Air pollution emerges as an imminent issue in metropolitan cities like Hong Kong, and attracts much attention in recent years. Prediction of pollutant levels and their tendency is an important topic in environmental science today. To achieve such prediction tasks, the use of neural network (NN), in particular, the multi-layer perceptron, is regarded as a cost-e7ective technique superior to trad...

this paper proposes the exchange market algorithm (ema) to solve the combined economic and emission dispatch (ceed) problems in thermal power plants. the ema is a new, robust and efficient algorithm to exploit the global optimum point in optimization problems. existence of two seeking operators in ema provides a high ability in exploiting global optimum point. in order to show the capabilities ...

The paper presents a local linear wavelet neural network. The difference of the network with the original wavelet neural network is that the connection weights between the hidden layer and output layer of the original WNN are replaced by a local linear model. A simple and fast training algorithm, particle swarm optimization (PSO), is also introduced for training the local linear wavelet neural ...

Multilayer perceptron (MLP) (trained with back propagation learning algorithm) takes large computational time. The complexity of the network increases as the number of layers and number of nodes in layers increases. Further, it is also very difficult to decide the number of nodes in a layer and the number of layers in the network required for solving a problem a priori. In this paper an improve...

in this paper, a new enhanced version of the particle swarm optimization (pso) is presented. an important modification is made by adding probabilistic functions into pso, and it is named probabilistic particle swarm optimization (ppso). since the variation of the velocity of particles in pso constitutes its search engine, it should provide two phases of optimization process which are: explorati...

In present study, a three-step multi-objective optimization algorithm of cyclone separators is catered for the design objectives. First, the pressure drop (Dp) and collection efficiency (h) in a set of cyclone separators are numerically evaluated. Secondly, two meta models based on the evolved Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) type neural networks are regarded to model the Dp and h as the re...

this paper presents a relatively new management model for the optimal design and operation of irrigation water pumping systems. the model makes use of the newly introduced particle swarm optimization algorithm. a two step optimization model is developed and solved with the particle swarm optimization method. the model first carries out an exhaustive enumeration search for all feasible sets of p...

The scheduling problem in distributed data-intensive computing environments has become an active research topic due to the tremendous growth in grid and cloud computing environments. As an innovative distributed intelligent paradigm, swarm intelligence provides a novel approach to solving these potentially intractable problems. In this paper, we formulate the scheduling problem for work-flow ap...

In order to improve and accelerate the speed of image integration, an optimal and intelligent method for multi-focus image fusion is presented in this paper. Based on particle swarm optimization and quantum theory, quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) intelligent search strategy is introduced in salience analysis of a contrast visual masking system, combined with the segmentation techniqu...