this paper presents a strategy for using harmony search algorithm in facility layout optimization problems. in this paper an adapted harmony search algorithm is developed for solving facility layout optimization problems. this method finds an optimal facility arrangement in an existing layout. two real-world case studies are employed to demonstrate the efficiency of this model. a comparison is ...

so far various methods for optimization presented and one of most popular of them are optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence and also one of most successful of them is particle swarm optimization (pso). prior some efforts by applying fuzzy logic for improving defects of pso such as trapping in local optimums and early convergence has been done. moreover to overcome the problem of i...

Historically, pasture breeders have not considered environmental weed risk in species selection and assessment. Consequently several pasture or former pasture species are now problematic environmental weeds in Australia. The CRC for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity (CRC) has taken a pro-active approach to prevent further introduction or promotion of weedy pasture species by developing...

Weedy and invasive plants cost Americans billions of dollars annually in crop damage and lost earnings. Various Western states have reported annual weed control costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Herbicides account for more than 72 per cent of all pesticides used on agricultural crops. $4 billion was spent herbicides in the US in 2006 and 2007 (Grube, et al, 2011). The USDA Economic ...

For mobile <span>communication and spatial detection of antennas should have high directive radiation pattern, in this context pattern synthesis planar circular antenna arrays is highly significant such design has been done inverse weed optimization. The basic objective e to study invasive optimization compression with modified chaotic adaptive focus the effect factors suitable for sinuso...

The term weed is referring to plants used as culinary herbs and medicinal plants as well as ecologically adaptive and invasive segetal plants. In Europe, pollen of ragweed, mugwort, English plantain and pellitory are the main elicitors of weed pollen allergies. Presently, 35 weed pollen allergens have been identified. The most relevant belong to the protein families of pectate lyases, defensin-...

To augment the photovoltaic (PV) power generation conversion, a maximum point tracking (MPPT) technique plays very significant role. This article introduces hybrid MPPT algorithm integrating modified invasive weed optimization (MIWO) and perturb observe (P&O) under rapid weather change partial shading scenarios for efficient extraction of from standalone PV-based system. MIWO handles initial st...

Weed control is a significant means to enhance crop production. Weeds are accountable for 45% of the agriculture sector’s losses, which primarily occur because competition with crops. Accurate and rapid weed detection in agricultural fields was difficult task presence wide range species at various densities growth phases. Presently, several smart tasks, such as detection, plant disease identifi...

in this paper proposes a fuzzy multi-objective hybrid genetic and bee colony optimization algorithm(ga-bco) to find the optimal restoration of loads of power distribution network under fault.restoration of distribution systems is a complex combinatorial optimization problem that should beefficiently restored in reasonable time. to improve the efficiency of restoration and facilitate theactivity...