Professor RONG QU's Outputs (8)

A Hybrid Pricing and Cutting Approach for the Multi-Shift Full Truckload Vehicle Routing Problem (2020)
Journal Article
Xue, N., Bai, R., Qu, R., & Aickelin, U. (2021). A Hybrid Pricing and Cutting Approach for the Multi-Shift Full Truckload Vehicle Routing Problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 292(2), 500-514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.10.037

Full truckload transportation (FTL) in the form of freight containers represents one of the most important transportation modes in international trade. Due to large volume and scale, in FTL, delivery time is often less critical but cost and service q... Read More about A Hybrid Pricing and Cutting Approach for the Multi-Shift Full Truckload Vehicle Routing Problem.

Towards a Severity Assessment Method for Potential Cyber Attacks to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (2020)
Journal Article
He, Q., Meng, X., & Qu, R. (2020). Towards a Severity Assessment Method for Potential Cyber Attacks to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6873273

CAV (connected and autonomous vehicle) is a crucial part of intelligent transportation systems. CAVs utilize both sensors and communication components to make driving decisions. A large number of companies, research organizations, and governments hav... Read More about Towards a Severity Assessment Method for Potential Cyber Attacks to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.

Machine Learning-Based Detection for Cyber Security Attacks on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (2020)
Journal Article
He, Q., Meng, X., Qu, R., & Xi, R. (2020). Machine Learning-Based Detection for Cyber Security Attacks on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Mathematics, 8(8), Article 1311. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8081311

Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV)-related initiatives have become some of the fastest expanding in recent years, and have started to affect the daily lives of people. More and more companies and research organizations have announced their initia... Read More about Machine Learning-Based Detection for Cyber Security Attacks on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.

Assessing hyper-heuristic performance (2020)
Journal Article
Pillay, N., & Qu, R. (2021). Assessing hyper-heuristic performance. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 72(11), 2503-2516. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2020.1796538

Limited attention has been paid to assessing the generality performance of hyper-heuristics. The performance of hyper-heuristics has been predominately assessed in terms of optimality which is not ideal as the aim of hyper-heuristics is not to be com... Read More about Assessing hyper-heuristic performance.

Fuzzy Superpixels based Semi-supervised Similarity-constrained CNN for PolSAR Image Classification (2020)
Journal Article
Guo, Y., Sun, Z., Qu, R., Jiao, L., Liu, F., & Zhang, X. (2020). Fuzzy Superpixels based Semi-supervised Similarity-constrained CNN for PolSAR Image Classification. Remote Sensing, 12(10), Article 1694. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101694

Recently, deep learning has been highly successful in image classification. Labeling the PolSAR data, however, is time-consuming and laborious and in response semi-supervised deep learning has been increasingly investigated in PolSAR image classifica... Read More about Fuzzy Superpixels based Semi-supervised Similarity-constrained CNN for PolSAR Image Classification.

A Multiobjective Computation Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing (2020)
Journal Article
Song, F., Xing, H., Luo, S., Zhan, D., Dai, P., & Qu, R. (2020). A Multiobjective Computation Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7(9), 8780 -8799. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.2996762

In mobile edge computing (MEC), smart mobile devices (SMDs) with limited computation resources and battery lifetime can offload their computing-intensive tasks to MEC servers, thus to enhance the computing capability and reduce the energy consumption... Read More about A Multiobjective Computation Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing.

A Unified Framework of Graph-based Evolutionary Multitasking Hyper-heuristic (2020)
Journal Article
Hao, X., Qu, R., & Liu, J. (2021). A Unified Framework of Graph-based Evolutionary Multitasking Hyper-heuristic. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 25(1), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2020.2991717

In recent research, hyper-heuristics have attracted increasing attention among researchers in various fields. The most appealing feature of hyper-heuristics is that they aim to provide more generalized solutions to optimization problems by searching... Read More about A Unified Framework of Graph-based Evolutionary Multitasking Hyper-heuristic.

The General Combinatorial Optimization Problem: Towards Automated Algorithm Design (2020)
Journal Article
Qu, R., Kendall, G., & Pillay, N. (2020). The General Combinatorial Optimization Problem: Towards Automated Algorithm Design. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 15(2), 14-23. https://doi.org/10.1109/mci.2020.2976182

This paper defines a new combinatorial optimisation problem, namely General Combinatorial Optimisation Problem (GCOP), whose decision variables are a set of parametric algorithmic components, i.e. algorithm design decisions. The solutions of GCOP, i.... Read More about The General Combinatorial Optimization Problem: Towards Automated Algorithm Design.