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Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds immense potential in medical applications. Numerous studies have explored the efficacy of various generative AI models within healthcare contexts, but there is a lack of a comprehensive and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jinghong Chen , Lingxuan Zhu , Weiming Mou , Zaoqu Liu , Quan Cheng , Anqi Lin , Jian Zhang , Peng Luo

The main problems of school course timetabling are time, curriculum, and classrooms. In addition there are other problems that vary from one institution to another. This paper is intended to solve the problem of satisfying the teachers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Ihab Sbeity , Mohamed Dbouk , Habib Kobeissi

Regulatory compliance in the pharmaceutical industry entails navigating through complex and voluminous guidelines, often requiring significant human resources. To address these challenges, our study introduces a chatbot model that utilizes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jaewoong Kim , Moohong Min

Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) are widely studied issues that play important roles in many production scenarios. We have noticed that in some practical scenarios of VRP, the size of cities and their entrances can significantly influence the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Haotian Xu , Xiaohui Fan , Jialin Zhu , Qing Zhuo , Tao Zhang

The continuous innovation of smart robotic technologies is driving the development of smart orchards, significantly enhancing the potential for automated harvesting systems. While multi-robot systems offer promising solutions to address…

The increasing complexity of fog computing environments calls for efficient resource optimization techniques. In this paper, we propose and evaluate three distributed designs of a genetic algorithm (GA) for resource optimization in fog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Carlos Guerrero , Isaac Lera , Carlos Juiz

Traditionally Genetic Algorithm has been used for optimization of unimodal and multimodal functions. Earlier researchers worked with constant probabilities of GA control operators like crossover, mutation etc. for tuning the optimization in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Avijit Basak

Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been used in this paper for a new Nyquist based sub-optimal model reduction and optimal time domain tuning of PID and fractional order (FO) PI{\lambda}D{\mu} controllers. Comparative studies show that the new…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Saptarshi Das , Indranil Pan , Shantanu Das , Amitava Gupta

The generalized quadratic assignment problem (GQAP) is one of the hardest problems to solve in the operations research area. The GQAP addressed in this work is defined as the task of minimizing the assignment and transportation costs of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Mojtaba A. Farahani , Alan McKendall

Radiotherapy (RT) patient scheduling is a complex operational problem. Current scheduling often relies on manual coordination and can be difficult to adapt to changing clinical demands. This study evaluated the feasibility of using a large…

Evolutionary computing, particularly genetic algorithm (GA), is a combinatorial optimization method inspired by natural selection and the transmission of genetic information, which is widely used to identify optimal solutions to complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shanqing Yu , Meng Zhou , Jintao Zhou , Minghao Zhao , Yidan Song , Yao Lu , Zeyu Wang , Qi Xuan

With neural networks having demonstrated their versatility and benefits, the need for their optimal performance is as prevalent as ever. A defining characteristic, hyperparameters, can greatly affect its performance. Thus engineers go…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Keshav Ganapathy

Outpatient departments (OPDs) in Indian public hospitals face severe overcrowding, with daily volumes reaching 200--8,000 patients~\cite{aiims2020annual}. The prevailing First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) token system treats all patients…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Ravish Gupta , Saket Kumar , Maulik Dang

Problem Definition: Managing inpatient flow in large hospital systems is challenging due to the complexity of assigning randomly arriving patients -- either waiting for primary units or being overflowed to alternative units. Current…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Jingjing Sun , Jim Dai , Pengyi Shi

The manpower scheduling problem is a critical research field in the resource management area. Based on the existing studies on scheduling problem solutions, this paper transforms the manpower scheduling problem into a combinational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Lingyu Zhang , Tianyu Liu , Yunhai Wang

We consider the strongly NP-hard single-machine coupled task scheduling problem with exact delays to minimize the makespan. In this problem, a set of jobs has to be scheduled, each composed of two tasks interspersed by an exact delay. Given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Vítor A. Barbosa , Rafael A. Melo

Efficient operator scheduling is a fundamental challenge in software compilation and hardware synthesis. While recent differentiable approaches have sought to replace traditional ones like exact solvers or heuristics with gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yaohui Cai , Vesal Bakhtazad , Cunxi Yu , Zhiru Zhang

Surgical scheduling optimization is an active area of research. However, few algorithms to optimize surgical scheduling are implemented and see sustained use. An algorithm is more likely to be implemented, if it allows for surgeon autonomy,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jin Xie , Teng Zhang , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn , Matthew Randolph , David Scheinker

Big data processing applications are becoming more and more complex. They are no more monolithic in nature but instead they are composed of decoupled analytical processes in the form of a workflow. One type of such workflow applications is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Mutaz Barika , Saurabh Garg , Andrew Chan , Rodrigo N. Calheiros

The advancement of generative AI, particularly in medical imaging, confronts the trilemma of ensuring high fidelity, diversity, and efficiency in synthetic data generation. While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lorenzo Tronchin , Tommy Löfstedt , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi