response surface methodology is a common tool in optimizing processes. it mainly concerns situations when there is only one response of interest. however, many designed experiments often involve simultaneous optimization of several quality characteristics. this is called a multiresponse surface optimization problem. a common approach in dealing with these problems is to apply desirability funct...

Search-based software testing is the application of metaheuristic search techniques to generate software tests. The test adequacy criterion is transformed into a fitness function and a set of solutions in the search space are evaluated with respect to the fitness function using a metaheuristic search technique. The application of metaheuristic search techniques for testing is promising due to f...

Search-based software testing is the application of metaheuristic search techniques to generate software tests. The test adequacy criterion is transformed into a fitness function and a set of solutions in the search space are evaluated with respect to the fitness function using a metaheuristic search technique. The application of metaheuristic search techniques for testing is promising due to t...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The drawback in conformational search (CS) is in locating the most stable conformation of a molecule with the minimum potential energy based on a mathematical function. The number of local minima grows exponentially with molecular size and this mak...

Cryptology is a thriving research area of great practical importance. It is a fundamental building block of communications security. Metaheuristic optimisation techniques such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithms have found successful application in a huge number of fields. However, their application to leading edge industrial-strength cryptology has been slight. The power of metaheuri...

The use of metaheuristic search techniques for the automatic generation of test data has been a burgeoning interest for many researchers in recent years. Previous attempts to automate the test generation process have been limited, having been constrained by the size and complexity of software, and the basic fact that in general, test data generation is an undecidable problem. Metaheuristic sear...

An improved method for adaptive noise canceller (ANC) is proposed for noisy speech signal in case of random noise. In this approach, ANC is implemented through four different metaheuristic techniques. A comparative study of the performance of various metaheuristic techniques such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Cuckoo Search (CS) and Modified Cuckoo Search (MC...

Hybrid metaheuristic, an advancement over classical metaheuristic, provides a more effective search methodology. It combines several metaheuristic algorithms into one optimization mechanism. In this paper image enhancement is considered as an optimization problem. Hybrid metaheuristic techniques are used to find the optimum value for a set of parameters of a transformation function, with an aim...

The use of techniques for automating the generation of software test cases is very important as it can reduce the time and cost of this process. The latest methods for automatic generation of tests use metaheuristic search techniques, i.e. Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing. There is a great deal of research into the use of Genetic Algorithms to obtain a specific coverage in software te...