SEKIGUCHI Tamaki (1st-year pre-doctoral student, FUKUYAMA Yoshikazu Laboratory) in the Network Design Program at the Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences won the IEEJ Excellent Presentation Award, for the 2024 Technical Meeting on Electronics, Information and Systems, at the 2025 Annual Conference on Electronics, Information and Systems, IEEJ, held at Kanazawa Institute of Technology from August 27 to 30, 2025.
Awarded paper: “Application of Spider Monkey Optimization with Improved Parameters to Energy Plant Optimal Operation Planning;” Information Systems, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan; IS-24-043; December 6, 2024
In recent years, average temperature rises, melting of snow and ice, and sea level rises have been observed on a global scale, and the impact of global warming has become a major issue. In addition to average temperature rises, disasters caused by heavy rains and typhoons, for example, and impacts on crops and ecosystems have also been observed in Japan. Therefore, BEMS (Building Energy Management System) and FEMS (Factory Energy Management System), which include systems to optimize the operation of energy plants in commercial facilities, factories, office buildings, etc. from the viewpoint of reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions, are attracting attention.
In the paper, authors proposed the application of Spider Monkey Optimization with improved parameters (SMO-IPR) to the optimal operation planning of energy plants. The effectiveness of the proposed method was confirmed by comparison with the conventional DEEPSO, SMO, and improved SMO based methods.