abstract— in this paper we have tried to develop an altered version of the artificial bee colony algorithm which is inspired from and combined with the meta-heuristic algorithm of firefly. in this method, we have tried to change the main equation of searching within the original abc algorithm. on this basis, a new combined equation was used for steps of employed bees and onlooker bees. for this...

in the science of operation research and decision theory, selection is the most important process. selection is a process that studies multiple qualitative and quantitative criteria, related to the science of management, which are mostly incompatible with each other. the multi criteria selection of a renewable energy portfolio is one of the main issues considered in multi criteria literature. i...

the main aim of this paper intends to discuss the solution of fuzzy sylvester matrix equation

this paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm namely apso-bfo which combines merits of bacterial foraging optimization (bfo) algorithm and adaptive particle swarm optimization (apso) algorithm to determine the optimal pid parameters for control of nonlinear systems. to balance between exploration and exploitation, the proposed hybrid algorithm accomplishes global search over the whole search spa...

I would like to thank the associate editors who have completed their term during 2011: Elisa Bertino, Nicholas Bruno, Christopher Clifton, Minos Garofalakis, and Maurizio Lenzerini, and would like to formally welcome the new associate editors who joined the editorial board in 2011: Deepak Agarwal, James Bailey, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Lei Chen, Gautam Das, Aristides Gionis, Panagiotiss Ipeirotis, ...

The knowledge economy demands a highly skilled and well-rounded work force. However, because traditional institutions cannot meet the demand for post-secondary education, technological innovations, particularly distance learning, are becoming the solution for increased access. As distance programs are developed for global delivery, cultural and linguistic issues must be considered. Pedagogical ...

global optimization methods play an important role to solve many real-world problems. flower pollination algorithm (fp) is a new nature-inspired algorithm, based on the characteristics of flowering plants. in this paper, a new hybrid optimization method called hybrid flower pollination algorithm (fppso) is proposed. the method combines the standard flower pollination algorithm (fp) with the par...

the scheduling problems are the non-polynomial problems-hard (np-hard), is to solve it, and meta-heuristic innovative method compared with the exact method require less time and memory.in this research, developed imperialistic competitive algorithm used to solving the single-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem.also the basic feasible solution algorithm used in order to increase...