Human beings have always made their tools and instruments they need using patterns in nature. Mimicking nature has become the foundation of a new science called Biomimetics. In the present article, multiple forms and levels in nature were utilized to design and create a mouse. The rivers are a good source for choosing the shape of a mouse with lots of stones abraded through the centuries which ...

Nature-inspired algorithms such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation and ant colony algorithms have successfully solved computer science problems of search and optimisation. The initial implementations of these techniques focused on static problems solved on single machines. These have been extended by adding parallelisation capabilities in the vein of distributed computing with a...

healthcare professionals usually should make complex decisions with far reaching consequences and associated risks in health care fields. as it was demonstrated in other industries, the ability to drill down into pertinent data to explore knowledge behind the data can greatly facilitate superior, informed decisions to ensue the facts. nature has always inspired researchers to develop models of ...

the imperialist competitive algorithm (ica) that was recently introduced has shown its good performance in optimization problems. this algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and colonies, in contrast to evolutionary algorithms. this paper presents optimization of bead geometry in welding process using of ica. therefore, two case studies from literature are presented t...

Real World is filled with various hard and complex problems. One such complex problem is an optimization problem. Optimization has been an active area of research for several decades. . Optimized solutions are hard to find so there are no deterministic algorithms that can find exact solution in polynomial time. In large domain of applications of intelligence techniques we are interested in expl...

Overlay networks are virtual networks of nodes and logical links built on top of the existing network infrastructure,with the purpose of contributing new functionality. There are many different solutions proposed to tackle a range of specific needs such as content distribution and caching,file sharing, improved routing,multicast and streaming, ordered message delivery, and enhanced security and...