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  • Open Access
4 Citations
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A Method for Degenerate Primer Design Based on Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Ruhui Liu,
  • Jiaxu Ning,
  • Yueqiu Jiang,
  • Xianghe Wang and
  • Jiaxuan Wu

15 May 2022

Aiming to address the complex degenerate primer design problem in the biological field, in this paper, we design a degenerate primer optimization model considering primer coverage and degeneracy that allows a small number of base mismatches, and prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,641 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2018

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a bionic intelligent optimization method. The cloud model is a kind of uncertainty conversion model between a qualitative concept T ˜ that is presented by nature language and its quantitative e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,117 Views
29 Pages

Dynamic Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Permutation Solution

  • Yongkang Gong,
  • Donglin Zhu,
  • Chengtian Ouyang,
  • Hongjie Guo and
  • Changjun Zhou

13 December 2024

The artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC), as a classic swarm intelligence algorithm, has advantages such as fewer parameters and clear logic. However, ABC cannot balance the exploration and development stages well in the iterative process, and is ea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Distributed Computing and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
169 Citations
11,661 Views
10 Pages

3 June 2011

As the usage and development of wireless sensor networks are increasing, the problems related to these networks are being realized. Dynamic deployment is one of the main topics that directly affect the performance of the wireless sensor networks. In...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,323 Views
16 Pages

12 May 2020

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, which has been widely studied for years, is a stochastic algorithm for solving global optimization problems. Taking advantage of the information of a global best solution, the Gbest-guided artificial bee col...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,448 Views
14 Pages

An Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on a Multi-Objective Framework for Supplier Integration

  • Muhammad Umer Farooq,
  • Qazi Salman,
  • Muhammad Arshad,
  • Imran Khan and ,
  • Rehman Akhtar and
  • Sunghwan Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 February 2019

Modern day industries strive to obtain long-term supplier integrations (SI) with potentially stronger supplier groups, to achieve fast and reliable production. This paper studies the process of selecting vendors, while simultaneously considering the...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,926 Views
14 Pages

Pipeline Corrosion Prediction Using the Grey Model and Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Shiguo Li,
  • Hualong Du,
  • Qiuyu Cui,
  • Pengfei Liu and ,
  • Xin Ma and
  • He Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 June 2022

Pipeline corrosion prediction (PCP) is an important technology for pipeline maintenance and management. How to accurately predict pipeline corrosion is a challenging task. To address the drawback of the poor prediction accuracy of the grey model (GM(...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Equations and Genetic Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
409 Views
30 Pages

26 June 2026

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is widely used for continuous optimization, but the standard ABC still suffers from insufficient use of neighborhood information, limited adaptability of search behavior, and random restarts in the scout bee...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,153 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2024

Query optimization is one of the key factors affecting the performance of database systems that aim to enact the query execution plan with minimum cost. Particularly in distributed database systems, due to the multiple copies of the data that are sto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Mining, Analysis and Modeling Based on Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,234 Views
27 Pages

24 September 2022

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), one of the most important artificial intelligence techniques, are used extensively in modeling many types of problems. A successful training process is required to create effective models with ANN. An effective trai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Mathematical Modeling and Neural Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,721 Views
21 Pages

3 February 2017

To achieve effective and accurate optimization for multi-objective optimization problems, a multi-objective artificial bee colony algorithm with regulation operators (RMOABC) inspired by the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bees was proposed in...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,445 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2021

K-Means Clustering is a popular technique in data analysis and data mining. To remedy the defects of relying on the initialization and converging towards the local minimum in the K-Means Clustering (KMC) algorithm, a chaotic adaptive artificial bee c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,755 Views
24 Pages

Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Nelder–Mead Method to Solve Nurse Scheduling Problem

  • Rajeswari Muniyan,
  • Rajakumar Ramalingam,
  • Sultan S. Alshamrani,
  • Durgaprasad Gangodkar and ,
  • Ankur Dumka,
  • Rajesh Singh,
  • Anita Gehlot and
  • Mamoon Rashid
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 July 2022

The nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is an NP-Hard combinatorial optimization scheduling problem that allocates a set of shifts to the group of nurses concerning the schedule period subject to the constraints. The objective of the NSP is to create a sc...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,905 Views
22 Pages

15 March 2022

To solve the problem of inserting new job into flexible job-shops, this paper proposes a dynamic self-learning artificial bee colony (DSLABC) optimization algorithm to solve dynamic flexible job-shop scheduling problem (DFJSP). Through the reasonable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,679 Views
21 Pages

A Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on the Self-Learning Mechanism

  • Bao Pang,
  • Yong Song,
  • Chengjin Zhang,
  • Hongling Wang and
  • Runtao Yang

24 May 2018

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, a novel category of bionic intelligent optimization algorithm, was achieved for solving complex nonlinear optimization problems. Previous studies have shown that ABC algorithm is competitive to other biological-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
813 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2025

Abrasive air jet machining is a burgeoning non-traditional machining technology particularly suitable for machining brittle non-metallic materials and metals with high hardness. It is very challenging to select the optimal process parameters to achie...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,435 Views
38 Pages

24 June 2022

The Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (CARP) is a combinatorial optimization problem, which requires the identification of such route plans on a given graph to a number of vehicles that generates the least total cost. The Dynamic CARP (DCARP) is a vari...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods and Operation Research in Logistics, Project Planning, and Scheduling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,727 Views
26 Pages

21 October 2025

The generation of high-quality test cases remains challenging due to combinatorial explosion and difficulty balancing exploration-exploitation in complex parameter spaces. This paper presents a novel Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Intelligent Algorithms (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,129 Views
17 Pages

A Hybrid Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Label Similarity for Solving Point-Feature Label Placement Problem

  • Wen Cao,
  • Jiaqi Xu,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Siqi Zhao and ,
  • Chu Xu and
  • Xiaofeng Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is a promising metaheuristic algorithm for continuous optimization problems, but it performs poorly in solving discrete problems. To address this issue, this paper proposes a hybrid discrete artificial bee co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
10,733 Views
26 Pages

26 March 2015

Optimal power flow (OPF) objective functions involve minimization of the total fuel costs of generating units, minimization of atmospheric pollutant emissions, minimization of active power losses and minimization of voltage deviations. In this paper,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,925 Views
20 Pages

Weighted Global Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Makes Gas Sensor Deployment Efficient

  • Ye Jiang,
  • Ziqing He,
  • Yanhai Li,
  • Zhengyi Xu and
  • Jianming Wei

16 June 2016

This paper proposes an improved artificial bee colony algorithm named Weighted Global ABC (WGABC) algorithm, which is designed to improve the convergence speed in the search stage of solution search equation. The new method not only considers the eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,148 Views
29 Pages

Energy-Efficient Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Hybrid Bat-Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Hussein S. Mohammed,
  • Poria Pirozmand,
  • Sheeraz Memon,
  • Sajad Ghatrehsamani and
  • Indra Seher

14 April 2026

This study presents a novel hybrid Bat-Artificial Bee Colony (BA-ABC) algorithm for energy-efficient optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), addressing the critical challenge of limited node energy and network lifetime degradation. The propo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,974 Views
22 Pages

19 September 2011

Due to the influence of unpredictable random events, the processing time of each operation should be treated as random variables if we aim at a robust production schedule. However, compared with the extensive research on the deterministic model, the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,337 Views
17 Pages

Reconfiguration for UAV Formation: A Novel Method Based on Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Zipeng Yang,
  • Futing Yang,
  • Tianqi Mao,
  • Zhenyu Xiao and ,
  • Zhu Han and
  • Xianggen Xia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 September 2023

The flight formation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) needs to be reconfigured whenever necessary to cope with complex environments and varying tasks. However, the continuity, nonlinearity and high dimensionality of the UAV formation control parame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,104 Views
14 Pages

