scholarly journals Stable Strategy Formation for Mobile Users in Crowdsensing Using Co-Evolutionary Model

Author(s):  
Liangguang Wu ◽  
Yonghua Xiong ◽  
Kang-Zhi Liu ◽  
Jinhua She ◽  
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In crowdsensing, the diversity of the sensing tasks and an enhancement of the smart devices enable mobile users to accept multiple types of tasks simultaneously. In this study, we propose a new practical framework for dealing with the challenges of task assignment and user incentives posed by complex heterogeneous task scenarios in a crowdsensing market full of competition. First, based on the non-cooperative game property of mobile users, the problem is formulated into a Nash equilibrium problem. Then, to provide an efficient solution, a judgment method based on constraints (sensing time and sensing task dimension) is designed to decompose the problems into different situations according to the complexity. We propose a genetic-algorithm-based approach to find the combination of tasks that maximizes the utility of users and adopts a co-evolutionary model to formulate a stable sensing strategy that maintains the maximum utility of all users. Furthermore, we reveal the impact of competition between users and tasks on user strategies and use a cooperative weight to reflect it mathematically. Based on this, an infeasible solution repair method is designed in the genetic algorithm to reduce the search space, thus effectively accelerating the convergence speed. Extensive simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Electricity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109
Author(s):  
Julian Wruk ◽  
Kevin Cibis ◽  
Matthias Resch ◽  
Hanne Sæle ◽  
Markus Zdrallek

This article outlines methods to facilitate the assessment of the impact of electric vehicle charging on distribution networks at planning stage and applies them to a case study. As network planning is becoming a more complex task, an approach to automated network planning that yields the optimal reinforcement strategy is outlined. Different reinforcement measures are weighted against each other in terms of technical feasibility and costs by applying a genetic algorithm. Traditional reinforcements as well as novel solutions including voltage regulation are considered. To account for electric vehicle charging, a method to determine the uptake in equivalent load is presented. For this, measured data of households and statistical data of electric vehicles are combined in a stochastic analysis to determine the simultaneity factors of household load including electric vehicle charging. The developed methods are applied to an exemplary case study with Norwegian low-voltage networks. Different penetration rates of electric vehicles on a development path until 2040 are considered.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad M. Hardan ◽  
Ayad A. Abdulkafi ◽  
Saadi Hamad Thalij ◽  
Sherine S. Jumaah

Abstract The continued increase in several mobile applications forces to replace existing limited spectrum indoor radio frequency wireless connections with high-speed ones. Visible light communications (VLC) technology has gained prominence in the development of high data rate transmission for fifth-generation networks. In optical wireless communications, light-emitting diode (LED) transmitters are used in applications that desire mobility as LED divergence enables larger coverage. Since each VLC access point covers a small area, handovers of mobile users are inevitable. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) can be used in VLC systems to tackle the above issue and to meet the increasing demand for indoor connectivity with high bit rates. In this paper, a new system architecture for WDM with coded modulated optical in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) VLC system in conjunction with red, green, blue, and yellow (RGBY) LEDs is proposed to reduce the impact of random receiver orientation of indoor mobile users over VLC downlink channels and improves the system’s bit-error-rate (BER) performance. Simulation results show that the proposed method is not affected by the user’s mobility and hence it performs better than other approaches, in terms of BER for all scenarios and at all positions. This study reveals that using WDM-OFDM-VLC with RGBY LEDs to construct a VLC system is very promising.


