0045-7949/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2012.07.010 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +60 379675266; fax: E-mail addresses: hadi.eskandar@yahoo.com (H. hoo.com (A. Sadollah), bahreininejad@um.edu.my (A m.edu.my (M. Hamdi). This paper presents a new optimization technique called water cycle algorithm (WCA) which is applied to a number of constrained op...

Sensor Networks are expected to sustain for a long period of time with limited battery power. Among the many approaches used, Node Scheduling is effective in increasing the Network Lifetime. Existing node scheduling approaches perceives the happenings in the Sense region as a random phenomenon. But the proposed approach studies the behaviour of targets in its region and uses the acquired knowle...

Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) are used to enhance damping of power system oscillations. This paper presents a new fast algorithm to develop PSS. According to this regard, Water Cycle Algorithm (WCA) is used to detect optimum Power System Stabilizer parameters. For this purpose, the design problem of PSS is formulated as an optimization problem and WCA by forming three subsidiary objective fun...

This paper presents a modified version of the water cycle algorithm (WCA). The fundamental concepts and ideas which underlie the WCA are inspired based on the observation of water cycle process and how rivers and streams flow to the sea. New concept of evaporation rate for different rivers and streams is defined so called evaporation rate based WCA (ER-WCA), which offers improvement in search. ...

Heat generation in an exothermic reaction during the curing process and low thermal conductivity of the epoxy resin produces high peak temperature and temperature gradients which result in internal and residual stresses, especially in large epoxy samples. In this paper, an optimization algorithm was developed and applied to predict the thermal cure cycle to minimize the temperature peak and the...

Sensor Networks are expected to sustain for a long period of time with limited battery power. Among the many approaches used, Node Scheduling is effective in increasing the Network Lifetime. Existing node scheduling approaches perceives the happenings in the Sense region as a random phenomenon. But the proposed approach studies the behaviour of targets in its region and uses the acquired knowle...