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 ...

in this paper, a robust integral of the sign error (rise) feedback controller is designed for a rigid-link electrically driven (rled) robot manipulator actuated by direct current dc motor in presence of parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances. rise feedback with implicitly learning capability is a continuous control method based on the lyapunov stability analysis to compensate an add...

Investment decision making is one of the key issues in financial management. Selecting the appropriate tools and techniques that can make optimal portfolio is one of the main objectives of the investment world. This study tries to optimize the decision making in stock selection or the optimization of the portfolio by means of the artificial colony of honey bee algorithm. To determine the effect...

in recent years, the needs of the internet are felt in lives of all people.  accordingly, many studies have been done on security in virtual environment. old technics such as firewalls, authentication and encryption could not provide internet security completely; so, intrusion detection system is created as a new solution and a defense wall in cyber environment. many studies were performed on d...

the emergency medical centers are very helpful since they reduce the number of death and injuries by getting to the scenes of accidents and dealing with the case immediately. as saving one's life is the prime goal in these centers, any findings and techniques which will improve the services and ease achieving the goal will be highly welcomed. the first and the major factor in giving this kind o...

optimal sitting and sizing of shunt capacitor banks at the distribution networks for the purpose of power quality improvement is drawn much attention of electric power utilities in the last decades. determining the optimal number, location and sizing of capacitor using bee colony optimization algorithm (bco) is being presented in this paper. the bco algorithm is a new population based meta-heur...

In this paper, we present a new Artificial Bee Colony algorithm to solve the non-unicost Set Covering Problem. The Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a recent metaheuristic technique based on the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bee swarm. Computational results show that Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is competitive in terms of solution quality with other metaheuristic approaches for the...

Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is an optimization algorithm based on the intelligent behavior of honey bee swarm. This paper presents Bee Swarm Optimization intended to introduce chaotic sequences and psychology factor of emotion into the algorithm. We define two emotions Bees could have, positive and negative, and correspond to two reaction to perception respectively. For avoiding premature c...