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• Chapter 1. Design and Construction of a Dual Axis Solar Tracking System by Astronomical Algorithm.-
• Chapter 2. Estimation of Magnetic Flux linkage in SRM using various defuzzification techniques.-
• Chapter 3. Multilevel Inverter based STATCOM for Distribution System.-
• Chapter 4. Sensitivity Analysis and Design Optimization of Synchronous Reluctance and Permanent Magnet Motors.-
• Chapter 5. A New Heuristic algorithm for Economic Load Dispatch incorporating wind power.-
• Chapter 6. Enhanced Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm For Numerical Optimization.-
• Chapter 7. Eco-Routing - To Reduce Vehicle CO2 Emissions by CACC: An IoT Application.-
• Chapter 8. Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control of DC-DC Boost Converter with Right-Half Plane Zero.-
• Chapter 9. Liquid Level Control of Non Linear Process Using Big Bang - Big Crunch Optimization Based Controller.-
• Chapter 10. Impact of PV Cells and MPPT Controller on Power System Dynamics.-
• Chapter 11. Wavelet Feature Based Microcalcification Detection in Mammogram.-
• Chapter 12. Reliable Radiation Hardened Memory Cells for Single-Event Multiple Effects.-
• Chapter 13. Finger Vein Identification Using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks.-
• Chapter 14. Computer Aided Detection of Malignant Mass in Mammogram using U-Net Architecture.-
• Chapter 15. Visualization and Evaluation of Methane Gas Leakage by Thermal Image Processing using Supervised Deep Learning Models.
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This book gathers selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems, held at the Anna University, Chennai, India, from 20 to 22 April 2020. It covers advances and recent developments in various computational intelligence techniques, with an emphasis on the design of communication systems. In addition, it shares valuable insights into advanced computational methodologies such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid intelligent systems, uncertain reasoning techniques, and other machine learning methods and their application to decision-making and problem-solving in mobile and wireless communication networks.
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• On Monte Carlo Tree Search for Weighted Vertex Coloring.- A RNN-based Hyper-heuristic for combinatorial problems.- Algorithm Selection for the Team Orienteering Problem.- Performance evaluation of a parallel ant colony optimization for the real-time train routing selection problem in large instances.- Deep Infeasibility Exploration Method for Vehicle Routing Problems.- Evolutionary Algorithms for the Constrained Two-Level Role Mining Problem.- Simplifying Dispatching Rules in Genetic Programming for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling.- Novelty-Driven Binary Particle Swarm Optimisation for Truss Optimisation Problems.- A Beam Search for the Shortest Common Supersequence Problem Guided by an Approximate Expected Length Calculation.- Modeling the Costas Array Problem in QUBO for Quantum Annealing.- Penalty Weights in QUBO formulations: Permutation Problems.- PUBOi: a tunable benchmark with variable importance.- Stagnation Detection meets Fast Mutation.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2022, held as part of Evo*2022, in Madrid, Spain, during April 20-21, 2022, co-located with the Evo*2022 events: EvoMUSART, EvoApplications, and EuroGP. The 13 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They present recent theoretical and experimental advances in combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and related research fields.
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• Improved Grey wolf Optimization based Feature selection and classification using CNN for Diabetic Retinopathy detection.- Feature Selection Using Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm with COVID-19 Dataset.- Blood Cell Image Denoising based on Tunicate Rat Swarm Optimization with Median Filter.- A Hybrid Approach for Deep Noise Suppression using Deep Neural Networks.- Human Health Care Systems Analysis for Cloud Data Structure of Biometric System using ECG Analysis.- Data mining for Solving Medical Diagnostics Problems.- Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy using Ensemble of Machine Learning Classifiers with IDRID Dataset.- Epileptic Seizure Prediction Using Geometrical Features Extracted From HRV Signal.- An Extensive Survey on Outlier Prediction using Mining and Learning Approaches.- Performance Comparison of Data Security Strategies in Fog Computing.- Design and Simulation of a Direct-PSK Based Telecommand Receiver for Small Satellite
• Analysis of Data Aggregation and Clustering Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning.- DetecSec : A Framework to Detect and Mitigate ARP Cache Poisoning Attacks.- PAPR Reduction in SDR based OFDM System.
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This book mainly reflects the recent research works in evolutionary computation technologies and mobile sustainable networks with a specific focus on computational intelligence and communication technologies that widely ranges from theoretical foundations to practical applications in enhancing the sustainability of mobile networks. Today, network sustainability has become a significant research domain in both academia and industries present across the globe. Also, the network sustainability paradigm has generated a solution for existing optimization challenges in mobile communication networks. Recently, the research advances in evolutionary computing technologies including swarm intelligence algorithms and other evolutionary algorithm paradigms are considered as the widely accepted descriptors for mobile sustainable networks virtualization, optimization, and automation. To deal with the emerging impacts on mobile communication networks, this book discusses about the state-of-the research works on developing a sustainable design and their implementation in mobile networks. With the advent of evolutionary computation algorithms, this book contributes varied research chapters to develop a new perspective on mobile sustainable networks.
