Faizullah Mahar received his B.E from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, in 1988,  MS degree from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, in 1995 and Ph.D degree from Iqra University. Since April, 1992, he  is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering

Baluchistan University of Engineering and technology, Khuzdar, Pakistan. He is the author of the more than fifty research articles. His research interests include control systems and evolutionary optimization techniques.

A Comparative Study on Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithms for Fixed Order Controller Design

Faizullah Mahar, Syed Saad Azhar Ali and Zohaibuddin Bhutto

Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1, Volume 281, Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies, Pages 284-294

[1]     Faizullah Mahar,  Syed Saad Azhar and Ayaz Hussain, “EOTs Based Fixed Order Robust Controller Design and Comparison Performance Analysis", accepted for publication in International journal of machine Learning and Computing vol.1, No.3, June 2012

[2]     Faizullah Mahar and Syed Saad Azhar Ali, "Ant Colony Optimization Based Fixed Order Robust Controller Design and Robustness Analysis", American journal of scientific research, [ISI indexed], issue 54, February, 2012, pp.92-100.

[3]     Faizullah Mahar and Syed Saad Azhar Ali, "Evolutionary Algorithms Based Fixed Order Robust Controller Design and Robustness Performance Analysis, American journal of scientific re-search, [ISI indexed], issue 51, February, 2012, pp.16-26.

[4]     Faizullah Mahar ,  Syed Saad Azhar Ali and Ayaz Hussain, “Design of Fixed Order Controller by Using Particle Swarm Optimization and System Simulation,” International journal for computer information systems and industrial management applications,  ISSN 2150-7988 Volume 4 (2012) pp. 459-466

1)       Faizullah Mahar, and  Syed Saad Azhar Ali, Evolutionary Algorithms Based Fixed Order Robust Controller Design and  Robustness Performance Analysis, International proceeding on computer science and information technology vol.25 Feb. 2012  pp.137-142.

2)       Faizullah Mahar and  Syed Saad Azhar Ali,  Simulated annealing based fixed order controller design and system simulation, proceedings 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE 2011) pp. 178-183 , 4 - 7 December, 2011, Penang, Malaysia.

3)       Faizullah Mahar and Syed Saad Azhar Ali, Ant colony optimization based fixed order controller design and system simulation, Proceedings of 2011 International conference on control automation and system pp. 1369-1372, Oct. 2011, South Korea.

4)       Faizullah Mahar and Syed Saad Azhar Ali, Particle Swarm Optimization based fixed order controller design and system simulation, Proceedings of International Conference on Soft Computing and pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2010) Cergy-Pontoise Paris France, pp.152-155, December 7-10, 2010, Paris France.

5)       Faizullah Mahar, and Syed Saad Azhar Ali and Abid Karim, Immune Algorithm based fixed order controller design and system simulation proceeding of 2010 International Symposium on Signals Systems and Electronics, (ISSSE) Vol.1, pp.18-21, Sept 17-20, 2010. Nanjing, China.

6)       Abdul Basit, Faizullah Mahar and Basit Hassan; “Analysis of Coupling Effect in Holey Fiber, Proceeding of International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2008(ICCAS 2008) Seoul, South Korea