Health monitoring of an aero-engine assumes importance in the light of primary requirements of flight safety and reliability. This paper proposes a novel, simple method for monitoring aircraft engine health using Whal...
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Health monitoring of an aero-engine assumes importance in the light of primary requirements of flight safety and reliability. This paper proposes a novel, simple method for monitoring aircraft engine health using whale optimization algorithm based Artificial Neural Network (WOANN) technique, for analyzing the data downloaded from the health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) of a military aircraft. The actual engine data recorded during 47 different flights of eight different engines (of the same type) have been considered in this work. Thirteen engine parameters have been used to determine and monitor the health of the engine. The efficiency of the WOANN technique for engine health monitoring, is compared with that of three other common machine learning algorithms: Probabilistic based Neural Network (PNN), K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN), and Back propagation based Artificial Neural Network (BPANN). The results show that WOANN algorithm classifies and predicts engine health far more accurately as compared to PNN, KNN and BPANN. The values obtained for the metrics of Accuracy, Error, False Positive Rate, F1 score, Mathews Correlation Coefficient, Specificity, Kappa coefficient are found to be the best for WOANN algorithm. The WOANN achieved overall prediction accuracy of 95%, thus presenting itself as a very useful tool for day-to-day monitoring of aircraft engine health using the data downloaded from the aircraft's HUMS.
Developing an accurate forecasting model for long-term gold price fluctuations plays a vital role in future investments and decisions for mining projects and related companies. Viewed from this perspective, this paper...
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Developing an accurate forecasting model for long-term gold price fluctuations plays a vital role in future investments and decisions for mining projects and related companies. Viewed from this perspective, this paper proposes a novel model for accurately forecasting long-term monthly gold price fluctuations. This model uses a recent meta-heuristic method called whale optimization algorithm (WOA) as a trainer to learn the multilayer perceptron neural network (NN). The results of the proposed model are compared to other models, including the classic NN, particle swarm optimization for NN (PSO-NN), genetic algorithm for NN (GA-NN), and grey wolf optimization for NN (GWO-NN). Additionally, we employ ARIMA models as the benchmark for assessing the capacity of the proposed model. Empirical results indicate the superiority of the hybrid WOA NN model over other models. Moreover, the proposed WOA NN model demonstrates an improvement in the forecasting accuracy obtained from the classic NN, PSO-NN, GA-NN, GWO-NN, and ARIMA models by 41.25%, 24.19%, 25.40%, 25.40%, and 85.84% decrease in mean square error, respectively.
The software industry is highly competitive, and hence, it is imperative to have an accurate method to estimate the effort needed in the key phases of software development. Accurate estimates ensure efficient allocati...
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The software industry is highly competitive, and hence, it is imperative to have an accurate method to estimate the effort needed in the key phases of software development. Accurate estimates ensure efficient allocation of human and machine resources for the project. This paper proposes a technique for software development effort estimation using deep belief network (DBN). For fine-tuning of DBN, whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is used which mimics the social behaviour of humpback whales. The proposed technique DBN-WOA has been experimentally evaluated on four promise datasets-COCOMO81, NASA93, MAXWELL and CHINA. The results from DBN-WOA are compared with the results from fine-tuning of DBN with backpropagation (DBN-BP) and it is observed that the proposed technique outscores DBN-BP. The proposed approach is also empirically validated through a statistical framework.
Modeling the rate of penetration (ROP) plays a fundamental role in drilling optimization since the achievement of an optimum ROP can drastically reduce the overall cost of drilling activities. Evolved Extreme learning...
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Modeling the rate of penetration (ROP) plays a fundamental role in drilling optimization since the achievement of an optimum ROP can drastically reduce the overall cost of drilling activities. Evolved Extreme learning machine (ELM) with the evolutionary algorithms and multi-layer perceptron with Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm (MLP-LMA) were proposed in this study to predict ROP. This paper focused mainly on two aspects. The first one was the investigation of the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) to optimize the weights and biases between input and hidden layers of ELM to enhance its prediction accuracy. The other was to adopt a prediction methodology that seeks to update the predictive model at each formation in order to reduce the dimension of input data and mitigate the effect of non real-time data such as the formation properties on the bit speed prediction. The prediction models were trained and tested using 3561 data points gathered from an Algerian field. The statistical and graphical evaluation criteria show that the ELM-WOA exhibited higher accuracy and generalization performance compared with the ELM-PSO and MLP-LMA. Furthermore, ELM-WOA was compared with two well-known ROP correlations in the literature, and the comparison results reveal that the proposed ELM-WOA model is superior to the pre-existing correlations. The findings of this study can help for the achievement of an optimum ROP and the reduction of the non-productive time. In addition, the outputs of this study can be used as an objective function during the real-time optimization of the drilling operation.
Population-based meta-heuristic algorithms are among the dominant algorithms used to solve challenging real world problems in diverse fields. whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is a recent swarm intelligence meta-heur...
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Population-based meta-heuristic algorithms are among the dominant algorithms used to solve challenging real world problems in diverse fields. whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is a recent swarm intelligence meta-heuristic algorithm based on the bubble-net feeding behavior of humpback whales. Despite its capability to solve complex optimization problems, WOA requires enormous amount of computations when solving large size problems. This work proposes Spark-WOA, a distributed implementation of WOA on Apache Spark platform to enhance its performance and reduce computational complexity. The proposed algorithm exploits in-memory computations and broadcast features of Apache Spark to provide better performance and scalability. Details of the proposed algorithm are presented and its performance as compared to a recent Apache Hadoop implementation is discussed. Experimental results demonstrated the superiority of the proposed implementation in terms of both speed and scalability.
