Swarm intelligence (SI) is briefly defined as the collective behaviour of decentralized and
self-organized swarms. The well known examples for these swarms are bird flocks, fish …

Over past few decades, families of algorithms based on the intelligent group behaviors of
social creatures like ants, birds, fishes, and bacteria have been extensively studied and …

Artificial bee colony (ABC) is a recently proposed optimization technique which has shown
to be competitive to other population-based stochastic algorithms. However, ABC is good at …

The artificial bee colony algorithm is a relatively new optimization technique. This paper
presents an improved artificial bee colony (IABC) algorithm for global optimization. Inspired …

Given a delimited surveillance area, represented in either 2D or 3D, and a set of feasible
camera locations and orientations, the optimal camera placement problem (OCP) is that of …

Abstract The Set Covering Problem (SCP) is one of the classical Karp's 21 NP-complete
problems. Although this is a traditional optimization problem, we find many papers assuming …

The set covering problem (SCP) is a fundamental NP-hard problem in computer science and
has a broad range of important real-world applications. In practice, SCP instances …

The Set Covering Problem consists in finding a subset of columns in a zero‐one matrix such
that they cover all the rows of the matrix at a minimum cost. To solve the Set Covering …

The unicost version of well-known set covering problem (SCP) is central to a wide variety of
practical applications for which finding an optimal solution quickly is crucial. In this paper, we …

In recent years, some e-commerce companies such as Amazon have adopted the cargo-to-
person picking mode to improve their pickup efficiency. Under this mode, a shelf can store …