Over the last few decades, many population-based swarm and evolutionary algorithms were
introduced in the literature. It is well known that population topology or sociometry plays an …

Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) inspired by the law of gravity is a swarm intelligent
optimization algorithm. It utilizes the gravitational force to implement the interaction and …

Swarm based techniques have huge application domain covering multiple disciplines,
which include power system, fuzzy system, forecasting, bio-medicine, sociological analysis …

Parallel computation is an efficient way to combine the advantages of different computation
paradigms to obtain promising solution. In order to analyze the performance of parallel …

Island models are an interesting and powerful alternative in order to achieve at least two
objectives in optimization: to increase the speed up of the algorithms (taking advantage of …

This paper presents a variation on the DEPSO-2S algorithm, called Parallel Adaptive PSO
(PA2PSO). The goals of the PA2PSO algorithm are to find the value closest the global …

Complex networks have been attracting much attention and developed rapidly over the past
two decades. In nature and society, numerous networks have been described widely, such …

Complex networks have been attracting much attention and developed rapidly over the past
two decades. In nature and society, numerous networks have been described widely, such …

Presente em praticamente todas as áreas do conhecimento, a otimizaçao é objeto
constante de estudo, tanto com respeitoa evoluçao de métodos já conhecidos, quanto com …

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are increasingly used to acquire information in harsh and
inaccessible two-dimensional (2 D) and three-dimensional (3D) environments. Self …