Excessive rise in energy consumption has been one of the major predicaments of recent decades. Among all the sectors, residential buildings are one of the main consumers of energy resources. Because air conditioning s...
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Excessive rise in energy consumption has been one of the major predicaments of recent decades. Among all the sectors, residential buildings are one of the main consumers of energy resources. Because air conditioning systems are the main ground for using energy inside houses, researchers have proposed diverse methods of reducing energy loss such as encapsulating insulators in wall structures. In this paper, the main focus is to calculate and then optimize the total heating and cooling loads as well as the total costs. The building model was simulated in cities with different climatic situations using EnergyPlus software. For optimization, five design variables were determined and 300 Design of Experiment points were considered for each city to measure the objective Functions, which are the building's total load and cost. To find the optimal states, Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is utilized to predict continuous functions from discrete data of experiments. Consequently, total load and total costs of building in various climatic conditions were improved by a range of 2%-16%, and the Static Payback Period and Human Heating Comfort were ameliorated dramatically. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Classification rule mining is the most sought out by users since they represent highly comprehensible form of knowledge. The rules are evaluated based on objective and subjective metrics. The user must be able to spec...
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Classification rule mining is the most sought out by users since they represent highly comprehensible form of knowledge. The rules are evaluated based on objective and subjective metrics. The user must be able to specify the properties of the rules. The rules discovered must have some of these properties to render them useful. These properties may be conflicting. Hence discovery of rules with specific properties is a multiobjectiveoptimization problem. Cultural Algorithm (CA) which derives from social structures, and which incorporates evolutionary systems and agents, and uses five knowledge sources (KS's) for the evolution process better suits the need for solving multiobjectiveoptimization problem. In the current study a cultural algorithm for classification rule mining is proposed for multiobjectiveoptimization of rules. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of ICCTSD 2011
Vehicular systems operate under diverse and often unpredictable operating conditions, necessitating robust adaptability to manage these uncertainties effectively. Traditionally, adaptability is linked to software capa...
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Frost affects horticultural plants considerably and result in multi-dimensional harms: from economic losses to psychological problems for people involved in horticulture. As a result, prevention of frost in horticultu...
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Frost affects horticultural plants considerably and result in multi-dimensional harms: from economic losses to psychological problems for people involved in horticulture. As a result, prevention of frost in horticulture is of utter most importance for many countries. In this paper, first we propose a novel green energy-integrated solution, a hybrid renewable energy-based system involving active heaters, for this less studied, but very important problem. We then develop a multi-objective robust optimization-based formulation for optimization of the proposed system in order to (i) optimize the distribution of a given number of active heaters in a given large-scale orchard to optimally heat the orchard by the proposed frost prevention system and (ii) optimize the layout of the thermal energy distribution network to minimize the total pipe length (which is directly related to the installation cost and the cost of energy losses during energy transfer). Finally, the resulting optimization problem is approximated using a discretization scheme. A case study is provided to give an idea of the potential savings using the proposed optimization method compared to the result from a heuristic-based design, which showed a 24.13% reduction in the total pipe length and a 54.29% increase in optimal heating. Compared to current active frost prevention methods, the proposed hybrid green energy system for frost protection is a cleaner, environmentally friendly and potentially cost-effective solution.
Classification rule mining is the most sought out by users since they represent highly comprehensible form of knowledge. The rules are evaluated based on objective and subjective metrics. The user must be able to spec...
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Classification rule mining is the most sought out by users since they represent highly comprehensible form of knowledge. The rules are evaluated based on objective and subjective metrics. The user must be able to specify the properties of the rules. The rules discovered must have some of these properties to render them useful. These properties may be conflicting. Hence discovery of rules with specific properties is a multiobjectiveoptimization problem. Cultural Algorithm (CA) which derives from social structures, and which incorporates evolutionary systems and agents, and uses five knowledge sources (KS's) for the evolution process better suits the need for solving multiobjectiveoptimization problem. In the current study a cultural algorithm for classification rule mining is proposed for multiobjectiveoptimization of rules.
Recent geoscientific, socio-technical, and sociological studies aimed at achieving social acceptance for geothermal development accommodating the natural and social environment are integrated in this paper. The geosci...
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Recent geoscientific, socio-technical, and sociological studies aimed at achieving social acceptance for geothermal development accommodating the natural and social environment are integrated in this paper. The geoscientific study presents the potential effects of geothermal development on the nearby hydraulic systems. Geochemical analysis of hot springs provides an effective means of investigating possible interference of the hot springs due to geothermal exploitation. The authors have proposed a socio-technical approach, Overall System Design, which is a concept aimed at maximizing business profitability and social acceptance. In this approach, the optimal solution may vary with the extent of project implementation because increasing data volume facilitates more accurate system design. Visualization of the benefits of geothermal development is an important part of this approach because it promotes mutual understanding among stakeholders. Stakeholder attitudes and needs are diverse hence from a sociological approach, project developers approach for social acceptance should differ depending on the situation for each geothermal prospect. Results of attitude surveys of local municipal governments as key stakeholders suggest that governments and developers should continue to provide information to improve social acceptance. In order to achieve social acceptance, explanation based on geoscientific facts and the concept of Overall System Design may be effective.
