Ant colony optimization algorithm for continuous domains is a major research direction for ant colony optimization algorithm. In this paper, we propose a distribution model of ant colony foraging, through analysis of the relationship between the position distribution and food source in the process of ant colony foraging. We design a continuous domain optimization algorithm based on the model an...

optimal sitting and sizing of shunt capacitor banks at the distribution networks for the purpose of power quality improvement is drawn much attention of electric power utilities in the last decades. determining the optimal number, location and sizing of capacitor using bee colony optimization algorithm (bco) is being presented in this paper. the bco algorithm is a new population based meta-heur...

Modern mobile telecommunication systems are using MIMO combined with OFDM, which is known as MIMO-OFDM systems, to provide robustness and higher spectrum efficiency. The major challenge in this scenario is to obtain an accurate channel estimation to detect information symbols, once the receiver must have the channel state information to equalize and process the received signal. Channel estimati...

Evolutionary Computation (EC) is a research area of metaheuristics mainly applied to real-world optimization problems. EC is inspired by biological mechanisms such as reproduction, mutation, recombination, natural selection and collective animal behavior. Two branches of EC can be highlighted: Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) comprising Genetic Algorithms (Goldberg, 1989), Genetic Programming (Koza...

The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pick-up (VRPSDP) is a type of the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP) where customers require simultaneous delivery and pick-up service. Deliveries are supplied from a single depot at the beginning of the vehicle’s service, while pick-up loads are taken to the same depot at the end of the service. The objective is to determine the o...