This paper presents a fuzzy decision-making approach to deal with a clustering supplier problem in a supply chain system. During recent years, determining suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of these decisions is usually complex and unstructured. In general, many quantitative and qualitative factors, such as quality, price, and fl...

The paper presents Discrete PSO algorithm for document clustering problems. This algorithm is hybrid of PSO with GA operators. The proposed system is based on population-based heuristic search technique, which can be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems, modeled on the concepts of cultural and social rules derived from the analysis of the swarm intelligence (PSO) with GA operators ...

Clustering is a widespread data analysis and data mining technique in many fields of study such as engineering, medicine, biology and the like. The aim of clustering is to collect data points. In this paper, a Cultural Algorithm (CA) is presented to optimize partition with N objects into K clusters. The CA is one of the effective methods for searching into the problem space in order to find a n...

An innovative hybrid stages particle swarm optimization (HSPSO) learning method, contains fuzzy c-mean (FCM) clustering, particle swarm optimization (PSO) and recursive least-squares, is developed to generate evolutional fuzzy modeling systems to approach three different nonlinear functions. In spite of the adaptive ability of PSO algorithm, its training result is not desirable for the reason o...

As we all know, the parameter optimization of Mamdani model has a defect of easily falling into local optimum. To solve this problem, we propose a new algorithm by constructing Mamdani Fuzzy neural networks. This new scheme uses fuzzy clustering based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to determine initial parameter of Mamdani Fuzzy neural networks. Then it adopts PSO algorithm to o...

The clustering in the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is one of the most important investigation areas. There are many cluster head selection algorithms which were developed before today. Hybrid ACO-PSO based algorithm is developed to reduce the energy consumption and enhanced the WSN life-time. The comparison is done among the MSEEC and Hybrid ACO-PSO based MSEEC in the wireless sensor network....

for multi-objective optimal reactive power dispatch (morpd), a new approach is proposed where simultaneous minimization of the active power transmission loss, the bus voltage deviation and the voltage stability index of a power system are achieved. optimal settings of continuous and discrete control variables (e.g. generator voltages, tap positions of tap changing transformers and the number of...

In ad hoc sensor networks, sensor nodes have very limited energy resources, thus energy consuming operations such as data collection, transmission and reception must be kept at a minimum. This paper applies particle swarm optimization (PSO) approach to optimize the coverage in ad hoc sensor networks deployment and to reduce cost by clustering method based on a wellknown energy model. Sensor nod...

Image segmentation plays an essential role in the interpretation of various kinds of images. Image segmentation techniques can be grouped into several categories such as edge-based segmentation, region-oriented segmentation, histogram thresholding, and clustering algorithms (Gonzalez & Woods, 1992). The aim of a clustering algorithm is to aggregate data into groups such that the data in each gr...