Journal of Systems and Information Technology: Volume 20 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Pablo Rabanal, Ismael Rodriguez, Fernando Rubio

Swarm hybrid optimization for a piecewise model fitting applied to a glucose model

Luis Acedo, Marta Botella, Juan Carlos Cortés, J. Ignacio Hidalgo, Esther Maqueda, Rafael Jacinto Villanueva

The purpose of this paper is to study insulin pump therapy and accurate monitoring of glucose levels in diabetic patients, which are current research trends in diabetology. Both…

Minimizing area of VLSI power distribution networks using river formation dynamics

Satyabrata Dash, Sukanta Dey, Deepak Joshi, Gaurav Trivedi

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of river formation dynamics to size the widths of power distribution network for very large-scale integration designs…

An energy-efficient VM placement method for cloud data centers using a hybrid genetic algorithm

Mohamed Amine Kaaouache, Sadok Bouamama

This purpose of this paper is to propose a novel hybrid genetic algorithm based on a virtual machine (VM) placement method to improve energy efficiency in cloud data centers. How…

Hybrid differential evolution algorithms for the optimal camera placement problem

Mathieu Brévilliers, Julien Lepagnot, Lhassane Idoumghar, Maher Rebai, Julien Kritter

This paper aims to investigate to what extent hybrid differential evolution (DE) algorithms can be successful in solving the optimal camera placement problem.

Breakout variable neighbourhood search for the minimum interference frequency assignment problem

Yasmine Lahsinat, Dalila Boughaci, Belaid Benhamou

This paper aims to describe two enhancements of the variable neighbourhood search (VNS) algorithm to solve efficiently the minimum interference frequency assignment problem…

Reference point based evolutionary multi-objective optimization with dynamic resampling for production systems improvement

Amos H.C. Ng, Florian Siegmund, Kalyanmoy Deb

Stochastic simulation is a popular tool among practitioners and researchers alike for quantitative analysis of systems. Recent advancement in research on formulating production…