The present work describes a method for increasing software testing efficiency by identifying the optimal test sequences in the state machine diagram. The method employs a Meta-heuristic algorithm called Cuckoo Search to investigate best paths in the diagram. It tries to provide a technique for exhaustive coverage with minimal repetition which ensures all transitions coverage and all paths cove...

abstract: regarding the growing use of distributed generation resources, optimal design of these units is necessary in the power system especially in the distribution network. in this paper, cuckoo optimization algorithm with multiple purposes was used to determine optimal location and size of distributed generation resources. the investigated purposes include reducing line losses, reducing med...

To understand the co-existence of rejection and acceptance of cuckoo eggs within a host population, the mechanism of egg discrimination and the cost–benefit balance of rejection behaviour were investigated. At a study site in central Japan, rejection rate of cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, eggs by great reed warblers, Acrocephalus arundinaceus, was 61·5%. An analysis of host response to natural and ex...

Cuckoo hashing combines multiple-choice hashing with the power to move elements, providing hash tables with very high space utilization and low probability of overflow. However, inserting a new object into such a hash table can take substantial time, requiring many elements to be moved. While these events are rare and the amortized performance of these data structures is excellent, this shortco...

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...

This paper presents a set of architecturally and workloadinspired algorithmic and engineering improvements to the popular Memcached system that substantially improve both its memory efficiency and throughput. These techniques—optimistic cuckoo hashing, a compact LRU-approximating eviction algorithm based upon CLOCK, and comprehensive implementation of optimistic locking—enable the resulting sys...

In this paper a new evolutionary algorithm, for continuous nonlinear optimization problems, is surveyed. This method is inspired by the life of a bird, called Cuckoo. The Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm (COA) is evaluated by using the Rastrigin function. The problem is a non-linear continuous function which is used for evaluating optimization algorithms. The efficiency of the COA has been studied...

Brood parasites provide a particularly good opportunity for the study of host-parasite evolution because they directly affect the reproductive success of their hosts. Two parasitic species, the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) and the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater), differ widely in their relationships with their hosts, yet share the attribute of having been particularly well studied by b...

Five new species of the family Pterolichidae are described from two common non-parasitic cuckoo species of the subfamily Crotophaginae (Cuculiformes: Cuculidae) in Brazil: Aniacarus ani sp. n. from the Smooth-billed Ani, Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, A. simplex sp. n., A. robustus sp. n., A. coronatus sp. n. and Aniibius guirae sp. n. from the Guira Cuckoo, Guira guira (Gmelin). A key to all known s...