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The performance of Mobile Ad hoc networks (MANET) depends on the cooperation of all active nodes. However, supporting a MANET is a cost-intensive activity for a mobile node. From a single mobile node perspective, the detection of routes as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Syed S. Rizvi , Khaled M. Elleithy

The rapid e-commerce growth has made both business community and customers face a new situation. Due to intense competition on one hand and the customer's option to choose from several alternatives business community has realized the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ajith Abraham , Vitorino Ramos

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a family of nature-inspired metaheuristics often applied to finding approximate solutions to difficult optimization problems. Despite being significantly faster than exact methods, the ACOs can still be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Rafał Skinderowicz

Connecting the wired and wireless networks particularly the Mobile ad hoc Network is interesting in real world situations due to its usefulness and practicality. Different mechanisms have been proposed to integrate MANETs and the Internet.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Akashdeep Bhardwaj , G. V. B. Subrahmanyam , Vinay Avasthi , Hanumat Sastry

Minimization of the number of cluster heads in a wireless sensor network is a very important problem to reduce channel contention and to improve the efficiency of the algorithm when executed at the level of cluster-heads. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Ehsan Heidari , Ali Movaghar

Ant colony optimization (ACO) has been applied to the field of combinatorial optimization widely. But the study of convergence theory of ACO is rare under general condition. In this paper, the authors try to find the evidence to prove that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-10-25 Chao-Yang Pang , Chong-Bao Wang , Ben-Qiong Hu

Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs), formed by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), represent an emerging and promising communication paradigm. These networks face unique challenges due to UAVs high mobility, limited energy resources, and dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Basilis Mamalis , Marios Perlitis

Applications of ACO algorithms to obtain better solutions for combinatorial optimization problems have become very popular in recent years. In ACO algorithms, group of agents repeatedly perform well defined actions and collaborate with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-07 G. S. Raghavendra , N. Prasanna Kumar

Interaction between users in online social networks plays a key role in social network analysis. One on important types of social group is full connected relation between some users, which known as clique structure. Therefore finding a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Mohammad Soleimani-Pouri , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

The wireless network places vital role in the present day communication scenario. The ad hoc nature of wireless communication adds flavour to suit various real world applications. This improves the performance of the network tremendously…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-15 S. Thirumurugan , E. George Dharma Prakash Raj

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

Subset selection is an important component in evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) algorithms. Clustering, as a classic method to group similar data points together, has been used for subset selection in some fields. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Weiyu Chen , Hisao Ishibuchi , Ke Shang

In situations where establishing a network infrastructure is impossible, Ad-hoc networks are considered particularly important. Most of the previous research in Ad-hoc networks concentrated on the development and enhancement of dynamic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Amer O. Abu Salem , Tareq Alhmiedat , Ghassan Samara

This paper proposes a simple, automatic and efficient clustering algorithm, namely, Automatic Merging for Optimal Clusters (AMOC) which aims to generate nearly optimal clusters for the given datasets automatically. The AMOC is an extension…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-07 K. Karteeka Pavan , Allam Appa Rao , A. V. Dattatreya Rao

This paper research review Ant colony optimization (ACO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA), both are two powerful meta-heuristics. This paper explains some major defects of these two algorithm at first then proposes a new model for ACO in which,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Hassan Ismkhan

The paper tackles the problem of clustering multiple networks, directed or not, that do not share the same set of vertices, into groups of networks with similar topology. A statistical model-based approach based on a finite mixture of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Tabea Rebafka

Clustering of mobile ad hoc networks is a largely growing field. The perceived benefits of clustering are comprehensively analyzed in open literature. This paper considers the development of a new connected-dominated-set clustering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Ayman M. Bahaa-Eldin , Dina S. M. Hassan , Hossam M. A. Fahmy

Finding a good clustering of vertices in a network, where vertices in the same cluster are more tightly connected than those in different clusters, is a useful, important, and well-studied task. Many clustering algorithms scale well,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Thomas DuBois , Jennifer Golbeck , Aravind Srinivasan

The structure of many complex networks includes edge directionality and weights on top of their topology. Network analysis that can seamlessly consider combination of these properties are desirable. In this paper, we study two important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Frederique Oggier , Silivanxay Phetsouvanh , Anwitaman Datta

Currently, data-driven discovery in biological sciences resides in finding segmentation strategies in multivariate data that produce sensible descriptions of the data. Clustering is but one of several approaches and sometimes falls short…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-12 Richard Tjörnhammar