Traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one well-known NP-Complete problem. The objective is to search the optimal Hamiltonian circuit (OHC) in a tourist map. The particle swarm optimization (PSO) integrated with the four vertices and three lines inequality is introduced to detect the OHC or...

Multilevel thresholding is a popular image segmentation technique. However, computational complexity of multilevel thresholding increases very rapidly with increasing number of thresholds. Metaheuristic algorithms are applied to reduce computational complexity of multilevel thresholding. A new...

This article describes how the prediction of the length of stay demonstrates the severity of the disease as well as the practice patterns of hospitals. Also, it helps the hospital resources management provide better services for inpatients and increase inpatients' satisfaction. In this article,...

A data warehouse is a central repository of historical data designed primarily to support analytical processing. These analytical queries are exploratory, long and complex in nature. Further, the rapid and continuous growth in the size of data warehouse increases the response times of such...

Logo recognition system deals with matching of the input trademark or logo with stored trademark images in database. This application, under CBIR umbrella, focuses on optimizing search through database by extracting minimum features from set of the images and using relevance feedback mechanism...

Scheduling jobs in computational Grids is considered as NP-complete problem owing to the heterogeneity of shared resources. The resources belong to many distributed administrative domains that enforce various management policies. Therefore, the use of meta-heuristics are more appropriate option...

This article describes how the most widely used clustering, k-means, is prone to fall into a local optimum. Notably, traditional clustering approaches are directly performed on private data and fail to cope with malicious attacks in massive data mining tasks against attackers' arbitrary...

This article presents a novel improved teaching learning based optimization (I-TLBO) technique to solve economic load dispatch (ELD) problem of the thermal plant without considering transmission losses. The proposed methodology can take care of ELD problems considering practical nonlinearities...

In this work, quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO1) algorithm method is applied to the problem of impurity at the center of a spherical quantum dot for infinite confining potential case. For this purpose, a trial variational wave function is considered for ground state, and then energy...

Developing economies need to invest in energy projects. Because the gestation period of the electric projects is high, it is of paramount importance to accurately forecast the energy requirements. In the present paper, the future energy demand of the state of Tamil Nadu in India, is forecasted...