Swarm intelligence algorithms are a subset of the artificial intelligence (AI) field, which is
increasing popularity in resolving different optimization problems and has been widely …

The ABC algorithm is one of the popular optimization algorithms and has been used
successfully in solving many real-world problems. Numeric, binary, integer, mixed integer …

During the past decade, solving complex optimization problems with metaheuristic
algorithms has received considerable attention among practitioners and researchers …

Most of the optimization problems encountered in the real world are discrete type which
involves decision variables defined in the discrete search space. Binary optimization …

Abstract The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) technique is a highly effective method of
optimization inspired by the behavior of bees. Notably, the importance of the ABC algorithm …

A novel parameter-free meta-heuristic optimization algorithm known as the golden ratio
optimization method (GROM) is proposed. The proposed algorithm is inspired by the golden …

Single-solution-based optimization algorithms are computationally cheap yet powerful
methods that can be used on various optimization tasks at minimal processing expenses …

In the field of image processing, there are several problems where the efficient search has to
be performed in complex search domain to find an optimal solution. Image enhancement …

Medical imaging systems often require the application of image enhancement techniques to
help physicians in anomaly/abnormality detection and diagnosis, as well as to improve the …

A multipurpose image watermarking scheme is proposed in the present work in order to
provide tamper localization, self-recovery and ownership verification of the host image. For …