一种基于区间数多指标信息的FCM聚类算法

针对一类具有不确定性区间数多指标信息的聚类分析问题，依据传统的基于数值信息的FCM聚类算法的思路，提出了一种新的聚类分析算法。章首先描述了具有区间数多指标信息的聚类分析问题；其次给出了基于区间数多指标信息的关于最优划分和最优聚类中心确定的两个定理；然后给出了基于区间数多指标信息的FCM聚类算法的计算步骤。该算法的特点是聚类中心的表现形式为精确的数值，给出的两个定理说明了该聚类算法的收敛性。最后，通过给出一个算例说明了本给出的聚类算法。     

一种求解救灾物资运输问题的改进解法

本文通过对B运输问题建立数学模型,提出了一种求解B运输问题的改进解法。改进解法首先通过最小元素法求出初始解,然后进行变量闭回路法调整,直到求出最优解,并给出了一个计算实例证明了解法的有效性。文章还对改进解法和另外两种现有的算法进行了综合的分析,由于改进解法计算过程中采用的变量闭回路法省略了求检验数的环节,使得新算法比两种现有的算法更简便。     

Finite iterative algorithm for the complex generalized Sylvester tensor equations

A finite iterative algorithm is proposed to solve a class of complex generalized Sylvester tensor equations. The properties of this proposed algorithm are discussed based on a real inner product of two complex tensors and the finite convergence of this algorithm is obtained. Two numerical examples are offered to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

Sequencing by hybridization: an enhanced crossover operator for a hybrid genetic algorithm

This paper presents a genetic algorithm for an important computational biology problem. The problem appears in the computational part of a new proposal for DNA sequencing denominated sequencing by hybridization. The general usage of this method for real sequencing purposes depends mainly on the development of good algorithmic procedures for solving its computational phase. The proposed genetic algorithm is a modified version of a previously proposed hybrid genetic algorithm for the same problem. It is compared with two well suited meta-heuristic approaches reported in the literature: the hybrid genetic algorithm, which is the origin of our proposed variant, and a tabu-scatter search algorithm. Experimental results carried out on real DNA data show the advantages of using the proposed algorithm. Furthermore, statistical tests confirm the superiority of the proposed variant over the state-of-the-art heuristics.     

A hybrid simulated annealing and column generation approach for capacitated multicommodity network design

This paper presents a hybrid simulated annealing (SA) and column generation (CG) algorithm for the path-based formulation of the capacitated multicommodity network design (PCMND) problem. In the proposed method, the SA metaheuristic algorithm manages open and closed arcs. Several strategies for adding and dropping arcs are suggested and evaluated. For a given design vector in the proposed hybrid approach, the PCMND problem becomes a capacitated multicommodity minimum cost flow (CMCF) problem. The exact evaluation of the CMCF problem is performed using the CG algorithm. The parameter tuning is done by means of design of experiments approach. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by solving several benchmark instances. The results of the proposed algorithm are compared with the solutions of CPLEX solver and the best-known method in the literature under different time limits. Statistical analysis proves that the proposed algorithm is able to obtain better solutions.     

A Newton Acceleration of the Weiszfeld Algorithm for Minimizing the Sum of Euclidean Distances

The Weiszfeld algorithm for continuous location problems can be considered as an iteratively reweighted least squares method. It generally exhibits linear convergence. In this paper, a Newton algorithm with similar simplicity is proposed to solve a continuous multifacility location problem with the Euclidean distance measure. Similar to the Weiszfeld algorithm, the main computation can be solving a weighted least squares problem at each iteration. A Cholesky factorization of a symmetric positive definite band matrix, typically with a small band width (e.g., a band width of two for a Euclidean location problem on a plane) is performed. This new algorithm can be regarded as a Newton acceleration to the Weiszfeld algorithm with fast global and local convergence. The simplicity and efficiency of the proposed algorithm makes it particularly suitable for large-scale Euclidean location problems and parallel implementation. Computational experience suggests that the proposed algorithm often performs well in the absence of the linear independence or strict complementarity assumption. In addition, the proposed algorithm is proven to be globally convergent under similar assumptions for the Weiszfeld algorithm. Although local convergence analysis is still under investigation, computation results suggest that it is typically superlinearly convergent.     

