As nanotechnology advances, the use of nanotechnology for medical purposes in the field of nanomedicine seems more promising; the rise of nanorobots for medical diagnostics and treatments could be arriving in the near future. This study proposes a swarm intelligence based control mechanism for swarm nanorobots that operate as artificial platelets to search for wounds. The canonical particle swa...

Swarm Intelligence algorithms have proved to be very effective in solving problems on many aspects of Artificial Intelligence. This paper constitutes a first study of the recently proposed Unified Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm on scheduling problems. More specifically, the Single Machine Total Weighted Tardiness problem is considered, and tackled through a scheme that combines Unified P...

Swarm intelligence algorithms are amongst the most e±cient approaches toward solving optimization problems. Up to now, most of swarm intelligence approaches have been proposed for optimization in static environments. However, numerous real-world problems are dynamic which could not be solved using static approaches. In this paper, a novel approach based on arti ̄cial ̄sh swarm algorithm (AFSA) ha...

Swarm Intelligence algorithms have been extensively applied to solve optimization problems. However, some of them, such as Particle Swarm Optimization, may not present the ability to generate diversity after environmental changes. In this paper we propose a hybrid algorithm to overcome this problem by applying a very interesting feature of the Fish School Search algorithm to the Particle Swarm ...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing research in the application of Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Computation methods to problems in the field of cryptography and cryptanalysis. This is primarily due to the effectiveness of application of these methods to handle hard problems, and to the resulting automated designs pertaining to cryptanalysis of cryptosystems. This paper begins wit...

PSO is a robust and stochastic optimization technique based on the movement and the intelligence of the swarms. PSO is inspired with social behavior of bird flocking and fish schooling. PSO algorithm is applied to solve the real world complex optimization problems. So many real world optimization problems are solved by using different combinations and variations of PSO algorithms. In this paper...

we propose a novel hybrid algorithm named ACO-FA, which integrates the merits of ant colony optimization (ACO) with firefly algorithm (FA) to solve unconstrained optimization problems. The main feature of the hybrid algorithm is to hybridize the solution construction mechanism of the ACO with the FA. In our hybrid algorithm, the initial solutions are generated randomly from the search space, an...