rainfall-runoff modeling is most important component in the water resource management of river basins. the successful application of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model depends on how well it is calibrated. the degree of difficulty in solving the global optimization method is generally dependent on the dimensionality of the model and certain of the characteristics of object function. the purpose...

An effective hybrid cuckoo search algorithm (CS) with improved shuffled frog-leaping algorithm (ISFLA) is put forward for solving 0-1 knapsack problem. First of all, with the framework of SFLA, an improved frog-leap operator is designed with the effect of the global optimal information on the frog leaping and information exchange between frog individuals combined with genetic mutation with a sm...

Recent day power system networks are having high risks of voltage instability problems and several network blackouts have been reported. This phenomenon tends to occur from lack of reactive power supports under heavily stressed operating conditions caused by increased load demand and the fast developing deregulation of power systems across the world. This paper proposes an application of Shuffl...

Shuffled frog leaping algorithm is a new kind of swarm intelligence optimization algorithm. Due to the local search of the basic shuffled frog leaping algorithm which is the only by the worst frog to search and jump, searching ability of which was limited; therefore it had the low precision, slow convergence speed and easy premature convergence etc. Therefore, in order to enhance the ability of...

Stochastic search algorithms that take their inspiration from nature are gaining a great attention of many researchers to solve high dimension and non – linear complex optimization problems for which traditional methods fails. Shuffled frog – leaping algorithm (SFLA) is recent addition to the family of stochastic search algorithms that take its inspiration from the foraging process of frogs. SF...