We present two simple, intuitive and general algorithmic frameworks that can be used to design a wide variety of permutation generation algorithms. The frameworks can be used to produce 19 existing permutation algorithms, including the well-known algorithms of Heap, Wells, Langdon, Zaks, Tompkins and Lipski. We use the frameworks to design two new sorting-based permutation generation algorithms, one of which is optimal.
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With the rapid growth of the number of web services on the Internet, various service providers provide many similar services with the same function but different quality of service (QoS) attributes. It is a key problem to be solved urgently to select the service composition quickly, meeting the users’ QoS requirements from many candidate services. Optimization of web service composition is an NP-hard issue and intelligent optimization algorithms have become the mainstream method to solve this complex problem. This paper proposed a hybrid strategy improved whale optimization algorithm, which is based on the concepts of chaos initialization, nonlinear convergence factor and mutation. By maintaining a balance between exploration and exploitation, the problem of slow or early convergence is overcome to a certain extent. To evaluate its performance more accurately, the proposed algorithm was first tested on a set of standard benchmarks. After, simulations were performed using the real quality of web service dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is better than the original version and other meta-heuristic algorithms on average, as well as verifies the feasibility and stability of web service composition optimization.
{"title":"A Hybrid Strategy Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm for Web Service Composition","authors":"Chuanxiang Ju;Hangqi Ding;Benjia Hu","doi":"10.1093/comjnl/bxab187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab187","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid growth of the number of web services on the Internet, various service providers provide many similar services with the same function but different quality of service (QoS) attributes. It is a key problem to be solved urgently to select the service composition quickly, meeting the users’ QoS requirements from many candidate services. Optimization of web service composition is an NP-hard issue and intelligent optimization algorithms have become the mainstream method to solve this complex problem. This paper proposed a hybrid strategy improved whale optimization algorithm, which is based on the concepts of chaos initialization, nonlinear convergence factor and mutation. By maintaining a balance between exploration and exploitation, the problem of slow or early convergence is overcome to a certain extent. To evaluate its performance more accurately, the proposed algorithm was first tested on a set of standard benchmarks. After, simulations were performed using the real quality of web service dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is better than the original version and other meta-heuristic algorithms on average, as well as verifies the feasibility and stability of web service composition optimization.","PeriodicalId":50641,"journal":{"name":"Computer Journal","volume":"66 3","pages":"662-677"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49977704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K Durga Devi;P Uma Maheswari;Phani Kumar Polasi;R Preetha;M Vidhyalakshmi
As there are countless significant works done for handwritten character recognition, very meager effort has been reported for inscription characters especially for Tamil stone inscriptions. The real challenge faced in handling stone inscription is dataset collection and foreground and background discrimination. Till present days, the archeological department follows traditional way of capturing, preserving and deciphering stone inscriptions which is manual, more time consuming and need expert assistance. Hence digitized recognition is essential and efficient pattern matching algorithm is needed to be developed to deal with variations in shape and size of complex structured characters present in Tamil stone inscriptions. In this paper, an automated character recognition by pattern matching approach is developed, where character features were extracted by using pattern matching algorithm that helps achieving good recognition rate. Recognition of ancient Tamil stone inscriptions characters and finding their corresponding contemporary Tamil character is done by Image-based Character Pattern Identification (ICPI) system. Modified Speeded Up Robust Feature with Bag of Grapheme (MSURF-BoG) algorithm is implemented to detect the strongest key points from the input character with different orientations. These key point features were created for training the image as a model called Bag of Grapheme (BoG) with code word creation. Hence unsupervised key point features were extracted and pattern matching is performed. 11 th