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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,359 Views
20 Pages

2 January 2022

Harmonic distortion in power systems is a significant problem, and it is thus necessary to mitigate critical harmonics. This study proposes an optimal method for designing passive power filters (PPFs) to suppress these harmonics. The design of a PPF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,333 Views
15 Pages

In this study, the output characteristics of partial modules in a photovoltaic module array when subject to shading were first explored. Then, an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm was applied to track the global maximum power point...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,507 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2022

Coronary heart disease is a type of cardiovascular disease characterized by atherosclerotic plaque, which causes myocardial infarction or sudden cardiac death. Since this sudden heart attack has no apparent symptoms, the early detection of the risk f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
162 Citations
18,706 Views
17 Pages

Honey Bees Inspired Optimization Method: The Bees Algorithm

  • Baris Yuce,
  • Michael S. Packianather,
  • Ernesto Mastrocinque,
  • Duc Truong Pham and
  • Alfredo Lambiase

6 November 2013

Optimization algorithms are search methods where the goal is to find an optimal solution to a problem, in order to satisfy one or more objective functions, possibly subject to a set of constraints. Studies of social animals and social insects have re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,795 Views
10 Pages

29 November 2017

Intelligent optimization algorithms have advantages in dealing with complex nonlinear problems accompanied by good flexibility and adaptability. In this paper, the FCBF (Fast Correlation-Based Feature selection) method is used to filter irrelevant an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,563 Views
15 Pages

6 June 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm intelligence technology has shown unique advantages in agricultural and forestry disaster detection, early warning, and prevention with its efficient and precise cooperative operation capability. In this paper, a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
7,946 Views
27 Pages

Comparative Study of Type-2 Fuzzy Particle Swarm, Bee Colony and Bat Algorithms in Optimization of Fuzzy Controllers

  • Frumen Olivas,
  • Leticia Amador-Angulo,
  • Jonathan Perez,
  • Camilo Caraveo,
  • Fevrier Valdez and
  • Oscar Castillo

28 August 2017

In this paper, a comparison among Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) and the Bat Algorithm (BA) is presented. In addition, a modification to the main parameters of each algorithm through an interval type-2 fuzzy logic sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,279 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2022

Solar photovoltaic technology is spreading extremely rapidly and is becoming an aiding tool in grid networks. The power of solar photovoltaics is not static all the time; it changes due to many variables. This paper presents a full implementation and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,338 Views
31 Pages

6 June 2025

Optimizing vehicle placement in unmarked parking areas is essential for maximizing space efficiency, particularly in irregular and high-demand urban environments. This study investigates the optimal allocation of additional vehicles in spaces left un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,138 Views
15 Pages

Hybrid ABC-BAT for Solving Short-Term Hydrothermal Scheduling Problems

  • Smarajit Ghosh,
  • Manvir Kaur,
  • Suman Bhullar and
  • Vinod Karar

11 February 2019

The main objective of short-term hydrothermal scheduling is the optimal allocation of the hydro and thermal generating units, so that the total cost of thermal plants can be minimized. The time of operation of the functioning units are considered to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,188 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2023

Position errors of inertial navigation systems (INS) increase over time after long-term voyages of the autonomous underwater vehicle. Terrain-aided navigation (TAN) can effectively reduce the accumulated error of the INS. However, traditional TAN alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,175 Views
17 Pages

An Optimal Scheduling Dispatch of a Microgrid under Risk Assessment

  • Whei-Min Lin,
  • Chung-Yuen Yang,
  • Chia-Sheng Tu and
  • Ming-Tang Tsai

2 June 2018

This paper presents the scheduling dispatch of a microgrid (MG), while considering renewable energy, battery storage systems, and time-of-use price. For the risk evaluation of an MG, the Value-at-Risk (VAR) is calculated by using the Historical Simul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,281 Views
17 Pages

This paper presents an advanced method in urban growth modeling to discover transition rules of cellular automata (CA) using the artificial bee colony (ABC) optimization algorithm. Also, comparisons between the simulation results of CA models optimiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,473 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Exploration Artificial Bee Colony for Mathematical Optimization

