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Hardware accelerations of deep learning systems have been extensively investigated in industry and academia. The aim of this paper is to achieve ultra-high energy efficiency and performance for hardware implementations of deep neural…
Simulation-based optimization of acoustic liner design in a turbofan engine nacelle for noise reduction purposes can dramatically reduce the cost and time needed for experimental designs. Because uncertainties are inevitable in the design…
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Robust trajectory optimization enables autonomous systems to operate safely under uncertainty by computing control policies that satisfy the constraints for all bounded disturbances. However, these problems often lead to large Second Order…
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This work focuses on a comparison between the performances of two well-known Swarm algorithms: Cuckoo Search (CS) and Firefly Algorithm (FA), in estimating the parameters of Software Reliability Growth Models. This study is further…
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Traditional robust multi-objective optimization methods typically prioritize convergence while treating robustness as a secondary consideration. This approach can yield solutions that are not genuinely robust optimal under noise-affected…
Trained humans exhibit highly agile spatial skills, enabling them to operate vehicles with complex dynamics in demanding tasks and conditions. Prior work shows that humans achieve this performance by using strategies such as satisficing,…
Airline Crew Pairing Optimization (CPO) aims at generating a set of legal flight sequences (crew pairings), to cover an airline's flight schedule, at minimum cost. It is usually performed using Column Generation (CG), a mathematical…