This paper proposes Hybrid Intelligent Water Drops (HIWD) algorithm to solve Tamhidi programs uncapacitated examination timetabling problem in Universiti Sains Islamic Malaysia (USIM). Intelligent Water Drops algorithm (IWD) is a population-based algorithm where each drop represents a solution and the sharing between the drops during the search lead to better drops. The results of this study pr...

This paper proposes Hybrid Intelligent Water Drops (HIWD) algorithm to solve Tamhidi programs uncapacitated examination timetabling problem in Universiti Sains Islamic Malaysia (USIM). Intelligent Water Drops algorithm (IWD) is a population-based algorithm where each drop represents a solution and the sharing between the drops during the search lead to better drops. The results of this study pr...

Multi-objective optimization is widely applied in a number of areas now-a-days. Unfortunately, many combinatorial multi-objective optimization problems are NP-hard. However, it is often unnecessary to have an exact solution. So, heuristic approach can obtain a near-optimal solution in some reasonable time with the smallest possible computational burden. Intelligent Water Drops algorithm (IWD) a...

This paper presents a new nature inspired Intelligent Water Drops (IWD) based algorithm for finding peaks in continuous multimodal optimization problems. Initially various conceptual similarities were identified between IWD algorithm and Genetic Algorithm(GA). Simultaneously applying IWD-Continuous Optimization(IWD-CO) algorithm and GA on a function in finding the global optima and found IWDCO ...

Scientists are beginning to realize more and more that nature is a great source for inspiration in order to develop intelligent systems and algorithms. In the field of Computational Intelligence, especially Evolutionary Computation and Swarm-based systems, the degree of imitation from nature is surprisingly high and we are at the edge of developing and proposing new algorithms and/or systems, w...

A natural river often finds good paths among lots of possible paths in its ways from the source to destination. These near optimal or optimal paths are obtained by the actions and reactions that occur among the water drops and the water drops with the riverbeds. The intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm is a new swarm-based optimisation algorithm inspired from observing natural water drops th...

Mosul's city land covers soil, cultivated land, stony, pastoral water, and ploughed agricultural land. We have classified multispectral images captured by the sensor (TM) carried on Landsat satellite. Integrated approach of intelligent water drops (IWDs) algorithm is used to identify natural terrain. In this research, IWDs been suggested find best results for image classification. The purpose u...