  • Shaymaa Alsamia,
  • Edina Koch,
  • Hazim Albedran and
  • Richard Ray

5 November 2024

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a famous swarm intelligence method utilized across various disciplines due to its robustness. However, it exhibits limitations in exploration mechanisms, particularly in high-dimensional or complex landsca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
220 Citations
19,696 Views
21 Pages

Hyperparameter Search for Machine Learning Algorithms for Optimizing the Computational Complexity

  • Yasser A. Ali,
  • Emad Mahrous Awwad,
  • Muna Al-Razgan and
  • Ali Maarouf

21 January 2023

For machine learning algorithms, fine-tuning hyperparameters is a computational challenge due to the large size of the problem space. An efficient strategy for adjusting hyperparameters can be established with the use of the greedy search and Swarm i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,320 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2025

As a high-frequency disaster with potentially devastating consequences, urban fires not only threaten the lives of city residents but can also lead to severe property losses, especially for hazardous chemical leaking scenarios. Quick and scientific d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,675 Views
26 Pages

30 January 2022

The microgrid has two main steady-state modes: grid-connected mode and islanded mode. The microgrid needs a high-performance controller to reduce the overshoot value that affects the efficiency of the network. However, the high voltage value causes t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,413 Views
29 Pages

27 January 2024

Solar photovoltaic energy generation has garnered substantial interest owing to its inherent advantages, such as zero pollution, flexibility, sustainability, and high reliability. Ensuring the efficient functioning of PV power facilities hinges on pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,456 Views
22 Pages

30 December 2021

Parameter identification is an important research topic with a variety of applications in industrial and environmental problems. Usually, a functional has to be minimized in conjunction with parameter identification; thus, there is a certain similari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,777 Views
19 Pages

14 December 2017

The Optics Inspired Optimization (OIO) algorithm is a new metaheuristic optimization method. In this paper, the OIO algorithm was proposed for automatic production control parameters in electrical power systems. The performance of the proposed algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
8,980 Views
22 Pages

Artificial Flora (AF) Optimization Algorithm

  • Long Cheng,
  • Xue-han Wu and
  • Yan Wang

26 February 2018

Inspired by the process of migration and reproduction of flora, this paper proposes a novel artificial flora (AF) algorithm. This algorithm can be used to solve some complex, non-linear, discrete optimization problems. Although a plant cannot move, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,274 Views
24 Pages

Fog Computing Resource-Scheduling Strategy in IoT Based on Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Weimin Liu,
  • Chen Li,
  • Aiyun Zheng,
  • Zhi Zheng,
  • Zhen Zhang and
  • Yao Xiao

As the amount of data input increases, fog devices on IoT edge networks become increasingly inefficient. However, a well-designed fog computing resource-scheduling strategy can help to reduce excessive time delays and energy consumption. Therefore, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,085 Views
20 Pages

27 May 2021

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a prominent swarm intelligence technique due to its simple structure and effective performance. However, the ABC algorithm has a slow convergence rate when it is used to solve complex optimization problems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,472 Views
31 Pages

Emerging Applications of Bio-Inspired Algorithms in Image Segmentation

  • Souad Larabi-Marie-Sainte,
  • Reham Alskireen and
  • Sawsan Alhalawani

14 December 2021

Image processing is one example of digital media. It consists of a set of operations to handle an image. Image segmentation is among its main important operations. It involves dividing the image into several parts or regions to extract vital informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,409 Views
21 Pages

Interference Management Based on Meta-Heuristic Algorithms in 5G Device-to-Device Communications

  • Mohamed Kamel Benbraika,
  • Okba Kraa,
  • Yassine Himeur,
  • Khaled Telli,
  • Shadi Atalla and
  • Wathiq Mansoor

1 February 2024

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is an emerging technology that is vital for the future of cellular networks, including 5G and beyond. Its potential lies in enhancing system throughput, offloading the network core, and improving spectral efficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
2,904 Views
18 Pages

High-Accuracy Power Quality Disturbance Classification Using the Adaptive ABC-PSO as Optimal Feature Selection Algorithm

  • Supanat Chamchuen,
  • Apirat Siritaratiwat,
  • Pradit Fuangfoo,
  • Puripong Suthisopapan and
  • Pirat Khunkitti

