Abstract: Matrix-variable optimization is a generalization of vector-variable optimization and has been found to have many important applications. To reduce computation time and storage requirement, ...

Abstract: Conventionally, the designers of electrical machines assume the employment of regular shaped magnets, such as rectangular, sector, or tiled-shapes. The geometry of magnet poles is fixed, and ...

PRIMA is a package for solving general nonlinear optimization problems without using derivatives. It provides the reference implementation for Powell's derivative-free optimization methods, i.e., ...

[JMLR (CCF-A)] PyPop7: A Pure-PYthon LibrarY for POPulation-based Black-Box Optimization (BBO), especially *Large-Scale* algorithm variants (from evolutionary ...

hDepartment of Pediatrics, The Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China iEvidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, ...

This paper reports a useful low-cost platform for studying mosquito behaviors such as flight activity, sugar feeding, and host-seeking responses over the course of several weeks, and demonstrates key ...