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Optimizing production scheduling of steel plate hot rolling for economic load dispatch under time-of-use electricity pricing
Time-of-Use (TOU) electricity pricing provides an opportunity for industrial
users to cut electricity costs. Although many methods for Economic Load
Dispatch (ELD) under TOU pricing in continuous industrial processing have been
proposed, there are still difficulties in batch-type processing since power
load units are not directly adjustable and nonlinearly depend on production
planning and scheduling. In this paper, for hot rolling, a typical batch-type
and energy intensive process in steel industry, a production scheduling
optimization model for ELD is proposed under TOU pricing, in which the
objective is to minimize electricity costs while considering penalties caused
by jumps between adjacent slabs. A NSGA-II based multi-objective production
scheduling algorithm is developed to obtain Pareto-optimal solutions, and then
TOPSIS based multi-criteria decision-making is performed to recommend an
optimal solution to facilitate filed operation. Experimental results and
analyses show that the proposed method cuts electricity costs in production,
especially in case of allowance for penalty score increase in a certain range.
Further analyses show that the proposed method has effect on peak load
regulation of power grid.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, 4 table
Quantum information processing architecture with endohedral fullerenes in a carbon nanotube
A potential quantum information processor is proposed using a fullerene
peapod, i.e., an array of the endohedral fullerenes 15N@C60 or 31P@C60
contained in a single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT). The qubits are encoded in
the nuclear spins of the doped atoms, while the electronic spins are used for
initialization and readout, as well as for two-qubit operations.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
Dual Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Sub-Character Representation Learning
Characters have commonly been regarded as the minimal processing unit in
Natural Language Processing (NLP). But many non-latin languages have
hieroglyphic writing systems, involving a big alphabet with thousands or
millions of characters. Each character is composed of even smaller parts, which
are often ignored by the previous work. In this paper, we propose a novel
architecture employing two stacked Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) to
learn sub-character level representation and capture deeper level of semantic
meanings. To build a concrete study and substantiate the efficiency of our
neural architecture, we take Chinese Word Segmentation as a research case
example. Among those languages, Chinese is a typical case, for which every
character contains several components called radicals. Our networks employ a
shared radical level embedding to solve both Simplified and Traditional Chinese
Word Segmentation, without extra Traditional to Simplified Chinese conversion,
in such a highly end-to-end way the word segmentation can be significantly
simplified compared to the previous work. Radical level embeddings can also
capture deeper semantic meaning below character level and improve the system
performance of learning. By tying radical and character embeddings together,
the parameter count is reduced whereas semantic knowledge is shared and
transferred between two levels, boosting the performance largely. On 3 out of 4
Bakeoff 2005 datasets, our method surpassed state-of-the-art results by up to
0.4%. Our results are reproducible, source codes and corpora are available on
GitHub.Comment: Accepted & forthcoming at ITNG-201
Simplified TeV leptophilic dark matter in light of DAMPE data
Using a simplified framework, we attempt to explain the recent DAMPE cosmic
flux excess by leptophilic Dirac fermion dark matter (LDM). The
scalar () and vector () mediator fields connecting LDM and
Standard Model particles are discussed. Under constraints of DM relic density,
gamma-rays, cosmic-rays and Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), we find that the
couplings , , and can
produce the right bump in flux for a DM mass around 1.5 TeV with a
natural thermal annihilation cross-section today. Among them, coupling is tightly constrained by
PandaX-II data (although LDM-nucleus scattering appears at one-loop level) and
the surviving samples appear in the resonant region, . We also study the related collider signatures, such as dilepton
production , and muon anomaly. Finally,
we present a possible realization for such leptophilic dark matter.Comment: discussions added, version accepted by JHE
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