Power distribution systems typically have tie and sectionalizing switches whose states determine the topological configuration of the network. The aim of network reconfiguration of the distribution network is to minimize the losses for a load arrangement at a particular time. Thus the objective function is to minimize the losses of the network by satisfying the distribution network constraints....

In the field of computer science and operation’s research, Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) is an optimization algorithm relatively new swarm intelligence technique based on behaviour of honey bee swarm and Meta heuristic. It is successfully applied to various paths mostly continuous optimization problems. Swarm intelligence systems are typically made up of a population of simple agents or boids int...

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is inspired by the behavior of honey bees. The algorithm is one of the Swarm Intelligence algorithms explored in recent literature. ABC is an optimization technique, which is used in finding the best solution from all feasible solutions. However, ABC can sometimes be slow to converge. In order to improve the algorithm performance, we present a modified ...

We present a stochastic, swarm intelligence-based optimization algorithm for the prediction of global minima on potential energy surfaces of molecular cluster structures. Our optimization approach is a modification of the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm which is inspired by the foraging behavior of honey bees. We apply our modified ABC algorithm to the problem of global geometry optimizat...

A new approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) algorithm for Bayesian updating of model parameters is proposed in this paper, which combines the ABC principles with the technique of subset simulation for efficient rare-event simulation, first developed in S. K. Au and J. L. Beck [Probabilistic Engrg. Mech., 16 (2001), pp. 263–277]. It has been named ABC-SubSim. The idea is to choose the nested de...

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) is a swarm intelligence algorithm for optimization that has previously been applied to the training of neural networks. This paper examines more carefully the performance of the ABC algorithm for optimizing the connection weights of feed-forward neural networks for classification tasks, and presents a more rigorous comparison with the traditional Back-Propagation...

In this paper we investigate iterative logic synthesis processes. A well known academic logic synthesis tool ABC incorporates many synthesis algorithms and scripts which may be run iteratively to possibly improve the result. When iterating the synthesis process, the whole network is considered. We propose an alternative approach to iterative synthesis – only properly selected parts of the circu...

Recently, Tao et al. presented a new simple and efficient multivariate pubic key encryption scheme based on matrix multiplication, which is called Simple Matrix Scheme or ABC. Using linearization equation attack, we propose a polynomial time algorithm, which directly recovers an equivalent private key from the public key of ABC. Furthermore, our attack can also be applied to the variants of ABC...