeepLabv3+ road segmentation module at the input stage to generate mask images, which effectively exclude non-road regions from interference; (2) replacing Conv convolution units in the backbone network with Ghost convolution units, significantly reducing model parameters and computational cost while improving inference speed; (3) introducing the CPCA (Channel Priori Convolution Attention) mechanism to strengthen the feature extraction capability for targets with diverse shapes; and (4) incorporating skip connections and weighted fusion in the Neck feature extraction network to enhance multi-scale object detection. …”
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Multi-objective Optimization Design of Component Cooling System in HPR1000 by ZHAO Weiguang1, 2, YU Pei1, 3, ZENG Xiaobo1, 2, FAN Guangming1, 2, YAN Changqi1, 2

“…To manage this complexity, a novel optimization algorithm was implemented to perform multi-objective optimization. …”
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