The optimisation of pump operations in water distribution networks is an ongoing research topic motivated by the great energy savings that a careful scheduling of pumps may achieve. State-of-the-art approaches often combine an optimisation algorithm, such as Evolutionary Algorithms, and full hydraulic simulation. Despite the advances in optimisation techniques and hardware performance, the time...

Predictive modeling in medicine involves the development of computational models which are capable of analysing large amounts of data in order to predict healthcare outcomes for individual patients. Computational intelligence approaches are suitable when the data to be modelled are too complex for conventional statistical techniques to process quickly and efficiently. These advanced approaches ...

Investment decision making is one of the key issues in financial management. Selecting the appropriate tools and techniques that can make optimal portfolio is one of the main objectives of the investment world. This study tries to optimize the decision making in stock selection or the optimization of the portfolio by means of the artificial colony of honey bee algorithm. To determine the effect...

Using ant colony algorithm to solve TSP (traveling salesman problem) has some disadvantages as easily plunging into local minimum, slow convergence speed and so on. In order to find the optimal path accurately and rapidly, an improved ant colony algorithm is proposed. Experimental results show that the improved ant colony algorithm has better effectiveness for TSP problems solutions.

In multi colony ant algorithms several colonies of ants cooperate in finding good solutions for an optimization problem. At certain time steps the colonies exchange information about good solutions. If the amount of exchanged information is not too large multi colony ant algorithms can be easily parallelized in a natural way by placing the colonies on different processors. In this paper we stud...

This thesis presents a set of rigorous methodologies for tuning the performance of algorithms that solve optimisation problems. Many optimisation problems are difficult and time-consuming to solve exactly. An alternative is to use an approximate algorithm that solves the problem to an acceptable level of quality and provides such a solution in a reasonable time. Using optimisation algorithms ty...

By use of the properties of ant colony algorithm and genetic algorithm, a novel ant colony genetic hybrid algorithm, whose framework of hybrid algorithm is genetic algorithm, is proposed to solve the traveling salesman problems. The selection operator is an artificial version of natural selection, and chromosomes with better length of tour have higher probabilities of being selected in the next...

Many scientific applications running in Cloud Computing system are workflow applications that contains large number of tasks and in which tasks are connected by precedence relations. Efficient scheduling the workflow tasks become a challenging issue in Cloud Computing environments because the scheduling decides performance of the applications. Unfortunately, finding the optimal scheduling is kn...