The equipment layout of a process plant is a multi-objective problem in which not only various costs (piping, site and so on) but also preferences about the equipment arrangement influencing its operability, maintenan...
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The equipment layout of a process plant is a multi-objective problem in which not only various costs (piping, site and so on) but also preferences about the equipment arrangement influencing its operability, maintenance and the like. It is difficult to obtain the best solution of this problem analytically. In this study, preferences are weighted as penalities so that they can be evaluated in an objective function with costs. To reduce the calculation load, equipment having spatial relations in a local area is put together into "modules" as units in layout work, and these modules are grouped into "sections" as functional groups of equipment. Furthermore, the module arrangement in each section is considered to be two variables (permutation and partition), and an algorithm based on an evolutionary method is developed to search a good plot plan efficiently. The effectiveness of this proposed method is demonstrated by an example problem.
The paper presents an evolutionary method based on genetic programming (GP) for synthesizing of a monitor alarm system for the railway control traffic unit. Automatic supervision of railway traffic control is a very i...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479946013
The paper presents an evolutionary method based on genetic programming (GP) for synthesizing of a monitor alarm system for the railway control traffic unit. Automatic supervision of railway traffic control is a very important and complex task. A wrong control signal can lead to very serious incidents or accidents. A well-designed monitoring system can prevent these accidents by a simple alarm which signals the appearance of a wrong control signal. The railway network or the plant is modeled by Delay Time Petri Nets (DTPN) and the railway traffic control unit by Time Petri Nets (TPN). The alarm monitor contains transitions joined to the plant and control unit in order to achieve the information on the positions of trains, respectively the control signals of the control unit, and generates an alarm whenever the control signal can cause to an incident or accident. The TPN model of the monitor system is generated by means of the genetic programming method using a Lisp representation of the solution.
Community structure is a typical property of real-world networks, and has been recognized as a key to understand the dynamics of the networked systems. In most of the networks overwhelming nodes apparently live in a c...
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Community structure is a typical property of real-world networks, and has been recognized as a key to understand the dynamics of the networked systems. In most of the networks overwhelming nodes apparently live in a community while there often exists a few nodes straddling several communities. Hence, an ideal algorithm for community detection is that which can identify the overlapping communities in these networks. We present an evolutionary method for detecting overlapping community structure in the network. To represent an overlapping division of a network, we develop an encoding scheme composed of two segments, the first one represents a disjoint partition and the second one represents an extension of the partition that allows of multiple memberships. We give two measures for the informativeness of a node, and present a coevolutionary scheme between two segments over the population for solving the overlapping partition of the network. Experimental results show this method can give a better solution to a network. It is also revealed that a best overlapping partition of the network might not be rooted from a best disjoint partition. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
An evolutionary method is proposed for the constrained optimization of chemical engineering processes. Apart from the classical mutation, crossover and creep (small mutation), it makes use of several novel reproductiv...
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An evolutionary method is proposed for the constrained optimization of chemical engineering processes. Apart from the classical mutation, crossover and creep (small mutation), it makes use of several novel reproductive operators: shift, smoothing, extrapolation and swapping. An adaptive mutation rate is used to guard against stalling at local peaks. The method was able to solve dynamic optimization problems involving constrained time-dependent vectors, such as those arising in process control and inverse heat transfer. In addition, the method solves reputedly difficult test problems such as Shwefel's and Grierwangk's functions better than any known previous method. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
This paper proposes a new probabilistic method to evaluate power distribution electrical performance. Electrical performance is assumed to be the evaluation of network congestion parameters, losses and voltage level. ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)078039156X
This paper proposes a new probabilistic method to evaluate power distribution electrical performance. Electrical performance is assumed to be the evaluation of network congestion parameters, losses and voltage level. The proposed method is suitable for off-line applications and it considers steady state performance only. The electrical performance estimation is formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem where the objective functions correspond to an evaluation of occurrence probability, and also correspond to a proximity evaluation of calculated voltage levels with values obtained by measurement (goal programming). Load profile values are discretized according to its occurrence probabilities (universal discrete probability density function), so that formulation results in a multiobjective combinatorial optimization. The optimization formulation considers feeder output power and voltage level measurement in any point of the network as restriction parameters. Network reduction procedures to substantially reduce Decision Domain and network expansion procedures to rebuild it are proposed. Specific heuristics - applicable to radial networks - were also developed to generate a-priori feasible candidate solutions combining unbalanced and diversification load values. A metaheuristic evolutionary method is proposed and applied in order to improve feasible solutions and adequately apply the heuristics. Feasible solutions are classified according to Dominance Ranking algorithm, so that electrical performance is obtained for each dominance rank frontier.
The controllers are interesting type of information systems. Their structure and parameters for atypical applications usually are selected by trial and error method, which can be time-consuming. In this paper a contro...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319672205;9783319672199
The controllers are interesting type of information systems. Their structure and parameters for atypical applications usually are selected by trial and error method, which can be time-consuming. In this paper a controller structure, which is an ensemble of PID controller and fuzzy system, and an automatic evolutionary method for its construction is presented. The significant feature of proposed method is that the controller elements, that increase its complexity but do not improve the controller precision in the sense of the adopted evaluation function, can be reduced. Moreover, this method allows to use the knowledge of the controlled object. A typical control problem has been used to test the authors approach.
Knowledge acquisition from graph structured data is an important task in machine learning and data mining. Block preserving outerplanar graph patterns are graph structured patterns having structured variables and are ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538604694
Knowledge acquisition from graph structured data is an important task in machine learning and data mining. Block preserving outerplanar graph patterns are graph structured patterns having structured variables and are suited to represent characteristic graph structures of graph data modeled as outerplanar graphs. We propose a learning method for acquiring characteristic multiple block preserving outerplanar graph patterns by evolutionary computation using graph pattern sets as individuals, from positive and negative outerplanar graph data, in order to represent characteristic graph structures more precisely.
Knowledge acquisition from graph structured data is an important task in machine learning and data milling. TTSP (Two-Terminal Series Parallel) graphs are used as data models for electric networks and scheduling. We p...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538606216
Knowledge acquisition from graph structured data is an important task in machine learning and data milling. TTSP (Two-Terminal Series Parallel) graphs are used as data models for electric networks and scheduling. We propose a learning method for acquiring characteristic multiple graph structured patterns by evolutionary computation using sets of TTSP graph patterns as individuals, from positive and negative TTSP graph data, in order to represent sets of TTSP graphs more precisely.
Assigning channels to cells in wireless networks is an NP-hard problem. There are different soft computing strategies are applied to solve fixed channel allocation with the interference constraints of the mobile netwo...
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Assigning channels to cells in wireless networks is an NP-hard problem. There are different soft computing strategies are applied to solve fixed channel allocation with the interference constraints of the mobile network. This research focuses on applying the new genetic operators with the local search and heuristic strategies to obtain the near optimal solution. This hybrid evolutionary method is implemented on some of the benchmark instances. Near optimal solution is obtained in the minimal complexity and the results are found to be better than the existing methods.
Knowledge acquisition from tree structured data is an important task in machine learning and data mining. A tag tree pattern is a rooted tree structured pattern which has ordered children and structured variables repr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479999583
Knowledge acquisition from tree structured data is an important task in machine learning and data mining. A tag tree pattern is a rooted tree structured pattern which has ordered children and structured variables representing arbitrary subtree structures. In order to represent tree structured data about complex phenomena, we propose a learning method for acquiring characteristic multiple tree structured patterns by evolutionary computation using sets of tag tree patterns as individuals, from positive and negative tree structured data.
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