Traditional mathematical algorithms are incapable of solving real time engineering design problems because of its rigid procedure mainly due to discrete or random data and multiobjective functions in a problem. An optimization algorithm is a procedure which is executed iteratively by comparing various solutions till the optimum or a satisfactory solution is found. There are two population based...

Swarm intelligence mimics the behaviours of social insects like bees, wasps and ants to offer powerful problem solving metaheuristic which lies in a network of interactions amongst the agents of a multiagent system as well as with their environment. One of the computer algorithms inspired by swarm intelligence is the stochastic diffusion search (SDS). SDS uses some of the processes and techniqu...

Multilevel image thresholding is a very important image processing technique that is used as a basis for image segmentation and further higher level processing. However, the required computational time for exhaustive search grows exponentially with the number of desired thresholds. Swarm intelligence metaheuristics are well known as successful and efficient optimization methods for intractable ...

This survey deals with up-to-date results in the field of hybrid algorithms development of GMDH-type Neural Networks (GMDH-NN) and other methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which are successfully used for solving complex economic problems. Such hybrid algorithms are now only in its early stage of active research. General characteristics and main weaknesses of GMDH-NN are firstly presented. ...

Swarm Intelligence is the emergent collective intelligence of groups of simple agents acting almost independently. Algorithms following this paradigm have many desirable properties: flexibility, decentralized control, robustness, and fault tolerance. This paper presents a novel agent coordination model inspired by the way ants collectively transport large preys. In our model a swarm of agents, ...

Networks have changed our life style drastically in last 10 years. We always want to stay connected to an external network like Internet or Intranet with the help of wireless communication. A lot of research has been in done this field to explore the best and the optimum protocols which can be used in Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANETS), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Wireless Mesh Networks (WM...