Smarter Charging: Modeling optimal EV charging in solar parking lots for reducing peak demand, considering uncertainty in solar power forecasting and EV energy demand

Smart charging offers the potential for electric vehicles to use renewable energy more efficiently, lowering costs and improving the stability of the electricity grid. Many computer models have been developed to simulate the behavior of smart charging. Yet these models often assume that future information is known perfectly, including when...

Parallelizing the Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm and Searching for the Optimal Replacement for the Linkage Tree

The recently introduced Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm (LTGA) has shown to exhibit excellent scalability on a variety of optimization problems. LTGA employs Linkage Trees (LTs) to identify and exploit linkage information between problem variables. In this work we present two parallel implementations of LTGA that enable us to leverage the...