Although initially conceived for evolving finite state machines, evolutionary programming (EP), in its present form, is largely used as a powerful real parameter optimizer. For function optimization. EP mainly relies ...
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Although initially conceived for evolving finite state machines, evolutionary programming (EP), in its present form, is largely used as a powerful real parameter optimizer. For function optimization. EP mainly relies on its mutation operators. Over past few years several mutation operators have been proposed to improve the performance of EP on a wide variety of numerical benchmarks. However, unlike real-coded GAs, there has been no fitness-induced bias in parent selection for mutation in EP. That means the i-th population member is selected deterministically for mutation and creation of the i-th offspring in each generation. In this article we propose a p-best mutation scheme for EP where any one from the p (p is an element of [1,2, ... ,mu], where mu denotes population size) top-ranked population-members (according to fitness values) is selected randomly for mutation. The scheme is invoked with 50% probability with each index in the current population, i.e. the i-th offspring can now be obtained either by mutating the i-th parent or by mutating a randomly selected individual from the p top-ranked vectors. The percentage of best members is made dynamic by decreasing p in from mu/2 to 1 with generations to favor explorative behavior at the early stages of search and exploitation during the later stages. We investigate the effectiveness of introducing controlled bias in parent selection in conjunction with an Adaptive Fast EP (AFEP), where the value of a strategy parameter is updated based on the previous records of successful mutations by the same parameter. Comparison with the recent and best-known versions of EP over 25 benchmark functions from the CEC (Congress on evolutionary Computation) 2005 test-suite for real-parameter optimization and two other engineering optimization problems reflects the statistically validated superiority of the new scheme in terms of final accuracy, speed, and robustness. Comparison with AFEP without p-best mutation demonstrates the imp
In this paper, a new design method for neural networks is presented based on evolutionary programming. By using an evolutionary algorithm the structure and weights of static neural networks can be simultaneously acqui...
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In this paper, a new design method for neural networks is presented based on evolutionary programming. By using an evolutionary algorithm the structure and weights of static neural networks can be simultaneously acquired. This method is further extended to design recurrent neural networks through introducing 'delayed links' into networks. Simulation results are also given to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.
This work presents an optimization of a Linear Fresnel Reflector based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics, the Entropy Generation Rate and the evolutionary programming method. The objective function of the optimizati...
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This work presents an optimization of a Linear Fresnel Reflector based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics, the Entropy Generation Rate and the evolutionary programming method. The objective function of the optimization process takes into account the maximization of the absorbed radiation solar flux on the receiver tube and the minimization of the total Entropy Generation Rate. A set of design equations were used to build the Linear Fresnel Reflector geometries of each one of the individuals per generation. The design equations consider, among others, a coupling between the angles and distances of the mirrors and the required geometrical parameters for the construction of the CPC secondary reflector. The evolutionary programming considers a small population of six individuals per generation and takes into account a search space for geometric parameters such as the aperture area, the width and the length of the mirrors. The mutation operator is applied to generate the individuals and the selection operator is applied to find the best individuals for the next generation. Seven generations were needed to find the optimal Linear Fresnel Reflector. The optimal Linear Fresnel Reflector (NN individual) presents an increase of 2.48% for the average absorbed radiation flux on the absorber tube and a decrease of 20% for the total Entropy Generation Rate, both in comparison with a prototype of a Linear Fresnel Reflector. For the absorbed radiation flux, both individuals presents the minimum values on the top side of the absorber tube (1,386 W m-2 and 1,982 W m-2 for the prototype and NN individual respectively), while the maximum values are located at the lower part of the absorber tube (7,180 W m-2 and 8,199 W m-2 for the prototype and NN individual respectively). In terms of local Entropy Generation Rate, the NN individual has a decrease of 14.6%, 60% and 36.8% of Entropy Generation Rate due to viscous dissipation, heat transfer and radiation respectively at the CPC zone in
Exergoeconomic analysis helps designers to find ways to improve the performance of a system in a cost effective way. Most of the conventional exergoeconomic optimisation methods are iterative in nature and require the...
