One of the essential parts of the software development process is software testing as it ensures the delivery of a good quality and reliable software. Various techniques and algorithms have been developed to carry out the testing process. This paper deals with utility of the nature based algorithms namely Genetic Algorithm, Ant Colony Optimization algorithm and Artificial Bee Colony algorithm i...

A robust image watermarking scheme based on singular value decomposition (SVD) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) with Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm is proposed in this paper. Previous SVD based watermarking algorithms have a major drawback of false positive detection. For solving this problem, the similarity measure of U matrix for ownership is checked. To achieve the highest possible robu...

In this paper an improved version of the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm adjusted for constrained optimization problems is presented. It has been implemented and tested on several engineering benchmarks which contain discrete and continuous variables. Our results were compared to the results obtained by Simple Constrained Particle Swarm optimization algorithm (SiC-PSO) which showed a very...

In the process of material composition detection, image analysis is an inevitable problem. Multilevel thresholding based on the OTSU method is one of the most popular image segmentation techniques. The increase of the number of thresholds increases with the exponential increase in computing time. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes an artificial bee colony algorithm with a tw...

The stock market is very volatile, so the change of price also widely concerned by investors. In this paper, a new forecasting model based on Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization(QPSO) , Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm(QABC) and Fruit Fly Algorithm (QFOA) proposed. three methods all use BP neural network to adjust parameters particle swarm, bee colony Drosophila reach optimal parameters. Takin...

In this paper, we introduce a novel iterative method to finding the fixed point of a nonlinear function. Therefore, we combine ideas proposed in Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (Karaboga and Basturk, 2007) and Bisection method (Burden and Douglas, 1985). This method is new and very efficient for solving a ccepted 3 September 2014 vailable online 28 September 2014 eywords: isection method ixed p...

the traveling salesman problem (tsp) is the problem of finding the shortest tour through all the nodes that a salesman has to visit. the tsp is probably the most famous and extensively studied problem in the field of combinatorial optimization. because this problem is an np-hard problem, practical large-scale instances cannot be solved by exact algorithms within acceptable computational times. ...

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) is a distinguished optimization strategy that can resolve nonlinear and multifaceted problems. It is comparatively a straightforward and modern population based probabilistic approach for comprehensive optimization. In the vein of the other population based algorithms, ABC is moreover computationally classy due to its slow nature of search procedure. The solution exp...

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...