Many metaheuristic algorithms are nature-inspired, and most are population-based. Particle swarm optimization is a good example as an efficient metaheuristic algorithm. Inspired by PSO, many new algorithms have been developed in recent years. For example, firefly algorithm was inspired by the flashing behaviour of fireflies. In this paper, the author extends the standard firefly algorithm furth...

The firefly luciferase complementation assay is widely used as a bioluminescent reporter technology to detect protein-protein interactions in vitro, in cellulo, and in vivo. Upon the interaction of a protein pair, complemented firefly luciferase emits light through the adenylation and oxidation of its substrate, luciferin. Although it has been suggested that kinetics of light production in the ...

1639 Venkateswara and Kumar Firefly Algorithm based Optimal Power Flow with Static VAR Compensator for Improvement of Power System Security under Network Contingency  Abstract— At present owing to the increase in power demand power system have become more complex and heavily loaded, and are subjected to unstable or insecure operations. In order to provide a secure operation of the power system...

A new species of aquatic firefly belonging to Luciola Laporte is described and illustrated based on external morphology of both males and females, and the genitalia of males. Luciola aquatilis sp. nov., a common firefly in Thailand was formerly commonly misidentified as Luciola brahmina Bourgeois. Other Luciola species that resemble L. aquatilis are discussed, as well as past confusion concerni...

—Many real world problems are mostly time varying optimization problems, which require special mechanisms to detect changes in environment and then response to them. In this paper, combination of learning automata and firefly algorithm in order to improve the performance of firefly algorithm in dynamic environments has been proposed. In the algorithm, the firefly algorithm has been equipped wit...

In this paper, we report on the performance of the remote procedure call code for the Firefly multiprocessor and analyze the code to account precisely for all measured latency. From the analysis and measurements, we estimate how much faster RPC could be if certain improvements were made. 1 Authors’ address: Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center, 130 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, Ca...

A new reporter system has been developed for quantifying gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The system relies on two different reporter genes, Renilla and firefly luciferase, to evaluate regulated gene expression. The gene encoding Renilla luciferase is fused to a constitutive promoter (PGK1 or SPT15) and integrated into the yeast genome at the CAN1 locus as a control for no...

In data grid, using reservation is accepted to provide scheduling and service quality. Users need to have an access to the stored data in geographical environment, which can be solved by using replication, and an action taken to reach certainty. As a result, users are directed toward the nearest version to access information. The most important point is to know in which sites and distributed sy...

We present the firefly machine, an evolving hardware system, demonstrating that “evolving ware,” evolware, can be attained. The system is based on the cellular programming approach, in which parallel cellular machines evolve to solve computational tasks. The firefly system operates with no reference to an external device, such as a computer that carries out genetic operators, thereby exhibiting...