recently, data collection from seabed by means of underwater wireless sensor networks (uwsn) has attracted considerable attention. autonomous underwater vehicles (auvs) are increasingly used as uwsns in underwater missions. events and environmental parameters in underwater regions have a stochastic nature. the target area must be covered by sensors to observe and report events. a ‘topology cont...

Global optimization methods play an important role to solve many real-world problems. Flower pollination algorithm (FP) is a new nature-inspired algorithm, based on the characteristics of flowering plants. In this paper, a new hybrid optimization method called hybrid flower pollination algorithm (FPPSO) is proposed. The method combines the standard flower pollination algorithm (FP) with the par...

The cuckoo search algorithm is a recently developedmeta-heuristic optimization algorithm, which is suitable forsolving optimization problems. To enhance the accuracy andconvergence rate of this algorithm, an improved cuckoo searchalgorithm is proposed in this paper. Normally, the parametersof the cuckoo search are kept constant. This may lead todecreasing the efficiency of the algorithm. To cop...

gravitational search algorithm (gsa) is one of the newest swarm based optimization algorithms, which has been inspired by the newtonian laws of gravity and motion. gsa has empirically shown to be an efficient and robust stochastic search algorithm. since introducing gsa a convergence analysis of this algorithm has not yet been developed. this paper introduces the first attempt to a formal conve...

in this work, harmony search meta-heuristic optimization algorithm has been developed for aerodynamic shape optimization problem for the first time. the aerodynamic shape, which has been investigated, is an airfoil with parces method for its shape parameterization. the problem was minimization of aerodynamic objective function using inverse design method and the objective function has been the ...

this paper proposes an efficient network architecture to improve energy consumption in wireless sensor networks (wsn). the proposed architecture uses a mobile data collector to a partitioned network. the mobile data collector moves to center of each logical partition after each decision period. the mobile data collector must declare its new location by packet broadcasting to all sensor nodes. h...

background: rna molecules play many important regulatory, catalytic and structuralroles in the cell, and rna secondary structure prediction with pseudoknots is one themost important problems in biology. an rna pseudoknot is an element of the rna secondary structure in which bases of a single-stranded loop pair with complementary basesoutside the loop. modeling these nested structures (pseudokno...

the objective in this study was to assess the performance of the control algorithms and determine the appropriate controller for aghili irrigation network. to evaluate the efficiency of the control algorithms, the performance criteria of the maximum absolute error, integral absolute error and steady state error were considered during the simulations of a one month period and with regard to the ...