Asphalt is a complex multi-component material widely used in road engineering, waterproofing and other applications 1,2. Based on its compositional characteristics, asphalt is typically divided into ...

Abstract: In this paper is presented a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model that maximizes the Photovoltaic-based (PV-based) hosting capacity (HC) in unbalanced and active distribution ...

Modeling marketing and pricing decisions based on historical data is one of the most efficient ways to guide business strategies. This article shows how statistics and programming work together to ...

Linear algebra is central to many algorithms in engineering, science, and machine learning; hence, accelerating it would have tremendous economic impact. Quantum computing has been proposed for this ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Nowadays, frontiers among different sciences are revealed as diffuse, and as a ...

Many complex data analysis problems within and beyond the scientific domain involve discovering graphical structures and functional relationships within data. Nonlinear variance decomposition with ...

Abstract: This paper presents a tabu search-based heuristic solver for general integer linear programming (ILP) problems as a dependable alternative to branch-and-bound (B&B) solvers. It aims to ...

1 Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. 2 Department of Business Administration, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. This paper presents a new dimension reduction strategy ...

The demand for a company's products is the driving force for production. This demand is established by the sales and marketing function which will have its budget called the 'Sales Budget'. This ...

Seismic vulnerability assessment is crucial for evaluating the resilience of structures. OpenSees, an open-access and versatile tool, plays a pivotal role in accurately simulating the complex behavior ...

In many scientific fields including neuroscience, climatology or physics, complex relationships can be described most parsimoniously by non-linear mechanics. Despite their relevance, many ...