This paper presents an improved Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for solving Transient Stability Constrained Optimal Power Flow (TSCOPF) problem through the application of Gaussian and Cauchy probability distributions. The modified PSO approach introduces new diversification and intensification strategy into the particles thus preventing PSO algorithm from premature convergence. The ...

English [Noun+Adj] compound adjectives containing an intensifying metaphor (e.g. crystal-clear) pose particular challenges for French translation, due in part to the absence of a direct equivalent construction. Our study examines morphosyntactic and conceptual-semantic translation procedures that capture how these are resolved. We also explore little-investigated aspect variation (the number di...

Researchers in artificial intelligence usually adopt the constraint satisfaction problem and the Satisfiability paradigms as their preferred methods when solving various real worlds decision making problems. Local search algorithms used to tackle different optimization problems that arise in various fields aim at finding a tactical interplay between diversification and intensification to overco...

The Reverse Elimination Method (REM) is a dynamic strategy for managing the tabu list. It is based on logical interdependencies between the solutions encountered during recent iterations of the search. REM provides both a necessary and sufficient condition to prevent cycling. The purpose of this paper is first to incorporate in REM a chronological order rule when cycling is unavoidable, thereby...

25 CRITICAL EVENT TABU SEARCH FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL KNAPSACK PROBLEMS Fred Glover Graduate School of Business, Box 419 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0419 E-Mail: [email protected] Gary A. Kochenberger College of Business University of Colorado at Denver Denver, Colorado 80217-3364 E-Mail: [email protected] We report a new approach to creating a ...

In this study, the performance of Scatter Search (SS) meta-heuristic for the post-enrolment course timetabling problems reported in recent literature was reviewed. The aim is to address the strengths and limitations of the SS structure and mechanisms; to empower more studies; to investigate the capabilities of SS; and to enhance it for solving timetabling problems as a whole. The SS is almost s...

Crop wild relatives are valuable resources for future genetic improvement. Here, we report the de novo genome assembly of Musa itinerans, a disease-resistant wild banana relative in subtropical China. The assembled genome size was 462.1 Mb, covering 75.2% of the genome (615.2Mb) and containing 32, 456 predicted protein-coding genes. Since the approximate divergence around 5.8 million years ago,...

The Greater Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany (GMPA) region of southern Africa was recently designated as a centre of vertebrate endemism. The phylogeography of the vertebrate taxa occupying this region may provide insights into the evolution of faunal endemism in south-eastern Africa. Here we investigate the phylogeographic patterns of an understudied small mammal species assemblage (Amblysomus) end...

Deciphering mechanisms shaping bacterial diversity should help to build tools to predict the emergence of infectious diseases. Xanthomonads are plant pathogenic bacteria found worldwide. Xanthomonas axonopodis is a genetically heterogeneous species clustering, into six groups, strains that are collectively pathogenic on a large number of plants. However, each strain displays a narrow host range...

Scatter search (SS) and path relinking (PR) are evolutionary methods that have been successfully applied to a wide range of hard optimization problems. The fundamental concepts and principles of the methods were first proposed in the 1970s and 1980s, and were based on formulations, dating back to the 1960s, for combining decision rules and problem constraints. The methods use strategies for sea...