The Sensitive Regions Identified by CNOPs of Three Typhoon Events

In this paper, several sets of observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) were designed for three typhoon cases to determine whether or not the additional observation data in the sensitive regions identified by conditional nonlinear optimal perturbations (CNOPs) could improve the short-range forecast of typhoons. The results show that the CNOPs capture the sensitive regions for typhoon forecasts, which implies that conducting additional observation in these specific regions and eliminating initial errors could reduce forecast errors. It is inferred from the results that dropping sondes in the CNOP sensitive regions could lead to improvements in typhoon forecasts.

Optimized Strategy for Layout of Crop Production Areas in Hunan Province

The optimized strategy made a comprehensive consideration of resources, technology, market orientation, production scale, industry basis and layout based on the principle of crop security and farmers’ income increasing, and determined the general planning on layout and structure optimization of future crop production ar-eas, with present crop production, market outlook, future industry development, con-cluding crop production characteristics of the 4 crop regions, and proposing function orientation and highlights.

A randomized nonmonotone adaptive trust region method based on the simulated annealing strategy for unconstrained optimization

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to employ stochastic techniques to increase efficiency of the classical algorithms for solving nonlinear optimization problems.Design/methodology/approach–The well-known simulated annealing strategy is employed to search successive neighborhoods of the classical trust region(TR)algorithm.Findings–An adaptive formula for computing the TR radius is suggested based on an eigenvalue analysis conducted on the memoryless Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno updating formula.Also,a(heuristic)randomized adaptive TR algorithm is developed for solving unconstrained optimization problems.Results of computational experiments on a set of CUTEr test problems show that the proposed randomization scheme can enhance efficiency of the TR methods.Practical implications–The algorithm can be effectively used for solving the optimization problems which appear in engineering,economics,management,industry and other areas.Originality/value–The proposed randomization scheme improves computational costs of the classical TR algorithm.Especially,the suggested algorithm avoids resolving the TR subproblems for many times.

A NONMONOTONIC TRUST REGION TECHNIQUE FOR NONLINEAR CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION

In this paper, a nonmonotonic trust region method for optimization problems with equality constraints is proposed by introducing a nonsmooth merit function and adopting a correction step. It is proved that all accumulation points of the iterates generated by the proposed algorithm are Kuhn-Tucker points and that the algorithm is q-superlinearly convergent.

Improved region growing segmentation for breast cancer detection:progression of optimized fuzzy classifier

Purpose-Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women,which badly have an effect on women’s physical and psychological health and even danger to life.Nowadays,mammography is considered as a fundamental criterion for medical practitioners to recognize breast cancer.Though,due to the intricate formation of mammogram images,it is reasonably hard for practitioners to spot breast cancer features.Design/methodology/approach-Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women,which badly have an effect on women’s physical and psychological health and even danger to life.Nowadays,mammography is considered as a fundamental criterion for medical practitioners to recognize breast cancer.Though,due to the intricate formation of mammogram images,it is reasonably hard for practitioners to spot breast cancer features.Findings-The performance analysis was done for both segmentation and classification.From the analysis,the accuracy of the proposed IAP-CSA-based fuzzy was 41.9%improved than the fuzzy classifier,2.80%improved than PSO,WOA,and CSA,and 2.32%improved than GWO-based fuzzy classifiers.Additionally,the accuracy of the developed IAP-CSA-fuzzy was 9.54%better than NN,35.8%better than SVM,and 41.9%better than the existing fuzzy classifier.Hence,it is concluded that the implemented breast cancer detection model was efficient in determining the normal,benign and malignant images.Originality/value-This paper adopts the latest Improved Awareness Probability-based Crow Search Algorithm(IAP-CSA)-based Region growing and fuzzy classifier for enhancing the breast cancer detection of mammogram images,and this is the first work that utilizes this method.

Regional constrained control problem for a class of semilinear distributed systems

The aim of this paper is to investigate a regional constrained optimal control problem for a class of semi[inear distributed systems, which are linear in the control but nonlinear in the state. For a quadratic cost functional and a closed convex set of admissible controls, the existence of an optimal control is proven, and then this is characterized for three cases of constraints. A useful algorithm is developed, and the approach is illustrated through simulations for a heat equation.