A deep multimodal fusion and multitasking trajectory prediction model for typhoon trajectory prediction to reduce flight scheduling cancellation

Natural events have had a significant impact on overall flight activity,and the aviation industry plays a vital role in helping society cope with the impact of these events.As one of the most impactful weather typhoon seasons appears and continues,airlines operating in threatened areas and passengers having travel plans during this time period will pay close attention to the development of tropical storms.This paper proposes a deep multimodal fusion and multitasking trajectory prediction model that can improve the reliability of typhoon trajectory prediction and reduce the quantity of flight scheduling cancellation.The deep multimodal fusion module is formed by deep fusion of the feature output by multiple submodal fusion modules,and the multitask generation module uses longitude and latitude as two related tasks for simultaneous prediction.With more dependable data accuracy,problems can be analysed rapidly and more efficiently,enabling better decision-making with a proactive versus reactive posture.When multiple modalities coexist,features can be extracted from them simultaneously to supplement each other’s information.An actual case study,the typhoon Lichma that swept China in 2019,has demonstrated that the algorithm can effectively reduce the number of unnecessary flight cancellations compared to existing flight scheduling and assist the new generation of flight scheduling systems under extreme weather.

Constraints Separation Based Evolutionary Multitasking for Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Problems

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems(CMOPs)generally contain multiple constraints,which not only form multiple discrete feasible regions but also reduce the size of optimal feasible regions,thus they propose serious challenges for solvers.Among all constraints,some constraints are highly correlated with optimal feasible regions;thus they can provide effective help to find feasible Pareto front.However,most of the existing constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithms tackle constraints by regarding all constraints as a whole or directly ignoring all constraints,and do not consider judging the relations among constraints and do not utilize the information from promising single constraints.Therefore,this paper attempts to identify promising single constraints and utilize them to help solve CMOPs.To be specific,a CMOP is transformed into a multitasking optimization problem,where multiple auxiliary tasks are created to search for the Pareto fronts that only consider a single constraint respectively.Besides,an auxiliary task priority method is designed to identify and retain some high-related auxiliary tasks according to the information of relative positions and dominance relationships.Moreover,an improved tentative method is designed to find and transfer useful knowledge among tasks.Experimental results on three benchmark test suites and 11 realworld problems with different numbers of constraints show better or competitive performance of the proposed method when compared with eight state-of-the-art peer methods.

Evolutionary Multitasking With Global and Local Auxiliary Tasks for Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems(CMOPs) include the optimization of objective functions and the satisfaction of constraint conditions, which challenge the solvers.To solve CMOPs, constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithms(CMOEAs) have been developed. However, most of them tend to converge into local areas due to the loss of diversity. Evolutionary multitasking(EMT) is new model of solving complex optimization problems, through the knowledge transfer between the source task and other related tasks. Inspired by EMT, this paper develops a new EMT-based CMOEA to solve CMOPs, in which the main task, a global auxiliary task, and a local auxiliary task are created and optimized by one specific population respectively. The main task focuses on finding the feasible Pareto front(PF), and global and local auxiliary tasks are used to respectively enhance global and local diversity. Moreover, the global auxiliary task is used to implement the global search by ignoring constraints, so as to help the population of the main task pass through infeasible obstacles. The local auxiliary task is used to provide local diversity around the population of the main task, so as to exploit promising regions. Through the knowledge transfer among the three tasks, the search ability of the population of the main task will be significantly improved. Compared with other state-of-the-art CMOEAs, the experimental results on three benchmark test suites demonstrate the superior or competitive performance of the proposed CMOEA.

The Application of Multitasking Mechanism in Single Chip Computer System

Developed a new program structure using in single chip computer system, which based on multitasking mechanism. Discussed the specific method for realization of the new structure. The applied sample is also provided.

An improved adaptive differential evolution algorithm for single unmanned aerial vehicle multitasking

Single unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)multitasking plays an important role in multiple UAVs cooperative control,which is as well as the most complicated and hardest part.This paper establishes a threedimensional topographical map,and an improved adaptive differential evolution(IADE)algorithm is proposed for single UAV multitasking.As an optimized problem,the efficiency of using standard differential evolution to obtain the global optimal solution is very low to avoid this problem.Therefore,the algorithm adopts the mutation factor and crossover factor into dynamic adaptive functions,which makes the crossover factor and variation factor can be adjusted with the number of population iteration and individual fitness value,letting the algorithm exploration and development more reasonable.The experimental results implicate that the IADE algorithm has better performance,higher convergence and efficiency to solve the multitasking problem compared with other algorithms.

