Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a meta-heuristic algorithm that has been shown to be successful in solving a wide variety of real and complicated optimization problems in engineering and computer science. This paper introduces a projection based PSO technique, named ProjPSO, to efficiently find different types of optimal designs, or nearly optimal designs, for mixture models with and witho...

Task scheduling problem is one of the most important steps in using cloud computing environment capabilities. Different experiments show that although having an optimum solution is almost impossible but having a sub-optimal solution using heuristic algorithms seems possible. In this paper three heuristic approaches for task scheduling on cloud environment have been compared with each other. The...

This paper presents a novel dynamic neural network (DNN) predictive control strategy based on modified particle swarm optimization (PSO) for long time delay nonlinear process. The proposed dynamic NN structure could approximate to the actual system model and obtain the pure delay time exactly. An improved version of the original PSO is put forward to train the parameters of NN to enhance the co...

1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Eyvanekey Corresponding Author: Mohsen Khorasany Abstract—Nowadays limitation of energy sources has increased the demands for using Distributed Generation (DG) in electricity generation. One of the most important issues about DG is allocation size and place of DG in the network to ach...

Watermarking can be described as a desirable alternative solution for copyright protection of digital materials like images, video and audio. This paper introduced a modified watermarking method in Wavelet domain to get better performance. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used to find the best DWT coefficients in the HL sub band for embedding the watermark sequence and PSO fitness function ...

Yin-Yang-pair optimization (YYPO) is one of the latest metaheuristic algorithms (MA) proposed in 2015 that tries to inspire the philosophy of balance between conflicting concepts. Particle swarm optimizer (PSO) is one of the first population-based MA inspired by social behaviors of birds. In spite of PSO, the YYPO is not a nature inspired optimizer. It has a low complexity and starts with only ...

In recent years, different metaheuristic methods have been used to solve clustering problems. This paper addresses the problem of manufacturing cell formation using a modified particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The main modification that this work made to the original PSO algorithm consists in not using the vector of velocities that the standard PSO algorithm does. The proposed algori...

The control of nonlinear chaotic system and the estimation of parameters is a vital issue in nonlinear science. Studies on parameter estimation for chaotic systems have been investigated recently. A variant of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) known as Chaotic Multi Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization (CMS-PSO) is proposed which is inspired from the metaphor of ecological co-habitation of species...