⚡ electrical engineering

Cross-Dataset Strawberry Disease Classification from Controlled to African Field Conditions

This paper addresses the performance gap between controlled and real-world strawberry disease classification by proposing SmartBerry-DA, a label-efficient domain adaptation method that achieves high accuracy using minimal local annotations and enables lightweight offline deployment for practical agricultural use in Nigeria.

Isibor Kennedy Ihianle, Pedro Machado, Jordan J. Bird, Salisu W. Yahaya, Ahmad Lotfi, Everistus Nwogo, Isaac Akinwumi, J (…)2026-09-09
⚡ electrical engineering

A Biomimetic Framework for Hierarchical Street Network Design Inspired by Leaf Venation

This paper presents a biomimetic urban design framework that translates the hierarchical and redundant architecture of leaf venation into practical street network guidelines, demonstrating through a case study in Dhaka that a reticulate-inspired layout significantly enhances structural resilience and connectivity with only a moderate increase in road length.

Farhan Labib, Maliha Tabassum Maurin2026-09-09
⚡ electrical engineering

Digital Lean Six Sigma Across Vietnam's Electronics-Semiconductor Manufacturing Chain: Longitudinal Evidence from High-Mix Semiconductor-Equipment Contract Manufacturing

This study develops and empirically validates a Digital Lean Six Sigma architecture for Vietnam's high-mix semiconductor-equipment contract manufacturing by analyzing longitudinal production data to reveal significant product-family heterogeneity in cycle times and schedule adherence, thereby establishing a plant-ready control system grounded in timestamp integrity and event-history reconstruction.

Ngoc Huy Mai2026-09-09✓ Author reviewed
⚡ electrical engineering

Modular Integrated AI Infrastructure (MiAI): from deployment modularity to lifecycle modularity

This paper introduces Modular Integrated AI Infrastructure (MiAI), a paradigm that decouples the renewal cycles of computing and support assets through co-designed physical and functional modularity, enabling selective renewal and multi-cycle reuse while demonstrating that favorable environmental outcomes are achieved when retained service credits exceed the burdens of transition.

Yuan-Hao WEI2026-09-09
⚡ electrical engineering

Integrated photonic Ising machine with full connectivity for ultra-large-scale combinatorial optimization

This paper presents a miniaturized, fully connected integrated photonic Ising machine (IPIM) on a silicon platform, enhanced by a novel joint algorithm and parameter optimization scheme, which successfully solves ultra-large-scale combinatorial optimization problems involving over 100,000 spins and real-world social network partitioning with high efficiency.

Guanyu Chen, Ziyao Zhang, Yuan Gao, Jiayi Gao, Anil Prabhakar, Jie Liu, Tao Zhu, Aaron J. Danner2026-09-09
⚡ electrical engineering

A physics-informed neural network surrogate for multi-band reflection-loss prediction of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer / Ti-6Al-4V ELI radar absorbing materials for UAV airframe integration

This paper presents a physics-informed neural network surrogate model that rapidly and accurately predicts the reflection loss of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer/Ti-6Al-4V ELI radar absorbing materials across multiple frequency bands and incidence angles, enabling efficient multi-band thickness optimization and structural integration assessment for UAV airframes.

Abdullah Mevlüt Mutluel2026-09-09
⚡ electrical engineering

Quality Assurance in Steel Manufacturing: Integrating Industrial Practice with Quality Management Principles

This paper reviews the integration of quality management principles with industrial practices in steel manufacturing to propose the Integrated Quality-Assurance Framework for Steel Manufacturing (IQAF-SM), which advocates for a shift from isolated inspection to a holistic, risk-based, and digitally enabled preventive quality system that balances emerging technologies with disciplined operational fundamentals.

Farhan-Faahiz Hassan2026-09-09