Abstract The Maximum Power Point Tracking controller (MPPT) is a key element in
Photovoltaic systems (PV). It is used to maintain the PV operating point at its maximum …

Este artigo apresenta uma breve revisão de alguns dos mais recentes métodos
bioinspirados baseados no comportamento de populações para o desenvolvimento de …

Computational Intelligence: An Introduction, Second Edition offers an in-depth exploration
into the adaptive mechanisms that enable intelligent behaviour in complex and changing …

In this paper we present an extension of ant colony optimization (ACO) to continuous
domains. We show how ACO, which was initially developed to be a metaheuristic for …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a new population-based search algorithm called
the Bees Algorithm (BA). This algorithm mimics the food foraging behavior of swarms of …

The wind is a clean, abundant and entirely renewable source of energy. Large wind farms
are being built around the world as a cleaner way to generate electricity, but operators are …

This work is concerned with the efficient design of a reverse logistics network using an
extended version of models currently found in the literature. Those traditional, basic models …

Abstract The Bees Algorithm (BA) is a bee swarm intelligence-based metaheuristic algorithm
that is inspired by the natural behavior of honeybees when foraging for food. BA can be …

Recent computational developments in ant colony systems have proved fruitful for
transforming discrete domains of application into continuous ones. In this paper, new …

This paper presents two hybrid differential evolution algorithms for optimizing engineering
design problems. One hybrid algorithm enhances a basic differential evolution algorithm …