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• Swarm Intelligence and Its Applications.- Operational Technologies and Networked Multimedia Applications.- Wearable Computing and Intelligent Data Hiding.- Image Processing and Intelligent Applications.- Intelligent Multimedia Tools and Applications.- Technologies for Next-Generation Network Environments.- Recent Progress in Computational Electromagnetic Dynamics.- Future Cyber Security, Privacy and Forensics for Advanced systems.- Data Mining Techniques and its Applications.- Optimization Models in Deep Learning/Machine Learning.
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This book contains selected papers presented at ICGEC 2021, the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, held from October 21-23, 2021 in Jilin City, China. The conference was technically co-sponsored by Springer, Northeast Electric Power University Fujian University of Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. It is intended as an international forum for the researchers and professionals in all areas of genetic and evolutionary computing. And the readers may learn the up-to-date techniques of the mentioned topics, including swarm intelligence, artificial intelligence, information hiding and data mining techniques, which can help them to bring new ideas or apply the designed approaches from the collected papers to their professional jobs.
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• Automated Flower Species Identification by using Deep convolution neural network
• Information Retrieval for Cloud Forensics
• Machine Translation System Combination with Enhanced Alignments using Word Embeddings
• Geometry Based Machining Feature Retrieval with Inductive Transfer Learning
• Grapheme to phoneme conversion for Malayalam Speech Using encoder-decoder Architecture
• Usage of Block Chain Technology in e-Voting System using Private Block Chain
• Bengali Visual Genome: A Multimodal Dataset for Machine Translation and Image Captioning
• Deep Learning based Mosquito Species detection using Wingbeats frequencies
• Developments in Capsule Network Architecture: A Review
• Computer aided segmentation of polyps using Mask R-CNN and approach to reduce false positives
• Image GPT with Super Resolution.

This book presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2021), held at NIT Mizoram, Aizwal, Mizoram, India, during June 25-26, 2021. FICTA conference aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners to exchange their new ideas and experiences in the domain of intelligent computing theories with prospective applications to various engineering disciplines. This volume covers broad areas of Intelligent Data Engineering and Analytics. The conference papers included herein presents both theoretical as well as practical aspects of data intensive computing, data mining, big data, knowledge management, intelligent data acquisition and processing from sensors, data communication networks protocols and architectures, etc. The volume will also serve as a knowledge centre for students of post-graduate level in various engineering disciplines. .

• On Restricting Real-Valued Genotypes in Evolutionary Algorithms.- Towards Explainable Exploratory Landscape Analysis: Extreme Feature Selection for Classifying BBOB Functions.- Co-Optimising Robot Morphology and Controller in a Simulated Open-ended Environment.- Multi-objective workforce allocation in construction projects.- Generating Duplex Routes for Robust Bus Transport Network by Improved Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition.- Combining Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms with deep generative models towards focused molecular design.- A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Approach for Optimizing Part Quality Aware Assembly Job Shop Scheduling Problems.- Evolutionary Grain-Mixing to Improve Profitability in Farming Winter Wheat.- Automatic Modular Design of Behavior Trees for Robot Swarms with Communication Capabilites.- Salp Swarm Optimization Search Based Feature Selection for Enhanced Phishing Websites Detection.- Real Time Optimisation of Traffic Signals to Prioritise Public Transport.- Adaptive Covariance Pattern Search.- Evaluating the Success-History based Adaptive Differential Evolution in the Protein Structure Prediction problem.- Beyond Body Shape and Brain: Evolving the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-based Soft Robots.- Desirable Objective Ranges in Preference-based Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization.- Improving Search Efficiency and Diversity of Solutions in Multiobjective Binary Optimization by Using Metaheuristics plus Integer Linear Programming.- Automated, Explainable Rule Extraction from MAP-Elites archives.- EDM-DRL: Toward Stable Reinforcement Learning through Ensembled Directed Mutation.- Continuous Ant-Based Neural Topology.- Playing with Dynamic Systems - Battling Swarms in Virtual Reality.- EvoCraft: A New Challenge for Open-Endedness.- A Profile-Based 'GrEvolutionary' Hearthstone Agent.- Modelling Asthma Patients' Responsiveness to Treatment Using Feature Selection and Evolutionary Computation.- Bayesian Networks for Mood Prediction Using Unobtrusive Ecological Momentary Assessments.- A Multi-Objective Multi-Type Facility Location Problem for the Delivery of Personalised Medicine.- RDE-OP: A Region-Based Differential Evolution Algorithm Incorporation Opposition-Based Learning for Optimising the Learning Process of Multi-Layer Neural Networks.- Estimation of Grain-level Residual Stresses in a Quenched Cylindrical Sample of Aluminum Alloy AA5083 using Genetic Programming.- EDA-based optimization of blow-off valve positions for centrifugal compressor systems.- 3D-2D Registration using X-ray Simulation and CMA-ES.- Lateralized Approach for Robustness AgainstAttacks in Emotion Categorization from Images.- Improved Crowding Distance in Multi-objective Optimization for Feature Selection in Classification.- Deep Optimisation: Multi-Scale Evolution by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations.- Evolutionary Planning in Latent Space.- Utilizing the Untapped Potential of Indirect Encoding for Neural Networks with Meta Learning.- Effective Universal Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks using a MOE Approach.- Improving Distributed Neuroevolution Using Island Extinction and Repopulation.- An Experimental Study of Weight Initialization and Lamarckian Inheritance on Neuroevolution.- Towards Feature-Based Performance Regression Using Trajectory Data.- Demonstrating the Evolution of GANs through t-SNE.- Optimising diversity in classifier ensembles of classification trees.- WILDA: Wide Learning of Diverse Architectures for Classification of Large Datasets.- Evolving Character-Level DenseNet Architectures using Genetic Programming.- Transfer Learning for Automated Test Case Prioritization using XCSF.- On the Effects of Absumption for XCS with Continuous-Valued Inputs.- A NEAT Visualisation of Neuroevolution Trajectories.- Evaluating Models with Dynamic Sampling Holdout.- Event-driven multi-algorithm optimization: mixing Swarm and Evolutionary strategies.- TensorGP - Genetic Programming Engine in TensorFlow.- A novel evolutionary approach for IoT-based water contaminant detection.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Roughness Coefficient Estimation in River Flow Analyses.- EA-based ASV Trajectory Planner for Pollution Detection in Lentic Waters.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2021, held as part of Evo*2021, as Virtual Event, in April 2021, co-located with the Evo*2021 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART. The 51 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from applications of evolutionary computation; applications of deep bioinspired algorithms; soft computing applied to games; machine learning and AI in digital healthcare and personalized medicine; evolutionary computation in image analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition; evolutionary machine learning; parallel and distributed systems; and applications of nature inspired computing for sustainability and development. .
