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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 682073, 14 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/682073
Research Article

Lévy-Flight Krill Herd Algorithm

Gaige Wang,1,2 Lihong Guo,1 Amir Hossein Gandomi,3 Lihua Cao,1 Amir Hossein Alavi,4 Hong Duan,5 and Jiang Li1

1Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130033, China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
3Department of Civil Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325­3905, USA
4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
5School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130117, China

Received 3 November 2012; Accepted 20 December 2012

Academic Editor: Siamak Talatahari

Copyright © 2013 Gaige Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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