plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (phev) technology shows great interest in the recent scientificliteratures. vehicle-to-grid (v2g) is a interconnection of energy storage of phevs and grid. byimplementation of v2g dependencies of the power system on small expensive conventional units canbe reduced, resulting in reduced operational cost. this paper represents an intelligent unitcommitment (uc) wi...

The metaheuristic optimization algorithm Harmony search (HS), which imitates the process of music improvisation, is becoming widely used due to its simplicity and easy operation. However, basic HS has shortcomings low accuracy risk falling into local optimum. To overcome these problems, this article develops an ameliorated harmony with hybrid convergence mechanism, namely AHS-HCM. For new metho...

This study presents a cost minimization model for the design of water distribution networks. The model uses a recently developed harmony search optimization algorithm while satisfying all the design constraints. The harmony search algorithm mimics a jazz improvisation process in order to find better design solutions, in this case pipe diameters in a water distribution network. The model also in...