Whole-cell, genetically modified bioreporters are designed to emit detectable signals in response to a target analyte or related group of analytes. When integrated with a transducer capable of measuring those signals, a biosensor results that acts as a self-contained analytical system useful in basic and applied environmental, medical, pharmacological, and agricultural sciences. Historically, t...

Tong Shu 1,*, Xiaoqin Gao 1, Shou Chen 1, Shouyang Wang 1,2, Kin Keung Lai 3,4 and Lu Gan 5 1 Business School, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; [email protected] (X.G.); [email protected] (S.C.); [email protected] (S.W.) 2 Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 3 International Business School, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 7...

In this article spontaneous synchronization observed in nature is applied to self-organized wireless networks. In South-East Asia huge swarms of fireflies emit light flashes in perfect synchrony. The underlying principle of this firefly synchronization scheme is reviewed and challenges related to the implementation in ad hoc networks are addressed. In particular, the effects of transmission del...

The computation of Total Transfer Capability (TTC) is a significant task in the deregulated environment. In this paper, Firefly (FF) algorithm is used to solve the Optimal Power Flow (OPF) based TTC problem. Real power output of generators in source area and real power load in drop area can be adjusted to obtain the maximum transfer capability. The value of TTC can be made more accurate by cons...

The application of new metaheuristic approach, Firefly algorithm, for the thinning of large multiple Concentric Circular dipole arrays is presented. A nine-ring Uniform Circular antenna array with central element feeding is considered. To analyze the effect of thinning, optimization is carried out with and without pre fixing the percentage value of thinning. The performance of the array in term...

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Article history: Received 2 July 2013 Received in revised form 7 January 2014 Accepted 18 January 2014

Firefly algorithm is a swarm based metaheuristic algorithm inspired by the flashing behavior of fireflies. It is an effective and an easy to implement algorithm. It has been tested on different problems from different disciplines and found to be effective. Even though the algorithm is proposed for optimization problems with continuous variables, it has been modified and used for problems with n...