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Exergoeconomic analysis helps designers to find ways to improve the performance of a system in a cost effective way. Most of the conventional exergoeconomic optimisation methods are iterative in nature and require the interpretation of the designer at each iteration. In this work, a cogeneration system that produces 50 MW of electricity and 15 kg/s of saturated steam at 2.5 bar is optimized using exergoeconomic principles and evolutionary programming. The analysis shows that the product cost, cost of electricity and steam, is 9.9% lower with respect to the base case. This is achieved, however, with 10% increase in capital investment. Moreover, it is important to note that the additional investment can be paid back in 3.23 years. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
evolutionary programming can solve black-box function optimisation problems by evolving a population of numerical vectors. The variation component in the evolutionary process is supplied by a mutation operator, which ...
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evolutionary programming can solve black-box function optimisation problems by evolving a population of numerical vectors. The variation component in the evolutionary process is supplied by a mutation operator, which is typically a Gaussian, Cauchy, or Levy probability distribution. In this paper, we use genetic programming to automatically generate mutation operators for an evolutionary programming system, testing the proposed approach over a set of function classes, which represent a source of functions. The empirical results over a set of benchmark function classes illustrate that genetic programming can evolve mutation operators which generalise well from the training set to the test set on each function class. The proposed method is able to outperform existing human designed mutation operators with statistical significance in most cases, with competitive results observed for the rest. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Optimal reconfiguration of Radial Distribution System (RDS) is done under the umbrella of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to achieve the best voltage profile and minimal kW losses amongst seve...
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Optimal reconfiguration of Radial Distribution System (RDS) is done under the umbrella of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to achieve the best voltage profile and minimal kW losses amongst several objectives. This problem requires the determination of the best combination of feeders from each loop in the RDS to be switched out such that the resulting RDS gives the optimal performance in the chosen circumstance. The problem has a discontinuous solution space and certain problem variables assume discrete values of zero or one. This paper proposes a method that uses fuzzy adaptation of evolutionary programming (FEP) as a solution technique. FEP technique has been chosen as it is particularly suited while solving optimization problems with discontinuous solution space and when the global optimum is desired. Fuzzy adaptation of EP is necessitated while considering optimization of multiple objectives. The proposed method is tested on established RDS and results are presented. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Cost of reliability of optimal distribution system planning is considered. The reliability cost model has been derived as a linear function of line no flows for evaluating the outages. The objective is to minimise the...
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Cost of reliability of optimal distribution system planning is considered. The reliability cost model has been derived as a linear function of line no flows for evaluating the outages. The objective is to minimise the total cost including the outage cost, feeder resistive loss, and fixed investment cost. evolutionary programming was used to solve the very complicated mixed-integer, highly nonlinear and nondifferential problem. A real distribution network was modelled as the sample system for tests. There is also a higher opportunity to obtain the global optimum during the EP process.
In this paper, an evolutionary programming-based clustering algorithm is proposed. The algorithm effectively groups a given set of data into an optimum number of clusters. The proposed method is applicable for cluster...
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In this paper, an evolutionary programming-based clustering algorithm is proposed. The algorithm effectively groups a given set of data into an optimum number of clusters. The proposed method is applicable for clustering tasks where clusters are crisp and spherical. This algorithm determines the number of clusters and the cluster centers in such a way that locally optimal solutions are avoided. The result of the algorithm does not depend critically on the choice of the initial cluster centers. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
This paper presents a new approach to solve the hydro-thermal unit commitment problem using Simulated Annealing embedded evolutionary programming approach. The objective of this paper is to find the generation schedul...
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This paper presents a new approach to solve the hydro-thermal unit commitment problem using Simulated Annealing embedded evolutionary programming approach. The objective of this paper is to find the generation scheduling such that the total operating cost can be minimized, when subjected to a variety of constraints. A utility power system with 11 generating units in India demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach;extensive studies have also been performed for different IEEE test systems consist of 25, 44 and 65 units. Numerical results are shown comparing the cost solutions and computation time obtained by conventional methods. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This letter introduces a new multiuser detection scheme which uses evolutionary programming (EP) to detect the user bits based on the maximum-likelihood decision rule. The major advantage of the proposed detector is t...
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This letter introduces a new multiuser detection scheme which uses evolutionary programming (EP) to detect the user bits based on the maximum-likelihood decision rule. The major advantage of the proposed detector is that it has a lower computational complexity compared to other popular evolutionary-algorithm-based detectors. The simulation results show that the EP has always converged to the optimum solution with a small number of generations. The simulated average computational time performance demonstrates that this approach achieves practical ML performance with polynomial complexity in the number of users.
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