International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA)
IJISA Vol. 6, No. 4, 8 Mar. 2014
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Redundancy Level Optimization in Modular Software System Models using ABC
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Artificial Bee Colony, Software reliability, Optimization, Metaheuristics, Swarm Intelligence
Abstract
The performance of optimization algorithms is problem dependent and as per no free lunch theorem, there exists no such algorithm which can be efficiently applied to every type of problem(s). However, we can modify the algorithm/ technique in a manner such that it is able to deal with a maximum type of problems. In this study we have modified the structure of basic Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), a recently proposed metaheuristic algorithm based on the concept of swarm intelligence to optimize the models of software reliability. The modified variant of ABC is termed as balanced ABC (B-ABC). The simulated results show the efficiency and capability of the variant to solve such type of the problems.
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Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant, "Redundancy Level Optimization in Modular Software System Models using ABC", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), vol.6, no.4, pp.40-48, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2014.04.04
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