A variant of teaching‐learning‐based optimization and its application for minimizing the cost of Workflow Execution in the Cloud Computing

Author(s):  
Satya Deo K. Ram ◽  
Shashank Srivastava ◽  
Krishn Kumar Mishra
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sk Md Ali Bulbul ◽  
Provas Kumar Roy

Economic load dispatch (ELD) is a process of calculating real power dispatch by satisfying a set of constraints such a way as fuel cost can be minimized. Inclusion of the effect of valve-points and prohibited operation zones (POZs) in the cost functions make ELD problem a non-linear and non-convex one. For solving ELD in power system a newly proposed evolutionary technique namely adaptive teaching learning based optimization (ATLBO) is presented in this article. TLBO mimics the influence of a teacher on students in a classroom environment by social interaction. ATLBO is an improved version of TLBO which makes TLBO faster and more robust. An adaptive dynamic parameter control mechanism is adopted by the proposed ATLBO algorithm to determine the suitable parameter settings for teaching and learning phases of TLBO algorithm. The proposed ATLBO algorithm is tested in three different cases like 10-unit, 40-unit, and 80-unit systems. A comparison of numerical results with other well established techniques reveals optimization superiority of the proposed scheme both in quality of solution and computational efficiency.


2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 2523-2527
Author(s):  
Shi Feng Shang ◽  
Jing He Huo ◽  
Zeng Zhang

Workflow is becoming a more and more important tool for business operations, scientific research and engineering. Cloud computing provides an elastic, on-demand and high cost-efficient resource allocation model for workflow executions. During workflow execution, the load will change from time to time and therefore, it becomes an interesting topic to optimize resource utilization of workflows in the cloud computing environment. In this paper, a workflow framework is proposed that can adaptively use cloud resources. In detail, after users specify the desired goal to achieve, the proposed workflow framework then monitors the workflow execution, and utilizes different pricing models to acquire cloud resources according to the change of workflow load. In this way, the cost of workflow execution is reduced. .


Author(s):  
Sarat Chandra Nayak ◽  
Subhranginee Das ◽  
Mohammad Dilsad Ansari

Background and Objective: Stock closing price prediction is enormously complicated. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are excellent approximation algorithms applied to this area. Several nature-inspired evolutionary optimization techniques are proposed and used in the literature to search the optimum parameters of ANN based forecasting models. However, most of them need fine-tuning of several control parameters as well as algorithm specific parameters to achieve optimal performance. Improper tuning of such parameters either leads toward additional computational cost or local optima. Methods: Teaching Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) is a newly proposed algorithm which does not necessitate any parameters specific to it. The intrinsic capability of Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (FLANN) to recognize the multifaceted nonlinear relationship present in the historical stock data made it popular and got wide applications in the stock market prediction. This article presents a hybrid model termed as Teaching Learning Based Optimization of Functional Neural Networks (TLBO-FLN) by combining the advantages of both TLBO and FLANN. Results and Conclusion: The model is evaluated by predicting the short, medium, and long-term closing prices of four emerging stock markets. The performance of the TLBO-FLN model is measured through Mean Absolute Percentage of Error (MAPE), Average Relative Variance (ARV), and coefficient of determination (R2); compared with that of few other state-of-the-art models similarly trained and found superior.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Imran Pervez ◽  
Adil Sarwar ◽  
Afroz Alam ◽  
Mohammad ◽  
Ripon K. Chakrabortty ◽  
...  

Due to its clean and abundant availability, solar energy is popular as a source from which to generate electricity. Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology converts sunlight incident on the solar PV panel or array directly into non-linear DC electricity. However, the non-linear nature of the solar panels’ power needs to be tracked for its efficient utilization. The problem of non-linearity becomes more prominent when the solar PV array is shaded, even leading to high power losses and concentrated heating in some areas (hotspot condition) of the PV array. Bypass diodes used to eliminate the shading effect cause multiple peaks of power on the power versus voltage (P-V) curve and make the tracking problem quite complex. Conventional algorithms to track the optimal power point cannot search the complete P-V curve and often become trapped in local optima. More recently, metaheuristic algorithms have been employed for maximum power point tracking. Being stochastic, these algorithms explore the complete search area, thereby eliminating any chance of becoming trapped stuck in local optima. This paper proposes a hybridized version of two metaheuristic algorithms, Radial Movement Optimization and teaching-learning based optimization (RMOTLBO). The algorithm has been discussed in detail and applied to multiple shading patterns in a solar PV generation system. It successfully tracks the maximum power point (MPP) in a lesser amount of time and lesser fluctuations.


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