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Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.Many plants retain nectarless flowers; we tested whether these act as “decoys” for bees by making neighbouring rewarding flowers seem more valuable—a cognitive bias known as the decoy effect. The presence of decoy flowers did not shift bumblebee preferences between two equally rewarding inflorescences, and bees quickly learned to avoid these nectarless
Mélissa Armand +3 more
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Artificial Bee Colony Training of Neural Networks [PDF]
, 2014 The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) is a recently introduced swarm intelligence algorithm for optimization, that has previously been applied successfully to the training of neural networks. This paper explores more carefully the performance of the ABC algorithm for optimizing the connection weights of feed-forward neural networks for classification tasks ...
John A. Bullinaria, Khulood AlYahya
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The adaptive significance of sensory bias in a foraging context: floral colour preferences in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris [PDF]
, 2007 Innate sensory biases could play an important role in helping naïve animals to find food. As inexperienced bees are known to have strong innate colour biases we investigated whether bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies with stronger biases for the most
Lars Chittka +6 more
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Urban peatlands can harbour diverse insect communities but depend on appropriate habitat management
Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Urban peatlands can support high insect diversity, including endangered species and peat bog specialists. Flower diversity boosts endangered species, while succession cover reduces overall insect richness—but bog condition and urbanization showed no major effects.
Nadja Pernat +3 more
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An artificial bee colony algorithm for the set covering problem
, 2014 In this paper, we present a new Artificial Bee Colony algorithm to solve the non-unicost Set Covering Problem. The Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a recent metaheuristic technique based on the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bee swarm ...
Cuesta R. +3 more
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Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.Parasitoid wasps deploy maternal and embryonic factors to reprogramme host physiology. Venom, calyx fluid, polydnaviruses, teratocytes and larval secretions act in a coordinated, compartmentalised manner. Host‐regulation factors are promising sources of insecticidal, antimicrobial and bioinspired translational molecules.
Ciro Pedro G. Pinto +2 more
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Applied SciencesIn computer network security, the escalating use of computer networks and the corresponding increase in cyberattacks have propelled Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) to the forefront of research in computer science.
Hadi Najafi Mohsenabad, Mehmet Ali Tut
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Polish Maritime Research, 2017 The multi-autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) distributed task allocation model of a contract net, which introduces an equilibrium coefficient, has been established to solve the multi-AUV distributed task allocation problem.
Li Jianjun, Zhang Ru Bo
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A Web-Service for Automated Software Refactoring Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization
, 2012 Automated software refactoring is one of the hard combinatorial optimization problems of search-based software engineering domain. The idea is to enhance the quality of the existing software under the guidance of software quality metrics through ...
Ersoy, Nur +3 more
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Artificial Bee Colony Programming Descriptor for Multi-Class Texture Classification
, 2019 Texture classification is one of the machine learning methods that attempts to classify textures by evaluating samples. Extracting related features from the samples is necessary to successfully classify textures.
Sibel Arslan +3 more
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