Firefly Penalty-based Algorithm for Bound Constrained Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming

In this article, we aim to extend the firefly algorithm (FA) to solve bound constrained mixedinteger nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems. An exact penalty continuous formulation of the MINLP problem is used. The continuous penalty problem comes out by relaxing the integrality constraints and by adding a penalty term to the objective function that aims to penalize integrality constraint violation. Two penalty terms are proposed, one is based on the hyperbolic tangent function and the other on the inverse hyperbolic sine function. We prove that both penalties can be used to define the continuous penalty problem, in the sense that it is equivalent to the MINLP problem. The solutions of the penalty problem are obtained using a variant of the metaheuristic FA for global optimization. Numerical experiments are given on a set of benchmark problems aiming to analyze the quality of the obtained solutions and the convergence speed. We show that the firefly penalty-based algorithm compares favorably with the penalty algorithm when the deterministic DIRECT or the simulated annealing solvers are invoked, in terms of convergence speed

Morphophysiological performance genotypes of semi-late maturity / late soybean under flooding

A região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul possui regiões de solos de várzea, as quais estão sujeitas a alagamento, e estão sendo cada vez mais cultivadas com soja. O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar alterações morfofisiológicas cultivares de soja de ciclo semi-tardio/tardio, sob alagamento do solo no estádio fenológico vegetativo e reprodutivo. Os experimentos foram conduzidos na Estação Experimental de Terras Baixas, da Embrapa Clima Temperado, no município do Capão do Leão, RS. Três sistemas de manejo da água foram aplicados condição normal de cultivo, alagamento no período vegetativo e alagamento em período reprodutivo. Durante o ciclo da cultura foram avaliados altura de plantas, diâmetro da haste principal, índice do teor de clorofila, redução do índice do teor de clorofila, fenologia e número de nós na haste por planta. O alagamento reduz o número de nós na haste principal, reduzindo a estatura das plantas, sendo os efeitos mais acentuados quando o alagamento ocorre no estádio vegetativo. Altura de planta indica que a cultivar CLBRS 9911 apresentam maior tolerância ao alagamento, já as cultivares CD 219 RR, Embrapa 45 e PCL 06 - 08 os menores. Os valores de índice do teor de clorofila indicam como mais promissor a cultivar FT-Abyara. O alagamento do solo tanto no estádio vegetativo como no estádio reprodutivo, causa retardamento de ocorrência dos estádios fenológicos, bem como do ciclo total de cultivares de soja.The southern region of Rio Grande do Sul has several areas of lowland soils, which are subject to flooding, and are increasingly being planted with soybeans. The objective was to evaluate changes morphophysiological soybean cultivars of semi-late maturity / late under flooding in vegetative and reproductive growth stage. The experiments were conducted at Estação Experimental de Terras Baixas, Embrapa Clima Temperado, in Capão do Leão, RS. Three water management systems are in normal condition of cultivation, flooding in the vegetative stage and flooding in reproductive stage. During the crop cycle were evaluated plant height, diameter of the main stem, chlorophyll content index, reduction of chlorophyll content index, phenology and number of nodes on the stem per plant. Flooding reduces the number of nodes on the main stem, reducing plant height, with the most pronounced effects when flooding occurs in the vegetative stage. Plant height indicates that the farming CLBRS 9911 have increased tolerance to flooding, since the RR 219 CD cultivars Embrapa 45 and PCL 06 - 08 minors. The chlorophyll content index values indicate more promising cultivar FT-Abyara. The flooding both in the vegetative stage and in the reproductive stage, because of delay occurrence of phenological stages and the total soybean cultivars cycle.Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestale

Morphophysiological performance genotypes of semi-late maturity / late soybean under flooding

A região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul possui regiões de solos de várzea, as quais estão sujeitas a alagamento, e estão sendo cada vez mais cultivadas com soja. O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar alterações morfofisiológicas cultivares de soja de ciclo semi-tardio/tardio, sob alagamento do solo no estádio fenológico vegetativo e reprodutivo. Os experimentos foram conduzidos na Estação Experimental de Terras Baixas, da Embrapa Clima Temperado, no município do Capão do Leão, RS. Três sistemas de manejo da água foram aplicados condição normal de cultivo, alagamento no período vegetativo e alagamento em período reprodutivo. Durante o ciclo da cultura foram avaliados altura de plantas, diâmetro da haste principal, índice do teor de clorofila, redução do índice do teor de clorofila, fenologia e número de nós na haste por planta. O alagamento reduz o número de nós na haste principal, reduzindo a estatura das plantas, sendo os efeitos mais acentuados quando o alagamento ocorre no estádio vegetativo. Altura de planta indica que a cultivar CLBRS 9911 apresentam maior tolerância ao alagamento, já as cultivares CD 219 RR, Embrapa 45 e PCL 06 - 08 os menores. Os valores de índice do teor de clorofila indicam como mais promissor a cultivar FT-Abyara. O alagamento do solo tanto no estádio vegetativo como no estádio reprodutivo, causa retardamento de ocorrência dos estádios fenológicos, bem como do ciclo total de cultivares de soja.The southern region of Rio Grande do Sul has several areas of lowland soils, which are subject to flooding, and are increasingly being planted with soybeans. The objective was to evaluate changes morphophysiological soybean cultivars of semi-late maturity / late under flooding in vegetative and reproductive growth stage. The experiments were conducted at Estação Experimental de Terras Baixas, Embrapa Clima Temperado, in Capão do Leão, RS. Three water management systems are in normal condition of cultivation, flooding in the vegetative stage and flooding in reproductive stage. During the crop cycle were evaluated plant height, diameter of the main stem, chlorophyll content index, reduction of chlorophyll content index, phenology and number of nodes on the stem per plant. Flooding reduces the number of nodes on the main stem, reducing plant height, with the most pronounced effects when flooding occurs in the vegetative stage. Plant height indicates that the farming CLBRS 9911 have increased tolerance to flooding, since the RR 219 CD cultivars Embrapa 45 and PCL 06 - 08 minors. The chlorophyll content index values indicate more promising cultivar FT-Abyara. The flooding both in the vegetative stage and in the reproductive stage, because of delay occurrence of phenological stages and the total soybean cultivars cycle.Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestale

Theoretical and practical convergence of a self-adaptive penalty algorithm for constrained global optimization

This paper proposes a self-adaptive penalty function and presents a penalty-based algorithm for solving nonsmooth and nonconvex constrained optimization problems. We prove that the general constrained optimization problem is equivalent to a bound constrained problem in the sense that they have the same global solutions. The global minimizer of the penalty function subject to a set of bound constraints may be obtained by a population-based meta-heuristic. Further, a hybrid self-adaptive penalty firefly algorithm, with a local intensification search, is designed, and its convergence analysis is established. The numerical experiments and a comparison with other penalty-based approaches show the effectiveness of the new self-adaptive penalty algorithm in solving constrained global optimization problems.The authors would like to thank the referees, the Associate Editor and the Editor-in-Chief for their valuable comments and suggestions to improve the paper. This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT - Funda¸c˜ao para a Ciˆencia e Tecnologia within the projects UID/CEC/00319/2013 and UID/MAT/00013/2013.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median $z\sim 0.03$). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between $z\sim 0.6$ and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV : mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median z ~ 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between z ~ 0.6 and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July