This paper presents a Butterfly Optimization Algorithm(BOA)with a wind-driven mechanism for avoiding natural enemies known as WDBOA.To further balance the basic BOA algorithm's exploration and exploitation capabil...This paper presents a Butterfly Optimization Algorithm(BOA)with a wind-driven mechanism for avoiding natural enemies known as WDBOA.To further balance the basic BOA algorithm's exploration and exploitation capabilities,the butterfly actions were divided into downwind and upwind states.The algorithm of exploration ability was improved with the wind,while the algorithm of exploitation ability was improved against the wind.Also,a mechanism of avoiding natural enemies based on Lévy flight was introduced for the purpose of enhancing its global searching ability.Aiming at improving the explorative performance at the initial stages and later stages,the fragrance generation method was modified.To evaluate the effectiveness of the suggested algorithm,a comparative study was done with six classical metaheuristic algorithms and three BOA variant optimization techniques on 18 benchmark functions.Further,the performance of the suggested technique in addressing some complicated problems in various dimensions was evaluated using CEC 2017 and CEC 2020.Finally,the WDBOA algorithm is used proportional-integral-derivative(PID)controller parameter optimization.Experimental results demonstrate that the WDBOA based PID controller has better control performance in comparison with other PID controllers tuned by the Genetic Algorithm(GA),Flower Pollination Algorithm(FPA),Cuckoo Search(CS)and BOA.展开更多
Building prototyping has regularly been used in building performance analyses with statistically feasible models.The novelty of this research involves a new hybrid approach combining stratified sampling and k-means cl...Building prototyping has regularly been used in building performance analyses with statistically feasible models.The novelty of this research involves a new hybrid approach combining stratified sampling and k-means clustering to establish building geometry prototypes.The research focuses on residential buildings in Ningbo,China.Seventeen small residential districts(SRDs)containing 367 residential buildings were systemically selected for survey and data collection.The stratified sampling used building construction year as the main parameter to generate stratification.Floor numbers,shape coefficients,floor areas,and window-to-wall ratios were used as the four observations for k-means clustering.Based on this new approach,nine building geometry prototypes were identified and modelled.These statistically representative prototypes provide building geometrical information and characteristic-based evaluations for subsequent building performance analysis.展开更多
基金This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U21A20464,62066005Project of the Guangxi Science and Technology under Grant No.ZL23014016.
文摘This paper presents a Butterfly Optimization Algorithm(BOA)with a wind-driven mechanism for avoiding natural enemies known as WDBOA.To further balance the basic BOA algorithm's exploration and exploitation capabilities,the butterfly actions were divided into downwind and upwind states.The algorithm of exploration ability was improved with the wind,while the algorithm of exploitation ability was improved against the wind.Also,a mechanism of avoiding natural enemies based on Lévy flight was introduced for the purpose of enhancing its global searching ability.Aiming at improving the explorative performance at the initial stages and later stages,the fragrance generation method was modified.To evaluate the effectiveness of the suggested algorithm,a comparative study was done with six classical metaheuristic algorithms and three BOA variant optimization techniques on 18 benchmark functions.Further,the performance of the suggested technique in addressing some complicated problems in various dimensions was evaluated using CEC 2017 and CEC 2020.Finally,the WDBOA algorithm is used proportional-integral-derivative(PID)controller parameter optimization.Experimental results demonstrate that the WDBOA based PID controller has better control performance in comparison with other PID controllers tuned by the Genetic Algorithm(GA),Flower Pollination Algorithm(FPA),Cuckoo Search(CS)and BOA.
基金sponsored by the Ningbo Natural Science Funding Scheme(Project code:2019A610393)The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology is acknowledged for this research under its Provincial Key Laboratory Programme(2020E10018).
文摘Building prototyping has regularly been used in building performance analyses with statistically feasible models.The novelty of this research involves a new hybrid approach combining stratified sampling and k-means clustering to establish building geometry prototypes.The research focuses on residential buildings in Ningbo,China.Seventeen small residential districts(SRDs)containing 367 residential buildings were systemically selected for survey and data collection.The stratified sampling used building construction year as the main parameter to generate stratification.Floor numbers,shape coefficients,floor areas,and window-to-wall ratios were used as the four observations for k-means clustering.Based on this new approach,nine building geometry prototypes were identified and modelled.These statistically representative prototypes provide building geometrical information and characteristic-based evaluations for subsequent building performance analysis.
