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Sahar Hassani, Ulrike Dackermann, Paulo Antunes
In recent decades, structural health monitoring (SHM) has gained increased importance for ensuring the sustainability and serviceability of large and complex structures. To design an SHM system that delivers optimal monitoring outcomes, engineers must make decisions on numerous system specifications, including the…
Mohammad Dehghani, Štěpán Hubálovský, Pavel Trojovský, Wojciech Kempa + 1 more
'Wojciech Kempa' 'Iwona Paprocka'] Numerous optimization problems designed in different branches of science and the real world must be solved using appropriate techniques. Population-based optimization algorithms are some of the most important and practical techniques for solving optimization problems. In this paper, a…
Jeffrey O. Agushaka, Absalom E. Ezugwu, Apu K. Saha, Jayanta Pal + 2 more
This paper introduces a new metaheuristic technique known as the Greater Cane Rat Algorithm (GCRA) for addressing optimization problems. The optimization process of GCRA is inspired by the intelligent foraging behaviors of greater cane rats during and off mating season. Being highly nocturnal, they are intelligible…
Yifan Wu, Aron Walsh, Alex Ganose
What is the minimum number of experiments, or calculations, required to find an optimal solution? Relevant chemical problems range from identifying a compound with target functionality within a given phase space to controlling materials synthesis and device fabrication conditions. A common feature in this application…
Mojtaba Ghasemi, Abolfazl Rahimnejad, Ebrahim Akbari, Ravipudi Venkata Rao + 4 more
'Ravipudi Venkata Rao' 'Pavel Trojovský' 'Eva Trojovská' 'Stephen Andrew Gadsden' 'Yilun Shang'] Many important engineering optimization problems require a strong and simple optimization algorithm to achieve the best solutions. In 2020, Rao introduced three non-parametric algorithms, known as Rao algorithms, which have…
Yury Chernyak, Ijaz Ahamed Mohammad, Nikolas Masnicak, Matej Pivoluska + 2 more
'Matej Pivoluska' 'Martin Plesch' 'Yuanchao Liu'] Numerical optimization techniques are widely applied across various fields of science and technology, ranging from determining the minimal energy of systems in physics and chemistry to identifying optimal routes in logistics or strategies for high-speed trading. Here…
Máté Mohácsi, Márk Patrik Török, Sára Sáray, Luca Tar + 1 more
Finding optimal parameters for detailed neuronal models is a ubiquitous challenge in neuroscientific research. Recently, manual model tuning has been replaced by automated parameter search using a variety of different tools and methods. However, using most of these software tools and choosing the most appropriate…
Alejandro F. Villaverde, Fabian Fröhlich, Daniel Weindl, Jan Hasenauer + 1 more
Mechanistic kinetic models usually contain unknown parameters, which need to be estimated by optimizing the fit of the model to experimental data. This task can be computationally challenging due to the presence of local optima and ill-conditioning. While a variety of optimization methods have been suggested to…
Stephan Grein, David R. Penas, Daniel Weindl, Polina Lakrisenko + 2 more
Dynamic models are central to the computational life sciences but typically contain unknown parameters that must be inferred from experimental data. High-throughput measurements have made this task increasingly challenging, yielding high-dimensional search spaces and non-convex objectives with many local optima. This…
Mohammad Dehghani, Pavel Trojovský, Stuart Burgess
This article introduces a new metaheuristic algorithm called the Serval Optimization Algorithm (SOA), which imitates the natural behavior of serval in nature. The fundamental inspiration of SOA is the serval’s hunting strategy, which attacks the selected prey and then hunts the prey in a chasing process. The steps of…
Johann Sienz, Mauro S. Innocente
The advantages of evolutionary algorithms with respect to traditional methods have been greatly discussed in the literature. While particle swarm optimizers share such advantages, they outperform evolutionary algorithms in that they require lower computational cost and easier implementation, involving no operator…
Mohamed Tifroute, Anouar Lahmdani, Hassane Bouzahir
In this paper, a sequential search method for finding the global minimum of an objective function is presented, The descent gradient search is repeated until the global minimum is obtained. The global minimum is located by a process of finding progressively better local minima. We determine the set of points of…