24 February 2021

Power quality disturbance (PQD) is an important issue in electrical distribution systems that needs to be detected promptly and identified to prevent the degradation of system reliability. This work proposes a PQD classification using a novel algorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,544 Views
21 Pages

μ-Synthesis for Fractional-Order Robust Controllers

  • Vlad Mihaly,
  • Mircea Şuşcă,
  • Dora Morar,
  • Mihai Stănese and
  • Petru Dobra

20 April 2021

The current article presents a design procedure for obtaining robust multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) fractional-order controllers using a μ-synthesis design procedure with D–K iteration. μ-synthesis uses the generalized Robust Control frame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,577 Views
15 Pages

12 March 2018

Distributed generation (DG) can be integrated into any radial distribution network (RDN) to meet the increasing demand for electric power. Instead of integrating a single large size DG, two or more than two small DGs (multi DGs) are usually placed. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,941 Views
20 Pages

1 April 2019

Blade design of the horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) is an important parameter that determines the reliability and efficiency of a wind turbine. It is important to optimize the capture of the energy in the wind that can be correlated to the power...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,694 Views
18 Pages

Short Term Wind Power Prediction Based on Data Regression and Enhanced Support Vector Machine

  • Chia-Sheng Tu,
  • Chih-Ming Hong,
  • Hsi-Shan Huang and
  • Chiung-Hsing Chen

30 November 2020

This paper presents a short-term wind power forecasting model for the next day based on historical marine weather and corresponding wind power output data. Due the large amount of historical marine weather and wind power data, we divided the data int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,579 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2016

This paper presents an optimal dispatch model of an ice storage air-conditioning system for participants to quickly and accurately perform energy saving and demand response, and to avoid the over contact with electricity price peak. The schedule plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,948 Views
23 Pages

Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm to Optimize the Safety Distance of Workers in Construction Projects

  • Eric Forcael,
  • Ibzan Carriel,
  • Alexander Opazo-Vega,
  • Francisco Moreno,
  • Francisco Orozco,
  • Rubén Romo and
  • Duzgun Agdas

3 July 2024

This paper presents the results of a simulation model regarding the productivity and safety working space for construction workers through the floors of a building using swarm intelligence (SI), a field of artificial intelligence (AI), and specifical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,052 Views
23 Pages

12 August 2021

Layout optimization is capable of increasing turbine density and reducing wake effects in wind plants. However, such optimized layouts do not guarantee fixed T-2-T distances in any direction and would be disadvantageous if reduction in computational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
5,958 Views
20 Pages

26 March 2019

Group intelligence algorithms have been widely used in support vector machine (SVM) parameter optimization due to their obvious characteristics of strong parallel processing ability, fast optimization, and global optimization. However, few studies ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,506 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Algorithm for Enhancing Terrain-Aided Navigation in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

  • Dan Wang,
  • Liqiang Liu,
  • Yueyang Ben,
  • Liang Cao and
  • Zhongge Dong

2 September 2024

The position error in an inertial navigation system (INS) for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) increases over time. Terrain-aided navigation can assist in correcting these INS position errors. To enhance the matching accuracy under large initial...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,606 Views
33 Pages

19 November 2014

Bioenergy is a new source of energy that accounts for a substantial portion of the renewable energy production in many countries. The production of bioenergy is expected to increase due to its unique advantages, such as no harmful emissions and abund...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,715 Views
19 Pages

Grounding System Cost Analysis Using Optimization Algorithms

  • Jau-Woei Perng,
  • Yi-Chang Kuo and
  • Shih-Pin Lu

13 December 2018

In this study, the concept of grounding systems is related to the voltage tolerance of the human body (human body voltage tolerance safety value). The maximum touch voltage target and grounding resistance values are calculated in order to compute the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,521 Views
21 Pages

Estimation of the Constituent Properties of Red Delicious Apples Using a Hybrid of Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Yousef Abbaspour-Gilandeh,
  • Sajad Sabzi,
  • Brahim Benmouna,
  • Ginés García-Mateos,
  • José Luis Hernández-Hernández and
  • José Miguel Molina-Martínez

13 February 2020

Non-destructive estimation of the constituent properties of fruits and vegetables has led to a dramatic change in the agriculture and food industry, allowing accurate and efficient sorting of the products based on their internal properties. Therefore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,446 Views
28 Pages

