Optimization is necessary for the control of any process to achieve better product quality, high productivity with low cost. The beltline moulding process is difficult task due to its low defects, making the material sensitive to reject. The efficient beltline moulding process involves the optimal selection of operating parameters to maximize the number of production while maintaining the requi...

Genetic algorithm (GA) is a kind of method to simulate the natural evolvement process to search the optimal solution, and the algorithm can be evolved by four operations including coding, selecting, crossing and variation. The particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a kind of optimization tool based on iteration, and the particle has not only global searching ability, but also memory ability, and ...

Inspired by the natural features of the variable size of the population, we present a variable population-size genetic algorithm (VPGA) by introducing the “dying probability” for the individuals and the “war/disease process” for the population. Based on the VPGA and the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms, a novel PSO-GA-based hybrid algorithm (PGHA) is also proposed in this paper. Sim...

Our main objective in this article is to achieve minimum side lobe levels for a specific first null beam-width and also a minimum size of the circumference by an optimization-based design method for non-uniform, planar, and circular antenna arrays. Our approach is based on a new variant of Particle swarm Optimization technique. This new technique is a hybrid of Local Neighborhood based PSO with...

this study is investigated the optimum parameters for a tuned mass damper (tmd) under the seismic excitation. shuffled complex evolution (sce) is a meta-heuristic optimization method which is used to find the optimum damping and tuning frequency ratio for a tmd. the efficiency of the tmd is evaluated by decreasing the structural displacement dynamic magnification factor (ddmf) and acceleration ...

The process of learning Bayesian networks includes structure learning and parameters learning. During the process, learning the structure of Bayesian networks based on a large database is a NP hard problem. The paper presents a new hybrid algorithm by integrating the algorithms of MMPC (max-min parents and children), PSO (particle swarm optimization) and GA (genetic algorithm) effectively. In t...

With the rapid development of the internet, the amount of information and data which are produced, are extremely massive. Hence, client will be confused with huge amount of data, and it is difficult to understand which ones are useful. Data mining can overcome this problem. While data mining is using on cloud computing, it is reducing time of processing, energy usage and costs. As the speed of ...

Multi-knowledge extraction is significant for many real-world applications. The nature inspired population-based reduction approaches are attractive to find multiple reducts in the decision systems, which could be applied to generate multi-knowledge and to improve decision accuracy. In this Chapter, we introduce two nature inspired populationbased computational optimization techniques namely Pa...

In recent years, Hidden Markov Models (HMM) have been increasingly applied in data mining applications. However, most authors have used classical optimization ExpectationMaximization (EM) scheme. A new method of HMM learning based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been developed. Along with others global approaches as Simulating Annealing (SIM) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) the following l...