An Introduction to the Special Issue “Protein Glycation in Food, Nutrition, Health and Disease” by Naila Rabbani (291722)

“…The keynote speaker was Lasker Laureate Professor Kazutoshi Mori, speaking on the unfolded protein response, and there were sessions on: glycation in obesity, diabetes, and diabetic complications; glycation in food; glycation through the life course—from maternal bonding to aging; glycation in plants—physiology, function, and food security; glycation in the COVID-19 response; glycation analytics and chemistry; glycation in kidney disease, cancer, and mental health; glycation-related imaging, diagnostic algorithms, and therapeutics; and methods and models in glycation research. …”

Scatter search metaheuristic for homology based protein structure prediction. (c2015) by Stamboulian, Mouses Hrag

“…Determining a protein’s structure is a challenging goal in structural bioinformatics, offering important insight towards understanding the function of a protein. …”
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AGEomics Biomarkers and Machine Learning—Realizing the Potential of Protein Glycation in Clinical Diagnostics by Naila Rabbani (291722)

“…The term AGEomics is defined as multiplexed quantitation of spontaneous modification of proteins damage and other usually low-level modifications associated with a change of structure and function—for example, citrullination and transglutamination. …”

Particle swarm optimization approach for protein structure prediction in the 3D HP model by Mansour, Nashat

“…Proteins fold, under the influence of several chemical and physical factors, into their 3D structures, which determine their biological functions and properties. …”
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A fuzzy basis function network for generator excitation control by Abido, M.A.

“…A fuzzy basis function network (FBFN) based power system stabilizer (PSS) is presented in this paper. …”
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Genetic and heuristic algorithms for regrouping service sites. (c2000) by Tabbara, Hiba

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Economic load dispatch using memetic sine cosine algorithm by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…The results show that the performance of the SCA-βHC algorithm is increased by tuning its parameters in proper value. …”
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Mobile robots obstacles avoidance using dynamic window approach by Abubakr, Omer Ali

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An enhanced binary Rat Swarm Optimizer based on local-best concepts of PSO and collaborative crossover operators for feature selection by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…The binary enhanced RSO is built based on three successive modifications: i) an S-shape transfer function is used to develop binary RSO algorithms; ii) the local search paradigm of particle swarm optimization is used with the iterative loop of RSO to boost its local exploitation; iii) three crossover mechanisms are used and controlled by a switch probability to improve the diversity. …”

Development of Lévy flight-based reptile search algorithm with local search ability for power systems engineering design problems by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…Therefore, the paper discusses the development of the Lévy flight-based reptile search algorithm with local search capability and evaluates its potential against challenging power systems engineering optimization problems. …”
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Optimum Track to Track Fusion Using CMA-ES and LSTM Techniques by Fares, Samar

“…An objective function utilizing the covariance of the fused tracks is used by the first algorithm while a cost function based on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence measure is used in the second case for training the LSTM. …”
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New Fast Arctangent Approximation Algorithm for Generic Real-Time Embedded Applications by Mohieddine Benammar (18103039)

“…This paper presents a novel technique that combines the advantages of both rational formulae and LUT approximation methods. The new algorithm exploits the pseudo-linear region around the tangent function zero point to estimate a reduced input arctangent through a modified rational approximation before referring this estimate to its original value using miniature LUTs. …”

A non-convex economic load dispatch problem using chameleon swarm algorithm with roulette wheel and Levy flight methods by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…In this paper, several enhancements were made to this algorithm. First, it’s position updating process was slightly tweaked and took advantage of the chameleons’ randomization as well as adopting several time-varying functions. …”
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Modified Elite Opposition-Based Artificial Hummingbird Algorithm for Designing FOPID Controlled Cruise Control System by Abualigah, Laith

“…This study proposes a novel approach for designing a fractional order proportional-integral-derivative (FOPID) controller that utilizes a modified elite opposition-based artificial hummingbird algorithm (m-AHA) for optimal parameter tuning. Our approach outperforms existing optimization techniques on benchmark functions, and we demonstrate its effectiveness in controlling cruise control systems with increased flexibility and precision. …”
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Augmented arithmetic optimization algorithm using opposite-based learning and lévy flight distribution for global optimization and data clustering by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…To evaluate the AAOA, we implemented extensive experiments using twenty-three well-known benchmark functions and eight data clustering datasets. We also evaluated the proposed AAOA with extensive comparisons to different optimization algorithms. …”

A novel IoT intrusion detection framework using Decisive Red Fox optimization and descriptive back propagated radial basis function models by Osama Bassam J. Rabie (21323741)

“…Then, the DRF optimization algorithm is applied to optimally tune the features required for accurate intrusion detection and classification. …”

An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure by Mouna Rabhi (17086969)

“…The overlay structure – a unique logical tree – used to control access to the critical section maintains its consistency even when nodes fail. An extensive simulation study demonstrates the viability and efficiency of the proposed algorithm under various node failure models, and relevant metrics (e.g., node queue dimension, number of exchanged messages, and number of disconnected nodes) indicate a graceful degradation in performance with decreasing number of functioning nodes. …”

STEM: spatial speech separation using twin-delayed DDPG reinforcement learning and expectation maximization by Muhammad Salman Khan (7202543)

Optimum sensors allocation for drones multi-target tracking under complex environment using improved prairie dog optimization by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…The IPDOA performance was compared with the other 8 metaheuristic optimization algorithms and the testing showed its superiority over those techniques for solving this complex problem. …”
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ANT-colony optimization-direct torque control for a doubly fed induction motor : An experimental validation by Said Mahfoud (17150968)

“…The best solutions adopted in this situation are often based on optimization algorithms that generate the controller’s gains in each period where there is an internal or external perturbation, adapting the behaviors of the PID against the system’s nonlinearity. …”