More than a decade ago, engineers John Bartholdi, Craig Tovey, and John Vande Vate became interested in bees. How exactly did a colony organize thousands of foragers to collect all the nectar needed ...

In an earlier story, I wrote about how bees were searching for nectar. After finding some food, a bee returns to its hive and performs a 'waggle dance' to share its discovery with the group. Now ...

Honeybees gathering nectar inspired an algorithm that eased the burden of host servers handling unpredictable traffic by about 25 percent. Nature can inspire some great engineering, but it can also ...

Scientists in Korea have proposed to use an algorithm that simulates the behavior of foraging bees to shape a new grid-forming inverter design. The approach is designed for both grid-connected and ...

In this study, the design of the torsion and compression springs of the foldable wing mechanism used in the missile is considered an optimization problem. After the missile leaves the tube, the wings ...

Multilevel image thresholding presents a computational challenge as the number of thresholds increases, requiring efficient optimization techniques. The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a ...