In this paper we investigate the application of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique for solving the Hardware/Software partitioning problem. The PSO is attractive for the Hardware/Software partitioning problem as it offers reasonable coverage of the design space together with O(n) main loop's execution time, where n is the number of proposed solutions that will evolve to provide the ...

for a uniform distribution of water, decrease in water waste and decrease in erosion of soil, it is important that a land be prepared with proper slopes along its length as well as width. the aim of leveling is to create appropriate slopes for irrigation and drainage on the lands that were not already properly levelled and of the same time creating the level surface with a minimum transport of ...

This paper presents a suitable and quick way to choose earthquake records in non-linear dynamic analysis using optimization methods. In addition, these earthquake records are scaled. Therefore, structural responses of three different soil-frame models were examined, the change in maximum displacement of roof was analyzed and the damage index of whole structures was measured. The soil classifica...

Although Genetic algorithm (GA), Ant colony (AC) and Particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) have already been extended to various types of engineering problems, the effects of initial sampling beside constraints in the efficiency of algorithms, is still an interesting field. In this paper we show that, initial sampling with a special series of constraints play an important role in the conv...

This paper considers a two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling problem. When all parts of each product are completed in the first stage, they are assembled into a final product on an assembly machine in the second stage. In order to reduce the delivery cost, completed products can be held until completion of some other products to be delivered in a same batch. The proposed problem addresses sch...

The digital filters play an important role in the field of science and technology. Due to phase linearity and stability digital FIR filters are used in number of applications. The various design technology are developed for the designing of the digital filters using evolutionary techniques like particle swarm optimization(PSO), genetic algorithm(GA), differential evolution(DE) etc. and the modi...

With the rapid increase in wireless applications such as mobile base stations, radars, etc.., the antenna array becomes the key issue in tackling these applications since the antenna is considered the eye of any wireless communication system. Recently, many research efforts are exerted to reach the optimum synthesis of an antenna array. One of the successful techniques that are developed recent...

in this paper, a stochastic cell formation problem is studied using queuing theory framework and considering reliability. since cell formation problem is np-hard, two algorithms based on genetic and modified particle swarm optimization (mpso) algorithms are developed to solve the problem. for generating initial solutions in these algorithms, a new heuristic method is developed, which always cre...

In this paper we propose a novel hybrid algorithm (GA/PSO) combining the strengths of particle swarm optimization with genetic algorithms to evolve the weights of recurrent neural networks. Particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithms are two optimization techniques that have proven to be successful in solving difficult problems, in particular both can successfully evolve recurrent neural...

Flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has been well known as one of the most difficult NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. This problem FJSP is an extension of job-shop scheduling problem (JSP) which is to create a sequence of operations satisfying the precedence relationship together with assignment of time and resources for each operation. Thus, the FJSP model is closer to the ...