The rapid development of photovoltaic (PV) technology and the growing number and size of
PV power plants require increasingly efficient and intelligent health monitoring strategies to …

This paper addresses the solution of bound-constrained optimization problems using
algorithms that require only the availability of objective function values but no derivative …

Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere, the
relative contributions of the world's major source regions to the global dust cycle remain …

The last decade has seen an astronomical shift from imaging with DSLR and point-and-
shoot cameras to imaging with smartphone cameras. Due to the small aperture and sensor …

In many optimization problems arising from scientific, engineering and artificial intelligence
applications, objective and constraint functions are available only as the output of a black …

This paper presents a new metaheuristic algorithm by enhancing one of the recently
proposed optimizers named Aquila optimizer (AO). The enhanced AO (enAO) algorithm is …

Flux footprint models are often used for interpretation of flux tower measurements, to
estimate position and size of surface source areas, and the relative contribution of passive …

Composite indicators are very popular tools for assessing and ranking countries and
institutions in terms of environmental performance, sustainability, and other complex …

We present an improved lunar digital elevation model (DEM) covering latitudes within±60°,
at a horizontal resolution of 512 pixels per degree (∼ 60 m at the equator) and a typical …

The need for better-performing algorithms to solve real-world power systems engineering
problems has always been a challenging topic. Due to their stochastic nature, metaheuristic …