8 November 2022

With the rapid development of internet technology, the amount of collected or generated data has increased exponentially. The sheer volume, complexity, and unbalanced nature of this data pose a challenge to the scientific community to extract meaning...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,681 Views
15 Pages

A Quick Gbest Guided Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Stock Market Prices Prediction

  • Habib Shah,
  • Nasser Tairan,
  • Harish Garg and
  • Rozaida Ghazali

20 July 2018

The objective of this work is to present a Quick Gbest Guided artificial bee colony (ABC) learning algorithm to train the feedforward neural network (QGGABC-FFNN) model for the prediction of the trends in the stock markets. As it is quite important t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Approaches and Advances in Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,056 Views
21 Pages

Sustainability Formation of Machine Cells in Group Technology Systems Using Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Adinarayanan Arunagiri,
  • Uthayakumar Marimuthu,
  • Prabhakaran Gopalakrishnan,
  • Adam Slota and ,
  • Jerzy Zajac and
  • Maheandera Prabu Paulraj
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 December 2017

The efficiency and sustainability of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) in batch type manufacturing is highly valued. This is done using a systematic method of equipment into machine cells, and components into part families, based on the suitable...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
267 Views
35 Pages

28 September 2026

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm demonstrates strong exploration but converges slowly. To address this, AMRABC_Ts introduces an adaptive dimension modification rate mechanism with two search strategies. The exploration-favoured CABC strategy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Adaptive Control Theory and Applications for Nonlinear Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,084 Views
26 Pages

30 January 2022

The microgrid has two main steady-state modes: grid-connected mode and islanded mode. The microgrid needs a high-performance controller to reduce the overshoot value that affects the efficiency of the network. However, the high voltage value causes t...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,486 Views
25 Pages

24 June 2022

Software defects are problems in software that destroy normal operation ability and reflect the quality of the software. Software fault can be predicted by the software reliability model. In this paper, the hybrid algorithm is applied to parameter es...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Swarm Intelligence with Mathematical Fuzzy Logic for Computer Science in Real-World Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,531 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2015

Parameter estimation for fractional-order chaotic systems has been an interesting and important issue in theory and various fields of application. In this paper, fractional orders, as well as systematic parameters of fractional-order chaotic systems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,594 Views
22 Pages

28 June 2022

The rapid development of Cloud Computing (CC) has led to the release of many services in the cloud environment. Service composition awareness of Quality of Service (QoS) is a significant challenge in CC. A single service in the cloud environment cann...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,902 Views
21 Pages

Estimation of the Constituent Properties of Red Delicious Apples Using a Hybrid of Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Yousef Abbaspour-Gilandeh,
  • Sajad Sabzi,
  • Brahim Benmouna,
  • Ginés García-Mateos and ,
  • José Luis Hernández-Hernández and
  • José Miguel Molina-Martínez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 February 2020

Non-destructive estimation of the constituent properties of fruits and vegetables has led to a dramatic change in the agriculture and food industry, allowing accurate and efficient sorting of the products based on their internal properties. Therefore...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Role of Vertical Farming in Modern Horticultural Crop Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,571 Views
27 Pages

The rigid constraint of using heat in determining electricity for thermal power units is eliminated to improve the absorption capacity of wind power. In this study, heat storage devices and electric boilers are added to the cogeneration system to all...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Stochastic System Modeling, Control, Optimization, and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
838 Views
29 Pages

9 August 2026

Facility location decisions directly affect operational costs, service quality, and customer allocation. However, minimising total cost may result in an imbalanced distribution of customers among open facilities, requiring both objectives to be consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,898 Views
25 Pages

23 January 2020

Accurate forecasting of the energy demand is crucial for the rational formulation of energy policies for energy management. In this paper, a novel ensemble forecasting model based on the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm for the energy demand was...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Demand and Prices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,850 Views
14 Pages

2 November 2018

For the purpose of reducing noise from grain flow signal, this paper proposes a filtering method that is on the basis of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm. At first, decomposing noise signal is performed ada...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,707 Views
30 Pages

