in this paper a mesh-free model of the functionally graded material (fgm) plate is presented.  the piezoelectric material as a sensor and actuator has been distributed on the top and bottom of the plate, respectively. the formulation of the problem is based on the classical laminated plate theory (clpt) and the principle of virtual displacements. moreover, the particle swarm optimization (pso) ...

in this paper a novel hybrid algorithm for harmonics estimation in power systems is proposed. the estimation of the harmonic components is a nonlinear problem due to the nonlinearity of phase of sinusoids in distorted waveforms. most researchers implemented nonlinear methods to extract the harmonic parameters. however, nonlinear methods for amplitude estimation increase time of convergence. hen...

in this paper power system stability enhancement through static synchronous compensator (statcom)based controller is investigated. the potential of the statcom supplementary controllers to enhance thedynamic stability is evaluated. the design problem of statcom based damping controller is formulatedas an optimization problem according to the eigenvalue based objective function that is solved by...

job shop scheduling problem has significant importance in many researchingfields such as production management and programming and also combinedoptimizing. job shop scheduling problem includes two sub-problems: machineassignment and sequence operation performing. in this paper combination ofparticle swarm optimization algorithm (pso) and gravitational search algorithm(gsa) have been presented f...

in this study, we considered an inflationary inventory control model under non-deterministic conditions. we assumed the inflation rate as a normal distribution, with any arbitrary probability density function (pdf). the objective function was to minimize the total discount cost of the inventory system. we used two methods to solve this problem. one was the classic numerical approach which turne...

this work presents a hybrid method for motif discovery in dna sequences. the proposed method called spso-lk, borrows the concept of chebyshev polynomials and uses the stochastic local search to improve the performance of the basic pso algorithm as a motif finder. the chebyshev polynomial concept encourages us to use a linear combination of previously discovered velocities beyond that proposed b...

fuzzy time series have been developed during the last decade to improve the forecast accuracy. many algorithms have been applied in this approach of forecasting such as high order time invariant fuzzy time series. in this paper, we present a hybrid algorithm to deal with the forecasting problem based on time variant fuzzy time series and particle swarm optimization algorithm, as a highly effici...

in this article, a multi-objective memetic algorithm (ma) for rule learning is proposed. prediction accuracy and interpretation are two measures that conflict with each other. in this approach, we consider accuracy and interpretation of rules sets. additionally, individual classifiers face other problems such as huge sizes, high dimensionality and imbalance classes’ distribution data sets. this...

this paper presents a fuzzy decision-making approach to deal with a clustering supplier problem in a supply chain system. during recent years, determining suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. however, the nature of these decisions is usually complex and unstructured. in general, many quantitative and qualitative factors, such as quality, price, and fl...

In this paper, a chaotic particle swarm optimization with mutation-based classifier particle swarm optimization is proposed to classify patterns of different classes in the feature space. The introduced mutation operators and chaotic sequences allows us to overcome the problem of early convergence into a local minima associated with particle swarm optimization algorithms. That is, the mutation ...