Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm inspired by the intelligent behavior of honey bees when searching for food sources. The various versions of the ABC algorithm have been widely used to solve continuous and discrete optimization problems in different fields. In this paper a new binary version of the ABC algorithm inspired by quantum computing, c...

One of the most well-known binary (discrete) versions of the artificial bee colony algorithm is the similarity measure based discrete artificial bee colony, which was first proposed to deal with the uncapacited facility location (UFLP) problem. The discrete artificial bee colony simply depends on measuring the similarity between the binary vectors through Jaccard coefficient. Although it is acc...

The aim of this research is the development of a reliable tool to detect early signs of breast cancer in mammographic images. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death of female worldwide. Mammogram is one of the most excellent technologies currently being used for diagnosing breast cancer. In this paper, the Enhanced Artificial Bee Colony Optim...

Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a global optimization algorithm which is motivated by the foraging behavior of honey bee swarms. Basic Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (ABC) has the advantages of strong robustness, fast convergence and high flexibility, fewer setting parameters, but it has the disadvantages premature convergence in the later search period and the accuracy of the optimal value...

Over the past few years, swarm intelligence based optimization techniques such as ant colony optimization and particle swarm optimization have received considerable attention from engineering researchers. These algorithms have been used in the solution of various structural optimization problems where the main goal is to minimize the weight of structures while satisfying all design requirements...

In this paper, a cardinality constrained mean-variance model is introduced for the portfolio optimization problems. This model is a mixed quadratic and integer programming problem for which efficient algorithms do not exist. The use of heuristic algorithms in this case is necessary. Some studies have investigated the cardinality constrained mean-variance model using heuristic algorithm. But alm...

K-means algorithm is sensitive to initial cluster centers and its solutions are apt to be trapped in local optimums. In order to solve these problems, we propose an optimized artificial bee colony algorithm for clustering. The proposed method first obtains optimized sources by improving the selection of the initial clustering centers; then, uses a novel dynamic local optimization strategy utili...

In order to resolve the multi-parameter optimization problem of finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter design, a quantum bee colony algorithm (QBCA) is proposed. The proposed QBCA is a multi-dimensional search algorithm for optimization of real numbers, and uses mechanisms of quantum evolution to update the positions of different quantum bees. Computer simulations have showed that FIR dig...

Nature is the immense gifted source for solving complex problems. It always helps to find the optimal solution to solve the problem. Mobile Ad Hoc NETwork (MANET) is a wide research area of networks which has set of independent nodes. The characteristics involved in MANET’s are Dynamic, does not depend on any fixed infrastructure or centralized networks, High mobility. The Bio-Inspired algorith...