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Multi-module high voltage pulse generator based on DC-DC boost converter and CDVMs for drinking water purification
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)High pulsed electric field (PEF) can be used effectively in drinking water purification, by applying it across the water sample to be treated. Application of sufficient high PEF guarantees killing of harmful germs and ... -
Multi-objective model predictive control for grid-tied 15-level packed U cells inverter
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a multi-objective Model Predictive Control (MPC) for grid-tied 4-cell 15-level Packed U Cells (PUC) inverter. This challenging topology is characterized by high power quality with reduced number of ... -
Multi-objective optimal design of hybrid renewable energy systems using PSO-simulation based approach
( Elsevier Ltd , 2014 , Article)Recently, the increasing energy demand has caused dramatic consumption of fossil fuels and unavoidable raising energy prices. Moreover, environmental effect of fossil fuel led to the need of using renewable energy (RE) to ... -
Multi-objective optimisation of facility location decisions within integrated forward/reverse logistics under uncertainty
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)Increasing interest to the environmental, social and economic aspects of the supply chains has motivated supply chain managers to optimise location-allocation decisions within closed-loop logistics networks. This paper ... -
Multi-objective optimization methodology to size cogeneration systems for managing flares from uncertain sources during abnormal process operations
( Elsevier Ltd , 2015 , Article)Flaring is common practice in industries to reduce the risk during abnormal situations, to maintain the product quality or to operate safely during process start up and shut down. Due to its large negative impacts on the ... -
Multi-Objective Optimization Model for Inspection Scheduling of Sewer Pipelines
( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2019 , Article)Inspection activities play an important role in the operation and maintenance (O&M) strategy in municipalities. Efficient O&M strategies can help in making informed decisions based on the actual condition of pipelines ... -
Multi-objective scheduling of micro-services for optimal service function chains
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Lately application service providers (ASPs) and Internet service providers (ISPs) are being confronted with the unprecedented challenge of accommodating increasing service and traffic demands from their geographically ... -
Multi-Objective Security Hardening Optimisation for Dynamic Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Hardening the dynamic networks is a very challenging task due to their complexity and dynamicity. Moreover, there may be multi-objectives to satisfy, while containing the solutions within the constraints (e.g., fixed budget, ... -
Multi-objective sensor placement using the effective independence model (SPEM) for wireless sensor networks in structural health monitoring
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)This paper studies the optimal placement problem in structural health monitoring (SHM) using wireless sensor networks (WSN). This problem is formulated as a refined multi-objective optimization problem with various constraints ... -
Multi-Order Statistical Descriptors for Real-Time Face Recognition and Object Classification
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)We propose novel multi-order statistical descriptors which can be used for high speed object classification or face recognition from videos or image sets. We represent each gallery set with a global second-order statistic ... -
Multi-person head segmentation in low resolution crowd scenes using convolutional encoder-decoder framework
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Conference Paper)Person head detection in crowded scenes becomes a challenging task if facial features are absent, resolution is low and viewing angles are unfavorable. Motion and out-of-focus blur along with headwear of varying shapes ... -
Multi-resampling Doppler compensation in cooperative underwater OFDM systems
( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)We consider a multi-carrier cooperative underwater acoustic communication (UWAC) system and investigate the Doppler scaling problem arising due to the motion of different nodes. Specifically, we assume an orthogonal frequency ... -
Multi-scale-based Network for Image Dehazing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2023 , Article)Image and video dehazing is a difficult subject that has received a lot of attention in the field of computer vision. The presence of air haze in photos and movies can reduce visual quality dramatically, resulting in a ... -
Multi-sensor degradation data analysis
( Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC , 2013 , Conference Paper)Multiple sensors are commonly used for degradation monitoring of critical components. The degradation indicators derived from these sensors are significantly different in terms of scale and interpretation. Since these ... -
Multi-sensor fusion based on multiple classifier systems for human activity identification
( Springer Berlin Heidelberg , 2019 , Article)Multimodal sensors in healthcare applications have been increasingly researched because it facilitates automatic and comprehensive monitoring of human behaviors, high-intensity sports management, energy expenditure estimation, ... -
Multi-stage intra-patient template matching for prostate detection in MR volumes
(2013 , Conference Paper)Detecting objects, a significant task in computer vision, is accompanied with many challenges. When we focus on medical images, the challenges of detecting an organ or a tumour exhibit their own specific difficulties. ... -
Multi-Symbol Rate NOMA for Improving Connectivity in 6G Communications Networks
( IEEE , 2024 , Article)In non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), user pairing, power allocation, and performance evaluation are typically performed assuming all users have equal symbol rates. However, such an assumption can significantly limit ... -
Multi-Task DRL for Rate Control in RIS-Assisted Multi-Cell Dual-Connectivity HetNets
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has recently emerged as an enabling technology to enhance reliability and overcome blockage in future heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets). Adjusting amplitudes and phases of ... -
Multi-tasking for cost-efficient mobile crowdsensing under uniformity constraints
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In a practical Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) system, there usually exist multiple heterogeneous MCS tasks, each with a different set of requirements for completion. The coexistence of these MCS tasks presents a need to study ... -
Multi-terminal Hvdc system with offshore wind farms under anomalous conditions: Stability assessment
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Droop control is widely adopted to control Multi-Terminal high-voltage Direct Current (MTDC) systems with offshore wind farms. During permanent faults, the faulty line should be isolated promptly to preserve a high reliability ...