International Transactions in Operational Research,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Май 7, 2025
Abstract
In
the
context
of
sustainability,
which
has
become
fundamental
today,
we
aim
to
optimize
(reduce)
energy
consumption
due
use
pumps
that
bring
water
from
all
different
reservoirs
nodes
distribution
network.
The
proposed
model
allows
us,
thanks
smart
meters
and
new
5G
technologies,
determine
optimal
strategies
(i.e.,
flows
pumped
by
each
pump
network),
taking
into
account
quality
indices
reservoir
guaranteeing
conditions
required
law.
We
formulate
nonlinear
optimization
problem
as
a
game
in
manager
acts
noncooperative
manner
while
satisfying
some
shared
constraints.
Hence,
variational
formulation
is
also
for
simultaneously,
with
existence
uniqueness
results.
Finally,
simulations
highlight
how
strategy
useful.
npj Computational Materials,
Год журнала:
2021,
Номер
7(1)
Опубликована: Ноя. 18, 2021
Abstract
Bayesian
optimization
(BO)
has
been
leveraged
for
guiding
autonomous
and
high-throughput
experiments
in
materials
science.
However,
few
have
evaluated
the
efficiency
of
BO
across
a
broad
range
experimental
domains.
In
this
work,
we
quantify
performance
with
collection
surrogate
model
acquisition
function
pairs
five
diverse
systems.
By
defining
acceleration
enhancement
metrics
objectives,
find
that
models
such
as
Gaussian
Process
(GP)
anisotropic
kernels
Random
Forest
(RF)
comparable
BO,
both
outperform
commonly
used
GP
isotropic
kernels.
demonstrated
most
robustness,
yet
RF
is
close
alternative
warrants
more
consideration
because
it
free
from
distribution
assumptions,
smaller
time
complexity,
requires
less
effort
initial
hyperparameter
selection.
We
also
raise
awareness
about
benefits
using
future
campaigns.
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
261, С. 104307 - 104307
Опубликована: Янв. 21, 2024
The
Rooppur
Nuclear
Power
Plant
(RNPP)
at
Ishwardi,
Bangladesh
is
planning
to
go
into
operation
within
2024
and
therefore,
adjacent
areas
of
RNPP
gaining
adequate
attention
from
the
scientific
community
for
environmental
monitoring
purposes
especially
water
resources
management.
However,
there
a
substantial
lack
literature
as
well
datasets
earlier
years
since
very
little
was
done
beginning
RNPP's
construction
phase.
Therefore,
this
study
conducted
assess
potential
toxic
elements
(PTEs)
contamination
in
groundwater
its
associated
health
risk
residents
part
during
year
2014–2015.
For
achieving
aim
study,
samples
were
collected
seasonally
(dry
wet
season)
nine
sampling
sites
afterwards
analyzed
quality
indicators
such
temperature
(Temp.),
pH,
electrical
conductivity
(EC),
total
dissolved
solid
(TDS),
hardness
(TH)
PTEs
including
Iron
(Fe),
Manganese
(Mn),
Copper
(Cu),
Lead
(Pb),
Chromium
(Cr),
Cadmium
(Cd)
Arsenic
(As).
This
adopted
newly
developed
Root
Mean
Square
index
(RMS-WQI)
model
scenario
whereas
human
assessment
utilized
quantify
toxicity
PTEs.
In
most
sites,
concentration
found
higher
season
than
dry
Fe,
Mn,
Cd
As
exceeded
guideline
limit
drinking
water.
RMS
score
mostly
classified
terms
"Fair"
condition.
non-carcinogenic
risks
(expressed
Hazard
Index-HI)
revealed
that
around
44%
89%
adults
67%
100%
children
threshold
set
by
USEPA
(HI
>
1)
possessed
through
oral
pathway
season,
respectively.
Furthermore,
calculated
cumulative
HI
throughout
period.
carcinogenic
(CR)
PTEs,
magnitude
decreased
following
pattern
Cr
Cd.
