The paper presents a feasibility computing approach to solve the optimal planning problem applied to Stand-alone Photovoltaic (SPV) system by considering the reliability requirement and economical performance. Evaluation technique based on genetic algorithm to get global optimum capacity of solar array and battery in a SPV system is more efficiently. Explicit strategy selects proper values of s...

Article history: Received: 22.10.2013 Received in revised form: 4.12.2013 Accepted: 6.12.2013 Reliability assessment is of primary importance in designing and planning distribution systems that operate in an economical manner with minimal interruption of customer loads. Distributed generation (DG) units are subject to failures as all other generation units, the random behavior of these units mu...

Reliability and uptime are the key indicators of business systems supported by web services today. Business processes are linked together in web services by chain of components. Success or failure of business is determined by the reliability of this chain. In this paper, we proposed an enhanced reliability model for web services computing focusing on transactional-oriented web services applicat...

The chapter discusses the architecture of Knowledge-Вased Multi-Agent System (KBMAS) and describes software agent models. purpose functional organization system agents used for planning management computing resources KBMAS are considered. An approach to applied agent’s development that integrates knowledge-based reasoning mechanisms with neural network models is proposed. structure problem-orie...

This paper proposes an application of Differential Evolution (DE) to Reactive Power Planning (RPP) problem. Simulation results, compared with those obtained by using the Real coded Genetic Algorithm (RGA) and Evolutionary Programming (EP) are presented to show that the present method is better for power system planning. In the case of optimization of non-continuous and nonsmooth function, DE gi...

As the head of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Centre and a member of the Editorial Board, I am delighted to preface this edition of IJPR, with appreciation of all the efforts behind it. Health research should be considered as a tool to help policy makers, industries and others to tackle problems, improve the quality of life and build healthy communities. So, besides basic research, that ha...

Mixed-initiative case replay introduces an active human into the case-based planning process. The goals of this novel technique are to utilize the strengths of machine-based case replay to improve human performance and to allow a human to override a machine’s abstract representation of an actual domain. The synthesis of these two approaches in a planning domain enables flexible solutions to pla...

This paper describes the use of a process simulator to support software project planning and management. The modeling approach here focuses on software reliability, but is just as applicable to other software quality factors, as well as to cost and schedule factors. The process simulator was developed as a part of a decision support system for assisting project managers in planning or tailoring...

Conclusions Distributed systems potentially provide high reliability owing to the program and data-file redundancy possible. In many applications, high reliability is the major consideration for system design. Some work by Kumar, Hariri, Raghavendra shows that the distribution of programs and datafiles can affect the system reliability appreciably, and that redundancy in resources such as compu...