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• Faster Result Retrieval from Health Care Product Sales Data Warehouse using Materialized Queries.- Feature Selection using Ant Colony Optimization and Weighted Visibility Graph.- From Generic to Custom: A Survey on Role of Machine Learning in Pharmacogenomics, Its Applications and Challenges.- Personalized Structure Balance Theory Based Movie Recommendation System.- Machine Learning Techniques for the Investigation of Phishing Websites.
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This book presents the proceedings of 8th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2020), which aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners to share new ideas and experiences in the domain of intelligent computing theories with prospective applications to various engineering disciplines. The book is divided into two volumes: Evolution in Computational Intelligence (Volume 1) and Intelligent Data Engineering and Analytics (Volume 2). Covering a broad range of topics in computational intelligence, the book features papers on theoretical as well as practical aspects of areas such as ANN and genetic algorithms, computer interaction, intelligent control optimization, evolutionary computing, intelligent e-learning systems, machine learning, mobile computing, and multi-agent systems. As such, it is a valuable reference resource for postgraduate students in various engineering disciplines.
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• Optimal Resource Sharing amongst Device-to-Device Communication using Particle Swarm Algorithm.- Real Time Human Locator and Advance Home Security Appliances.- A Novel Implementation of Haptic Robotic Arm.- Design of Book Recommendation System Using Sentiment Analysis.- Review of Python for Solar Photovoltaic Systems.- Key Stroke Dynamics for User Verification.- The Role of Predictive Data Analytics in Retailing.- Improved Scheduling Algorithm for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing.- Generating Automobile Images Dynamically from Text Description.- Generating Automobile Images Dynamically from Text Description.- Identification of Online Auction Bidding Robots using Machine Learning.- Analysis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder using Various Classifiers.- Generating Feasible Path Between Path Testing and Data Flow Testing.- Parking Management System Using Internet of Things.- Binomial Logistic Regression Resource Optimized Routing In MANET.- Homo Sapiens Sapiens Diabetes Mellitus Detection and Classification.- Improved Logistic Map based Algorithm for Biometric Image Encryption.- Accuracy Analysis of Similarity Measures in Surprise Framework.- Tunable Access Control for Data Sharing in Cloud.- Conceptual Online Education using E-Learning Platform of Cloud Computing.- Efficient Deployment of Web Application in Serverless Environment.
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This book features selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks (ICECMSN 2020), held at the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology on 20-21 February 2020. Discussing advances in evolutionary computing technologies, including swarm intelligence algorithms and other evolutionary algorithm paradigms which are emerging as widely accepted descriptors for mobile sustainable networks virtualization, optimization and automation, this book is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of evolutionary computing and mobile sustainable networks.
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• AI Techniques and applications.- Data Analytics and Technologies.- Data Mining and Image Processing.- Machine & Statistical Learning. .
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science, SCDS 2021, which was held virtually in November 2021. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on AI techniques and applications; data analytics and technologies; data mining and image processing; machine & statistical learning. .