Author(s):  
Abdullah Türk ◽  
Dursun Saral ◽  
Murat Özkök ◽  
Ercan Köse

Outfitting is a critical stage in the shipbuilding process. Within the outfitting, the construction of pipe systems is a phase that has a significant effect on time and cost. While cutting the pipes required for the pipe systems in shipyards, the cutting process is usually performed randomly. This can result in large amounts of trim losses. In this paper, we present an approach to minimize these losses. With the proposed method it is aimed to base the pipe cutting process on a specific systematic. To solve this problem, Genetic Algorithms (GA), which gives successful results in solving many problems in the literature, have been used. Different types of genetic operators have been used to investigate the search space of the problem well. The results obtained have proven the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taotao Zhang ◽  
Keping Zhang ◽  
Wende Liu

Multi-layered cement-based piezoelectric composites could enable accurate real-time detection of the concrete structure deformation induced by impact load. An analytical method for quantifying the impact response of the multi-layered cement-based piezoelectric composite is established based on the piezo-elasticity, and a general transfer matrix description for the composite with any number of layers is derived. The motion of the composite is decomposed into natural modes according to its physical significance of vibration modes. The mechanical and electrical solutions are obtained via the mode summation method and the virtual work principle. In order to give a clear demonstration, some numerical simulations are conducted to verify the validity of the theoretical analysis. Moreover, the current analytical method considers the electrode as an extra layer and evaluates the effect of its thickness and material on the performance of the multi-layered cement-based piezoelectric composite. It can be seen that the mathematical model presented in this article provides a rigorous tool for the analysis of the multi-layered cement-based piezoelectric composite and therefore could benefit the design of certain types of smart devices under impact load.


Author(s):  
Humera Farooq ◽  
Nordin Zakaria ◽  
Muhammad Tariq Siddique

The visualization of search space makes it easy to understand the behavior of the Genetic Algorithm (GA). The authors propose a novel way for representation of multidimensional search space of the GA using 2-D graph. This is carried out based on the gene values of the current generation, and human intervention is only required after several generations. The main contribution of this research is to propose an approach to visualize the GA search data and improve the searching process of the GA with human’s intention in different generations. Besides the selection of best individual or parents for the next generation, interference of human is required to propose a new individual in the search space. Active human intervention leads to a faster searching, resulting in less user fatigue. The experiments were carried out by evolving the parameters to derive the rules for a Parametric L-System. These rules are then used to model the growth process of branching structures in 3-D space. The experiments were conducted to evaluate the ability of the proposed approach to converge to optimized solution as compared to the Simple Genetic Algorithm (SGA).


Author(s):  
Naohiro Kusumi ◽  
David E. Goldberg ◽  
Noriyuki Ichinose

Power plant design using digital engineering based on 3-D computer-aided design has become a mainstream technology because of possessing higher speed and improvement in design accuracy. To take a coal-fired boiler building as an example, it has many complex structures with several million parts including the boiler itself, large fans, steel structures, and piping in varying sizes. Therefore, it is not easy to maintain integrity of the whole design throughout all the many engineering processes. We have developed a smart design system for coal-fired boiler buildings to solve the integrity problem. This system is capable of creating and allocating 3-D models automatically in accordance with various technical specifications and engineering rules. Lately, however, there has been a growing demand for more effectiveness of the developed system. We have begun to look into the feasibility of further improvements of the system function. The first point to note, when considering effectiveness, is the piping path routing process in the coal-fired boiler building. The quantity of piping is large, and it has a considerable impact on performance of the whole plant because hot steam is fed into the steam turbine and cold steam is taken from it through the piping. A considerable number of studies have been made on automatic searching methods of piping path routing. Although, the decision of piping path routing by using the Dynamic Programming method is most commonly, a previously decided routing becomes an interference object because of the single searching method. Therefore, basically, the later the order of the routing becomes, the longer the length of the routing becomes. To overcome this problem, in this paper we have proposed a new searching method based on the Genetic Algorithm (GA). The GA is a multipoint searching algorithm based on the mechanics of natural selection and natural genetics. Virtual prohibited cells are introduced into the proposed search method as a new idea. The virtual prohibited cells are located in a search space. The different paths are generated by avoiding the virtual prohibited cells while searching for the piping path routing. The optimum locations of the prohibited cells which are expressed in a genotype are obtained by using the GA in order to get a lot of paths independent of the order of the routing. The proposed method was evaluated using a simple searching problem. The results showed that many effective paths are generated by making the virtual prohibited cells.


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