Η εργασία πραγματέυεται τη δημιουργία βοηθητικών εργαλείων για την χρήση δεδομένων από αρχεία xml και την επεξεργασία τους με αλγορίθμους σμήνους για την εξαγωγή συμπερασμάτων. / The current post graduate thesis addresses the issue of school timetabling problem through the usage of PSO algorithms. In order to achieve greater efficiency complementary tool have been designed and developed.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mohamed A. Abuella, for the Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented on May 10, 2012, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE:STUDY OF PARTICLE SWARM FOR OPTIMAL POWER FLOW IN IEEE BENCHMARK SYSTEMS INCLUDING WIND POWER GENERATORS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. C. Hatziadoniu, The aim of this thesis is the optimal economic dispatch of real power in systems that include wind power. The economic dispatch of wind power units is quite different of conventional thermal units. In addition, the consideration should take the intermittency nature of wind speed and operating constraints as well. Therefore, this thesis uses a model that considers the aforementioned considerations in addition to whether the utility owns wind turbines or not. The optimal power flow (OPF) is solved by using one of the modern optimization algorithms: the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). IEEE 30-bus test system has been adapted to study the implementation PSO algorithm in OPF of conventional-thermal generators. A small and simple 6-bus system has been used to study OPF of a system that includes wind-powered generators besides to thermal generators. The analysis of investigations on power systems is presented in tabulated and illustrative methods to lead to clear conclusions.

Ahierarchical version of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) metaheuristic is introduced in this paper. In the new method called H-PSO, the particles are arranged in a dynamic hierarchy that is used to define a neighborhood structure. Depending on the quality of their so-far best-found solution, the particles move up or down the hierarchy. This gives good particles that move up in the hierarchy a larger influence on the swarm. We introduce a variant of H-PSO, in which the shape of the hierarchy is dynamically adapted during the execution of the algorithm. Another variant is to assign different behavior to the individual particles with respect to their level in the hierarchy. H-PSO and its variants are tested on a commonly used set of optimization functions and are compared to PSO using different standard neighborhood schemes.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Luiz Alberto Luz de Almeida / Coorientador: Prof. Dr. Carlos Eduardo Capovilla / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica, Santo André, 2018. / O trabalho apresenta uma extensao da limitacao estatica Loop Proximity (..2..) do modelo de histerese para incorporar a componente reversivel de magnetizacao dependente de taxa para modelar nucleos de ferrite de energia e, possivelmente, materiais ferromagneticos baseados em ferro e niquel para aplicacoes de baixa frequencia. O modelo proposto e baseado em a combinacao do modelo estatico (..2..) com um filtro discreto dinamico linear de uma resposta de impulso infinita. Dois casos em que a histerese depende da frequencia de excitacao apresentada usando dados sinteticos para validar a capacidade do modelo para representar o comportamento de nucleos fisicos reais. A tecnica de otimizacao por enxames de particulas e empregada como um metodo para estimacao de parametros no resultado modelo estatico-dinamico nao linear. Os resultados da simulacao sao apresentados indicando que trouxemos a comunidade eletronica de potencia um modelo de nucleo promissor e alternativo para componentes magneticos usado em fontes de energia renovaveis. / We present an extension of the static Limiting Loop Proximity ..2.. hysteresis model to incorporate reversible magnetization and rate-dependency to model power ferrite cores and, possibly, ferromagnetic materials based on iron and nickel for low-frequency applications. The proposed model is based on the combination of the ..2.. static model with a dynamical discrete linear filter of an infinite impulse response. Two cases where the hysteresis depends on the excitation frequency are presented using synthetic data to validate de capacity of the model to behave as real physical cores. The particle swarm optimization is employed as a method for parameter estimation in the resulting nonlinear static-dynamic model. Simulation results are presented indicating that we brought to the power electronic community apromising and alternative core model for magnetic components used in renewable power sources.

This thesis deals with methods for optimization in image processing. There is described some of optimization techniques and some applications in image processing. There is also described detailed procedure and realization of bee algorithm, genetic algorithm, PSO algorithm and their realization in image registration, matched filtering, image segmentation and image reconstruction. Algorithms and their efficiencies are compared in the particular application for image processing.