Queen health is closely linked to colony performance in honey bees as a single queen is normally responsible for all egg laying and brood production within the colony. In the U. S. in recent years, queens have been failing at a high rate; with 50% or greater of queens replaced in colonies within 6 months when historically a queen might live one to two years. This high rate of queen failure coin...

This is an extension of the Ordered Greed technique introduced by Anderson and Gustafson in [1]. The Ordered Greed algorithm (OG) is a hybrid greedy algorithm using permutations. OG is applicable to many classical optimization problems, including job assignment, graph coloring, bin packing, and satisfiability. Here, OG is applied to a variant of the N Queens problem, the N SuperQueens problem. ...

Abstract The efficient resolution of optimization problems is one the key issues in today’s industry. This task relies mainly on classical algorithms that present scalability and processing limitations. Quantum computing has emerged to challenge these types problems. In this paper, we focus Metropolis-Hastings quantum algorithm, which based walks. We use algorithm build a software tool called M...

The queens’ graph Qn has the squares of the n × n chessboard as its vertices, with two squares adjacent if they are in the same row, column, or diagonal. An irredundant set of queens has the property that each queen in the set attacks at least one square which is attacked by no other queen. IR(Qn) is the cardinality of the largest irredundant set of vertices in Qn. Currently the best lower boun...

The modern systems that have been based upon the hash function are more suitable compared to conventional systems; however, complicated algorithms for generation of invertible functions a high level time consumption. With use GAs, key strength is enhanced, which results in ultimately making entire algorithm sufficient. Initially, process performed by using n-queen problem solved genetic algorit...

This paper discusses the implementation of Hopfield neural networks for solving constraint satisfaction problems using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). It discusses techniques for formulating such problems as discrete neural networks, and then it describes the N-Queen problem using this formulation. Finally results will be presented which compare the computation times for the custom comp...

Microbial pathogens are thought to have a profound impact on insect populations. Honey bees are suffering from elevated colony losses in the northern hemisphere possibly because of a variety of emergent microbial pathogens, with which pesticides may interact to exacerbate their impacts. To reveal such potential interactions, we administered at sublethal and field realistic doses one neonicotino...