Multi-objective open-shop scheduling is definitely significant in practical. However, the research focused on multi-objective open-shop scheduling was relatively scarce. This article proposed a particle swarm optimization to address open-shop scheduling problems with multiple objectives. Originally, particle swarm optimization was invented to treat continuous optimization problems. In this pape...

The paper presents a novel Modulated Power Filter and Compensator (MPFC) scheme for voltage stability, energy conservation, loss reduction, power factor correction, and power quality enhancement for electric distribution systems based on Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimisation (MOPSO). The MPFC scheme was developed by the first author to vary the shunt power filter equivalent admittance, mo...

This paper studies a location–routing–inventory problem in a multi-period closed-loop supply chain with multiple suppliers, producers, distribution centers, customers, collection centers, recovery, and recycling centers. In this supply chain, centers are multiple levels, a price increase factor is considered for operational costs at centers, inventory and shortage (including lost sales and back...

Reducing energy consumption and maintenance costs of a pumping system is seen as an important but difficult multi-objective optimization problem. Many evolutionary algorithms, such particle swarm (PSO), (MOPSO), non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) have been used. However, lack comparison between these approaches poses challenge to the selection approach for stormwater drainage ...

Statistically constrained economic design for profiles usually refers to the selection of some parameters such as the sample size, sampling interval, smoothing constant, and control limit for minimizing the total implementation cost while the designed profiles demonstrate a proper statistical performance. In this paper, the Lorenzen-Vance function is first used to model the implementation...

This paper reports the influence of surfactant Triton X-100 on boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) nanofluid in non-optimized and optimized microchannel heat sink (MCHS) at 30 °C 50 °C. The MCHS performance was evaluated terms thermal resistance pressure drop, utilizing experimental thermophysical properties distilled water, a mixture water as base fluid, BNNTs weight concentration 0.001% into mode...

A new multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm is presented. The proposed multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm is based on a MaxiMin technique previously proposed for a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The technique is applied to optimize a benchmark function set and to the design of PID controllers regarding the objectives of set-point tracking and output distur...

With the continuous increase in emphasis on environmental protection industry, sewage treatment plants have been built many places, and these undoubtedly occupy an important position protecting local environment. The process is generally complicated environment difficult, which means that plant must excellent control system. At this stage, systems cities issue of possessing backward technology ...

The paper puts forward an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fixed-point reconnaissance route planning method. The method introduces the improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) method to the planning of UAV reconnaissance route and adds the objective value, effective reconnaissance route and other factors affecting UAV reconnaissance route in the objective function of particle swam to obtain the...

blind source separation technique separates mixed signals blindly without any information on the mixing system. in this paper, we have used two evolutionary algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization for blind source separation. in these techniques a novel fitness function that is based on the mutual information and high order statistics is proposed. in order to evalu...