Differential Evolution (DE) has been applied to many scientific and engineering problems for its simplicity and efficiency. However, the standard DE cannot be used in a binary search space directly. This paper proposes an adaptive binary Differential Evolution algorithm, or ABDE, that has a similar framework as the standard DE but with an improved binary mutation strategy in which the best indi...

In this paper, use of Differential Evolution (DE) based and Particle swarm optimization (PSO) based algorithm for the allocation & coordinated operation of multiple FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission System) devices for the improved power transfer capacity and economic operation of an interconnected power system is presented. Both the DE and PSO based approach is applied on IEEE 30-bus system. The...

This paper presents the application of differential evolution algorithm to obtain optimal switching angles for a single-phase seven-level to improve AC voltage quality. The proposed inverter in this article is composed of two H-bridge cells with non-equal DC voltage sources in order to generate multiple voltage levels. Selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHPWM) strategy is us...

Activity recognition is needed in different requisition, for example, reconnaissance system, patient monitoring, and human-computer interfaces. Feature selection plays an important role in activity recognition, data mining, and machine learning. In selecting subset of features, an efficient evolutionary algorithm Differential Evolution (DE), a very efficient optimizer, is used for finding infor...

Heuristic evolutionary optimization algorithms are the solutions to many engineering optimization problems. Differential evolution (DE) is a real stochastic evolutionary parameter optimization in current use.DE does not require more control parameters compared to other evolutionary algorithms. Master Production Scheduling (MPS) is posed as one of multi objective parameter optimization problems ...

Although differential evolution (DE) algorithms have shown great power in solving continuous optimization problems, it is still a challenging task to design an efficient binary variant of DE algorithm. In this paper, we propose a binary learning differential evolution (BLDE) algorithm, which can efficiently search the feasible region by learning from the obtained solutions. Meanwhile, we also d...

Opposition-based learning (OBL) scheme is an effective mechanism to enhance soft computing techniques, but it also has some limitations. To extend the OBL scheme, this paper proposes a novel rotation-based learning (RBL) mechanism, in which a rotation number is achieved by applying a specified rotation angle to the original number along a specific circle in two-dimensional space. By assigning d...

Memetic algorithms with an appropriate trade-off between the exploration and exploitation can obtain very good results in continuous optimization. In this paper, we present an improved memetic differential evolution algorithm for solving global optimization problems. The proposed approach, called memetic DE (MDE), hybridizes differential evolution (DE) with a local search (LS) operator and peri...

This paper proposes an evolving ant direction differential evolution (EADDE) algorithm for solving the optimal power flow problem with non-smooth and non-convex generator fuel cost characteristics. The EADDE employs ant colony search to find a suitable mutation operator for differential evolution (DE) whereas the ant colony parameters are evolved using genetic algorithm approach. The NewtoneRap...