In order to ensure software performance as well as software quality, various testing techniques have been used to detect faults as early and as many as possible during the development phase. Over the last decade, the size and complexity of software developed have increased tremendously. Highly customizable software allow users to configure the software to the users’ needs, however, if not teste...

Intensive beekeeping to mitigate crop pollination deficits and habitat loss may cause interspecific competition between bees. Studies show negative correlations between flower visitation of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and wild bees, but effects on the reproduction of wild bees were not proven. Likely reasons are that honey bees can hardly be excluded from controls and wild bee nests are general...

The K-mean algorithm is one of the popular clustering techniques. The algorithm requires user to state and initialize centroid values of each group in advance. This creates problem for novice users especially to those who have no or little knowledge on the data. Trial-error attempt might be one of the possible preference to deal with this issue. In this paper, an optimization algorithm inspired...

This paper presents a fault location technique for transmission lines with minimum current measurement. This algorithm investigates proper current ratios for fault location problem based on thevenin theory in faulty power networks and calculation of short circuit currents in each branch. These current ratios are extracted regarding lowest sensitivity on thevenin impedance variations of the netw...

Abstract Bees Algorithm (BA) is a popular meta-heuristic method that has been used in many different optimization areas for years. In this study, new version of combinatorial BA proposed and explained detail to solve Traveling Salesman Problems (TSPs). The nearest neighbor was the population generation section BA, Multi-Insert function added local search instead Swap function. To see efficiency...

Maintaining system stability is one of the most critical problems in power system. Mainly, the stability problems arise when any fault occurs in the system or due to sudden increase in the load power. Thus, to maintain the stability of the system, different types of controllers are used in the literature; among them FACTS controller plays a major role. Among the different types of FACTS control...

Travelling salesman problem (TSP) is one the problems of NP-complete family, which means finding shortest complete close tour in graph. This study seeks to solve this using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Algorithm along with proposed Discrete Nearest Neighborhood (DNNA). DNNA finds path among points by starting from an arbitrary point. In next steps links will be a guide make tour. other words par...

One of the successful methods in classification problems is feature selection. Feature selection algorithms; try to classify an instance with lower dimension, instead of huge number of required features, with higher and acceptable accuracy. In fact an instance may contain useless features which might result to misclassification. An appropriate feature selection methods tries to increase the eff...