Mobile Ad hoc networks (MANETs) are composed of mobile stations communicating through wireless links, without any fixed backbone support. In these networks, limited power energy supply, and frequent topology changes caused by node mobility, makes their routing a challenging problem. TORA is one of the routing protocols that successfully copes with the nodes’ mobility side effects, but it do...

Economic dispatch is one of the popular energy system optimization problems. Recently, it has been solved by various phenomenon-mimicking metaheuristic algorithms such as genetic algorithm, tabu search, evolutionary programming, particle swarm optimization, harmony search, honey bee mating optimization, and firefly algorithm. However, those phenomenonmimicking problems require a tedious and tro...

A multiplex PCR assay for determination of mating type in isolates of the honey bee fungal pathogen, Ascosphaera apis Kate Aronstein & Deanna Colby To cite this article: Kate Aronstein & Deanna Colby (2016): A multiplex PCR assay for determination of mating type in isolates of the honey bee fungal pathogen, Ascosphaera apis, Journal of Apicultural Research, DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2015.1109917 To...

In this paper, the optimal location and tuning parameters of Static Var Compensator (SVC), Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) stabilizer with low pass filter and Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC) controllers using multi objective Honey Bee Mating Optimization (HBMO) to damp small signal oscillations in a multi machine power system has been implemented. Whereas, the performance ...

Swarm intelligence (SI) is widely used in many complex optimization problems. It is a collective behavior of social systems such as honey bees (bee algorithm, BA) and birds (particle swarm optimization, PSO). This paper presents a detailed overview of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), its variants and hybridization of PSO with Bee Algorithm (BA). This paper also surveys various SI techniques p...

This paper presents an efficient hybrid algorithm for multi-objective distribution feeder reconfiguration based on Honey Bee Mating Optimization (HBMO) and fuzzy multi-objective approach. The objective functions are to minimize real power losses; deviation of nodes voltage; the number of switching operation and to balance the loads on the feeders. Due to the objectives are different and no comm...

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm inspired by the intelligent behavior of honey bees when searching for food sources. The various versions of the ABC algorithm have been widely used to solve continuous and discrete optimization problems in different fields. In this paper a new binary version of the ABC algorithm inspired by quantum computing, c...

Improved version of Honey Bee Mating Optimization (IHBMO) algorithm is developed and applied for Unit Commitment Problem (UCP) in this paper. Actually, the optimal solution of the nonlinear scheduling problem is important and it has complex computational optimization process. This problem is a challenging undertaking to accommodate variations in the power system, especially when several thermal...