Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) techniques, mostly Back-Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) algorithm has been used as a tool for recognizing a mapping function among a known set of input and output examples. These networks can be trained with gradient descent back propagation. The algorithm is not definite in finding the global minimum of the error function since gradient descent may get stuck ...

Cuckoo algorithm is a novel optimization algorithm in the field of heuristic intelligence algorithms. Given the strong random leaping in solution space search, careful local searches are susceptible to falling into the local optimum. Thus, the latter phase of the optimization slows down and the accuracy diminishes. To improve the performance of the algorithm, this paper proposes an improved cuc...

This paper proposes an improved cuckoo search (ICS) algorithm to establish the parameters of chaotic systems. In order to improve the optimization capability of the basic cuckoo search (CS) algorithm, the orthogonal design and simulated annealing operation are incorporated in the CS algorithm to enhance the exploitation search ability. Then the proposed algorithm is used to establish parameters...

Hard optimization problems that cannot be solved within reasonable time by standard, mathematical, deterministic methods are of great practical interest. Metaheuristics inspired by nature were recently successfully used for such problems. These metaheuristics are based on random Monte-Carlo search guided by simulation of some nature intelligence, especially evolution and swarm intelligence. One...

In this paper, a Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) is proposed for solving environmental economic load dispatch (EELD) problem with quadratic fuel function. Cuckoo Search is a new meta-heuristic algorithm inspired from the obligate brood parasitism of some cuckoo species by laying their eggs in the nests of other host birds of other species for solving optimization problems with promising results. ...

Cuckoo search (CS) is a novel biologically inspired algorithm and has been widely applied to many fields. Although some binary-coded CS variants are developed to solve 0-1 knapsack problems, the search accuracy and the convergence speed are still needed to further improve. According to the analysis of the shortcomings of the standard CS and the advantage of the global harmony search (GHS), a no...

In this paper, a comparative study is carried using three nature-inspired algorithms namely Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Cuckoo Search (CS) on clustering problem. Cuckoo search is used with levy flight. The heavy-tail property of levy flight is exploited here. These algorithms are used on three standard benchmark datasets and one real-time multi-spectral satelli...

The drawback of the conventional multilevel thresholding methods is high computational cost since they do exhaustive search among exponentialy growing number of possible thresholds to optimize the objective functions. In this paper a new multilevel thresholding method based on cuckoo search (CS) algorithm is proposed in order to overcome this obstacle. The optimal thresholds are found by maximi...