life is full of harmony and contrast and combining contrasting forms is a large part of human thinking. everything in the universe tends to have a contrasting opposite. many researchers have studied these contrasts. the ode “lamiyyat al-'arab”, attributed to shanfara, is a traditional poem full of contradictory concepts. the present researchers examined these opposing concepts in this ode ...

Opposition-based learning was first introduced as a solution for machine learning; however, it is being extended to other artificial intelligence and soft computing fields including meta-heuristic optimization. It not only utilizes an estimate of a solution but also enters its counter-part information into the search process. The present work applies such an approach to Colliding Bodies Optimiz...

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