Economic load dispatch (ELD) problem between power plant units is formulated as a nonlinear optimization with continuous variables. The main target in this problem is optimum planning in power plant units with minimum cost while equal and non-equal constraints consisting load request and unit production capacity are followed. In this paper an effective method based on particle swarm algorithm o...

In this study, solutions for machinery layout with the aim of reducing transportation costs will be discussed. To do this, imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), which is a very complicated and effective meta-heuristic algorithm is introduced. In the offered algorithm, different kinds of machinery layout are considered in single-row as country and then the best possible layout is developed ba...

A wind speed forecast corresponds to an estimate of the upcoming production of a wind farm. The paper illustrates a variant of the Nearest Neighbor algorithm that yields wind speed forecasts, with a fast time resolution, for a (very) short time horizon. The proposed algorithm allows us to monitor a grid of wind farms, which collaborate by sharing information (i.e. wind speed measurements). It a...

The quality of manufactured products is characterized by many controllable quality factors. These factors should be optimized to reach high quality products. In this paper we try to find the controllable factors levels with minimum deviation from the target and with a least variation. To solve the problem a simple aggregation function is used to aggregate the multiple responses functions then a...

the imperialist competitive algorithm (ica) that was recently introduced has shown its good performance in optimization problems. this algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and colonies, in contrast to evolutionary algorithms. this paper presents optimization of bead geometry in welding process using of ica. therefore, two case studies from literature are presented t...