Congestion management is a task performed by Independent System Operator (ISO) to ensure the operation of transmission system within limits. In an emerging electric power market, congestion management is highly important and inefficient management can be a barrier to electricity trading. To minimize congestion, it is required to maximize transmission line generation and decrease its cost. A Hyb...

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An enhanced Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimization algorithm, which is called the Interactive Artificial Bee Colony (IABC) optimization, for numerical optimization problems, is proposed in this paper. The onlooker bee is designed to move straightly to the picked coordinate indicated by the employed bee and evaluates the fitness values near it in the original Artificial Bee Colony algorithm in...

Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem in all-optical networks assumes determining the routes and wavelengths to be used to create the lightpaths for connection requests. The RWA problem belongs to a class of difficult combinatorial optimization problems. We propose the Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) heuristic algorithm tailored for the RWA problem (BCO–RWA) in all-optical networks with...

Marriage in honey bees optimization (MBO) is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm developed by inspiration of the mating and fertilization process of honey bees and is a kind of swarm intelligence optimizations. In this study we propose improved marriage in honey bees optimization (IMBO) by adding Levy flight algorithm for queen mating flight and neighboring for worker drone improving. The IM...

This paper presents an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm adjusted for the capacitated vehicle routing problem. The vehicle routing problem is an NP-hard problem and capacitated vehicle routing problem variant (CVRP) is considered here. The artificial bee metaheuristic was successfully used mostly on continuous unconstrained and constrained problems. Here this algorithm has been implemented ...

Artificial bee colony (ABC) is a relatively new swarm intelligence based metaheuristic. It was successfully applied to various, mostly continuous, optimization problems. For all such heuristically guided search algorithms balance between exploitation and exploration is the determining factor for success. It is generally considered that in the ABC algorithm exploitation is performed by employed ...

Small scale wind turbines can be used in indoor facilities that are mainly either stand-alone or gridconnected systems. With grid contiguous turbines, the output from the wind turbine is directly connected to the existing mains electricity supply. For this purpose Improved Honey Bee Mating Optimization (IHBMO) technique is considered as an optimization algorithm to power system. Also the wind f...

In this paper, an improved method based on evolutionary algorithm for speech signal denoising is proposed. In this approach, the stochastic global optimization techniques such as Artificial Bee Colony(ABC), Cuckoo Search (CS)algorithm, and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique are exploited for learning the parameters of adaptive filtering function required for optimum performance. It was...

Research in software testing has experienced a significant growth in recent years. One topic of special interest is fault detection techniques to reduce human interference and detect maximum faults. Priority is given to these techniques so that only higher priority techniques should be used instead of using individual techniques of lower priority. Bee Colony Optimization based upon natural phen...