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K-Means clustering is well accepted clustering algorithm that huddle similar data objects in a simple and quick way. The convergence speed of K-Means clustering is quite appreciable but it has drawback of getting stuck into local optima. Hence, optimal clustering results are not attained. Nature inspired algorithm when integrated with clustering algorithm provides global optimal solution. The pape...Show More
Unsupervised machine learning includes data clustering, which discovers and comprehends underlying data patterns as well as classifies objects within a dataset based on similarity metrics such as Davies-Bouldin (DB) and CompactSeparatedValues (CSV) (CS). The most well-known and powerful partitional clustering algorithm is the K-means clustering algorithm, which is one of the top ten most frequentl...Show More
In engineering and design problems, various noisy non-linear mathematical optimization problems can't be efficaciously solved by using conventional optimization techniques. But metaheuristic algorithms seem very efficient to approach in these problems and became very popular such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Recently, many new metaheuristic algorithms were proposed...Show More
This paper intends to provide a modified firefly algorithm based on firefly algorithm and improved particle swarm optimization. This firefly algorithm is a category of nature-enthused algorithm of swarm intelligence, i.e. depends on the response of a firefly to the light of other fireflies and also perform well on various numerical optimization problems. The modified algorithm uses the improved ve...Show More
New advancements in Meta-heuristics have forced the researchers to modify the existing algorithms in order to make them widely applicable to a large pool of complex problem set. Firefly Algorithm being a new nature-inspired algorithm has been used extensively for solving various optimization problems. The standard version namely, Standard Firefly Algorithm(SFA) was introduced in 2008 which uses th...Show More
This article presents a design of digital infinite impulse response (IIR) filter with traditional and modified firefly algorithms for parameter estimation of unknown systems. The parameters of the filter to be designed are considered as an optimization vector. Traditional learning techniques create stability problem and the performance drastically deteriorates in case of reduced order adaptive mod...Show More
By analyzing the similarity of a self-organizing system and an optimization process, we highlight that optimization can be considered as self-organization. We analyze the characteristics of some popular met heuristic algorithms such as firefly algorithm and cuckoo search for applications in self-organizing systems.Show More
Optimization means making the best use of anything or using resources effectively or achieving high quality under the constraints offered. Or at the lowest cost to achieve the optimum result. This research paper contains the algorithms all of which are inspired by the design of BAT algorithms, firefly algorithms and cuckoo algorithms. Also their improved version to optimize the various problems fo...Show More
Quadrotors offer many interesting features and have great potential to be used in many social applications. Unfortunately, due to its nature as an underactuated system, it can be made stable by itself. Hence, such a control strategy is required. This paper presents the optimized PID controller with Firefly Algorithm (FA) for quadrotor in virtual environment. The results verify that the optimized P...Show More
It is very important problem to solve systems of nonlinear equations in scientific research and engineering computation. Most traditional algorithms have the shortcomings such as high sensitivity to initial guess of the solution and poor convergence. In this paper, we present a method to solve nonlinear equation systems by using the Firefly Algorithm. It is very effective to improve computation pr...Show More
Discovering the effective subset of models in a pool of classifiers is an important and remarkable topic in ensemble learning scope. Using meticulously selected subset instead of entire ensemble leads to more efficient and effective results. This paper introduces a novel hybrid ensemble selection method of firefly and forward search algorithms. Because of the two different selection phases in the ...Show More
To address the problems of slow convergence and large filtering error of the LMS algorithm, this paper uses the firefly algorithm to improve the LMS algorithm. The improved algorithm uses the behaviour of attraction and movement between groups of fireflies and links the convergence step of the LMS algorithm with the firefly movement step so that the LMS algorithm converges in the process of achiev...Show More
Firefly Algorithm (FA) is a bio-inspired algorithm simulating the flashing behavior of fireflies. In original algorithm, all the fireflies are unisex and only the flashing behavior is simulated. This paper presents a novel hybrid firefly algorithm (HFA) adding mating behavior in original firefly algorithm. The new algorithm is compared with FA and other three well-known bio-inspired algorithms on ...Show More
Main objective of this paper is to develop an intelligent and efficient Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique. Two most recently introduced and popular swarm intelligent based algorithms: Firefly algorithm (FA) and Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) has been used in this study to develop a novel technique to track the Maximum Power Point (MPP) of a solar cell module. The performances of two algor...Show More
Cloud computing is the latest continuation of parallel computing, distributed computing and grid computing. In this system, user can make use of different services like storage, servers and other applications. Cloud resources are not only used by numerous users but are also dynamically redistributed on demand. Requested services are delivered to user's computers and devices through the Internet. T...Show More
Renewable energy, which is a continuous source of energy, can be classified as the sun, running water, biomass, wind, geothermal sources and ocean currents. Several research works projects about 30% of the total generations will be from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in future and so it's important to analyze different prospects of RES mainly over distribution networks. In this paper, a new Distri...Show More
In this paper the performance of the Genetic Algorithm (GA), the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, the Modified Particle Swarm Optimization (MPSO) algorithm, and the Lévy Flight Firefly Algorithm (LFFA) are compared for system identification with various types of nonlinear systems. When performing system identification with Volterra nonlinear adaptive structures, matched-order fixed-non...Show More
Firefly algorithm is a new nature-inspired algorithm and has been used gradually in solving optimization problems. a path planning method based on firefly algorithm was proposed. After the detailed analysis of the basic algorithm, random parameter and absorption parameter were designed to be adaptive, and this can improve the solution quality and convergence speed of the firefly algorithm. Accordi...Show More
Circuits partitioning assumes a vital part in designing very large scale integration (VLSI) chips. Circuit partitioning is a critical step in the front end design. The interest in finding an optimal solution for partitioning in VLSI circuits has been a hot issue now days. In VLSI circuit partitioning, the issue of getting a minimum cut, less interconnects, low power, minimum delay and less area is...Show More
Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a significant combinatorial optimization problem. TSP is NP-hard problem which involves finding the minimum tour length among a given set of nodes and return to the starting node knowing that each node must be visited once. This paper proposes a solution to TSP using Firefly Algorithm (FA) and k-means clustering. The proposed approach comprises three major steps...Show More
The combined economic-emission dispatch procedure in electric power systems treat economic and emission impact as competing objectives, which requires some form of conflict resolution to achieve a solution, that's why we need efficient optimization algorithms. Firefly algorithm and bat algorithm are the most recent methods and they already proved there efficient in several fields of research. In t...Show More

