In this paper, a combination of simulated annealing (SA) and intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm is used to solve the nonlinear/complex problem of simultaneous reconfiguration with optimal allocation (size and location) of wind turbine (WT) as a distributed generation (DG) and dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) as a distributed flexible AC transmission systems (DFACT) unit in a distribution sys...

Research efforts in metaheuristics have shown that an intelligent incorporation of more classical optimization techniques in metaheuristics can be very beneficial. In this paper, we combine the metaheuristic ant colony optimization with dynamic programming for the application to the NP-hard k-cardinality tree problem. Given an undirected graph G with node and/or edge weights, the problem consis...

As multi-core processor architectures with tens or even hundreds of cores, not all of them necessarily identical, become common, the current processor design methodology, that relies on large-scale simulations, is not going to scale well because of the number of possibilities to be considered. We need intelligent/efficient techniques to navigate through the processor design space. In this paper...

Among the many contributions made by information technologies to Bioinformatics, the techniques of intelligent data analysis combined with optimization techniques are the main application field nowadays. Many researches focused on DNA microarray field have proposed different approaches trying to obtain new undiscovered knowledge of diseases such cancer. All these researches can be represented a...

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are getting increasingly popular because road transport has grown dramatically. These systems are essential to improve driving comfort. Evolution of computer vision techniques, increased power of low-consumption embedded HW, and reduced costs of cameras makes ADAS becoming a reality in the market of intelligent vehicles. Small steps towards complete aut...

A number of data-intensive systems require using random hash-based indexes of various forms, e.g., hashtables, Bloom filters, and locality sensitive hash tables. In this paper, we present general SSD optimization techniques that can be used to design a variety of such indexes while ensuring higher performance and easier tunability than specialized state-of-the-art approaches. We leverage two ke...

This paper studies wireless sensor networks node deployment problem and proposes intelligent single particle optimizer based wireless sensor networks adaptive coverage. According to the probability model measure characteristic of wireless sensor nodes, the method adaptively determines the optimal deployment of sensor nodes using intelligent single particle optimizer, achieving sensor node based...