Changin Oh, Kathleen P. Wilkie
We present the Toroidal Search Algorithm (TSA), a novel population-based metaheuristic optimization method inspired by the topology of a torus. Conventional metaheuristics frequently suffer from boundary stagnation, a phenomenon that severely degrades performance in bounded and high-dimensional search spaces. TSA…
Saeed Asadi, Sonia Gharibzadeh, Shiva Zangeneh, Masoud Reihanifar + 2 more
Multidimensional Surface 3D Visualizations and Initial Point Sensitivity Authors: ['Saeed Asadi' 'Sonia Gharibzadeh' 'Shiva Zangeneh' 'Masoud Reihanifar' 'Mehrzad Rahimi' 'Lazim Abdullah'] This study examines several renowned gradient-based optimization techniques and focuses on their computational efficiency and…
Owen Madin, Michael Shirts
Dispersion-repulsion interactions, commonly represented in atomistic force fields by the Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential, play an important role in the accuracy of molecular simulations. Training the force field parameters used in the LJ potential is challenging, generally requiring adjustment based on simulations of…
Riley Hickman, Priyansh Parakh, Austin Cheng, Qianxiang Ai + 3 more
Experiment planning algorithms are a required component of autonomous platforms for scientific discovery. Selecting a suitable optimization algorithm for a novel application is an important yet difficult choice a researcher has to make based on past empirical performance on similar tasks. To facilitate the evaluation…
Riley Hickman, Matteo Aldeghi, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Model-based optimization strategies, such as Bayesian optimization (BO), have been deployed across the natural sciences in design and discovery campaigns due to their sample efficiency and flexibility. The combination of such strategies with automated laboratory equipment and/or high-performance computing in a…
Xin‐She Yang
Many problems in science and engineering are optimization problems, which may require sophisticated optimization techniques to solve. Nature-inspired algorithms are a class of metaheuristic algorithms for optimization, and some algorithms or variants are often developed by hybridization. Benchmarking is also important…
Assem F. Alabu-Husain, Mostafa A. ElBahloul, Mahmoud M. Saafan, Eman M. El-Gendy
This study introduces the Pray Optimization Algorithm (POA), a novel metaheuristic inspired by the procedural rituals of Islamic pray, designed to solve complex engineering and robotic manipulator problems. The mathematical model is structured into three distinct phases: Phase I simulates searching for a suitable…
Rodríguez Hernández, Matías Ezequiel
In this article, we propose a new metaheuristic inspired by the morphogenetic cellular movements of endothelial cells (ECs) that occur during the tumor angiogenesis process. This algorithm starts with a random initial population. In each iteration, the best candidate selected as the tumor, while the other individuals…
Pablo Quijano Velasco, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Balamurugan Ramalingam
The discovery of optimal conditions of chemical reactions is a labor-intensive, time-consuming task that requires exploring a high-dimensional parametric space. Historically the optimization of chemical reactions has been performed by manual experimentation guided by human intuition and Design of Experiments where one…
Fabian Fröhlich, Peter K. Sorger
Ordinary differential equation (ODE) models are widely used to describe biochemical processes, since they effectively represent mass action kinetics. Optimization-based calibration of ODE models on experimental data can be challenging, even for low-dimensional problems. However, reliable model calibration is a…
Matt J. Owen, Gary R. Mirams
Ion channel models present many challenging optimisation problems. These include unidentifiable parame- ters, noisy data, unobserved states, and a combination of both fast and slow timescales. This can make it difficult to choose a suitable optimisation routine a priori. Nevertheless, many attempts have been made to…
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Experimental design plays an important role in efficiently acquiring informative data for system characterization and deriving robust conclusions under resource limitations. Recent advancements in high-throughput experimentation coupled with machine learning have notably improved experimental procedures. While Bayesian…