Multitasking Behavior and Perceptions of Academic Performance in University Business Students in Mexico during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The current study measures the influence of multitasking behavior and self-efficacy for self-regulated learning(SESRL)on perceptions of academic performance and views in university students during the COVID-19 pan-demic in Mexico.264 university students fulfilled an online questionnaire.It was observed that multitasking beha-vior negatively influences SESRL(-0.203),while SESRL showed a positive influence of 0.537 on perceptions of academic performance,and multitasking behavior had an influence of-0.097 on the perception of academic per-formance.Cronbach’s alpha and Average Variance Extracted values were 0.809 and 0.577(multitasking behavior),0.819 and 0.626(SESRL),0.873 and 0.725(perceptions of academic performance),respectively.The results of the bootstrapping test showed that the path coefficients were significant.The study outcomes can support new plans in universities to ensure the best academic outcomes.Our study showed evidence of the COVID-19 impact on education behavior.This study’s novelty is based on using the partial least square structural equation modeling(PLS-SEM)technique to evaluate these variables.

ThyroidNet:A Deep Learning Network for Localization and Classification of Thyroid Nodules

Aim:This study aims to establish an artificial intelligence model,ThyroidNet,to diagnose thyroid nodules using deep learning techniques accurately.Methods:A novel method,ThyroidNet,is introduced and evaluated based on deep learning for the localization and classification of thyroid nodules.First,we propose the multitask TransUnet,which combines the TransUnet encoder and decoder with multitask learning.Second,we propose the DualLoss function,tailored to the thyroid nodule localization and classification tasks.It balances the learning of the localization and classification tasks to help improve the model’s generalization ability.Third,we introduce strategies for augmenting the data.Finally,we submit a novel deep learning model,ThyroidNet,to accurately detect thyroid nodules.Results:ThyroidNet was evaluated on private datasets and was comparable to other existing methods,including U-Net and TransUnet.Experimental results show that ThyroidNet outperformed these methods in localizing and classifying thyroid nodules.It achieved improved accuracy of 3.9%and 1.5%,respectively.Conclusion:ThyroidNet significantly improves the clinical diagnosis of thyroid nodules and supports medical image analysis tasks.Future research directions include optimization of the model structure,expansion of the dataset size,reduction of computational complexity and memory requirements,and exploration of additional applications of ThyroidNet in medical image analysis.

GDMNet: A Unified Multi-Task Network for Panoptic Driving Perception

To enhance the efficiency and accuracy of environmental perception for autonomous vehicles,we propose GDMNet,a unified multi-task perception network for autonomous driving,capable of performing drivable area segmentation,lane detection,and traffic object detection.Firstly,in the encoding stage,features are extracted,and Generalized Efficient Layer Aggregation Network(GELAN)is utilized to enhance feature extraction and gradient flow.Secondly,in the decoding stage,specialized detection heads are designed;the drivable area segmentation head employs DySample to expand feature maps,the lane detection head merges early-stage features and processes the output through the Focal Modulation Network(FMN).Lastly,the Minimum Point Distance IoU(MPDIoU)loss function is employed to compute the matching degree between traffic object detection boxes and predicted boxes,facilitating model training adjustments.Experimental results on the BDD100K dataset demonstrate that the proposed network achieves a drivable area segmentation mean intersection over union(mIoU)of 92.2%,lane detection accuracy and intersection over union(IoU)of 75.3%and 26.4%,respectively,and traffic object detection recall and mAP of 89.7%and 78.2%,respectively.The detection performance surpasses that of other single-task or multi-task algorithm models.

基于Multitask⁃YOLO网络的卫星帆板ISAR图像快速分割

随着空间技术的飞速发展,空间态势感知能力需求不断增加。与传统光学传感器相比,逆合成孔径雷达(Inverse synthetic aperture radar,ISAR)具有全天候、远距离高分辨率成像的能力,且成像不受光照条件的影响。此外,空间态势感知系统需要对周围航天器进行准确的评估,因此对空间目标部件识别能力的需求日益迫切。本文提出了一种基于YOLOv5结构的Multitask⁃YOLO网络,用于卫星ISAR图像中卫星帆板的识别和分割。首先,本文添加了分割解耦头来实现网络的分割功能。然后用空间金字塔池快速算法(Spatial pyramid pooling fast,SPPF)和距离交并比算法(Distance intersection over union,DIoU)代替原有结构,避免图像失真,加快收敛速度。通过在通道中引入注意机制,提高了分割和识别的准确性。最后使用模拟卫星的ISAR图像进行实验。结果表明,所提出的Multitask⁃YOLO网络高效、准确地实现了部件的识别和分割。与其他的识别和分割网络相比,该网络的平均精度(mean Average precision,mAP)和平均交并比(mean Intersection over union,mIoU)提高了约5%。此外,该网络的运行速度高达16.4 GFLOP,优于传统的多任务网络的性能。

