Jun Zhang

TL;DR: A two-stage approach combining the ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm and a 1-opt local search to solve forest transportation planning problems (FTPPs) considering fixed and variables costs and sediment yields expected to erode from road surfaces as side constraints indicates the usefulness of this approach to provide managers with an efficient tool to address large-scale transportation problems.

TL;DR: This work conducts a comparable study on the properties and performance of the SAI preconditioners using the different sparsity patterns for solving some sparse linear systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the sampling theorem on band-limited spherical harmonics is used to choose a suitable degree to truncate the spherical harmonic series in the sense of Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR).

TL;DR: A parallel numerical solution to investigate multiple growth factors competitive binding within a bioreactor, an in vitro flow cell culture system is presented and it is found that heparin or possibly other solution binding agents can effectively prevent fibroblast growth factor-2 capture under flow, but only at high concentrations.

TL;DR: This work proposes to use data mining techniques to estimate the condition number of a given sparse matrix using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and support vector regression (SVR) to predict its condition number.