A Modified Coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimizer for the Power Scheduling Problem

Sharif Naser Makhadmeh, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Mohammed A. Awadallah, Ammar Kamal Abasi, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, Iyad Abu Doush, Osama Ahmad Alomari, Robertas Damaševičius, Audrius Zajančkauskas and Mazin Abed Mohammed
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Sharif Naser Makhadmeh: Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), College of Engineering and Information Technology, Ajman University, Ajman 346, United Arab Emirates
Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar: Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), College of Engineering and Information Technology, Ajman University, Ajman 346, United Arab Emirates
Mohammed A. Awadallah: Department of Computer Science, Al-Aqsa University, P.O. Box 4051, Gaza P860, Palestine
Ammar Kamal Abasi: School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11800, Malaysia
Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri: Information Technology Research and Development Center (ITRDC), University of Kufa, Kufa 54001, Iraq
Iyad Abu Doush: Computing Department, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, American University of Kuwait, Salmiya 20002, Kuwait
Osama Ahmad Alomari: MLALP Research Group, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 346, United Arab Emirates
Robertas Damaševičius: Department of Applied Informatics, Vytautas Magnus University, 44404 Kaunas, Lithuania
Audrius Zajančkauskas: Department of Applied Informatics, Vytautas Magnus University, 44404 Kaunas, Lithuania
Mazin Abed Mohammed: College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar, Anbar 31001, Iraq

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-29

Abstract: The Coronavirus herd immunity optimizer (CHIO) is a new human-based optimization algorithm that imitates the herd immunity strategy to eliminate of the COVID-19 disease. In this paper, the coronavirus herd immunity optimizer (CHIO) is modified to tackle a discrete power scheduling problem in a smart home (PSPSH). PSPSH is a combinatorial optimization problem with NP-hard features. It is a highly constrained discrete scheduling problem concerned with assigning the operation time for smart home appliances based on a dynamic pricing scheme(s) and several other constraints. The primary objective when solving PSPSH is to maintain the stability of the power system by reducing the ratio between average and highest power demand (peak-to-average ratio (PAR)) and reducing electricity bill (EB) with considering the comfort level of users (UC). This paper modifies and adapts the CHIO algorithm to deal with such discrete optimization problems, particularly PSPSH. The adaptation and modification include embedding PSPSH problem-specific operators to CHIO operations to meet the discrete search space requirements. PSPSH is modeled as a multi-objective problem considering all objectives, including PAR, EB, and UC. The proposed method is examined using a dataset that contains 36 home appliances and seven consumption scenarios. The main CHIO parameters are tuned to find their best values. These best values are used to evaluate the proposed method by comparing its results with comparative five metaheuristic algorithms. The proposed method shows encouraging results and almost obtains the best results in all consumption scenarios.

Keywords: discrete coronavirus herd immunity optimizer; power scheduling problem in smart home; multi-criteria optimisation; smart home; multi-objective optimisation problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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