16 October 2020

A radial basis function neural network-based 2-satisfiability reverse analysis (RBFNN-2SATRA) primarily depends on adequately obtaining the linear optimal output weights, alongside the lowest iteration error. This study aims to investigate the effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,329 Views
27 Pages

Power-Efficient Wireless Coverage Using Minimum Number of UAVs

  • Ahmad Sawalmeh,
  • Noor Shamsiah Othman,
  • Guanxiong Liu,
  • Abdallah Khreishah,
  • Ali Alenezi and
  • Abdulaziz Alanazi

29 December 2021

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as backup aerial base stations due to cellular outage either during or post natural disaster. In this paper, an approach involving multi-UAV three-dimensional (3D) deployment with power-efficient planni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,262 Views
25 Pages

26 September 2021

The study of human activity recognition (HAR) plays an important role in many areas such as healthcare, entertainment, sports, and smart homes. With the development of wearable electronics and wireless communication technologies, activity recognition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,203 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2011

Swarms of robots can use their sensing abilities to explore unknown environments and deploy on sites of interest. In this task, a large number of robots is more effective than a single unit because of their ability to quickly cover the area. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,206 Views
19 Pages

A Comparative Evaluation of Nature Inspired Algorithms for Telecommunication Network Design

  • Stanisław Kozdrowski,
  • Mateusz Żotkiewicz,
  • Kacper Wnuk,
  • Arkadiusz Sikorski and
  • Sławomir Sujecki

29 September 2020

The subject of the study was an application of nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms to node configuration optimization in optical networks. The main objective of the optimization was to minimize capital expenditure, which includes the costs of op...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
131 Citations
12,744 Views
27 Pages

A Survey of Using Swarm Intelligence Algorithms in IoT

  • Weifeng Sun,
  • Min Tang,
  • Lijun Zhang,
  • Zhiqiang Huo and
  • Lei Shu

5 March 2020

With the continuing advancements in technologies (such as machine to machine, wireless telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and big data analysis), the Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect everything for information sharing and intelligen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
12,166 Views
18 Pages

Grouped Bees Algorithm: A Grouped Version of the Bees Algorithm

  • Hamid Reza Nasrinpour,
  • Amir Massah Bavani and
  • Mohammad Teshnehlab

In many non-deterministic search algorithms, particularly those analogous to complex biological systems, there are a number of inherent difficulties, and the Bees Algorithm (BA) is no exception. The BA is a population-based metaheuristic search algor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,743 Views
14 Pages

Opportunities of IoT in Fog Computing for High Fault Tolerance and Sustainable Energy Optimization

  • A. Reyana,
  • Sandeep Kautish,
  • Khalid Abdulaziz Alnowibet,
  • Hossam M. Zawbaa and
  • Ali Wagdy Mohamed

27 May 2023

Today, the importance of enhanced quality of service and energy optimization has promoted research into sensor applications such as pervasive health monitoring, distributed computing, etc. In general, the resulting sensor data are stored on the cloud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,480 Views
39 Pages

Different Fuzzy Control Configurations Tuned by the Bees Algorithm for LFC of Two-Area Power System

  • Mokhtar Shouran,
  • Fatih Anayi,
  • Michael Packianather and
  • Monier Habil

17 January 2022

This study develops and implements a design of the Fuzzy Proportional Integral Derivative with filtered derivative mode (Fuzzy PIDF) for Load Frequency Control (LFC) of a two-area interconnected power system. To attain the optimal values of the propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,455 Views
36 Pages

13 September 2022

In this work, an efficient hybrid optimization approach entitled harmony search and particle artificial bee colony algorithm is proposed to deal with the distribution network reconfiguration and solar photovoltaic-based distributed generation and shu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,773 Views
14 Pages

8 November 2022

With the rapid development of internet technology, the amount of collected or generated data has increased exponentially. The sheer volume, complexity, and unbalanced nature of this data pose a challenge to the scientific community to extract meaning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,904 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2022

Lifetime optimization is one of the key issues among the many challenges of wireless sensor networks. The introduction of a small number of high-performance relay nodes can effectively improve the quality of the network services. However, how to depl...

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