Search Results - subject:"particle Swarm optimization"

Optimal sizing of a solar thermal building installation using particle swarm optimization

Bornatico, Raffaele; Pfeiffer, Michael; Witzig, Andreas; … - In: Energy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 31-37

In recent years the domestic energy management has become a non-trivial task as the number of energy sources and system components involved have increased, and all components have to operate coordinately in order to maximize global efficiency measures.

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Minimizing pump energy in a wastewater processing plant

Zhang, Zijun; Zeng, Yaohui; Kusiak, Andrew - In: Energy 47 (2012) 1, pp. 505-514

problem (MINLP). As solving a data-driven MINLP is challenging, a migrated particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed …

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Modeling and optimization of HVAC systems using a dynamic neural network

Kusiak, Andrew; Xu, Guanglin - In: Energy 42 (2012) 1, pp. 241-250

accomplished with a bi-objective optimization. The model is solved with three variants of the multi-objective particle swarm … optimization algorithm. The optimization model and the multi-objective algorithm have been implemented in an existing HVAC system …

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An Efficient Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Solving the Uncapacitated Continuous Location-Allocation Problem

Ghaderi, Abdolsalam; Jabalameli, Mohammad; Barzinpour, … - In: Networks and Spatial Economics 12 (2012) 3, pp. 421-439

is considered, and a particle swarm optimization approach, which has not previously been applied to this problem, is … presented. Two algorithms including classical and hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithms are developed. Local optima of … particle swarm optimization to construct an efficient hybrid approach. Many large-scale problems are used to measure the …

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A New Multi-objective Competitive Open Vehicle Routing Problem Solved by Particle Swarm Optimization

Norouzi, N.; Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R.; Ghazanfari, M.; … - In: Networks and Spatial Economics 12 (2012) 4, pp. 609-633

balancing the goods distributed among vehicles. This model is solved by the use of a multi-objective particle swarm optimization …

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A particle swarm optimization algorithm for optimization of thermal performance of a smooth flat plate solar air heater

Siddhartha; Sharma, Naveen; Varun - In: Energy 38 (2012) 1, pp. 406-413

This work is undertaken with an objective to develop and implement a trained particle swarm optimization (PSO …

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Differential Evolution algorithm with Separated Groups for multi-dimensional optimization problems

Piotrowski, Adam P.; Napiorkowski, Jaroslaw J.; Kiczko, Adam - In: European Journal of Operational Research 216 (2012) 1, pp. 33-46

Strategies (Covariance Matrix Adaptation ES), Particle Swarm Optimization (Comprehensive Learning PSO and Efficient Population …

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A binary particle swarm optimization algorithm inspired by multi-level organizational learning behavior

Bin, Wei; Qinke, Peng; Jing, Zhao; Xiao, Chen - In: European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 2, pp. 224-233

Recently, nature-inspired algorithms have increasingly attracted the attention of researchers. Due to the fact that in BPSO the position vectors consisting of ‘0’ and ‘1’ can be seen as a decision behavior (support or oppose), in this paper, we propose a BPSO with hierarchical structure...

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A multi-swarm PSO using charged particles in a partitioned search space for continuous optimization

Dor, Abbas El; Clerc, Maurice; Siarry, Patrick - In: Computational Optimization and Applications 53 (2012) 1, pp. 271-295

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is characterized by a fast convergence, which can lead the algorithms of this class …

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Modeling of pedestrian evacuation based on the particle swarm optimization algorithm

Zheng, Yaochen; Chen, Jianqiao; Wei, Junhong; Guo, Xiwei - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 17, pp. 4225-4233

By applying the evolutionary algorithm of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), we have developed a new pedestrian …

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