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In an evermore competitive environment, power distribution companies need to continuously monitor and improve the reliability indices of their systems. The network reconfiguration (NR) of a distribution system is a technique that well adapts to this new deregulated environment for it allows improvement of system reliability indices without the onus involved in procuring new equipment. This paper presents...
Real world engineer problems sometimes involve high dimensional spaces. It makes them hard to compute. A common approach to tackle such challenges is to apply swarm based or evolutionary algorithms. Fish School Search (FSS) is one of such techniques that excels on difficult search problems. As FSS is a recent technique and only output results were investigated so far. This paper analyzes the influence...
We have proposed a design and analysis tool for network topology, where it combined a custom-made design/redesign methodology and a commercial simulation program, OPNET modeler. Here we assume an existing network with C clusters as a reconfigurable architecture and we have proposed a number of redesign techniques to reduce the extra-traffic and maximize the intra-traffic, the traffic within the clusters...
This paper proposes a methodology based on fuzzy multiobjective and tabu search to determine the optimal on/off patterns of tie and sectionalizing switches for feeder reconfiguration in a distribution system with distributed generators. Three main objectives considered in the feeder reconfiguration problem consist of power loss, feeder load balancing, and number of switching operations of the switches...
Reed-Muller expressions and their various extensions and generalizations for binary and multiple-valued logic functions are an important class of discrete function representations that are often used in practical applications. These expressions can be uniformly viewed as discrete polynomial expressions over finite fields GF(2) and GF(q) or the field of rational numbers in the case of expressions with...
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