Increasing power demands require multiple generating units interconnected with each other
to maintain the power balance of the system. This results in a highly dense power system …

Integration of distributed energy resources, such as photovoltaic solar (PV), introduces new
opportunities to establish local energy market frameworks to improve renewable energy …

This research paper proposes the new multi-criteria search based enhanced firefly algorithm
for solving selective harmonic elimination in a multilevel inverter. This new enhanced firefly …

The nature of the distance metric used to compare the span between two fireflies in
conventional firefly algorithm can significantly enhance the exploitation properties of the …

Network reconfiguration (NR) is a well-accepted technique to decrease power losses and
enhance the voltage profile of the distribution network. The practical challenges in solving …

This paper proposes an optimized mobile robot navigation strategy using a functional firefly
algorithm (FFA) and choice function. This approach has two key advantages: first, the linear …

The primary goal of a power distribution system is to provide nominal voltages and power
with minimal losses to meet consumer demands under various load conditions. In the …

Smart grid resource allocation (SGRA) is a large-scale demand response optimization
problem to lower the electricity cost of customers by intelligently shifting their schedulable …

Environmental issues due to the emission of pollutants produced by fossil fuel power plants
have recently become an important issue. In this study, the coefficients of particle swarm …

This paper presents a pragmatic approach established on the hybridization of nature-
inspired optimization algorithms and Bernstein Polynomials (BPs), achieving the optimum …