Middle spatial resolution multi-spectral remote sensing image is a kind of color image with low contrast, fuzzy boundaries and informative features. In view of these features, the fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm is an ideal choice for image segmentation. However, fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm requires a pre-specified number of clusters and costs large computation time, which is easy to ...

Economic dispatch problem is an optimization problem where objective function is highly non linear, non-convex, non-differentiable and may have multiple local minima. Therefore, classical optimization methods may not converge or get trapped to any local minima. This paper presents a comparative study of four different evolutionary algorithms i.e. genetic algorithm, bacteria foraging optimizatio...

In multi colony ant algorithms several colonies of ants cooperate in finding good solutions for an optimization problem. At certain time steps the colonies exchange information about good solutions. If the amount of exchanged information is not too large multi colony ant algorithms can be easily parallelized in a natural way by placing the colonies on different processors. In this paper we stud...

The fixed-charge Capacitated Multi-commodity Network Design (CMND) is a well-known problem of both practical and theoretical significance. Network design models represent a wide variety of planning and operation management issues in transportation telecommunication, logistics, production and distribution. In this paper, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based neighborhoods are proposed for CMND pro...

Ant algorithm is a novel meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, but at the same time there are some disadvantages. This paper proposed an ant colony algorithm with route evaluation based on the basic ant colony algorithm. After all ant complete the route search once, the current search situation can be evaluated according to an improved formula of standard deviation, then to decide to update gl...

This article puts forward the routing algorithm of wireless sensor network based on ant colony optimization. The algorithm uses the characteristics of ant colony algorithm that is easy to realize local work, integrates link quality into the pheromone formation and supports multiple routes. When choosing routing, the probability is calculated that the node is selected as the next hop according t...