In manufacturing systems, generally employee timetabling and job shop scheduling is considered to be too hard and complex. To achieve an integrated manufacturing environment, the integration of employee timetabling and job shop scheduling is essential. It is a process of assigning employees into work slots in a pattern according to the hierarchy level of the employee, job allotment, individual ...

The paper presents using Differential Evolution (DE) and Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) to optimally tune parameters of a fuzzy logic controller stabilizing a rotary inverted pendulum system at its upright equilibrium position. Both the DE and SFLA are meta-heuristic search methods. DE belongs to the class of evolutionary algorithms while SFLA is inspired from the memetic evolution of a...

Microarray gene expression data play a vital in biological processes, gene regulation and disease mechanism. Biclustering in gene expression data is a subset of the genes indicating consistent patterns under the subset of the conditions. Finding a biclustering is an optimization problem. In recent years, swarm intelligence techniques are popular due to the fact that many real-world problems are...

Several benefits can be gained from implementation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in distributed systems. This paper proposes the application of Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm to optimally determination the location and size of multiple DERs considering a multi-objective benchmark. Several objectives including loss minimization, reduction in power purchased from the network and upgrade...