In this paper, a new discrete artificial bee colony algorithm is used to solve the symmetric traveling salesman problem (TSP). The concept of Swap Operator has been introduced to the original artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm which can help the bees to generate a better candidate tour by greedy selection. By taken six typical TSP instances as examples, the proposed algorithm is compared wit...

A Modified Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm for Economic Dispatch (ED) problem has been proposed. The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm which is inspired by the foraging behavior of honey bee swarm gives a solution procedure for solving economic dispatch problem. It provides solution more effective than Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimizati...

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...

 Numerous problems in engineering and science can be converted into optimization problems. Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a newly developed stochastic optimization algorithm and has been widely used in many areas. However, due to the stochastic characteristics of its solution search equation, the traditional ABC algorithm often suffers from poor exploitation. Aiming at this weakness o...

In the present study, in order to predict the activity coefficient of inorganic ions, 12 cases of aqueous chloride solution were considered (AClx=1,2; A=Li, Na, K, Rb, Mg, Ca, Ba, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni). For this study, the UNIQUAC thermodynamic model is desired and its adjustable parameters are optimized with the Genetic + PSO algorithm. The optimization of the UNIQUAC model with PSO+ genetic algorit...

In this study, a new method for designing the damping controller was proposed to improve the transient power system stability in a single machine network connected to an infinite bus. The STATCOM controller problem in a wide area of the system function was considered as an optimization problem with multi-purpose objective function. Also, the Honey Bee Mating Optimization Algorithm was used to d...

The Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) problems in power generation systems are to reduce the fuel cost by reducing the total cost for the generation of electric power. This paper presents an efficient Modified Firefly Algorithm (MFA), for solving ELD Problem. The main objective of the problems is to minimize the total fuel cost of the generating units having quadratic cost functions subjected to lim...

In order to improve the convergence and diversity of multiobjective optimization algorithms, the harmonic average distance is employed to improve the aggregating function combined L-rank value. Selection model and searching scheme of artificial bee colony algorithm and diversity maintaining scheme are improved in this paper. This novel many objectives optimization method based on improved artif...

The set covering problem is a formal model for many practical optimization problems. In the set covering problem the goal is to choose a subset of the columns of minimal cost that covers every row. Here, we present a novel application of the artificial bee colony algorithm to solve the non-unicost set covering problem. The artificial bee colony algorithm is a recent swarm metaheuristic techniqu...

The Weighted Set Covering Problem is a formal model for many practical optimization problems. In this problem the goal is to choose a subset of columns of minimal cost covering every row. Here, we present a novel application of the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm to solve the Weighted Set Covering Problem. The Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a recent Swarm Metaheuristic technique based on th...