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 ...

A new metaheuristic method applied to the global path planning for mobile robots in dynamic environments is presented. This algorithm, named the Quad Harmony Search method, consists of dividing the robot‟s environment into free regions by applying the Quad-tree algorithm and utilizing this information to accelerate the next phase which implements the Harmony Search optimization method to provid...

Ant programming is a kind of automatic programming that generates computer programs by using the ant colony metaheuristic as the search technique. It has demonstrated good generalization ability for the extraction of comprehensible classifiers. To date, three ant programming algorithms for classification rule mining have been proposed in the literature: two of them are devoted to regular classi...

In this paper we present a framework, i.e. a concept and design as well as results with a prototypical implementation of a metaheuristic-based decision support system PM-DSS c © for portfolio optimization and managing investment guidelines. PM-DSS c © can be used for active as well as passive fund management. 1 The general problem In this paper we present a framework, i.e. a concept and design ...

Gene clustering is a familiar step in the exploratory analysis of high dimensional biological data. It is the process of grouping genes of similar patterns in the same cluster and aims at analyzing the functions of gene that leads to the development of drugs and early diagnosis of diseases. In the recent years, much research has been proposed using nature inspired meta-heuristic algorithms. Cuc...

response surface methodology is a common tool in optimizing processes. it mainly concerns situations when there is only one response of interest. however, many designed experiments often involve simultaneous optimization of several quality characteristics. this is called a multiresponse surface optimization problem. a common approach in dealing with these problems is to apply desirability funct...

Many optimization techniques have been proposed since the inception of engineering optimization in 1960s. Traditional mathematical modeling-based approaches are incompetent to solve the engineering optimization problems, as these problems have complex system that involves large number of design variables as well as equality or inequality constraints. In order to overcome the various difficultie...

With the formation of the competitive electricity markets in the world, optimization of bidding strategies has become one of the main discussions in studies related to market designing. Market design is challenged by multiple objectives that need to be satisfied. The solution of those multi-objective problems is searched often over the combined strategy space, and thus requires the simultaneous...

We propose a control design scheme that aims to prevent undesirable liquid outpouring and suppress sloshing during the forward and backward tilting phases of the pouring process, for the case of liquid containers carried by manipulators. The proposed scheme combines a partial inverse dynamics controller with a PID controller, tuned with the use of a “metaheuristic” search algorithm. The “metahe...

The paper deals with problems and ultramodern approaches recommended to solve various combinatorial optimization (CO) tasks, by using different types of computing environments, including various clouds (CC). A lot of new ideas have been proposed or at least outlined. Non-standard evaluation of the goal function value is also considered.