Image segmentation is a fundamental step in many of image processing applications. In most cases the image’s pixels are clustered only based on the pixels’ intensity or color information and neither spatial nor neighborhood information of pixels is used in the clustering process. Considering the importance of including spatial information of pixels which improves the quality of image segmentati...

Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) is a population-based metaheuristic algorithm that complies physics laws of momentum and energy. Due to the stagnation susceptibility of CBO by premature convergence and falling into local optima, some meritorious methodologies based on Sine Cosine Algorithm and a mutation operator were considered to mitigate the shortcomings mentioned earlier. Sine Cosine Al...

The open vehicle routing problem (OVRP) is a variance of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) that has a unique character which is its open path form. This means that the vehicles are not required to return to the depot after completing service. Because this problem belongs to the NP-hard problems, many metaheuristic approaches like the ant colony optimization (ACO) have been used to solve OVRP in...

One of the important issues in speech emotion recognizing is selecting of appropriate feature sets in order to improve the detection rate and classification accuracy. In last studies researchers tried to select the appropriate features for classification by using the selecting and reducing the space of features methods, such as the Fisher and PCA. In this research, a hybrid evolutionary algorit...

Traditionally, “2+1” flavour simulations have been performed using the R algorithm [1], but an exact algorithm is clearly desirable. There also exist exact Polynomial Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms [2,3], which can be used for 2+1 simulations: however, such algorithms are expensive with regard to memory consumption and for the case of asqtad fermions such an algorithm would be impractical due to...

The possibility of an incompletness of the equations of electromagnetism is analyzed using a thought experiment that shows a non-physical behavior according to classical electromagnetism. Basically, from Maxwell equations it is shown that a particular passive, isolated circuit could present a growth of its currents. Resolution of this problem is sought within the context of the usual electromag...

Prediction of heart disease is very important because it is one of the causes of death around the world. Moreover, heart disease prediction in the early stage plays a main role in the treatment and recovery disease and reduces costs of diagnosis disease and side effects it. Machine learning algorithms are able to identify an effective pattern for diagnosis and treatment of the disease and ident...

In this paper, we propose a modified hybridization of electromagnetism-like mechanism (EM) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms, called mEMPSO, for designing the proposed functional-link based Petri recurrent fuzzy neural system (FLPRFNS). The mEMPSO implements an instant update particle velocity strategy such that each particle updates its information instantaneously. For reducing ...