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• Applications of Evolutionary Computation.- A Local Search for Numerical Optimisation based on Covariance Matrix Diagonalisation.- EvoCluster: An Open-Source Nature-Inspired Optimization Clustering Framework in Python.- Optimizing the Hyperparameters of a Mixed Integer Linear Programming Solver to Speed Up Electric Vehicle Charging Control.- Automatic rule extraction from access rules using Genetic Programming.- Search Trajectory Networks of Population-based Algorithms in Continuous Spaces.- Evolving-controllers versus learning-controllers for morphologically evolvable robots.- Simulation-driven multi-objective evolution for traffic light optimization.- Automatic Generation of Adversarial Metamorphic Malware Using MAP-Elites.- EvoDynamic: a framework for the evolution of generally represented dynamical systems and its application to criticality.- A Decomposition-Based Evolutionary Algorithm with Adaptive Weight Vectors for Multi- and Many-objective Optimization.- Differential Evolution Multi-Objective for Tertiary Protein Structure Prediction.- Particle Swarm Optimization: A Wrapper-based Feature Selection Method for Ransomware Detection and Classification.- A method for estimating the computational complexity of multimodal functions.- Locating Odour Sources with Geometric Syntactic Genetic Programming.- Designing cable-stayed bridges with Genetic Algorithms.- A fast, scalable meta-heuristic for network slicing under traffic uncertainty.- What is Your MOVE: Modeling Adversarial Network Environments.- Using evolution to design modular robots: An empirical approach to select module designs.- Iterated Granular Neighborhood Algorithm for the Taxi Sharing Problem.- Applications of Bio-inspired techniques on Social Networks.- Multiobjective Optimization of a Targeted Vaccination Scheme in the Presence of Non-diagnosed Cases.- Community Detection in Attributed Graphs with Differential Evolution.- Applications of Deep Bioinspired Algorithms.- Fake news detection using time series and user features classification.- Social Learning vs Self-teaching in a Multi-agent Neural Network System.- Evolving Instinctive Behaviour in Resource-Constrained Autonomous Agents Using Grammatical Evolution.- An Adversarial Optimization Approach for the Development of Robust Controllers.- Soft Computing Applied to Games.- Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game.- Finding Behavioural Patterns Among League of Legends Players Through Hidden Markov Models.- Learning the Designer's Preferences to Drive Evolution.- Testing hybrid computational intelligence algorithms for general game playing.- Evolutionary Computation in Digital Healthcare and Personalized Medicine.- Accelerated Design of HIFU Treatment Plans Using Island-based Evolutionary Strategy.- Using Genetic Algorithms for the prediction of cognitive impairments.- Short and Medium Term Blood Glucose Prediction using Multi-Objective Grammatical Evolution.- Evolutionary Machine Learning.- A Greedy Iterative Layered Framework for Training Feed Forward Neural Networks.- Evolution of Scikit-Learn Pipelines with Dynamic Structured Grammatical Evolution.- An Empirical Exploration of Deep Recurrent Connections Using Neuro-Evolution.- Using Skill Rating as Fitness on the Evolution of GANs.- A Local Search with a Surrogate Assisted Option for Instance Reduction.- Evolutionary Latent Space Exploration of Generative Adversarial Networks.- Neuro-Evolutionary Transfer Learning through Structural Adaptation.- Ant-based Neural Topology Search (ANTS) for Optimizing Recurrent Networks.- Parallel and Distributed Systems.- A MIMD interpreter for Genetic Programming.- Security Risk Optimization for Multi-Cloud Applications.- Using evolutionary algorithms for server hardening via the moving target defense technique.- An Event-based Architecture for Cross-Breed Multi-population Bio-inspired Optimization Algorithms.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2020, held as part of Evo*2020, in Seville, Spain, in April 2020, co-located with the Evo*2020 events EuroGP, EvoMUSART and EvoCOP. The 44 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from applications of bio-inspired techniques on social networks, evolutionary computation in digital healthcare and personalized medicine, soft-computing applied to games, applications of deep-bioinspired algorithms, parallel and distributed systems, and evolutionary machine learning. .
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• Towards an Assistive Social Robot Interacting with Human Patient to Establish a Mutual and Effective Support.- Selecting for Positive Responses to Knock outs in Boolean Networks.- Avalanches of Perturbations in Modular Gene Regulatory Networks.- The Effects of a Simplified Model of Chromatin Dynamics on Attractors Robustness in Random Boolean Networks with Self-loops: an Experimental Study.- A Memetic Approach for the Orienteering Problem.- The Detection of Dynamical Organization in Cancer Evolution Models.- The Simulation of Noise Impact on the Dynamics of a Discrete Chaotic Map.- Exploiting Distributed Discrete-Event Simulation Techniques for Parallel Execution of Cellular Automata.- A Relevance Index-based Method for Improved Detection of Malicious Users in Social Networks.- An Analysis of Cooperative Coevolutionary Differential Evolution as Neural Networks Optimizer.- Design and Evaluation of a Heuristic Optimization Tool Based on Evolutionary Grammars Using PSoCs.- How Word Choice Affects Cognitive Impairment Detection by Handwriting Analysis: a Preliminary Study.- Modeling the Coordination of a Multiple Robots Using Nature Inspired Approaches.- Nestedness Temperature in the Agent-Artifact Space: Emergence of Hierarchical Order in the 2000-2014 Photonics Techno-Economic Complex System.- Towards Programmable Chemistries.- Studying and Simulating the Three-dimensional Arrangement of Droplets.- Investigating Three-dimensional Arrangements of Droplets.