Evolutionary Multitask Optimization in Real-World Applications: A Survey

Because of its strong ability to solve problems,evolutionary multitask optimization(EMTO)algorithms have been widely studied recently.Evolutionary algorithms have the advantage of fast searching for the optimal solution,but it is easy to fall into local optimum and difficult to generalize.Combining evolutionary multitask algorithms with evolutionary optimization algorithms can be an effective method for solving these problems.Through the implicit parallelism of tasks themselves and the knowledge transfer between tasks,more promising individual algorithms can be generated in the evolution process,which can jump out of the local optimum.How to better combine the two has also been studied more and more.This paper explores the existing evolutionary multitasking theory and improvement scheme in detail.Then,it summarizes the application of EMTO in different scenarios.Finally,according to the existing research,the future research trends and potential exploration directions are revealed.

BIM Supporting the Development of Multitasks Related with the Structural Project

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a methodology focused on the centralization and sharing of the project information among all professionals involved, supported on the generation and manipulation of a three-dimensional (3D) digital BIM model. This methodology allows a close collaboration between the architect and the structural engineer and an adequate manipulation of the structural BIM model database, on the definition of multitasks. The collaboration allowed between all disciplines, avoid the detection of conflicts and data omission after in the construction place. Two BIM structural design cases were developed, using Revit as the modelling system and Robot as the structural software. Concerning the structural project the interoperability capacity between the software is still a limitation that engineers must be warned of. In the present study, the benefits and limitations identified within the communication and integration of distinct disciplines and on the development of most frequent multitasks normally related with a structural project, were considered.

Multi-Task Learning Using Attention-Based Convolutional Encoder-Decoder for Dilated Cardiomyopathy CMR Segmentation and Classification

Myocardial segmentation and classification play a major role in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease.Dilated Cardiomyopathy(DCM)is a kind of common chronic and life-threatening cardiopathy.Early diagnostics significantly increases the chances of correct treatment and survival.However,accurate and rapid diagnosis of DCM is still challenge due to high variability of cardiac structure,low contrast cardiac magnetic resonance(CMR)images,and intrinsic noise in synthetic CMR images caused by motion artifact and cardiac dynamics.Moreover,visual assessment and empirical evaluation are widely used in routine clinical diagnosis,but they are subject to high inter-observer variability and are both subjective and non-reproducible.To solve this problem,we proposed an effective unified multi-task framework for dilated cardiomyopathy CMR segmentation and classification simultaneously,and we firstly update one independent encoder from both recovery decoder and parallel attention path sharing some partial weights.This can encode both task choices into good embedding,but each one can achieve significant improvements respectively from the given embedding.It consists of three branches:extraction path,attention path,and recovery path,which allows the model to learn more higher-level intermediate representations and makes a more accurate prediction.We validated our approach on a DCM dataset,which contains 1155 CMR LGE images.Experimental results show that our multi-task network has achieved accuracy of 97.63%,AUC of 98.32%,demonstrating effectively segmenting the myocardium,quickly and accurately diagnosing the presence or absence of dilation.

Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images Based on U-Net Multi-Task Learning

In order to accurately segment architectural features in highresolution remote sensing images,a semantic segmentation method based on U-net network multi-task learning is proposed.First,a boundary distance map was generated based on the remote sensing image of the ground truth map of the building.The remote sensing image and its truth map were used as the input in the U-net network,followed by the addition of the building ground prediction layer at the end of the U-net network.Based on the ResNet network,a multi-task network with the boundary distance prediction layer was built.Experiments involving the ISPRS aerial remote sensing image building and feature annotation data set show that compared with the full convolutional network combined with the multi-layer perceptron method,the intersection ratio of VGG16 network,VGG16+boundary prediction,ResNet50 and the method in this paper were increased by 5.15%,6.946%,6.41%and 7.86%.The accuracy of the networks was increased to 94.71%,95.39%,95.30%and 96.10%respectively,which resulted in high-precision extraction of building features.

面向多任务的船舶舱室布局区间优化设计研究

Searching for the optimal cabin layout plan is an efective way to improve the efciency of the overall design and reduce a ship’s operation costs.The multitasking states of a ship involve several statuses when facing diferent missions during a voyage,such as the status of the marine supply and emergency escape.The human fow and logistics between cabins will change as the state changes.An ideal cabin layout plan,which is directly impacted by the above-mentioned factors,can meet the diferent requirements of several statuses to a higher degree.Inevitable deviations exist in the quantifcation of human fow and logistics.Moreover,uncontrollability is present in the fow situation during actual operations.The coupling of these deviations and uncontrollability shows typical uncertainties,which must be considered in the design process.Thus,it is important to integrate the demands of the human fow and logistics in multiple states into an uncertainty parameter scheme.This research considers the uncertainties of adjacent and circulating strengths obtained after quantifying the human fow and logistics.Interval numbers are used to integrate them,a two-layer nested system of interval optimization is introduced,and diferent optimization algorithms are substituted for solving calculations.The comparison and analysis of the calculation results with deterministic optimization show that the conclusions obtained can provide feasible guidance for cabin layout scheme.

