An improved cross-entropy (CE) method assisted with a chaotic operator (CGSCE) is presented for solving the optimal power flow (OPF) problem. The introduction of helps to enhance exploration capability popular approach while global best solution preserved. To handle constraints in flow, an efficient constraint handling technique no parameter adjustment also introduced. tested on both IEEE-30 bu...

The present paper presents a thermodynamic approach to assess the quality of human-thermal environment interaction and quantify thermal comfort. The approach involves development of entropy generation term by applying second law of thermodynamics to the combined human-environment system. The entropy generation term combines both human thermal physiological responses and thermal environmental va...

We tackle the inverse problem of reconstructing an unknown finite measure μ from a noisy observation of a generalized moment of μ defined as the integral of a continuous and bounded operator Φ with respect to μ . When only a quadratic approximation Φm of the operator is known, we introduce the L2 approximate maximum entropy solution as a minimizer of a convex functional subject to a sequence of...

In Monte Carlo simulations of lattice field theory with a θ term, one confronts the complex weight problem, or the sign problem. This is circumvented by performing the Fourier transform of the topological charge distribution P (Q). This procedure, however, still causes the flattening phenomenon of the free energy, which prevents one from studying the phase structure. In order to work at this is...

Based on the minimization of the Lagrange formula, which is composed of two kinds of information measure, the maximum entropy method (MEM) is derived for diffractive imaging contaminated by quantum noise. This gives a suitable object corresponding to the maximum entropy principle with an iterative procedure. The MEM-based iterative phase retrieval algorithm with the initial process of the hybri...

We propose a method to calculate the QCD level density directly from the thermodynamic quantities obtained by lattice QCD simulations with the use of the maximum entropy method (MEM). Understanding QCD thermodynamics from QCD spectral properties has its own importance. Also it has a close connection to phenomenological analyses of the lattice data as well as experimental data on the basis of ha...