Dimension-down iterative algorithm for the mixed transportation network design problem

An optimal dimension-down iterative algorithm （DDIA） is proposed for solving a mixed （continuous/ discrete） transportation network design problem （MNDP）, which is generally expressed as a mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints （MPEC）. The upper level of the MNDP aims to optimize the network performance via both the expansion of existing links and the addition of new candidate links, whereas the lower level is a traditional Wardrop user equilibrium （UE） model. The idea of the proposed DDIA is to reduce the dimensions of the problem. A group of variables （discrete/continuous） are fixed to altemately optimize another group of variables （continuous/discrete）. Some continuous network design problems （CNDPs） and discrete network design problems （DNDPs） are solved repeatedly until the optimal solution is obtained. A numerical example is given to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.

Performance Analysis of Mixed Amplify-and-Forward and Decode-and-Forward Protocol in Underlay Cognitive Networks

In this paper, we propose and evaluate outage performance of a mixed amplify-and-forward(AF) and decode-and-forward(DF) relaying protocol in underlay cognitive radio. Different from the conventional AF and DF protocols, in the proposed protocol, a secondary source attempts to transmit its signal to a secondary destination with help of two secondary relays. One secondary relay always operates in AF mode, while the remaining one always operates in DF mode. Moreover, we also propose a relay selection method, which relies on the decoding status at the DF relay. For performance evaluation and comparison, we derive the exact and approximate closedform expressions of the outage probability for the proposed protocol over Rayleigh fading channel. Finally, we run Monte Carlo simulations to verify the derivations. Results presented that the proposed protocol obtains a diversity order of three and the outage performance of our scheme is between that of the conventional underlay DF protocol and that of the conventional underlay AF protocol.

Identification of Key Links in Electric Power Operation Based-Spatiotemporal Mixing Convolution Neural Network

As the scale of the power system continues to expand,the environment for power operations becomes more and more complex.Existing risk management and control methods for power operations can only set the same risk detection standard and conduct the risk detection for any scenario indiscriminately.Therefore,more reliable and accurate security control methods are urgently needed.In order to improve the accuracy and reliability of the operation risk management and control method,this paper proposes a method for identifying the key links in the whole process of electric power operation based on the spatiotemporal hybrid convolutional neural network.To provide early warning and control of targeted risks,first,the video stream is framed adaptively according to the pixel changes in the video stream.Then,the optimized MobileNet is used to extract the feature map of the video stream,which contains both time-series and static spatial scene information.The feature maps are combined and non-linearly mapped to realize the identification of dynamic operating scenes.Finally,training samples and test samples are produced by using the whole process image of a power company in Xinjiang as a case study,and the proposed algorithm is compared with the unimproved MobileNet.The experimental results demonstrated that the method proposed in this paper can accurately identify the type and start and end time of each operation link in the whole process of electric power operation,and has good real-time performance.The average accuracy of the algorithm can reach 87.8%,and the frame rate is 61 frames/s,which is of great significance for improving the reliability and accuracy of security control methods.

Improved deep mixed kernel randomized network for wind speed prediction

Forecasting wind speed is an extremely complicated and challenging problem due to its chaotic nature and its dependence on several atmospheric conditions.Although there are several intelligent techniques in the literature for wind speed prediction,their accuracies are not yet very reliable.Therefore,in this paper,a new hybrid intelligent technique named the deep mixed kernel random vector functional-link network auto-encoder(AE)is proposed for wind speed prediction.The proposed method eliminates manual tuning of hidden nodes with random weights and biases,providing prediction model generalization and representation learning.This reduces reconstruction error due to the exact inversion of the kernel matrix,unlike the pseudo-inverse in a random vector functional-link network,and short-ens the execution time.Furthermore,the presence of a direct link from the input to the output reduces the complexity of the prediction model and improves the prediction accuracy.The kernel parameters and coefficients of the mixed kernel system are optimized using a new chaotic sine–cosine Levy flight optimization technique.The lowest errors in terms of mean absolute error(0.4139),mean absolute percentage error(4.0081),root mean square error(0.4843),standard deviation error(1.1431)and index of agreement(0.9733)prove the efficiency of the proposed model in comparison with other deep learning models such as deep AEs,deep kernel extreme learning ma-chine AEs,deep kernel random vector functional-link network AEs,benchmark models such as least square support vector machine,autoregressive integrated moving average,extreme learning machines and their hybrid models along with different state-of-the-art methods.

States and transitions in mixed networks

A network is named as mixed network if it is composed of N nodes, the dynamics of some nodes are periodic, while the others are chaotic. The mixed network with all-to-all coupling and its correspond- ing networks after the nonlinearity gap-condition pruning are investigated. Several synchronization states are demonstrated in both systems, and a first-order phase transition is proposed. The mixture of dynamics implies any kind of synchronous dynamics for the whole network, and the inixed networks may be controlled by the nonlinearity gap-condition pruning.

Priority-Based Mixed Assembly Supporting Differentiated Service for Optical Burst Switched Networks

In order to have a better support of differentiated service, we propose Priority-based mixed burst assembly, in which packets of different priorities are assembled in a burst with an assigned proportion, and the priorities are lined in an ascending order in a burst from head to tail. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs very well in terms of latency and packet loss probability.

Mixed Hierarchical Networks for Deep Entity Matching

Entity matching is a fundamental problem of data integration.It groups records according to underlying real-world entities.There is a growing trend of entity matching via deep learning techniques.We design mixed hierarchical deep neural networks(MHN)for entity matching,exploiting semantics from different abstract levels in the record internal hierarchy.A family of attention mechanisms is utilized in different periods of entity matching.Self-attention focuses on internal dependency,inter-attention targets at alignments,and multi-perspective weight attention is devoted to importance discrimination.Especially,hybrid soft token alignment is proposed to address corrupted data.Attribute order is for the first time considered in deep entity matching.Then,to reduce utilization of labeled training data,we propose an adversarial domain adaption approach(DA-MHN)to transfer matching knowledge between different entity matching tasks by maximizing classifier discrepancy.Finally,we conduct comprehensive experimental evaluations on 10 datasets(seven for MHN and three for DA-MHN),which illustrate our two proposed approaches1 superiorities.MHN apparently outperforms previous studies in accuracy,and also each component of MHN is tested.DA-MHN greatly surpasses existing studies in transferability.