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This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 14th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2019, held in Rende, Italy, in September 2019. The 13 full papers and 4 short paper presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. They are focused on the topics of information systems, design and analysis of algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive science, modeling and simulation, collaborative and social computing, parallel computing, distributed computing. The chapter "Nestedness Temperature in the Agent-Artifact Space: Emergence of Hierarchical Order in the 2000-2014 Photonics Techno-Economic Complex System" is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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• Chapter 1: An Enhanced Model for Digital Reference Services (MDRS).-
• Chapter 2: Fuzzy Random Based Mean Variance Model For Agricultural Production Planning.-
• Chapter 3: Residual Neural Network vs Local Binary Convolutional Neural Networks for Bilingual Handwritten Digit Recognition.-
• Chapter 4: Incorporating the Markov Chain Model in WBSN for Improving Patients' Remote Monitoring Systems.-
• Chapter 5: Designing Deep Neural Network with Chicken Swarm Optimization for Violence Video Classification using VSD2014 Dataset.-
• Chapter 6: Header Based Email Spam Detection Framework Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) Technique.-
• Chapter 7: A Mechanism to Support Agile Frameworks Enhancing Reliability Assessment for SCS Development: A Case Study of Medical Surgery Departments.-
• Chapter 8: Link Bandwidth Recommendation for Indonesian E-Health Grid.-
• Chapter 9: Investigating the Optimal Parameterization of Deep Neural Network and Synthetic Data Workflow for Imbalance Liver Disorder Dataset Classification.-
• Chapter 10: Genetic Algorithm Based Parallel K-Means Data Clustering Algorithm Using MapReduce Programming Paradigm on Hadoop Environment (GAPKCA).-
• Chapter 11: Android Botnet Detection by Classification Techniques.
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This book provides an introduction to data science and offers a practical overview of the concepts and techniques that readers need to get the most out of their large-scale data mining projects and research studies. It discusses data-analytical thinking, which is essential to extract useful knowledge and obtain commercial value from the data. Also known as data-driven science, soft computing and data mining disciplines cover a broad interdisciplinary range of scientific methods and processes. The book provides readers with sufficient knowledge to tackle a wide range of issues in complex systems, bringing together the scopes that integrate soft computing and data mining in various combinations of applications and practices, since to thrive in these data-driven ecosystems, researchers, data analysts and practitioners must understand the design choice and options of these approaches. This book helps readers to solve complex benchmark problems and to better appreciate the concepts, tools and techniques used.
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• EvoSET: Hybrid Algorithms Based on Integer Programming for the Search of Prioritized Test Data in Software Product Lines.- On the Use of Smelly Examples to Detect Code Smells in JavaScript.- Deep Parameter Tuning of Concurrent Divide and Conquer Algorithms in Akka.- Focusing Learning-based Testing away from Known Weaknesses.- Polytypic Genetic Programming.- Evolving Rules for Action Selection in Automated Testing via Genetic Programming - A First Approach.- EvoSTOC: A New Multi-swarm Particle Swarm Optimization for Robust Optimization over Time.- The Static and Stochastic VRP with Time Windows and Both Random Customers and Reveal Times.- Pre-Scheduled Colony Size Variation in Dynamic Environments.- An Online Packing Heuristic for the Three-dimensional Container Loading Problem in Dynamic Environments and the Physical Internet.- Advancing Dynamic Evolutionary Optimization Using In-Memory Database Technology.- Road Traffic Rules Synthesis Using Grammatical Evolution.- Solving Dynamic Graph Coloring Problem Using Dynamic Pool Based Evolutionary Algorithm.- General: Meta-Heuristics for Improved RF Emitter Localization.- Automated Design of Genetic Programming Classification Algorithms Using a Genetic Algorithm.
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The two volumes LNCS 10199 and 10200 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 20th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, colocated with the Evo* 2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART. The 46 revised full papers presented together with 26 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. EvoApplications 2016 consisted of the following 13 tracks: EvoBAFIN (natural computing methods in business analytics and finance), EvoBIO (evolutionary computation, machine learning and data mining in computational biology), EvoCOMNET (nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems), EvoCOMPLEX (evolutionary algorithms and complex systems), EvoENERGY (evolutionary computation in energy applications), EvoGAMES (bio-inspired algorithms in games), EvoIASP (evolutionary computation in image analysis, signal processing, and pattern recognition), EvoINDUSTRY (nature-inspired techniques in industrial settings), EvoKNOW (knowledge incorporation in evolutionary computation), EvoNUM (bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimization), EvoPAR (parallel implementation of evolutionary algorithms), EvoROBOT (evolutionary robotics), EvoSET (nature-inspired algorithms in software engineering and testing), and EvoSTOC (evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments). .
