This paper proposes a novel hybrid chaotic genetic algorithm (HCGA) to solve the short-term generation scheduling of hydro system. The integration of chaotic sequence and genetic algorithm with a new self-adaptive error back-propagation mutation operator are developed, which can overcome...

Based on a new life test plan called a progressive first-failure-censoring scheme, the estimation problem of the reliability performances is considered for a semi-parameter class of distributions by using Bayes and non-Bayes methods. In order to investigate the accuracy of estimation, an...