scholarly journals Application of Whale Optimization Algorithm for Environmental Constrained Economic Dispatch of Fixed Head Hydro-Wind-Thermal Power System

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5608-5616
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Economic Dispatch ◽  
Electric Power System ◽  
Whale Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Whale Optimization ◽  
The Cost

This work applies whale optimization algorithm for emission constrained economic dispatch of hydrothermal units including wind power. As the wind power has a characteristic of cleanliness and is renewable, this is convincing to include this for better operation of electric power system keeping in view both economic and environmental aspects. Hydrothermal scheduling integrated with wind power establishes a multi-objective problem that becomes economic emission hydro-thermal-wind scheduling problem while taking into consideration the cost due to wind uncertainty. Whale optimization algorithm is proposed to solve this emission constrained economic dispatch problem with competing objectives. This algorithm is recently developed and gives the best solution among other nature inspired algorithms. The objectives minimum generations as well as emission cost, both are optimized together including different constraints. A daily scheduling of all the three types of systems - hydro, thermal and wind is considered to evaluate the competency of this optimization technique to get a solution for this multi-objective problem. The experiments are carried out on two systems for determining the effectiveness of the suggested method. Besides, results found using the whale optimization technique have been compared with the results obtained from other evolutionary methods. From the comparison, it is experimentally justified that the whale optimization works faster and the cost of generation as well as cost of emission are lower than the other approaches.

scholarly journals EWOA-OPF: Effective Whale Optimization Algorithm to Solve Optimal Power Flow Problem

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 2975
Author(s):  
Mohammad H. Nadimi-Shahraki ◽  
Shokooh Taghian ◽  
Seyedali Mirjalili ◽  
Laith Abualigah ◽  
Mohamed Abd Abd Elaziz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Power Flow ◽  
Optimal Power Flow ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Whale Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Objective Functions ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Optimal Power ◽  
Whale Optimization

The optimal power flow (OPF) is a vital tool for optimizing the control parameters of a power system by considering the desired objective functions subject to system constraints. Metaheuristic algorithms have been proven to be well-suited for solving complex optimization problems. The whale optimization algorithm (WOA) is one of the well-regarded metaheuristics that is widely used to solve different optimization problems. Despite the use of WOA in different fields of application as OPF, its effectiveness is decreased as the dimension size of the test system is increased. Therefore, in this paper, an effective whale optimization algorithm for solving optimal power flow problems (EWOA-OPF) is proposed. The main goal of this enhancement is to improve the exploration ability and maintain a proper balance between the exploration and exploitation of the canonical WOA. In the proposed algorithm, the movement strategy of whales is enhanced by introducing two new movement strategies: (1) encircling the prey using Levy motion and (2) searching for prey using Brownian motion that cooperate with canonical bubble-net attacking. To validate the proposed EWOA-OPF algorithm, a comparison among six well-known optimization algorithms is established to solve the OPF problem. All algorithms are used to optimize single- and multi-objective functions of the OPF under the system constraints. Standard IEEE 6-bus, IEEE 14-bus, IEEE 30-bus, and IEEE 118-bus test systems are used to evaluate the proposed EWOA-OPF and comparative algorithms for solving the OPF problem in diverse power system scale sizes. The comparison of results proves that the EWOA-OPF is able to solve single- and multi-objective OPF problems with better solutions than other comparative algorithms.

scholarly journals Multi-Objective Whale Optimization Algorithm for Computation Offloading Optimization in Mobile Edge Computing

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 2628
Author(s):  
Mengxing Huang ◽  
Qianhao Zhai ◽  
Yinjie Chen ◽  
Siling Feng ◽  
Feng Shu
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Solution Set ◽  
Whale Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Computation Offloading ◽  
Mobile Edge Computing ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Whale Optimization ◽  
Artificial Immune System Algorithm

Computation offloading is one of the most important problems in edge computing. Devices can transmit computation tasks to servers to be executed through computation offloading. However, not all the computation tasks can be offloaded to servers with the limitation of network conditions. Therefore, it is very important to decide quickly how many tasks should be executed on servers and how many should be executed locally. Only computation tasks that are properly offloaded can improve the Quality of Service (QoS). Some existing methods only focus on a single objection, and of the others some have high computational complexity. There still have no method that could balance the targets and complexity for universal application. In this study, a Multi-Objective Whale Optimization Algorithm (MOWOA) based on time and energy consumption is proposed to solve the optimal offloading mechanism of computation offloading in mobile edge computing. It is the first time that MOWOA has been applied in this area. For improving the quality of the solution set, crowding degrees are introduced and all solutions are sorted by crowding degrees. Additionally, an improved MOWOA (MOWOA2) by using the gravity reference point method is proposed to obtain better diversity of the solution set. Compared with some typical approaches, such as the Grid-Based Evolutionary Algorithm (GrEA), Cluster-Gradient-based Artificial Immune System Algorithm (CGbAIS), Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III (NSGA-III), etc., the MOWOA2 performs better in terms of the quality of the final solutions.

A Cloud-based Conceptual Framework for Multi-Objective Virtual Machine Scheduling using Whale Optimization Algorithm

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadim Rana ◽  
Muhammad Shafie Abd Latiff ◽  
Shafi'i Muhammad Abdulhamid
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Machine Scheduling ◽  
Whale Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Whale Optimization ◽  
Virtual Machine Scheduling

Virtual machine scheduling in the cloud is considered one of the major issue to solve optimal resource allocation problem on the heterogeneous datacenters. With respect to that, the key concern is to map the virtual machines (VMs) with physical machines (PMs) in a way that maximum resource utilization can be achieved with minimum cost. Due to the fact that scheduling is an NP-hard problem, a metaheuristic approach is proven to achieve a better optimal solution to solve this problem. In a rapid changing heterogeneous environment, where millions of resources can be allocated and deallocate in a fraction of the time, modern metaheuristic algorithms perform well due to its immense power to solve the multidimensional problem with fast convergence speed. This paper presents a conceptual framework for solving multi-objective VM scheduling problem using novel metaheuristic Whale optimization algorithm (WOA). Further, we present the problem formulation for the framework to achieve multi-objective functions.

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