Although the continuous version of ant colony optimizer (ACOR) has been successfully
applied to various problems, there is room to boost its stability and improve convergence …

Recently, a novel virus called COVID-19 has pervasive worldwide, starting from China and
moving to all the world to eliminate a lot of persons. Many attempts have been experimented …

Many countries are challenged by the medical resources required for COVID-19 detection
which necessitates the development of a low-cost, rapid tool to detect and diagnose the …

Cell microinjection is a direct and effective way to transfer external materials into the cell. In
the field of modern biomedicine, cell microinjection is very important, no matter in genetics …

Image segmentation is the most critical function in image analysis and processing. Results
of segmentation fundamentally affect all subsequent image analysis processes such as …

In recent years, the effective application of wind power forecasting in power system has
been approved. However, owing to the intermittence and nonlinearity of wind power time …

Feature selection problems often appear in the application of data mining, which have been
difficult to handle due to the NP-hard property of these problems. In this study, a simple but …

The temperature of molten iron at the taphole of blast furnace (BF) is an important parameter
that reflects molten iron quality and BF conditions. It is not easy to measure the temperature …

The separation of an object from other objects or the background by selecting the optimal
threshold values remains a challenge in the field of image segmentation. Threshold …

The state transition algorithm (STA) has been emerging as a novel metaheuristic method for
global optimization over the past few years. In our previous study, the parameter of …