Electric wheelchair (EW) is subject to diverse types of terrains and slopes, but also to occupants of various weights, which causes the EW to suffer from highly perturbed dynamics. A precise multivariable dynamics of ...
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Electric wheelchair (EW) is subject to diverse types of terrains and slopes, but also to occupants of various weights, which causes the EW to suffer from highly perturbed dynamics. A precise multivariable dynamics of the EW is obtained using Lagrange equations of motion which models effects of slopes as output-additive disturbances. A static pre-compensator is analytically devised which considerably decouples the EW's dynamics and also brings about a more accurate identification of the EW. The controller is designed with a disturbance-observer (DOB) two-degree-of-freedom architecture, which reduces sensitivity to the model uncertainties while enhancing rejection of the disturbances. Upon disturbance rejection, noise reduction, and robust stability of the control system, three fitness functions are presented by which the DOB is tuned using a multi-objectiveoptimization (MOO) approach namely non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II). Finally, experimental results show desirable performance and robust stability of the proposed algorithm. (C) 2012 ISA. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
To minimize power consumption while maximizing performance, today's multicore processors rely on fine-grained run-time dynamic power information-both in the time domain, e.g. mu s to ms, and space domain, e.g. cor...
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To minimize power consumption while maximizing performance, today's multicore processors rely on fine-grained run-time dynamic power information-both in the time domain, e.g. mu s to ms, and space domain, e.g. core-level. The state-of-the-art for deriving such power information is mainly based on predetermined power models which use linear modeling techniques to determine the core-performance/core-power relationship. However, with multicore processors becoming ever more complex, linear modeling techniques cannot capture all possible core-performance related power states anymore. Although artificial neural networks (ANN) have been proposed for coarse-grained power modeling of servers with time resolutions in the range of seconds, few works have yet investigated fine-grained ANN-based power modeling. In this paper, we explore feed-forward neural networks (FFNNs) for core-level power modeling with estimation rates in the range of 10 kHz. To achieve a high estimation accuracy while minimizing run-time overhead, we propose a multi-objective-optimization of the neural architecture using NSGA-II with the FFNNs being trained on performance counter and power data from a complex-out-of-order processor architecture. We show that relative power estimation error for the highest accuracy FFNN decreases on average by 7.5% compared to a state-of-the-art linear power modeling approach and decreases by 5.5% compared to a multivariate polynomial regression model. For the FFNNs optimized for both accuracy and overhead, the average error decreases between 4.1% and 6.7% compared to linear modeling while offering significantly lower overhead compared to the highest accuracy FFNN. Furthermore, we propose a micro-controller-based and an accelerator-based implementation for run-time inference of the power modeling FFNN and show that the area overhead is negligible.
SHARK is an object-oriented library for the design of adaptive systems. It comprises methods for single-and multi-objectiveoptimization (e. g., evolutionary and gradient-based algorithms) as well as kernel-based meth...
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SHARK is an object-oriented library for the design of adaptive systems. It comprises methods for single-and multi-objectiveoptimization (e. g., evolutionary and gradient-based algorithms) as well as kernel-based methods, neural networks, and other machine learning techniques.
The advent of 5G technology introduces new - and potentially undiscovered - cybersecurity challenges, with unforeseen impacts on our economy, society, and environment. Interestingly, Intrusion Detection Mechanisms (ID...
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(纸本)9781450396707
The advent of 5G technology introduces new - and potentially undiscovered - cybersecurity challenges, with unforeseen impacts on our economy, society, and environment. Interestingly, Intrusion Detection Mechanisms (IDMs) can provide the necessary network monitoring to ensure - to a big extent - the detection of 5G-related cyberattacks. Yet, how to realize the attack surface of 5G networks with respect to the detected risks, and, consequently, how to optimize the cybersecurity levels of the network, remains an open critical challenge. In respect, this work focuses on deploying multiple distributed Security Agents (SAs) that can run different IDMs over various network components and proposes a cybersecurity mechanism for optimizing the network's attack surface with respect to the Quality of Service (QoS). The proposed approach relies on a new closed-form utility function to describe the trade-off between cybersecurity and QoS and uses multi-objectiveoptimization to improve the selection of each SA detection level. We demonstrate via simulations that before optimization, an increase in the detection level of SAs brings a direct decrease in QoS as more computational, bandwidth and monetary resources are utilized for IDM processing. Thereby, after optimization, we demonstrate that our mechanism can strike a balance between cybersecurity and QoS while show-casing the impact of the importance of different objectives of the joint optimization.
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