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• EvoBAFIN: Enhanced Multiobjective Population-Based Incremental Learning with Applications in Risk Treaty Optimization
• Genetic Programming with Memory for Financial Trading
• Improving Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification on Unbalanced Credit Card Data
• Evolving Classification Models for Prediction of Patient Recruitment in Multicentre Clinical Trials Using Grammatical Evolution
• Portfolio Optimization, a Decision-Support Methodology for Small Budgets
• Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for Portfolios in Emerging Markets: Contrasting Higher Moments and Median Models
• EvoBIO: On Combinatorial Optimisation in Analysis of Protein-Protein Interaction and Protein Folding Networks
• A Multi-objective Genetic Programming Biomarker Detection Approach in Mass Spectrometry Data
• Automating Biomedical Data Science Through Tree-Based Pipeline Optimization
• Bicliques in Graphs with Correlated Edges: From Artificial to Biological Networks
• Hybrid Biclustering Algorithms for Data Mining
• Discovering Potential Clinical Profiles of Multiple Sclerosis from Clinical and Pathological Free Text Data with Constraint Non-negative Matrix Factorization
• Application of Evolutionary Algorithms for the Optimization of Genetic Regulatory Networks
• EvoCOMNET: A Hybrid Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for the Multicast Routing Problem
• Evolving Coverage Optimisation Functions for Heterogeneous Networks Using Grammatical Genetic Programming
• Joint Topology Optimization, Power Control and Spectrum Allocation for Intra-Vehicular Multi-hop Sensor Networks Using Dandelion-Encoded Heuristics
• A Heuristic Crossover Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithm for Clustering Wireless Sensor Network
• A Variable Local Search Based Memetic Algorithm for the Load Balancing Problem in Cloud Computing
• An (MI)LP-Based Primal Heuristic for 3-Architecture Connected Facility Location in Urban Access Network Design
• Reducing Efficiency of Connectivity-Splitting Attack on Newscast via Limited Gossip
• A Distributed Intrusion Detection Framework Based on Evolved Specialized Ensembles of Classifiers
• UAV Fleet Mobility Model with Multiple Pheromones for Tracking Moving Observation Targets
• EvoCOMPLEX: Towards Intelligent Biological Control: Controlling Boolean Networks with Boolean Networks
• The Emergence of Cooperation in Public Goods Games on Randomly Growing Dynamic Networks
• Influence Maximization in Social Networks with Genetic Algorithms
• Measuring Diversity of Socio-Cognitively Inspired ACO Search
• Multiwinner Voting in Genetic Algorithms for Solving Ill-Posed Global Optimization Problems
• EvoENERGY: A Decentralized PSO with Decoder for Scheduling Distributed Electricity Generation
• Comparison of Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization in Smart Building Scenarios
• Stigmergy-Based Scheduling of Flexible Loads
• Electrical Load Pattern Shape Clustering Using Ant Colony Optimization
• Optimization of Operation and Control Strategies for Battery Energy Storage Systems by Evolutionary Algorithms
• EvoGAMES: Orthogonally Evolved AI to Improve Difficulty Adjustment in Video Games
• There Can Be only One: Evolving RTS Bots via Joust Selection
• Constrained Level Generation through Grammar-Based Evolutionary Algorithms
• Evolving Chess-Like Games Using Relative Algorithm Performance Profiles
• Online Evolution for Multi-action Adversarial Games
• The Story of Their Lives: Massive Procedural Generation of Heroes' Journeys Using Evolved Agent-Based Models and Logical Reasoning
• Dangerousness Metric for Gene Regulated Car Driving
• Using Isovists to Evolve Terrains with Gameplay Elements
• A Spatially-Structured PCG Method for Content Diversity in a Physics-Based simulation Game
• Design and Evaluation of an Extended Learning Classifier-Based StarCraft Micro AI
• EvoIASP: A Wrapper Feature Selection Approach to Classification with Missing Data
• Bare-Bone Particle Swarm Optimisation for Simultaneously Discretising and Selecting Features For High-Dimensional Classification
• Mutual Information Estimation for Filter Based Feature Selection Using Particle Swarm Optimization
• Speaker Verification on Unbalanced Data with Genetic Programming
• Binary Tomography Reconstruction by Particle Aggregation
• Population Based Ant Colony Optimization for Reconstructing ECG Signals
• EvoINDUSTRY: Can Evolutionary Algorithms Beat Dynamic Programming for Hybrid
• NSGA-II Based Auto-Calibration of Automatic Number Plate Recognition Camera for Vehicle Speed Measurement
• Environment-Model Based Testing with Differential Evolution in an Industrial Setting
• Workforce Scheduling in Inbound Customer Call Centres with a Case Study.

The two volumes LNCS 9597 and 9598 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo* 2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART. The 57 revised full papers presented together with 17 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. EvoApplications 2016 consisted of the following 13 tracks: EvoBAFIN (natural computing methods in business analytics and finance), EvoBIO (evolutionary computation, machine learning and data mining in computational biology), EvoCOMNET (nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems), EvoCOMPLEX (evolutionary algorithms and complex systems), EvoENERGY (evolutionary computation in energy applications), EvoGAMES (bio-inspired algorithms in games), EvoIASP (evolutionary computation in image analysis, signal processing, and pattern recognition), EvoINDUSTRY (nature-inspired techniques in industrial settings), EvoNUM (bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimization), EvoPAR (parallel implementation of evolutionary algorithms), EvoRISK (computational intelligence for risk management, security and defence applications), EvoROBOT (evolutionary robotics), and EvoSTOC (evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments).

• EvoNUM: Local Fitness Meta-Models with Nearest Neighbor Regression
• Validating the Grid Diversity Operator: an Infusion Technique for Diversity Maintenance in Population-Based Optimisation Algorithms
• Benchmarking Languages for Evolutionary Algorithms
• On the Closest Averaged Hausdorff Archive for a Circularly Convex Pareto Front
• Evolving Smoothing Kernels for Global Optimization
• EvoPAR: Implementing Parallel Differential Evolution on Spark
• ECJ+HADOOP: An Easy Way to Deploy Massive Runs of Evolutionary Algorithm
• Addressing High Dimensional Multi-Objective Optimization Problems by Coevolutionary Islands with Overlapping Search Spaces
• Compilable Phenotypes: Accelerating the Evaluation of Individuals in Grammatical Evolution
• GPU Accelerated Molecular Docking Simulation with Genetic Algorithms
• EvoRISK: Challenging Anti-virus Through Evolutionary Malware Obfuscation
• EvoROBOT: Leveraging Online Racing and Population Cloning in Evolutionary Multirobot Systems
• Multi-Agent Behavior-Based Policy Transfer
• On-line Evolution of Foraging Behaviour in a Population of Real Robots
• Hybrid Control for a Real Swarm Robotics System in an Intruder Detection Task
• EvoSTOC: Direct Memory Schemes for Population-Based Incremental Learning in Cyclically Changing Environments
• Simheuristics for the Multiobjective Nondeterministic Firefighter Problem in a Time-Constrained Setting
• Benchmarking Dynamic Three-Dimensional Bin Packing Problems Using Discrete-Event Simulation
• Genetic Programming Algorithms for Dynamic Environments
• A Memory-Based NSGA-II Algorithm for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization Problems
• Hybrid Dynamic Resampling Algorithms for Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization of Invariant-Noise Problems.

