Long-term hydrothermal coordination is one of the main problems to be solved by an electric utility. Its solution provides the optimal allocation of hydraulic, thermal and nuclear resources at the different intervals of the planning horizon. The purpose of the paper is two-fold. Firstly, it presents a new package for solving the hydrothermal coordination problem. The model implemented accuratel...

Fitting spline curves to data points is a very important issue in many applied fields. It is also challenging, because these curves typically depend on many continuous variables in a highly interrelated nonlinear way. In general, it is not possible to compute these parameters analytically, so the problem is formulated as a continuous nonlinear optimization problem, for which traditional optimiz...

Nonlinear system identification is a main topic of modern identification. A new method for nonlinear system identification is presented by using Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA).The problems of nonlinear system identification are cast as function optimization overprameter space,and the Quantum Genetic Algorithm is adopted to solve the optimization problem. Simulation experiments show that: compa...

In this paper, a Hopfiled neural network for nonlinear constrained optimization problem is discussed. The energy function for the nonlinear neural network with its neural dynamics is defined based on penalty function with two-order continuous differential. The system of the neural network is stable, and its equilibrium point of the neural dynamics is also an approximately solution for nonlinear...

Solving (nonlinear) eigenvalue problems by contour integration, requires an e↵ective discretization for the corresponding contour integrals. In this paper it is shown that good rational filter functions can be computed using (nonlinear least squares) optimization techniques as opposed to designing those functions based on a thorough understanding of complex analysis. The conditions that such an...

Genetic Programming (GP) is a useful tool of nonlinear model building, however a simple use of GP often fails in numeric optimization since GP hangs on random number sampling in searching appropriate constant parameters in individual representing each model candidate. From this viewpoint a hybrid GP based nonlinear system identification method is proposed in this paper. We introduce a simple nu...

A nonlinear predictive control technique is developed to determine the optimal drying profile for a drying process. A complete nonlinear model of the baker's yeast drying process is used for predicting the future control actions. To minimize the difference between the model predictions and the desired trajectory throughout finite horizon, an objective function is described. The optimization pro...

The random perturbation of generalized reduced gradient method for optimization under nonlinear differentiable constraints is proposed. Generally speaking, a particular iteration of this method proceeds in two phases. In the Restoration Phase, feasibility is restored by means of the resolution of an auxiliary nonlinear problem, a generally nonlinear system of equations. In the Optimization Phas...

This paper presents a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for constrained nonlinear optimization problems. In PSO, the potential solutions, called particles, are "flown" through the problem space by learning from the current optimal particle and its own memory. In this paper, preserving feasibility strategy is employed to deal with constraints. PSO is started with a group of feasible so...

Convex optimization techniques are widely used in the design and analysis of communication systems and signal processing algorithms. In this paper a novel recurrent neural network is presented for solving nonlinear strongly convex equality constrained optimization problems. The proposed neural network is based on recursive quadratic programming for nonlinear optimization, in conjunction with ho...