In recent years, due to the economic and environmental issues, modern power systems often operate proximately to the technical restraints enlarging the probable level of instability risks. Hence, efficient methods for...
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In recent years, due to the economic and environmental issues, modern power systems often operate proximately to the technical restraints enlarging the probable level of instability risks. Hence, efficient methods for voltage instability prevention are of great importance to power system companies to avoid the risk of large blackouts. In this paper, an event-driven emergency demand response (EEDR) strategy based on whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is proposed to effectively improve system voltage stability. The main objective of the proposed EEDR approach is to maintain voltage stability margin (VSM) in an acceptable range during emergency situations by driving the operating condition of the power system away from the insecure points. The optimal locations and amounts of load reductions have been determined using WOA algorithm. To test the feasibility and the efficiency of the proposed method, simulation studies are carried out on the IEEE 14-bus and real Algerian 114-bus power systems.
The whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is a recent approach to the swarm intelligence field that can be explored in many global optimization applications. This paper proposes a new mechanism to tune the control parame...
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The whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is a recent approach to the swarm intelligence field that can be explored in many global optimization applications. This paper proposes a new mechanism to tune the control parameters that influence the hunting process in the WOA to improve its convergence rate. This schema adjustment is made by a fuzzy inference system that uses the normalized fitness value of each whale and the hunting mechanism control parameters of WOA. The method proposed was tested and compared with the conventional WOA and another version that uses a fuzzy inference system as input information on the ratio of the current iteration number and the maximum number of iterations. For performance analysis of the method proposed, all optimizers were evaluated with twenty-three benchmark optimization functions in the continuous domain. The algorithms were also implemented in the identification process of two real control system that are a boiler system and water supply network. For identification process, it is used the value of MSE (mean squared error) to available each algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed fuzzy mechanism improves the convergence of the conventional WOA and it is competitive in relation to another fuzzy version adopted in the WOA design.
whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is an outstanding nature-inspired algorithm widely used to solve many complex engineering optimization problems. However, WOA has a poor balance in exploration and exploitation, whic...
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whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is an outstanding nature-inspired algorithm widely used to solve many complex engineering optimization problems. However, WOA has a poor balance in exploration and exploitation, which converges to local optimum easily. This article proposes a Modified whale optimization algorithm (MWOA) with multi-strategy mechanism, which introduces the elite reverse learning strategy, nonlinear convergence factor, DE/rand/1 mutation strategy and Levy flight disturbance strategy. MWOA can improve the convergent ability and maintain the balance of exploitation and exploration to avoid local optimum. Compared with WOA, PSO, MFO, SOA, SCA and other four WOA variants on the CEC2017 benchmark suite, MWOA has strong competitiveness and can better improve the efficiency of WOA according to the experimental results and analysis.
This research paper presents an innovative approach by hybridizing the whale optimization algorithm-WOA and the Simulated Annealing-SA, named as h-WOA-SA algorithm. The preeminence of the projected hybridized algorith...
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This research paper presents an innovative approach by hybridizing the whale optimization algorithm-WOA and the Simulated Annealing-SA, named as h-WOA-SA algorithm. The preeminence of the projected hybridized algorithm is evaluated over the basic form, modified form and some popular algorithms in respect of computation time and eminence in the tuning of fitness function by considering various standard test functions. Further, the hybrid algorithm is utilized for the scaling of interval type-2 fuzzy fractional order PID-IT2F-FO-PID controller engaged in load frequency control-LFC of hybrid power system-HPS. It presents a strategy to manage the critical challenges encountered due to the penetration of solar & wind power for their operational dynamics. The sturdiness of the hybrid technique based controller is examined in the HPS. The unrivalled superiority of the proposed approach has been validated by contrasting some recent research outcomes and with a real-time validation which justifies the effectiveness in improved performance as compared to the traditional approaches.
The uncertainty of wind power brings great challenges to large-scale wind power integration. The conventional point prediction of wind power is difficult to meet the demand of power grid planning and operation. In con...
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The uncertainty of wind power brings great challenges to large-scale wind power integration. The conventional point prediction of wind power is difficult to meet the demand of power grid planning and operation. In contrast, interval prediction is gaining increasing attention as an effective approach as it can describe the uncertainty of wind power. An interval prediction model based on an improved whale optimization algorithm (IWOA) and fast learning network (FLN) was developed in this study. First the convergence speed and accuracy of the IWOA was enhanced by adjusting the nonlinear convergence factor, and by adding adaptive inertia weights and a chaos search strategy. Second, a novel evaluation index was proposed according to the lower and upper bound estimation method. The proposed evaluation index was considered as a fitness function, and the FLN parameters were optimized by the IWOA to output the final prediction interval. The examples considered in this study revealed that the proposed method can be employed to reduce the prediction interval normalized root-mean-square bandwidth (PINRW) and the prediction interval average deviation (PIAD) more than 3% and 8% at the 90% and 80% confidence level respectively, which has a high practical significance.
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