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...

in the science of operation research and decision theory, selection is the most important process. selection is a process that studies multiple qualitative and quantitative criteria, related to the science of management, which are mostly incompatible with each other. the multi criteria selection of a renewable energy portfolio is one of the main issues considered in multi criteria literature. i...

The quantum evolutionary algorithm is based on the quantum superposition state and the quantum computing. Compared to the traditional evolutionary algorithm, QEA has great global search ability; however, its complexity limits the operational ability and the efficiency, at the same time, its local search ability is relatively poor. In this paper, the author presents an improved hybrid intelligen...

We propose a new framework for turning quantum search algorithms that decide into quantum algorithms for finding a solution. Consider we are given an abstract quantum search algorithm A that can determine whether a target g exists or not. We give a general construction of another operator U that both determines and finds the target, whenever one exists. Our amplification method at most doubles ...

This paper presents a combinational quantum-inspired binary gravitational search algorithm (QBGSA) for solving the optimal power quality monitor (PQM) placement problem in power systems for voltage sag assessment. In this algorithm, the standard binary gravitational search algorithm is modified by applying the concept and principles of quantum behaviour as to improve the search capability with ...

sive speedups in computing by exploiting quantum-mechanical effects such as superposition (quantum parallelism) and entanglement.1 A quantum algorithm typically consists of applying quantum gates to quantum states, but because the input to the algorithm might be normal classical bits (or nonquantum), it only affects the selection of quantum gates. After all the gates are applied, quantum measur...