In this paper, simultaneous placement of distributed generation, capacitor bank and protective devices are utilized to improve the efficiency of the distribution network. The objectives of the problem are reduction of active and reactive power losses, improvement of voltage profile and reliability indices and increasing distribution companies’ profit. The combination of firefly algorithm, parti...

Original scientific paper Nowadays, the operational performance of the Distribution system can be improved by exchanging the functional links between the elements of the system, called reconfiguration. This paper aims at achieving such optimization through the reconfiguration of distribution systems taking into account various criteria. The newness of the method is in the fact that optimization...

In this paper, we propose a new structural and qualitative approach to convert from Bond Graph to Digraph representation of a structural system which allows sensors placement optimization to solve faults detection and isolation problem. When the detection and isolation of faults of an existing system’s sensors is impossible or uncertain, a reconfiguration sensor placement of this system should ...

In this paper, a multi-objective reconfiguration problem has been solved simultaneously by a modified ant colony optimization algorithm. Two objective functions, real power loss and energy not supplied index (ENS), were utilized. Multi-objective modified ant colony optimization algorithm has been generated by adding non-dominated sorting technique and changing the pheromone updating rule of ori...

As a rising application paradigm and technology, cloud computing can leverage the efficient pooling of ondemand, self-managed virtual infrastructure. How to maximize the resource utilization and how to reduce the cost of configuration are essential issues in cloud computing. In this paper, the authors propose a framework to achieve these objectives by optimizing VM placement and deciding when a...

<span lang="EN-US">This paper proposed modified sunflower optimization (MSFO) for the combination of network reconfiguration and distributed generation placement problem (NR-DGP) to minimize power loss electric distribution system (EDS). Sunflower (SFO) is inspired form ideal plant motion get sunlight its reproduction. To enhance performance SFO, it MSFO wherein, pollination mortality tec...

This paper presents a perturbation/correlation-based active sensing method and its application to sensor node configuration for environment monitoring. Sensor networks are widely used as data measurement tools, especially in dangerous environments. For large scale environment monitoring, a large number of nodes is required. For optimal measurements, the placement of nodes is very important. Non...