Hybrid Firefly Model in Routing Heterogeneous Fleet of Vehicles in Logistics Distribution

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Logic Journal of the IGPL
Year: 2015 | Volume: 23, Issue: 3 | Journal Article |
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Logistics distribution is adaptive, dynamic and open self-organizing system, which is maintained by flows of information, materials, goods, funds and energy. This article presents biological intelligence for modelling and optimization on vehicle routing problem (VRP) of logistics distribution. The aim of this research is to create a novel hybrid model including genetic and firefly algorithms in ro...Show More

Hybrid Firefly Model in Routing Heterogeneous Fleet of Vehicles in Logistics Distribution

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Year: 2015 | Volume: 23, Issue: 3 | Journal Article |
In this paper, the comparison of several optimization methods for solving the optimal multiuser detection problem exactly or approximately are discussed. The purpose of using these algorithms is to provide complexity constraint alternatives to solving this nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP)-hard problem. An approximate solution is found firefly based optimization which is used to provide an exa...Show More
Distributed computing is a computation approach in which many calculations are made at the same time in a distributed memory model, exploring the fact that big problems can sometimes be divided into little ones that can be solved at the same time. This paper uses the distributed computing concept to optimize the sequential version of the Firefly Algorithm (FA). Results show that the proposed distr...Show More
Swarm intelligence (SI) is widely applied for optimizing both continuous and discrete problems. Many papers have investigated them for continuous optimizations since most swarm-based algorithms are designed based on continuous movements, which are simply calculated using vector-based mathematical operations. It is quite easy to select the best SI algorithm for a given continuous problem. However, ...Show More