Solving sum of quadratic ratios fractional programs via monotonic function

In this paper, a branch-reduce-bound algorithm is proposed for globally solving a sum of quadratic ratios fractional programming with nonconvex quadratic constraints. Due to its intrinsic difficulty, less work has been devoted to globally solving this problem. The proposed algorithm is based on reformulating the problem as a monotonic optimization problem, and it turns out that the optimal solution which is provided by the algorithm is adequately guaranteed to be feasible and to be close to the actual optimal solution. Convergence of the algorithm is shown and the numerical experiments are given to show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.     

快速三维散乱数据点重建算法

提出了一种快速三维散乱数据点重建算法.我们对包围盒算法进行了改进,减少了建立散乱点近邻关系所需的计算量;同时针对位置相对平坦的数据点,结合最小二乘法给出了一种计算法矢的混合方法.实例表明,该算法是有效的.     

求线性比试和问题的确定性全局优化算法

为求线性比试和问题的全局最优解,本文给出了一个分支定界算法.通过一个等价问题和一个新的线性化松弛技巧,初始的非凸规划问题归结为一系列线性规划问题的求解.借助于这一系列线性规划问题的解,算法可收敛于初始非凸规划问题的最优解.算法的计算量主要是一些线性规划问题的求解.数值算例表明算法是切实可行的.     

Boosting the Generalized Margin in Cost-Sensitive Multiclass Classification

The boosting algorithm is one of the most successful binary classification techniques due to its relative immunity to overfitting and flexible implementation. Several attempts have been made to extend the binary boosting algorithm to multiclass classification. In this article, a novel cost-sensitive multiclass boosting algorithm is proposed that naturally extends the popular binary AdaBoost algorithm and admits unequal misclassification costs. The proposed multiclass boosting algorithm achieves superior classification performance by combining weak candidate models that only need to be better than random guessing. More importantly, the proposed algorithm achieves a large margin separation of the training sample while attaining an L₁-norm constraint on the model complexity. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated in a number of simulated and real experiments. The supplementary files are available online, including the technical proofs, the implemented R code, and the real datasets.     

An effective adaptive trust region algorithm for nonsmooth minimization

In this paper, an adaptive trust region algorithm that uses Moreau–Yosida regularization is proposed for solving nonsmooth unconstrained optimization problems. The proposed algorithm combines a modified secant equation with the BFGS update formula and an adaptive trust region radius, and the new trust region radius utilizes not only the function information but also the gradient information. The global convergence and the local superlinear convergence of the proposed algorithm are proven under suitable conditions. Finally, the preliminary results from comparing the proposed algorithm with some existing algorithms using numerical experiments reveal that the proposed algorithm is quite promising for solving nonsmooth unconstrained optimization problems.     

Multiobjective big data optimization based on a hybrid salp swarm algorithm and differential evolution

This paper developed a multiobjective Big Data optimization approach based on a hybrid salp swarm algorithm and the differential evolution algorithm. The role of the differential evolution algorithm is to enhance the capability of the feature exploitation of the salp swarm algorithm because the operators of the differential evolution algorithm are used as local search operators. In general, the proposed method contains three stages. In the first stage, the population is generated, and the archive is initialized. The second stage updates the solutions using the hybrid salp swarm algorithm and the differential evolution algorithm, and the final stage determines the nondominated solutions and updates the archive. To assess the performance of the proposed approach, a series of experiments were performed. A set of single-objective and multiobjective problems from the 2015 Big Data optimization competition were tested; the dataset contained data with and without noise. The results of our experiments illustrated that the proposed approach outperformed other approaches, including the baseline nondominated sorting genetic algorithm, on all test problems. Moreover, for single-objective problems, the score value of the proposed method was better than that of the traditional multiobjective salp swarm algorithm. When compared with both algorithms, that is, the adaptive DE algorithm with external archive and the hybrid multiobjective firefly algorithm, its score was the largest. In contrast, for the multiobjective functions, the scores of the proposed algorithm were higher than that of the fireworks algorithm framework.     

求解非线性单调方程组的一种无导数投影算法

推广了一种修正的CG_DESCENT共轭梯度方法,并建立了一种有效求解非线性单调方程组问题的无导数投影算法.在适当的线搜索条件下,证明了算法的全局收敛性.由于新算法不需要借助任何导数信息,故它适应于求解大规模非光滑的非线性单调方程组问题.大量的数值试验表明,新算法对给定的测试问题是有效的.     

