The paper presents a problem resolved from social Modeling associated with the adequate selection of clothes and their distribution in a Dresser using a range of 87 clothes with different features associated with a fashion collection to represent the symbolic capital of it. A case of study is presented regarding to the selection of 47 different possible combinations using data obtained from the...

In this paper, the investment portfolio is formed based on the data mining algorithm of CHAID on the basis of the risk status criteria. In the next step, the second investment portfolio is created based on the decision rules extracted by the DEA-BCC model. The final portfolio is created through a two-objective mathematical programming model based on the Imperialist Competitive algorithm.

In this paper, imperialist competitive algorithm as a computational method is implemented in MATLAB software to estimate monthly average daily global solar radiation on horizontal surface for some different climate cities of Iran. The experimental coefficients for Angstrom model have been calculated using imperialist competitive algorithm for all different climate cities and output data compare...

Selecting approaches with appropriate accuracy and suitable speed for the purpose of making decision is one of the managers’ challenges. Also investing decision is one of the main decisions of managers and it can be referred to securities transaction in financial markets which is one of the investments approaches. When some assets and barriers of real world have been considered, optimization of...

The quality of manufactured products is characterized by many controllable quality factors. These factors should be optimized to reach high quality products. In this paper we try to find the controllable factors levels with minimum deviation from the target and with a least variation. To solve the problem a simple aggregation function is used to aggregate the multiple responses functions then a...

In this paper we are presenting a method using fuzzy logic for dynamic parameter adaptation in the imperialist competitive algorithm, which is usually known by its acronym ICA. The ICA algorithm was initially studied in its original form to find out how it works and what parameters have more effect upon its results. Based on this study, several designs of fuzzy systems for dynamic adjustment of...

This paper presents a Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) to seek the optimal number and location of FACTS devices in a power system. Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) has great flexibility that can control the active and reactive power flow and bus voltages, simultaneously. Decoupled model of the UPFC is applied to maximize the system loadability subject to the transmission line capacit...

Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is one of the hardest combinatorial optimization problems known to be NP-hard. This paper proposes a novel hybrid imperialist competitive algorithm with simulated annealing (HICASA) for solving the FJSP. HICASA explores the search space by using imperial competitive algorithm (ICA) and use a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm for exploitation in the s...