0020-0255/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.ins.2010.02.026 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.-F In many practical applications, new information may emerge from the environment at different points in time after a classification system has originally been deployed. For instance, in biometric systems, new data may be acquired and used to enro...

Presence of distributed generation (DG) in distribution systems has significant impacts on the operational characteristics of these systems, also using capacitor for reactive compensation and loss reduction is so common. Injected harmonic currents from nonlinear loads into distribution system distort all of voltages and currents and must be considered when placing the capacitor banks so that th...

In this paper, a scatter search algorithm with improved component modules is proposed to solve the single machine total weighted tardiness problem with sequence-dependent setup times. For diversification generation module, both random strategy based heuristics and construction heuristic are adopted to generate the diversified population. For improvement module, variable neighborhood search base...

Classification and Prediction is an important research area of data mining. Construction of classifier model for any decision system is an important job for many data mining applications. The objective of developing such a classifier is to classify unlabeled dataset into classes. Here we have applied a discrete Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for selecting optimal classification rul...

This paper presents optimization of sizing and placement of photovoltaic (PV) systems in order to utilize them in distribution systems. Output variations of such resources and consumers variations are accounted for study time to reach to actual condition. Dynamic particle swarm optimization (DPSO) is used for optimization with the aim of achieving to high convergence speed. The proposed method ...

This paper presents a comparative case study on the classification accuracy between 5 methods for golf putting performance analysis. In a previous work, a digital camera was used to capture 30 trials of 6 expert golf players. The detection of the horizontal position of the golf club was performed using a computer vision technique followed by the estimation algorithm Darwinian Particle Swarm Opt...

In this paper, a modified discrete particle swarm optimization is presented to find the optimal placement and size of capacitors in a distribution system. The objective function is composed of the line loss and the capacitors investment cost. The bus voltage and the feeder current as constraints are included in the objective function by a constraint penalty factor. To validate the proposed meth...

Scheduling is one of the core steps to efficiently exploit the capabilities of emergent computational systems such as grid. Grid environment is a dynamic, heterogeneous and unpredictable one sharing different services among many different users. Because of heterogeneous and dynamic nature of grid, the methods used in traditional systems could not be applied to grid scheduling and therefore new ...

The present work describes the studies on the coordination behaviour of 4[N-(benzalidene) amino]antipyrine semicarbazone (BAAPS) (I), 4[N-(furfural)amino]antipyrine semicarbazone (FFAAPS) (II) and 4[N-(cinnamalidene)amino]antipyrine semicarbazone (CAAPS) (III) in presence of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) or diphenyl sulfoxide (DPSO) towards Th4+ and UO22+ salts. All the complexes were isolate...