Abstract System reliability optimization is a living problem, with solutions methodologies that
have evolved with the advancements of mathematics, development of new engineering …

Every day, the immature sunflowers generate heliotropic movements. Two growth
mechanisms are controlled on the heliotropic movements of immature sunflowers. The first …

The supreme council of a city is usually formed by the evolution of councils from the smallest
neighborhoods to the largest ones, regions, and finally the whole city. Council members of a …

Hybridization in optimization methods plays a very vital role to make it effective and efficient.
Different optimization methods have different search tendency and it is always required to …

Reliable communication network design (RCND) is a well-known optimisation problem to
produce a network with maximum reliability. This paper addresses the minimum cost …

Topology design of a distributed local area network (DLAN) is a complex optimization
problem and has been generally modelled as a single-objective optimization problem …

We propose the reliability constrained k-rooted minimum spanning forest, a relevant
optimization problem whose aim is to find a k-rooted minimum cost forest that connects …

The complexity of real-world problems motivates the development of several optimization
algorithms. In this paper, a novel hybrid metaheuristic algorithm is presented by combining …

This research proposes a new reliable network design methodology that is based on a
pattern mining guided genetic algorithm (GA). The proposed method can be applied for a …

A population-based optimization algorithm combining the support vector machine (SVM)
and importance sampling (IS) is proposed to achieve a global solution to optimal reliability …