Implementation of a Web interface for hybrid intelligent systems: A comparison study of two hybrid intelligent systems

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to implement a Web interface for hybrid intelligent systems. Using the implemented Web interface, this paper evaluates two hybrid intelligent systems based on particle swarm optimization, hill climbing and distributed genetic algorithm to solve the node placement problem in wireless mesh networks (WMNs).

Design/methodology/approach

The node placement problem in WMNs is well-known to be a computationally hard problem. Therefore, the authors use intelligent algorithms to solve this problem. The implemented systems are intelligent systems based on meta-heuristics algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Hill Climbing (HC) and Distributed Genetic Algorithm (DGA). The authors implement two hybrid intelligent systems: WMN-PSODGA and WMN-PSOHC-DGA.

Findings

The authors carried out simulations using the implemented Web interface. From the simulations results, it was found that the WMN-PSOHC-DGA system has a better performance compared with the WMN-PSODGA system.

Research limitations/implications

For simulations, the authors considered Normal distribution of mesh clients. In the future, the authors need to consider different client distributions, patterns, number of mesh nodes and communication distance.

Originality/value

In this research work, the authors implemented a Web interface for hybrid intelligent systems. The implemented interface can be extended for other metaheuristic algorithms.

Citation

Sakamoto, S., Barolli, A., Barolli, L. and Okamoto, S. (2019), "Implementation of a Web interface for hybrid intelligent systems: A comparison study of two hybrid intelligent systems", International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 420-431. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-10-2018-0071