Multi-Task Deep Learning Based Hybrid Precoding for mmWave Massive MIMO System

Due to the different signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)of each subchannel,the bit error rate(BER)of hybrid precoding based on singular value decomposition(SVD)decreases.In this paper,we propose a multi-task learning based precoding network(PN)model to solve the BER loss problem caused by SVD based hybrid precoding under imperfect channel state information(CSI).Specifically,we firstly generate a dataset including imcomplete CSI input channel matrix and corresponding output labels to train the PN model.The output labels are designed based on uniform channel decomposition(UCD)which decomposes the channel into multiple subchannels with same gain,while the vertical-bell layered space-time structure(V-BLAST)signal processing technology is combined to eliminate the inner interference of the subchannels.Then,the PN model is trained to design the analog and digital precoding/combining matrix simultaneous.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme has only negligible gap in spectrum efficiency compared with the fully digital precoding,while achieves better BER performance than SVD based hybrid precoding.

Research on Modeling and Reusing of Computer Numerical Control Software with Object-oriented Technology

To improve the reusable and configurable ability of computer numerical control ( CNC ) software, a new method to construct reusable model of CNC software with object-oriented (OO) technology is proposed. Based on analyzing function of CNC software, the article presents how to construct a general class library of CNC software with OO technology. Most function modules of CNC software can he reused because of inheritable capability of classes. Besides, the article analyzes the object relational model in request/report mode, and multitask concurrent management model, which can he applied on double-CPU hardware platform and Windows 95/NT environment. Finally, the method has been successfully applied on a turning CNC system and a milling CNC system, and some function modules have been reused.

Design and realization of a novel multitask TT&C operation pattern

With the sharp increase of China＇s in-orbit spacecraft and the constraint TT＆C resources, a mathematical model for optimal TT＆C resource allocation is proposed, and the TT＆C facility remote monitoring function is designed to achieve the multitask operation pattern under the unified management of the network management center. With this pattern, the TT＆C network management and the spacecraft management are separated, which is quite different from the previous pattern. Further, a novel spacecraft TT＆C technique based on spacecraft control language is developed, and the telecommanding pattern is designed to address the spacecraft operation problems. The engineering application shows that this pattern fundamentally improves the TT＆C network capability, increases the resource efficiency, and satisfies the efficient, accurate, and flexible operation of spacecraft.

MULTITASK SCHEDULING IN NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATION TO LARGE SCALE VEHICLE CONTROL

Aiming at scheduling problems of networked control system （NCS） used to fulfill motion synthesis and cooperation control of the distributed multi-mechatronic systems, the differences of network scheduling and task scheduling are compared, and the mathematic description of task scheduling is presented. A performance index function of task scheduling of NCS according to task balance and traffic load matching principles is defined. According to this index, a static scheduling method is designed and implemented to controlling task set simulation of the DCY100 transportation vehicle. The simulation results are applied successfully to practical engineering in this case so as to validate the effectiveness of the proposed performance index and scheduling algorithm.

Machine Learning: A Review

Due to the complexity of data,interpretation of pattern or extraction of information becomes difficult;therefore application of machine learning is used to teach machines how to handle data more efficiently.With the increase of datasets,various organizations now apply machine learning applications and algorithms.Many industries apply machine learning to extract relevant information for analysis purposes.Many scholars,mathematicians and programmers have carried out research and applied several machine learning approaches in order to find solution to problems.In this paper,we focus on general review of machine learning including various machine learning techniques.These techniques can be applied to different fields like image processing,data mining,predictive analysis and so on.The paper aims at reviewing machine learning techniques and algorithms.The research methodology is based on qualitative analysis where various literatures is being reviewed based on machine learning.

CFP:A Coherence-Free Processor Design

This paper presents the design of a Coherence-Free Processor(CFP)that enables a scalable multiprocessor by eliminating cache coherence operations in both hardware and software.The CFP uses a coherence-free cache(CFC)that can improve the cost-effectiveness and performance-effectiveness of the existing multiprocessors for commonly used workloads.The CFC is feasible because not all program data that reside in a multiprocessor cache need to be accessed by other processors,and private caches at level 1(L1)and level 2(L2)facilitate this method of sharing.Reentrant programs are specifically designed to protect their data from modification by other tasks.Program data that are modified but not shared with other tasks do not require a coherence protocol.Adding processors reduces the multitasking queue,reducing elapsed time.Simultaneous execution replaces concurrent execution.