This paper presents a novel optimization algorithm, namely hierarchical artificial bee colony optimization (HABC) for multilevel threshold image segmentation, which employs a pool of optimal foraging strategies to extends the classical artificial bee colony framework to a cooperative and hierarchical fashion. In the proposed hierarchical model, the higher-level species incorporates the enhanced...

Scheduling tasks on computational grids is known as NPcomplete problem. Scheduling tasks in Grid computing, means assigning tasks to resources such that the time termination and average waiting time criteria and the number of required machines are optimized. Based on heuristic or meta-heuristic search have been proposed to obtain optimal solutions. The presented method tries to optimize all of ...

The Software Cost Estimation is very important task for completing the project successfully. The estimation in software development depends on various factors especially on cost and effort factors for which further AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Algorithmic models have been put into usage. This paper aims to discuss the methods for calculating the effort by using meta-heuristic algorithms for...

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm recently gained high popularity by providing a robust and efficient approach for solving continuous optimization problems. In order to apply ABC in discrete landscape, a binary version of artificial bee colony (BABC) algorithm is proposed in this manuscript. Unlike the original ABC algorithm, the proposed BABC represents a food source as a discrete bina...

White balancing is an important step to correct the color value of pixels under varied color temperature of illuminations for color image processing. We have to do the image preprocessing of the color cast, and use the zone system with the white balance to solve this problem. Then we implement the biological intelligent algorithms for images segmentation, such as Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and...

Image segmentation is one of the key techniques in the field of image understanding and computer vision. To determine the optimal threshold in image segmentation, an effective image threshold segmentation method based on fuzzy logic is presented. A new kind of fuzzy entropy is defined, that is not only related to the membership, but also related to probability distribution. According to the max...

This paper presents a new Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimization algorithm to solve function optimization problems. The proposed approach is called OCABC, which introduces opposition-based learning concept and dynamic Cauchy mutation into the standard ABC algorithm. To verify the performance of OCABC, eight well-known benchmark function optimization problems are used in the experiments. Exper...

We modify an artificial bee colony algorithm to (i) make the population size grow over time, and to (ii) apply local search on strategically selected solutions. The modified algorithm obtains very good results on a set of large-scale continuous optimization problems. This is not the first time we see that these algorithmic components make an initially non-competitive algorithm produce state-of-...

The traditional BP neural network algorithm has some bugs such that it is easy to fall into local minimum and the slow convergence speed. Particle swarm optimization is an evolutionary computation technology based on swarm intelligence which can not guarantee global convergence. Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a global optimum algorithm with many advantages such as simple, convenient and str...

This paper propose a new mixture method called Quantum Artificial Bee Colony (QABC) algorithm. QABC is based on some quantum computing concepts, such as qubits and superposition of states. In QABC these quantum concepts are applied on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. ABC is one of the recent algorithms in optimization area that has earned good popularity and some new works based on origin...