scholarly journals A Cloud Computing-Based Modified Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Ecosystem Sustainability

Author(s):  
Ajoze Abdulraheem Zubair ◽  
Shukor Bin Abd Razak ◽  
Md. Asri Bin Ngadi

The search algorithm based on symbiotic organisms’ interactions is a relatively recent bio-inspired algorithm of the swarm intelligence field for solving numerical optimization problems. It is meant to optimize applications based on the simulation of the symbiotic relationship among the distinct species in the ecosystem. The modified SOS algorithm is developed to solve independent task scheduling problems. This paper proposes a modified symbiotic organisms search based scheduling algorithm for efficient mapping of heterogeneous tasks to access cloud resources of different capacities. The significant contribution of this technique is the simplified representation of the algorithm's mutualism process, which uses equity as a measure of relationship characteristics or efficiency of species in the current ecosystem to move to the next generation. These relational characteristics are achieved by replacing the original mutual vector, which uses an arithmetic mean to measure the mutual characteristics with a geometric mean that enhances the survival advantage of two distinct species. The modified symbiotic organisms search algorithm (G_SOS) aimed to minimize the task execution time (Makespan), response, degree of imbalance and cost and improve the convergence speed for an optimal solution in an IaaS cloud. The performances of the proposed technique have been evaluated using a Cladism toolkit simulator, and the solutions are found to be better than the existing standard (SOS) technique and PSO.

2021 ◽  
pp. 136943322110262
Author(s):  
Mohammad H Makiabadi ◽  
Mahmoud R Maheri

An enhanced symbiotic organisms search (ESOS) algorithm is developed and presented. Modifications to the basic symbiotic organisms search algorithm are carried out in all three phases of the algorithm with the aim of balancing the exploitation and exploration capabilities of the algorithm. To verify validity and capability of the ESOS algorithm in solving general optimization problems, the CEC2014 set of 22 benchmark functions is first optimized and the results are compared with other metaheuristic algorithms. The ESOS algorithm is then used to optimize the sizing and shape of five benchmark trusses with multiple frequency constraints. The best (minimum) mass, mean mass, standard deviation of the mass, total number of function evaluations, and the values of frequency constraints are then compared with those of a number of other metaheuristic solutions available in the literature. It is shown that the proposed ESOS algorithm is generally more efficient in optimizing the shape and sizing of trusses with dynamic frequency constraints compared to other reported metaheuristic algorithms, including the basic symbiotic organisms search and its other recently proposed improved variants such as the improved symbiotic organisms search algorithm (ISOS) and modified symbiotic organisms search algorithm (MSOS).


2019 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 567-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khoa H. Truong ◽  
Perumal Nallagownden ◽  
Zuhairi Baharudin ◽  
Dieu N. Vo

Author(s):  
Thang Trung Nguyen ◽  
Dieu Ngoc Vo

This chapter proposes a Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) and a Modified Cuckoo Search Algorithm (MCSA) for solving short-term hydrothermal scheduling (ST-HTS) problem. The CSA method is a new meta-heuristic algorithm inspired from the obligate brood parasitism of some cuckoo species by laying their eggs in the nests of other host birds of other species for solving optimization problems. In the MCSA method, the eggs are first classified into two groups in which ones with low fitness function are put in top group whereas others with higher fitness function are put in abandoned group. In addition, an updated step size in the MCSA changes and tends to decrease as the iteration increases leading to near global optimal solution. The robustness and effectiveness of the CSA and MCSA are tested on several systems with different objective functions of thermal units. The results obtained by the CSA and MCSA are analyzed and compared have shown that the two methods are favorable for solving short-term hydrothermal scheduling problems.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.15) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Khairuzzaman Mohamad Zamani ◽  
Ismail Musirin ◽  
Saiful Izwan Suliman ◽  
Sharifah Azma Syed Mustaffa

Achieving an optimal solution is very crucial while solving a problem. To achieve the optimality required, optimisation techniques can be implemented while solving the problem. The presence of classical optimisation techniques has enabled an optimal solution to be obtained. However, as the complexity of the optimisation problem increased, classical optimisation techniques faced difficulties in providing optimal solutions. Heuristics-based algorithms were introduced to counter the problem faced by classical optimisation techniques. Good performance of these heuristics-based algorithm has been implied through various implementation in solving optimisation problems. Despite the performance of these algorithms, the flaws of these algorithms hinder them from producing high-quality results. To mitigate the problem, this paper presents the development of Chaotic Immune Symbiotic Organisms Search algorithm which was inspired by the element of diversification as well as the increased capability of exploration. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been tested by solving several benchmark test functions. A comparative study was also conducted with respect to several other existing optimisation algorithms resulted in the superiority of the proposed algorithm in providing high-quality solutions.  


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