Although
current
based
on
old
dataset,
findings
might
serve
baseline
reduce
future
hazardous
impact
power
plant.
arXiv (Cornell University),
Год журнала:
2021,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2021
This
paper
presents
the
results
and
insights
from
black-box
optimization
(BBO)
challenge
at
NeurIPS
2020
which
ran
July-October,
2020.
The
emphasized
importance
of
evaluating
derivative-free
optimizers
for
tuning
hyperparameters
machine
learning
models.
was
first
with
a
emphasis.
It
based
on
(validation
set)
performance
standard
models
real
datasets.
competition
has
widespread
impact
as
(e.g.,
Bayesian
optimization)
is
relevant
hyperparameter
in
almost
every
project
well
many
applications
outside
learning.
final
leaderboard
determined
using
held-out
(hidden)
objective
functions,
where
without
human
intervention.
Baselines
were
set
default
settings
several
open-source
packages
random
search.
Water,
Год журнала:
2018,
Номер
10(5), С. 579 - 579
Опубликована: Апрель 29, 2018
Protection
of
the
water
system
is
paramount
due
to
negative
consequences
contaminated
on
public
health.
Water
resources
are
one
critical
infrastructures
that
must
be
preserved
from
deliberate
and
accidental
attacks.
qualities
examined
at
treatment
plant.
However,
its
quality
can
substantially
during
transportation
plant
consumers’
taps.
Contamination
in
distribution
networks
(WDNs)
a
danger
have
severe
health
as
well
an
economic
social
instability.
immensely
susceptible
or
attacks
complex
nature
system.
Hence,
contamination
source
identification
(CSI)
topical
issue
systems
require
immediate
attention
researchers
order
protect
mankind
adverse
effect
consuming
water.
Usually,
contaminant
event
detected
by
monitoring
sensors
warning
(CWS)
installed
network.
Nevertheless,
how
derive
collected
information
difficult
task
tackled
evaluate
spread
for
remedial
strategies.
In
past
two
decades,
considerable
efforts
advancement
been
made
applying
various
techniques
locate
WDNs.
Each
has
certain
limitations
applicability
reported
literature.
This
paper
presents
comprehensive
review
existing
with
emphasis
their
importance
technical
challenges.
Despite
series
investigations
this
domain,
field
yet
unified.
open
research
areas
still
available
explore.
Consequently,
improvement
necessary
hereby
suggested.
More
importantly,
practical
application
these
offer
major
gap
addressed.
Journal of Global Optimization,
Год журнала:
2019,
Номер
79(2), С. 281 - 303
Опубликована: Дек. 2, 2019
Abstract
This
paper
presents
a
sequential
model
based
optimization
framework
for
optimizing
black-box,
multi-extremal
and
expensive
objective
function,
which
is
also
partially
defined,
that
it
undefined
outside
the
feasible
region.
Furthermore,
constraints
defining
region
within
search
space
are
unknown.
The
approach
proposed
in
this
paper,
namely
SVM-CBO,
organized
two
consecutive
phases,
first
uses
Support
Vector
Machine
classifier
to
approximate
boundary
of
unknown
region,
second
Bayesian
Optimization
find
globally
optimal
solution
In
phase
next
point
evaluate
chosen
by
dealing
with
trade-off
between
improving
current
estimate
discovering
possible
disconnected
sub-regions.
phase,
selected
as
minimizer
Lower
Confidence
Bound
acquisition
function
but
constrained
main
comparison
process
fixed
penalty
value
infeasible
evaluations,
under
limited
budget
(i.e.,
maximum
number
evaluations).
Results
related
five
2D
test
functions
from
literature
80
functions,
increasing
dimensionality
complexity,
generated
through
Emmental-type
GKLS
software.
SVM-CBO
proved
be
significantly
more
effective
well
computationally
efficient.