Stochastic optimization has been found in many applications, especially for several local
optima problems, because of their ability to explore and exploit various zones of the feature …

Introduction The main feature selection methods include filter, wrapper-based, and
embedded methods. Because of its characteristics, the wrapper method must include a …

With the recent emphasis on new energy sources, solar photovoltaic cells have received
widespread attention from scholars as a highly efficient and clean new energy source …

Big data (BD) approach has significantly impacted on the development and expansion of
supply chain network management and design. The available problems in the supply chain …

Whale optimization algorithm (WOA) has received increasing attention in engineering
optimization owing to its high computation efficiency, whereas, it has exhibited the drawback …

This paper presents the improved version of the Lévy Flight Distribution (LFD) algorithm for
solving real-valued numerical optimization problems. In the proposed algorithm, the Fitness …

The search for food stimulated by hunger is a common phenomenon in the animal world.
Mimicking the concept, recently, an optimization algorithm Hunger Games Search (HGS) …

A tremendous flow of big data has come from the growing use of digital technology and
intelligent systems. This has resulted in an increase in not just the dimensional issues that …

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has received increasingly attention from both academia and
industry. Cloud service composition is a critical technique in CMfg that connects different …

Fog computing is an emerging research domain to provide computational services such as
data transmission, application processing and storage mechanism. Fog computing consists …