in practical situations, distribution network loads are the mixtures of residential, industrial, and commercial types. this paper presents a hybrid optimization algorithm for the optimal placement of shunt capacitor banks in radial distribution networks in the presence of different voltage-dependent load models. the algorithm is based on the combination of genetic algorithm (ga) and binary part...

A king u in a tournament is a player who beats any other player v directly or indirectly. That is, either u → v (u beats v) or there exists a third player w such that u→ w and w → v. A sorted sequence of kings in a tournament of n players is a sequence of players, S = (u1, u2, . . . , un), such that ui → ui+1 and ui in a king in sub-tournament Tui = {ui ,ui+1, . . . , un} for i = 1,2, . . . , n...

A new algorithm for identifying and locating singular points on a fingerprint image is presented. This algorithm is based on properties of the fingerprint orientation image, including a feature defined as a transition line. The transition line is shown to provide an efficient means of both tracking and classifying singular points without having to search through the entire fingerprint image. Th...

Abstract The feature selection (FS) process has an essential effect in solving many problems such as prediction, regression, and classification to get the optimal solution. For problems, selecting most relevant features of a dataset leads better accuracy with low training time. In this work, hybrid binary crow search algorithm (BCSA) based quasi-oppositional (QO) method is proposed FS on wrappe...

toodeh party was one of the organized parties in the first days of iran's islamic revolution. this party began its cooperation with the revolutionary forces after 16th polonium and nooraldin kianoori's election as its first secretary. its support from imam khomeini's leadership and the revolution was based on its analysis and understanding of the socio-political forces' posi...

In this paper, a new SOM competition algorithm is proposed for image recognition applications. The competition in this algorithm depends on a subset of most discriminate weights of the network codebooks. This indeed can reduce the required recognition time of one image. In addition, the competition is applied on the pixels corresponding to the object gray levels only, this allows recognizing co...

Feature selection plays an important role in pattern recognition. The better selection of a feature set usually results the better performance in a classification problem. This work tries to select the best feature set for classification of rice varieties based on image of bulk samples using imperialist competition algorithm. Imperialist competition algorithm is a new evolutionary optimization ...