restructuring the recent developments in the power system and problems arising from construction as well as the maintenance of large power plants lead to increase in using the distributed generation (dg) resources. dg units due to its specifications, technology and location network connectivity can improve system and load point reliability indices. in this paper, the allocation and sizing of di...

in this paper, a new continuous ant colony optimization (caco) algorithm is proposed for optimal reservoir operation. the paper presents a new method of determining and setting a complete set of control parameters for any given problem, saving the user from a tedious trial and error based approach to determine them. the paper also proposes an elitist strategy for caco algorithm where best solut...

This chapter focuses on using a highly detailed simulation model to create a physical security system to detect intrusions by human agents in a building thereby minimizing the expected loss of such intrusions. Security consists of human guards and fixed security cameras. The problem is represented as a binary optimization problem and a new heuristic is proposed to perform the security configura...

Parameter (or variable) of automotive embedded networked control system is named as signal. In order to improve system performance and provide more remaining bandwidth for system extension, it is necessary to minimize the bandwidth consumption of frames transmitting the datum of signals. In this paper, the signal framing problem and methods of automotive embedded networked control system for ba...

This paper presents a novel efficient meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO), for optimization. This algorithm is based on one-dimensional collisions between bodies, with each agent solution being considered as an object or body with mass. After a collision of two moving bodies having specified masses and velocities, these bodies are separated with new ...