In this paper, a modification to the new problem solving algorithm called “Intelligent Water Drops” or simply IWD algorithm has been proposed. This algorithm is based on the dynamic of river systems and the actions that water drops do in the rivers. Based on the observation on the behavior of natural water drops, artificial water drops are developed which possesses some of the remarkable proper...

Effective and efficient irrigation practices are critical to successful rice production and to the sustainability of rice production. To better understand how to address the issue of water management in rice we initially installed water flow meters on two studies that were designed to evaluate disease incidence using fertility, variety/hybrid, and water management as treatment variables. One st...

This research paper adapts intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm to solve the discrete timecost-quality trade-off problem (DTCQTP) in software projects which is never solved before by this algorithm. Project manager's goal is getting an optimal allocation of time, cost and quality of each task/activity in the software project such that total time and cost of the project is minimized while pro...

Assessment of possible exposures to 2,3,7,8-TCDD originating from the IWD plant depends on comparison of 2,3,7,8-TCDD levels in serum of study subjects with some measure of the expected range of concentrations of 2,3,7,8-TCDD in the serum of the "typical population" not exposed to emissions from IWD, matched as far as possible to the study subjects in terms of at least age and gender, and prefe...

In this paper, Intelligent water drop algorithm (IWD) is used to analyze single overhead line connected to grid-grounded arrester. In this approach, at first Norton’s equivalent circuit of the overhead line over lossy soil is computed by method of moments (MoM) and then for the problem under consideration, a nonlinear equivalent circuit in the frequency domain is proposed. Finally applying inte...

in this paper, intelligent water drop algorithm (iwd) is used to analyze single overhead line connected to grid-grounded arrester. in this approach, at first norton’s equivalent circuit of the overhead line over lossy soil is computed by method of moments (mom) and then for the problem under consideration, a nonlinear equivalent circuit in the frequency domain is proposed. finally applying inte...

Software testing is one of the most challenging and arduous phase of software development life cycle (SDLC) which helps in determining the software quality. Code coverage is a widely used testing paradigm, which describes the degree to which the code has been tested. Aim of the current paper is to propose an optimised code coverage algorithm with the help of an emerging technique, i.e., intelli...

In this paper, a hybrid algorithm based on modified intelligent water drops algorithm and learning automata for solving Steiner tree problem is proposed. Since the Steiner tree problem is NP-hard, the aim of this paper is to design an algorithm to construct high quality Steiner trees in a short time which are suitable for real time multicast routing in networks. The global search and fast conve...