As one of the most challenging combinatorial optimization problems in scheduling, the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) has attracted numerous scholars’ interest resulting in considerable research in the past few decades. However, most of these papers focused on the single objective RCPSP; only a few papers concentrated on the multi-objective resource-constrained project s...

Fujun LAN, Liang GAO Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Huazhong University .of Science &Technology 430074, Wuhan, P. R. China Abstract: Layout optimization is a NP-hard and complex non-linear constrained optimization problem. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a Modified Electromagnetism-like Mechanism (MEM) algorithm. Firstly, the established local search method is modified...

Many problems in scientific research and engineering applications can be decomposed into the constrained optimization problems. Most of them are the nonlinear programming problems which are very hard to be solved by the traditional methods. In this paper, an electromagnetism-like mechanism (EM) algorithm, which is a meta-heuristic algorithm, has been improved for these problems. Firstly, some m...

Recently, medical data mining has become one of the most popular topics in the data mining community. This is due to the societal importance of the field and also the particular computational challenges posed in this domain of data mining. Early researches concentrated on sequential heuristics and later moved to meta-heuristic approaches due to the ability of these approaches to generate better...

Electromagnetism-like algorithm (EM) is a population-based metaheuristic which has been proposed to solve continuous problems effectively. In this paper, we present a new meta-heuristic that uses the EM methodology to solve the single machine scheduling problem. Single machine scheduling is a combinatorial optimization problem. Schedule representation for our problem is based on random keys. Be...

This paper presents an electromagnetism-like mechanism (EM) algorithm in order to solve cell formation problems. Based on the attraction-repulsion principle in electromagnetic theory, each combination of the part and machine groups was regarded as a charged particle. The total force calculation and the move along the total force calculation were then determined out to either maximize the cell g...

Hydrodynamic reductions of the hydrodynamic chain associated with dispersionless limit of 2+1 Harry Dym equation are found by the Miura type and reciprocal transformations applied to the Benney hydrodynamic chain.

Recently, many researchers in the field of automatic content-based image retrieval have devoted a remarkable amount of research looking formethods to retrieve the best relevant images to the query image.This paper presents a novel algorithm for increasing the precision in content-based image retrieval based on electromagnetism optimization technique.The electromagnetism optimization is a nature...

Based on the electromagnetism-like algorithm, an evolutionary algorithm, improved EM algorithm with genetic algorithm technique (IEMGA), for optimization of fractional-order PID (FOPID) controller is proposed in this article. IEMGA is a population-based meta-heuristic algorithm originated from the electromagnetism theory. It does not require gradient calculations and can automatically converge ...