The two volumes LNCS 9597 and 9598 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo* 2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART. The 57 revised full papers presented together with 17 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. EvoApplications 2016 consisted of the following 13 tracks: EvoBAFIN (natural computing methods in business analytics and finance), EvoBIO (evolutionary computation, machine learning and data mining in computational biology), EvoCOMNET (nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems), EvoCOMPLEX (evolutionary algorithms and complex systems), EvoENERGY (evolutionary computation in energy applications), EvoGAMES (bio-inspired algorithms in games), EvoIASP (evolutionary computation in image analysis, signal processing, and pattern recognition), EvoINDUSTRY (nature-inspired techniques in industrial settings), EvoNUM (bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimization), EvoPAR (parallel implementation of evolutionary algorithms), EvoRISK (computational intelligence for risk management, security and defence applications), EvoROBOT (evolutionary robotics), and EvoSTOC (evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments).

• On the Foundations and the Applications of Evolutionary Computing / Pierre Del Moral, Alexandru-Adrian Tantar and Emilia Tantar
• Incorporating Regular Vines in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms / Rogelio Salinas-Gutiérrez, Arturo Hernández-Aguirre and Enrique R. Villa-Diharce
• The Gaussian Polytree EDA with Copula Functions and Mutations / Ignacio Segovia Domínguez, Arturo Hernández Aguirre and Enrique Villa Diharce
• On Quality Indicators for Black-Box Level Set Approximation / Michael T.M. Emmerich, André H. Deutz and Johannes W. Kruisselbrink
• Set Oriented Methods for the Numerical Treatment of Multiobjective Optimization Problems / Oliver Schütze, Katrin Witting, Sina Ober-Blöbaum and Michael Dellnitz
• A Complex-Networks View of Hard Combinatorial Search Spaces / Marco Tomassini and Fabio Daolio
• Cooperative Coevolution for Agrifood Process Modeling / Olivier Barrière, Evelyne Lutton, Pierre-Henri Wuillemin, Cédric Baudrit and Mariette Sicard, et al.
• Hybridizing cGAs with PSO-like Mutation / E. Alba and A. Villagra
• On Gradient-Based Local Search to Hybridize Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms / Adriana Lara, Oliver Schütze and Carlos A. Coello Coello
• On the Integration of Theoretical Single-Objective Scheduling Results for Multi-objective Problems / Christian Grimme, Markus Kemmerling and Joachim Lepping
• Analysing the Robustness of Multiobjectivisation Approaches Applied to Large Scale Optimisation Problems / Carlos Segura, Eduardo Segredo and Coromoto León
• A Comparative Study of Heuristic Conversion Algorithms, Genetic Programming and Return Predictability on the German Market / Esther Mohr, Günter Schmidt and Sebastian Jansen.

The aim of this book is to provide a strong theoretical support for understanding and analyzing the behavior of evolutionary algorithms, as well as for creating a bridge between probability, set-oriented numerics and evolutionary computation. The volume encloses a collection of contributions that were presented at the EVOLVE 2011 international workshop, held in Luxembourg, May 25-27, 2011, coming from invited speakers and also from selected regular submissions. The aim of EVOLVE is to unify the perspectives offered by probability, set oriented numerics and evolutionary computation. EVOLVE focuses on challenging aspects that arise at the passage from theory to new paradigms and practice, elaborating on the foundations of evolutionary algorithms and theory-inspired methods merged with cutting-edge techniques that ensure performance guarantee factors. EVOLVE is also intended to foster a growing interest for robust and efficient methods with a sound theoretical background. The chapters enclose challenging theoretical findings, concrete optimization problems as well as new perspectives. By gathering contributions from researchers with different backgrounds, the book is expected to set the basis for a unified view and vocabulary where theoretical advancements may echo in different domains.