14 September 2021

In this era of unprecedented economic and social prosperity, problems such as energy shortages and environmental pollution are gradually coming to the fore, which seriously restrict economic and social development. In order to solve these problems, g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,844 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2023

In the last decades, the availability constraint as well as learning and deteriorating effects were introduced into the production scheduling theory to simulate real-world case studies and to overcome the limitation of the classical models. To the be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,278 Views
19 Pages

10 December 2021

Passive power filters (PPFs) are most effective in mitigating harmonic pollution from power systems; however, the design of PPFs involves several objectives, which makes them a complex multiple-objective optimization problem. This study proposes a me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metaheuristic Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,286 Views
19 Pages

2 March 2020

With the application of finite element method on structure design and engineering analysis more and more widely, this paper presents a response surface model hybrid artificial bee colony method to optimize the thermal boundary conditions in finite el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,562 Views
15 Pages

In this study, the output characteristics of partial modules in a photovoltaic module array when subject to shading were first explored. Then, an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm was applied to track the global maximum power point...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photovoltaic Systems for Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,822 Views
22 Pages

Optimal Non-Convex Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch via Improved Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Abbas Rabiee,
  • Mohammad Jamadi,
  • Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo and
  • Ali Ahmadian

25 August 2020

It is well accepted that combined heat and power (CHP) generation can increase the efficiency of power and heat generation at the same time. With the increasing penetration of CHPs, determination of economic dispatch of power and heat becomes more co...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,482 Views
15 Pages

11 March 2024

In reservoir operation rule curves, it is necessary to apply rule curves to guide long-term reservoir management. This study proposes an approach to optimizing reservoir operation rule curves (RORCs) using intelligent optimization techniques from the...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,406 Views
31 Pages

Delivery Route Scheduling of Heterogeneous Robotic System with Customers Satisfaction by Using Multi-Objective Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Zhihuan Chen,
  • Shangxuan Hou,
  • Zuao Wang,
  • Yang Chen and ,
  • Mian Hu and
  • Rana Muhammad Adnan Ikram
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 September 2024

This study addresses the route scheduling problem for the heterogeneous robotic delivery system (HRDS) that perform delivery tasks in an urban environment. The HRDS comprises two distinct types of vehicles: an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), which is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,074 Views
19 Pages

26 December 2021

Although educational timetabling problems have been studied for decades, one instance of this, the school timetabling problem (STP), has not developed as quickly as examination timetabling and course timetabling problems due to its diversity and comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,990 Views
25 Pages

Land-use allocation is of great significance in urban development. This type of allocation is usually considered to be a complex multi-objective spatial optimization problem, whose optimized result is a set of Pareto-optimal solutions (Pareto front)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Environmental Analysis, Informatics, Planning, Restoration, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
10,020 Views
21 Pages

22 October 2012

A growing number of educational studies apply sensors to improve student learning in real classroom settings. However, how can sensors be integrated into classrooms to help instructors find out students’ reading concentration rates and thus better in...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
650 Views
22 Pages

Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm-Based Optimization for Reducing Tooth Flank Distortion in Form-Grinding

  • Yunlong Wu,
  • Zhonghou Wang,
  • Mingzhi Chen,
  • Yongming Yang and ,
  • Qing Li,
  • Jun Li,
  • Xiangxiang Guo and
  • Yilong Wen
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 February 2026

The tooth flank distortion error occurring during the form-grinding (FG) of an involute helical gear can significantly compromise transmission performance. Conventional research approaches often focus on single-parameter optimization—either the...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,941 Views
19 Pages

Optimal Control of an Autonomous Microgrid Integrated with Super Magnetic Energy Storage Using an Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Sherif A. Zaid,
  • Ahmed M. Kassem,
  • Aadel M. Alatwi,
  • Hani Albalawi and ,
  • Hossam AbdelMeguid and
  • Atef Elemary
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 May 2023

This article presents a microgrid that uses sustainable energy sources. It has a fuel cell (FC), wind energy production devices, and a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) device. The performance of the suggested microgrid is improved by ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimized Design of Hybrid Microgrid)

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