Expectation of profit is the economic driving force motivating business activity in a free-enterprise economy. An increase in this profit for a given organization can be accomplis...
In a liberalized electricity market, the use of phase shifting transformers or other power flow controlling devices allows the transmission system operator to utilize the availabl...
Jody Verboomen, Dirk Van Hertem, Ronnie Belmans, P...
Spatial Extension PSO (SEPSO) and Attractive-Repulsive PSO (ARPSO) are methods for artificial injection of diversity into particle swarm optimizers that are intended to encourage ...
Differential evolution (DE) has emerged as one of the fast, robust, and efficient global search heuristics of current interest. This paper describes an application of DE to the aut...
—We present solutions to two problems that prevent the effective use of population-based algorithms in clustering problems. The first solution presents a new representation for ...