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Sefa Aras

Yazılım Mühendisliği, Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi
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Fitness-distance balance (FDB): a new selection method for meta-heuristic search algorithms

HT Kahraman, S Aras, E Gedikli - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Selection methods have an important role in the meta-heuristic search (MHS) process.
However, apart from a few successful methods developed in the past, new and effective studies …

Development of the Natural Survivor Method (NSM) for designing an updating mechanism in metaheuristic search algorithms

HT Kahraman, M Katı, S Aras, DA Taşci - Engineering Applications of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Meta-heuristic search algorithms (MHSs) are methods that take their inspiration from nature.
However, the fitness value information used in the design of the update mechanism in …

Fitness–Distance Balance based adaptive guided differential evolution algorithm for security-constrained optimal power flow problem incorporating renewable energy …

U Guvenc, S Duman, HT Kahraman, S Aras… - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the most difficult types of problems computationally is the security-constrained optimal
power flow (SCOPF), a non-convex, nonlinear, large-scale, nondeterministic polynomial …

A powerful meta-heuristic search algorithm for solving global optimization and real-world solar photovoltaic parameter estimation problems

…, Y Sonmez, U Guvenc, M Kati, S Aras - … Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The teaching-learning-based artificial bee colony (TLABC) is a new hybrid swarm-based
metaheuristic search algorithm. It combines the exploitation of the teaching learning-based …

A novel stochastic fractal search algorithm with fitness-distance balance for global numerical optimization

S Aras, E Gedikli, HT Kahraman - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021 - Elsevier
Stochastic Fractal Search (SFS) is a new and original meta-heuristic search (MHS) algorithm
with strong foundations. As with many other MHS methods, there are problems in effectively …

Dynamic FDB selection method and its application: modeling and optimizing of directional overcurrent relays coordination

HT Kahraman, H Bakir, S Duman, M Katı, S Aras… - Applied …, 2022 - Springer
This article has four main objectives. These are: to develop the dynamic fitness-distance
balance (dFDB) selection method for meta-heuristic search algorithms, to develop a strong …

Development of a Lévy flight and FDB-based coyote optimization algorithm for global optimization and real-world ACOPF problems

S Duman, HT Kahraman, U Guvenc, S Aras - Soft Computing, 2021 - Springer
This article presents an improved version of the coyote optimization algorithm (COA) that is
more compatible with nature. In the proposed algorithm, fitness-distance balance (FDB) and …

A comprehensive performance analysis of meta-heuristic optimization techniques for effective organic rankine cycle design

S Gürgen, HT Kahraman, S Aras, İ Altın - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Optimizing the operating parameters is of great importance to improve Organic Rankine Cycle
(ORC) system efficiency. Nowadays, meta-heuristic algorithms are widely used to obtain …

Fitness-distance balance based artificial ecosystem optimisation to solve transient stability constrained optimal power flow problem

…, S Duman, HT Kahraman, M Kati, S Aras… - … of Experimental & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The Transient Stability Constrained Optimal Power Flow (TSCOPF) has become an important
tool for power systems today. TSCOPF is a nonlinear optimisation problem, making its …

Dental X-Ray image enhancement using a novel evolutionary optimization algorithm

İ Yildirim, MH Bozkurt, HT Kahraman, S Aras - Engineering Applications of …, 2025 - Elsevier
As an optimization problem, the main challenges in the enhancement of dental X-ray images
are to perform the tasks of edge detection, noise removal and brightness adjustment in a …