Firefly algorithm (FA) is an optimization technique inspired by an intelligent behavior of firefly swarms. This paper presents an application of FA to Gaussian process (GP)-based prediction of electric power damage caused by typhoons. The GP prior model for prediction is trained by a separable least-squares (LS) approach combining the linear LS method with FA. The proposed prediction system yie...

In this paper, an approach for conducting a Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO) of truss structures with linked-discrete design variables is proposed. The sections of the truss members are selected from the AISC standard tables and thus the design variables that represent the properties of each section are linked. Latin hypercube sampling is used in the evaluation of the structural rel...

Due to the inherent non-linearity and non-stationary characteristics of financial stock market price time series, conventional modeling techniques such as the Box–Jenkins autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) are not adequate for stock market price forecasting. In this paper, a forecasting model based on chaotic mapping, firefly algorithm, and support vector regression (SVR) is propo...

In this paper presents the hybrid algorithm using firefly and a cuckoo search algorithm for flexible open shop scheduling problem. The flexible, open shop scheduling is known to be NP-hard. Cuckoo algorithm (CA) is one of the widely used techniques for constrained optimization. And it gave the best results compared to other algorithms. A disadvantage of cuckoo algorithm though is that they easi...