The ABC algorithm is one of the popular optimization algorithms and has been used
successfully in solving many real-world problems. Numeric, binary, integer, mixed integer …

Distributed generation, with respect to its ability in utilizing the alternative resources of
energy, provides a promising future for power generation in electric networks. Distributed …

Metaheuristics are an impressive area of research with extremely important improvements in
the solution of intractable optimization problems. Major advances have been made since the …

In order to solve the problems of poor image quality, loss of detail information and excessive
brightness enhancement during image enhancement in low light environment, we propose a …

Many swarm optimization algorithms have been introduced since the early 60's,
Evolutionary Programming to the most recent, Grey Wolf Optimization. All of these algorithms …

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 …

Scheduling of tasks in cloud computing is an NP-hard optimization problem. Load balancing
of non-preemptive independent tasks on virtual machines (VMs) is an important aspect of …

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm invented recently by Karaboga is a biological-inspired
optimization algorithm, which has been shown to be competitive with some conventional …

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the most recently introduced swarm-based
algorithms. ABC simulates the intelligent foraging behaviour of a honeybee swarm. In this …

Swarm intelligence is a research field that models the collective intelligence in swarms of
insects or animals. Many algorithms that simulates these models have been proposed in …