In this paper, a combination of simulated annealing (SA) and intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm is used to solve the nonlinear/complex problem of simultaneous reconfiguration with optimal allocation (size and location) of wind turbine (WT) as a distributed generation (DG) and dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) as a distributed flexible AC transmission systems (DFACT) unit in a distribution sys...

163904-4747-IJECS-IJENS © August 2016 IJENS I J E N S Abstract— The intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm was introduced in 2007 by Hamed Shah Hosseini, and has been successfully implemented to solve many types of optimization problems, especially traveling salesman problem (TSP). The algorithm works by imitating the behavior of the natural river water drops. Principally, the algorithm finds ...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Measurement of solar radiance demands expensive devices to be used. Alternatively, estimator models are used instead. In this paper, a new method based on the empirical equations is introduced to estimate the monthly average daily global solar radiation on a horizontal surface. The proposed method uses Intelligent Water ...

this paper presents a new hybrid method for optimal multi-objective reconfiguration in a distribution feeder in addition to determining the optimal size and location of multiple-distributed generation (dg). the purposes of this research are mitigation of losses, improving the voltage profile and equalizing the feeder load balancing in distribution systems. to reduce the search space, the improv...

In this paper, the newly introduced swarm-based optimisation algorithm called intelligent water drops (IWDs) algorithm is adjusted to optimise a modified Otsu’s criterion for automatic multilevel thresholding. The proposed algorithm simply called IWD-AMLT is tested with several grey-level images and its performance is assessed by the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) measure. The thresholded im...

This paper attempts to bring forward various newly emerged natural computing techniques to a common platform. Six such techniques are compared among each other which have been used to solve a w ell known classical problem, the travelling salesman problem. The techniques discussed in this paper are Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Bacterial Foraging Optimization ...

This paper presents a new hybrid method for optimal multi-objective reconfiguration in a distribution feeder in addition to determining the optimal size and location of multiple-Distributed Generation (DG). The purposes of this research are mitigation of losses, improving the voltage profile and equalizing the feeder load balancing in distribution systems. To reduce the search space, the improv...

in this paper, intelligent water drop algorithm (iwd) is used to analyze single overhead line connected to grid-grounded arrester. in this approach, at first norton’s equivalent circuit of the overhead line over lossy soil is computed by method of moments (mom) and then for the problem under consideration, a nonlinear equivalent circuit in the frequency domain is proposed. finally applying inte...

Breast cancer is one of the common reasons for deaths women over globe. It has been found that a Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system can be designed using X-ray mammograms early-stage detection breast cancer, which decrease death rate to large extent. This paper work proposes novel 2-way threshold-based intelligent water drops IWD “algorithm feature selection design an effective and efficient...