This paper presents an efficient and reliable evolutionary based approach to solve the optimal power flow (OPF) problem in the presence of static synchronous series compensator (SSSC). The firefly algorithm (FFA) is developed by using principle of firefly swarm. The approach has been tested on IEEE 30bus system with and without SSSC. The results show that FFA algorithm with SSSC gives better pe...

Nature-inspired search algorithms have proved to be successful in solving real-world optimization problems. Firefly algorithm is a novel meta-heuristic algorithm which simulates the natural behavior of fireflies. In the present study, optimum design of truss structures with both sizing and geometry design variables is carried out using the firefly algorithm. Additionally, to improve the efficie...

This paper presents the application of enhanced opposition-based firefly algorithm in obtaining the optimal battery energy storage systems (BESS) sizing in photovoltaic generation integrated radial distribution network in order to mitigate the voltage rise problem. Initially, the performance of the original firefly algorithm is enhanced by utilizing the opposition-based learning and introducing...

Bioluminescence spectra of firefly luciferases demonstrate highly pH-sensitive spectra changing the color from green to red light when pH is lowered from alkaline to acidic. This reflects a change of ratio of the green and red emitters in the bimodal spectra of bioluminescence. We show that the mutations strongly stabilizing green (Y35N) or red (H433Y) emission compensate each other leading to ...

Firefly Algorithm (FA) is a nature-inspired optimization algorithm that can be successfully applied to continuous optimization problems. However, lot of practical problems are formulated as discrete optimization problems. In this paper a hybrid discrete firefly algorithm (HDFA) is proposed to solve the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP). FJSP is an extension of the clas...

In this paper improvement in voltage sag by using firefly algorithm optimized fuzzy controller is described. DSTATCOM is the FACTS device used in voltage sag improvement. Firefly algorithm optimization is used to optimize the if-then rules of the fuzzy controller. In this system a DSTATCOM is placed in a three phase system to control the voltage sag. A fuzzy controller is designed to control th...

Firefly luciferase is homologous to fatty acyl-CoA synthetases. We hypothesized that the firefly luciferase substrate d-luciferin and its analogs are fatty acid mimics that are ideally suited to probe the chemistry of enzymes that release fatty acid products. Here, we synthesized luciferin amides and found that these molecules are hydrolyzed to substrates for firefly luciferase by the enzyme fa...

The speech signal enhancement is essential to obtain clean speech signal from noisy signal. For multimodal optimization, the natural-inspired algorithms such as Firefly Algorithm (FA) are better. The proposed algorithm contains preprocessing module, optimization module and spectral filtering module. Here, Loizou’s and Aurora databases are considered for signals. In this paper the Perceptional E...