the present paper aims to investigate the effects of modularity and the layout of subsystems and parts of a complex system on its maintainability. for this purpose, four objective functions have been considered simultaneously: i) maximizing the level of accordance between system design and optimum modularity design,ii) maximizing the level of accessibility and the maintenance space required,iii...

A number of algorithms based on the evolutionary processing have been proposed forcommunication networks backbone such as Genetic Algorithm (GA). However, there has beenlittle work on the SWARM optimization algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) for backbone topology design. In this paper, the performance of PSO on GA isdiscussed and a new algorithm as PSOGA is proposed for the net...

This study examines a variable-length Particle Swarm Algorithm for Social Programming. The Grammatical Swarm algorithm is a form of Social Programming as it uses Particle Swarm Optimisation, a social swarm algorithm, for the automatic generation of programs. This study extends earlier work on a fixed-length incarnation of Grammatical Swarm, where each individual particle represents choices of p...

The variable ordering of constraint satisfaction problems affect the performance of search algorithms in CSPs. Dynamic Variable Ordering (DVO) has more advantage in improving the performance of search algorithms than static variable ordering. It is a newly developed method recent years that using particle swarm algorithm to solve binary constraint satisfaction problems, which is a global stocha...

The purpose of this study is to optimize the stock price forecasting model with meta-innovation method in pharmaceutical companies.In this research, stock portfolio optimization has been done in two separate phases.The first phase is related to forecasting stock futures based on past stock information, which is forecasting the stock price using artificial neural network.The neural network used ...

Based on introducing two optimization algorithms, group search optimization (GSO) algorithm and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, a new hybrid optimization algorithm which named particle swarm-group search optimization (PS-GSO) algorithm is presented and its application to optimal structural design is analyzed. The PS-GSO is used to investigate the spatial truss structures with discr...

Heart chaotic system and the ability of particle swarm optimization (PSO) method motivated us to benefit the method of chaotic particle swarm optimization (CPSO) to synchronize the heart three-oscillator model. It can be a suitable algorithm for strengthening the controller in presence of unknown parameters. In this paper we apply adaptive control (AC) on heart delay model, also examine the sys...

this paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm namely apso-bfo which combines merits of bacterial foraging optimization (bfo) algorithm and adaptive particle swarm optimization (apso) algorithm to determine the optimal pid parameters for control of nonlinear systems. to balance between exploration and exploitation, the proposed hybrid algorithm accomplishes global search over the whole search spa...

the improvement of high-through-put gene profiling based microarrays technology has provided monitoring the expression value of thousands of genes simultaneously. detailed examination of changes in expression levels of genes can help physicians to have effi cient diagnosing, classification of tumors and cancer’s types as well as effective treatments. finding genes that can classify the group of...

The Vector Evaluated Particle Swarm Optimisation algorithm is widely used to solve multiobjective optimisation problems. This algorithm optimises one objective using a swarm of particles where their movements are guided by the best solution found by another swarm. However, the best solution of a swarm is only updated when a newly generated solution has better fitness than the best solution at t...