The least element property of center location on tree networks with applications to distance and precedence constrained problems

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 475-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Tamir
Procedia CIRP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 260-265
Author(s):  
Ahmet Yükseltürk ◽  
Aleksandra Wewer ◽  
Pinar Bilge ◽  
Franz Dietrich

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 699
Author(s):  
David Romero-Bascones ◽  
Maitane Barrenechea ◽  
Ane Murueta-Goyena ◽  
Marta Galdós ◽  
Juan Carlos Gómez-Esteban ◽  
...  

Disentangling the cellular anatomy that gives rise to human visual perception is one of the main challenges of ophthalmology. Of particular interest is the foveal pit, a concave depression located at the center of the retina that captures light from the gaze center. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in studying the morphology of the foveal pit by extracting geometrical features from optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Despite this, research has devoted little attention to comparing existing approaches for two key methodological steps: the location of the foveal center and the mathematical modelling of the foveal pit. Building upon a dataset of 185 healthy subjects imaged twice, in the present paper the image alignment accuracy of four different foveal center location methods is studied in the first place. Secondly, state-of-the-art foveal pit mathematical models are compared in terms of fitting error, repeatability, and bias. The results indicate the importance of using a robust foveal center location method to align images. Moreover, we show that foveal pit models can improve the agreement between different acquisition protocols. Nevertheless, they can also introduce important biases in the parameter estimates that should be considered.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanzeela Mitha ◽  
Maria Pour

AbstractA novel approach to linear array antennas with adaptive inter-element spacing is presented for the first time. The main idea is based upon electronically displacing the phase center location of the antenna elements, which determine their relative coordinates in the array configuration. This is realized by employing dual-mode microstrip patch antennas as a constitutive element, whose phase center location can be displaced from its physical center by simultaneously exciting two modes. The direction and the amount of displacement is controlled by the amplitude and phase of the modes at the element level. This in turn facilitates reconfiguring the inter-element spacing at the array level. For instance, a uniformly-spaced array could be electronically transformed into a non-uniform one without any mechanical means. The proposed idea is demonstrated in two- and three-element linear antenna arrays. The technique has the potential to control the radiation characteristics such as sidelobe levels, position of the nulls, and the beamwidths in small arrays, which are useful for adaptively controlling the array performance in emerging wireless communication systems and radars.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 853
Author(s):  
Jesús Sánchez-Oro ◽  
Ana D. López-Sánchez ◽  
Anna Martínez-Gavara ◽  
Alfredo G. Hernández-Díaz ◽  
Abraham Duarte

This paper presents a hybridization of Strategic Oscillation with Path Relinking to provide a set of high-quality nondominated solutions for the Multiobjective k-Balanced Center Location problem. The considered location problem seeks to locate k out of m facilities in order to serve n demand points, minimizing the maximum distance between any demand point and its closest facility while balancing the workload among the facilities. An extensive computational experimentation is carried out to compare the performance of our proposal, including the best method found in the state-of-the-art as well as traditional multiobjective evolutionary algorithms.


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