Grid Restrained Nelder-Mead Algorithm

Probably the most popular algorithm for unconstrained minimization for problems of moderate dimension is the Nelder-Mead algorithm published in 1965. Despite its age only limited convergence results exist. Several counterexamples can be found in the literature for which the algorithm performs badly or even fails. A convergent variant derived from the original Nelder-Mead algorithm is presented. The proposed algorithm's convergence is based on the principle of grid restrainment and therefore does not require sufficient descent as the recent convergent variant proposed by Price, Coope, and Byatt. Convergence properties of the proposed grid-restrained algorithm are analysed. Results of numerical testing are also included and compared to the results of the algorithm proposed by Price et al. The results clearly demonstrate that the proposed grid-restrained algorithm is an efficient direct search method.     

A simple algorithm to search for all MCs in networks

Evaluating the network reliability is an important topic in the planning, designing, and control of systems. The minimal cut (MC, an edge set) set is one of the major and fundamental tools for evaluating the network reliability. In this study, an alternative method is given to define a MC using a node set (called MCV). A very simple algorithm based on some intuitive theorems that characterize the structure of the MCV and the relationship between MC and MCV is developed to find the MCs between two special nodes. The proposed algorithm is then generalized to find all MCs between all pairs of nodes. The proposed algorithm is not only easier to understand and implement, but is also better than the existing best-known algorithm. The correctness of the proposed algorithm will be analyzed and proven. One example is illustrated to show how all MCs are generated and verified in a network using the proposed algorithm.     

Novel algorithm for reconstruction of a distribution by fitting its first-four statistical moments

This paper proposes a novel algorithm to reconstruct an unknown distribution by fitting its first-four moments to a proper parametrized probability distribution (PPD) model. First, a PPD system containing three previously developed PPD models is suggested to approximate the unknown distribution, rather than empirically adopting a single distribution model. Then, a two-step algorithm based on the moments matching criterion and the maximum entropy principle is proposed to specify the appropriate (final) PPD model in the system for the distribution. The proposed algorithm is first verified by approximating several commonly used analytical distributions, along with a set of real dataset, where the existing measures are also employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed two-step algorithm. Further, the effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated through an application to three typical moments-based reliability problems. It is found that the proposed algorithm is a robust tool for selecting an appropriate PPD model in the system for recovering an unknown distribution by fitting its first-four moments.     

顺序相依拆卸线平衡多目标优化模型及算法研究

拆卸是产品回收过程最关键环节之一,拆卸效率直接影响再制造成本。本文在分析现有模型不足基础上,考虑最小化总拆卸时间,建立多目标顺序相依拆卸线平衡问题优化模型,并提出了一种自适应进化变邻域搜索算法。所提算法引入种群进化机制,并采用一种组合策略构建初始种群,通过锦标赛法选择个体进化;在局部搜索时,设计了邻域结构自适应选择策略,并采用基于交叉的全局学习机制加速跳出局部最优,以提高算法寻优能力。对比实验结果,证实了所提模型的合理性以及算法的高效性。     

多目标规划的一种混合遗传算法

本文利用遗传算法的全局搜索内能力及直接搜索算法的局部优化能力，提出了一种用于多目标规划的混合遗传算法．与Pareto遗传算法相比．本文提出的算法能提高多目标遗传算法优化搜索效率，并保证了能得到适舍决策者要求的Pareto最优解．最后，理论与实践证明其有有效性．     

一类大规模二次规划问题的可行下降分解算法

本文对一类大规模二次规划问题，提出了矩阵剖分的概念和方法，并将问题转化为求解一系列容易求解的小规模二次规划子问题．另外，通过施加某些约束机制，使子问题所产生的迭代点均为可行下降点．在通常的假定下，证明算法具有全局收敛性，大量数值实验表明，本文所提出的新算法是有效的。     

An improved training algorithm for feedforward neural network learning based on terminal attractors

In this paper, an improved training algorithm based on the terminal attractor concept for feedforward neural network learning is proposed. A condition to avoid the singularity problem is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by various simulation results for a function approximation problem and a stock market index prediction problem. It is shown that the terminal attractor based training algorithm performs consistently in comparison with other existing training algorithms.