In highly competitive manufacturing industries nowadays, the manufactures ultimate goals
are to produce high quality product with less cost and time constraints. To achieve these …

The study of bionics bridges the functions, biological structures and organizational principles
found in nature with our modern technologies, and numerous mathematical and …

Swarm intelligence is a relatively new approach to problem solving that takes inspiration
from the social behaviors of insects and of other animals. In particular, ants have inspired a …

Selecting the “best” project portfolio out of a given set of investment proposals is a common
and often critical management issue. Decision-makers must regularly consider multiple …

This paper uses an ant colony meta-heuristic optimization method to solve the redundancy
allocation problem (RAP). The RAP is a well known NP-hard problem which has been the …

Research into developing effective computer aided techniques for planning software
projects is important and challenging for software engineering. Different from projects in …

This paper proposes a hybrid algorithm based on artificial immune systems and ant colony
optimization for distribution system reconfiguration, which is formulated as a multi-objective …

An electronic calendar includes Such features as recurring reminders, dividing
unpredictable work loads into equal pieces, template free parsing, a reminders scheduling …

Conventional maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms fails to track peak power
from a solar photovoltaic panel (SPV) effectively under rapidly changing atmospheric and …

Due to the global competition in manufacturing environment, firms are forced to consider
increasing the quality and responsiveness to customization, while decreasing costs. The …