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This paper introduces a new model for optimal wind distributed generation (WDG) allocation based on mixed integer linear programming (MILP) in todays' smart grids considering on-load tap changing (OLTC) and power factor control (PFC) strategies. The objectives of the proposed optimization model are improving voltage stability and energy loss minimization subject to power flow constraints, line thermal limits, maximum number and size of WDG units, penetration limit, discrete OLTC tap position constraints, and PFC constraints. An efficient voltage phasor-information-based probabilistic voltage stability index (VSI) is extracted to measure the improvement of voltage stability with WDGs. Besides energy losses, reduction index is used to measure the energy loss reduction with the integration of renewable WDGs in the distribution system. An efficient linearized power flow (LPF) model as well as piecewise linearized model of the quadratic terms associated to the PFC constraints are represented to convert the original nonconvex problem into the form of a well-known MILP problem, which guarantees optimal solution and computationally is efficient to be solved using powerful commercial solvers. The effectiveness and validity of proposed model is investigated in compared to the state-of-the-art population-based methods and classical models.

Dynamic economic load dispatch (DELD), which determines the best generation scheduling for different power plants during the next 24 hours in order to meet the electricity demand as well as minimize the total energy cost, is a highly complex non-linear and non-convex problem. This study proposes an efficient modified teaching–learning–based optimization algorithm, called MTLBO, to effectively solve the DELD optimization problem in a power system containing thermal generations and wind power. The planning problem comprises the total fuel cost function with valve-point loading effect and the transmission power losses. Also, the uncertainties of wind power and load demand along with the various equality and inequality operational constraints such as power generation limits, ramp rate limits, prohibited operating zones and power balance are considered in the problem. Additionally, in the proposed MTLBO algorithm, the learning phase is properly integrated into the teaching phase to improve the convergence characteristic of the original TLBO. Moreover, in order to enhance the feature of local optima avoidance, interaction of up to five students are incorporated into the learning phase to improve the knowledge of each student. To exhibit the effectiveness of the proposed approach, the algorithm is applied into the 14 real test functions. In addition, several cases with 10 and 30 unit test systems are investigated over the planning period. Compared to the main TLBO algorithm which is mostly used optimization algorithms proposed in prior studies, the simulation results demonstrate the efficiency and superiority of the proposed optimization approach in terms of consistency, robustness, convergence rate and finding better plausible optimal solutions.

Thermal stability of reactive materials in a stockpile which spontaneously ignites is investigated in this article. The stockpile is modeled in a spherical domain assumed to be of a constant thermal conductivity. The energy equation is modified to a partial differential equation that is most suitable to analyze thermal stability of the combusting material. This is carried out by looking at the behavior of the temperature as selected parameters embedded in the governing equation are varied. The governing equation is solved numerically by using the Finite Difference Method (FDM). The results are given graphically and discussed appropriately to provide an understanding of the complicated combustion process. Keywords: Thermal conductivity, Low-temperature oxidation, Spontaneous ignition, Sphere, Finite Difference Method

Increase in technologies around the world requires adding intelligence to the objects, and making it a smart object in an environment leads to the Social Internet of Things (SIoT). These social objects are uniquely identifiable, transferable and share information from user-to-objects and objects-to objects through interactions in a smart environment such as smart homes, smart cities and many more applications. SIoT faces certain challenges such as handling of heterogeneous objects, selection of generated data in objects, missing values in data. Therefore, the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data are more important for every application. Thus, the analysis of data is essential in smarter decisions and qualifies performance of data for various applications. In a smart environment, social networks of intelligent objects are increasing services and decreasing the relationship in a reliable and efficient way of sharing resources and services. Hence, this work proposed the feature selection method based on proposed semantic rules and established the relationships to classify the services using relationship artificial neural networks (R-ANN). R-ANN is an inversely proportional relationship to the objects based on certain rules and conditions between the objects to objects and users to objects. It provides the service oriented knowledge model to make decisions in the proposed R-ANN model that produces service to the users. The proposed R-ANN provides an accuracy of 89.62% for various services namely weather, air quality, parking, light status, and people presence respectively in the SIoT environment compared to the existing model.

This article presents statistical inference methodology based on maximum likelihoods for delay differential equation models in the univariate setting. Maximum likelihood inference is obtained for single and multiple unknown delay parameters as well as other parameters of interest that govern the trajectories of the delay differential equation models. The maximum likelihood estimator is obtained based on adaptive grid and Newton-Raphson algorithms. Our methodology estimates correctly the delay parameters as well as other unknown parameters (such as the initial starting values) of the dynamical system based on simulation data. We also develop methodology to compute the information matrix and confidence intervals for all unknown parameters based on the likelihood inferential framework. We present three illustrative examples related to biological systems. The computations have been carried out with help of mathematical software: MATLAB® 8.0 R2014b.

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This work introduces a novel privacy preservation scheme. In large databases, the data sanitisation process preserves the stored sensitive data safely from unauthorised access and users by hiding it. Moreover, the statistical features are extracted. Further, the normalised data and features are processed under the data sanitisation process. For the sanitisation process, the optimal key is produced by utilising the Deep Belief Network (DBN) with Chaotic Map-adopted Poor and Rich Optimisation (CMPRO) model. It is the modified version of the classical PRO algorithm. As a novelty, chaotic map and cycle crossover operation is included in the CMPRO algorithm. Privacy, modification degree, data preservation ratio, and hiding failure are considered as the objectives for the key generation process. Then, the data restoration process restores or recovers the sanitised data, and it is the reverse process. Then, the outcomes of the adopted scheme are analysed over the traditional systems based on certain measures. Especially, the sanitisation effectiveness of the proposed approach for data 1 in test case 2 and it is 54.56%, 51.82%, 47.94%, 49.59%, 18.17%, 43.32%, 47.03%, 47.03%, 55.79%, 21.84%, 47.33%, and 32.13% better than the existing CNN+CMPRO, RNN+CMPRO, LSTM+CMPRO, BiLSTM+CMPRO, DBN+PRO, DBN+SSA, DBN+SMO, DBN+LA, DBN+SSO, DBN+J-SSO, DBN+BS-WOA, and DBN+R-GDA schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]