In this paper we develop a numerical method for solving a class of optimization problems known as optimal location or quantization problems. The target energy can be written either in terms of atomic measures and the Wasserstein distance or in terms of weighted points and power diagrams (generalized Voronoi diagrams). The latter formulation is more suitable for computation. We show that critica...

We present an algorithm for finding a distance optimal rendezvous location with respect to both initial and target locations of two mobile agents. These agents can be humans or robots, who need to meet and split while performing a collaborative task. Our aim is to embed the meeting process within a background activity such that the agents travel through the same rendezvous location while taking...

This study presents a finding an optimal location and best parameter setting of Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) by Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA) for minimizing the active and reactive power loss in power system. The UPFC is one of the important Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) device that control simultaneously voltage magnitude at the sending end...

An optimization procedure for the location of the relay transceiver in ultrawideband wireless communication system is presented. The impulse responses of different transceiver locations are computed by shooting and bouncing ray/image (SBR/Image) techniques and inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT). By using the impulse responses of these multi-path channels, the bit error rate (BER) performance...

in this paper, a new method is proposed to find the fuzzy optimal solution of fully fuzzy linear bilevel programming (fflblp) problems by representing all the parameters as triangular fuzzy numbers. in the proposed method, the given fflblp problem is decomposed into three crisp linear programming (clp) problems with bounded variables constraints, the three clp problems are solved separately and...

This paper presents the application of multiobjective optimization, for finding out the optimal power distribution network. A multiobjective optimization model simultaneously minimizing the system expansion costs while achieving the best reliability (optimal sizing and location of future feeders and substations). Furthermore, the problem has some constraints. The proposed methodology has been t...

Finding an optimal configuration is one the most important steps in the design and establishing a deformation monitoring network. The main goals of an optimal network design process include finding proper location of control stations (First Order Design) as well as proper weight of observations (Second Order Design) in a way that satisfy all the criteria considered for the quality of the networ...

This paper deals with a hybrid BIST solution for testing systems-on-chip, which combines pseudorandom test patterns with stored precomputed deterministic test patterns. A method is proposed for finding the optimal balance between pseudorandom and stored test patterns to perform core test with minimum cost of time and memory, and without losing test quality. As a generalization of local optimiza...

In this paper, we introduce a new variant of Location-Routing Problem (LRP), namely the LRP with simultaneous pickup and delivery (LRPSPD). The LRPSPD is defined as finding locations of the depots and designing vehicle routes in such a way that pickup and delivery demand of each customer must be performed with same vehicle and the overall cost is minimized. We propose two polynomial-size mixed ...