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• EvoCOMPLEX Contributions.- Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species.- Evolving Individual Behavior in a Multi-agent Traffic Simulator.- On Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization of Nonlinearly Coupled Pedestrian Interactions.- Revising the Trade-off between the Number of Agents and Agent Intelligence.- Sexual Recombination in Self-Organizing Interaction Networks.- Symbiogenesis as a Mechanism for Building Complex Adaptive Systems: A Review.- EvoGAMES Contributions.- Co-evolution of Optimal Agents for the Alternating Offers Bargaining Game.- Fuzzy Nash-Pareto Equilibrium: Concepts and Evolutionary Detection.- An Evolutionary Approach for Solving the Rubik's Cube Incorporating Exact Methods.- Evolution of Artificial Terrains for Video Games Based on Accessibility.- Evolving Behaviour Trees for the Commercial Game DEFCON.- Evolving 3D Buildings for the Prototype Video Game Subversion.- Finding Better Solutions to the Mastermind Puzzle Using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Towards a Generic Framework for Automated Video Game Level Creation.- Search-Based Procedural Content Generation.- Evolution of Grim Trigger in Prisoner Dilemma Game with Partial Imitation.- Evolving a Ms. PacMan Controller Using Grammatical Evolution.- Evolving Bot AI in UnrealTM.- Evolutionary Algorithm for Generation of Entertaining Shinro Logic Puzzles.- Social Learning Algorithms Reaching Nash Equilibrium in Symmetric Cournot Games.- Multiple Overlapping Tiles for Contextual Monte Carlo Tree Search.- EvoIASP Contributions.- A CNN Based Algorithm for the Automated Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions.- A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Bayesian Networks Learning: An Application to Classifier Combination.- Towards Automated Learning of Object Detectors.- Markerless Multi-view Articulated Pose Estimation Using Adaptive Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimisation.- Hand Posture Recognition Using Real-Time Artificial Evolution.- Comparing Cellular and Panmictic Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time Object Detection.- Bloat Free Genetic Programming versus Classification Trees for Identification of Burned Areas in Satellite Imagery.- Genetic Algorithms for Training Data and Polynomial Optimization in Colorimetric Characterization of Scanners.- New Genetic Operators in the Fly Algorithm: Application to Medical PET Image Reconstruction.- Chaotic Hybrid Algorithm and Its Application in Circle Detection.- Content-Based Image Retrieval of Skin Lesions by Evolutionary Feature Synthesis.- An Evolutionary Method for Model-Based Automatic Segmentation of Lower Abdomen CT Images for Radiotherapy Planning.- Evolution of Communicating Individuals.- Dynamic Data Clustering Using Stochastic Approximation Driven Multi-Dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization.- Automatic Synthesis of Associative Memories through Genetic Programming: A First Co-evolutionary Approach.- EvoINTELLIGENCE Contributions.- A Comparative Study between Genetic Algorithm and Genetic Programming Based Gait Generation Methods for Quadruped Robots.- Markerless Localization for Blind Users Using Computer Vision and Particle Swarm Optimization.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Feature Selection in Speaker Verification.- Scale- and Rotation-Robust Genetic Programming-Based Corner Detectors.- Self-organized and Evolvable Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.- EvoNUM Contributions.- Investigating the Local-Meta-Model CMA-ES for Large Population Sizes.- Exploiting Evolution for an Adaptive Drift-Robust Classifier in Chemical Sensing.- Automatically Modeling Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms from Past Executions.- Gaussian Adaptation Revisited - An Entropic View on Covariance Matrix Adaptation.- Parallel Genetic Algorithm on the CUDA Architecture.- A New Selection Ratio for Large Population Sizes.- Multi-Objective Probability Collectives.- Parallel Random Injection Differential Evolution.- Effect of Spatial Locality on an Evolutionary Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization.- A Directed Mutation Operator for Real Coded Genetic Algorithms.- Speedups between x70 and x120 for a Generic Local Search (Memetic) Algorithm on a Single GPGPU Chip.- Advancing Model-Building for Many-Objective Optimization Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Estimation Distribution Differential Evolution.- Design of Continuous Controllers Using a Multiobjective Differential Evolution Algorithm with Spherical Pruning.- Parameter Tuning of Evolutionary Algorithms: Generalist vs. Specialist.- EvoSTOC Contributions.- Memory Design for Constrained Dynamic Optimization Problems.- Multi-population Genetic Algorithms with Immigrants Scheme for Dynamic Shortest Path Routing Problems in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Measuring Fitness Degradation in Dynamic Optimization Problems.- Handling Undefined Vectors in Expensive Optimization Problems.- Adaptive Noisy Optimization.- Noise Analysis Compact Genetic Algorithm.
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Evolutionary Computation (EC) techniques are e?cient, nature-inspired me- ods based on the principles of natural evolution and genetics. Due to their - ciency and simple underlying principles, these methods can be used for a diverse rangeofactivitiesincludingproblemsolving, optimization, machinelearningand pattern recognition. A large and continuously increasing number of researchers and professionals make use of EC techniques in various application domains. This volume presents a careful selection of relevant EC examples combined with a thorough examination of the techniques used in EC. The papers in the volume illustrate the current state of the art in the application of EC and should help and inspire researchers and professionals to develop e?cient EC methods for design and problem solving. All papers in this book were presented during EvoApplications 2010, which included a range of events on application-oriented aspects of EC. Since 1998, EvoApplications - formerly known as EvoWorkshops- has provided a unique opportunity for EC researchers to meet and discuss application aspects of EC and has been an important link between EC research and its application in a variety of domains. During these 12 years, new events have arisen, some have disappeared, whileothershavematuredtobecomeconferencesoftheirown, such as EuroGP in 2000, EvoCOP in 2004, and EvoBIO in 2007. And from this year, EvoApplications has become a conference as well.
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• EvoCOMNET Contributions.- Detection of DDoS Attacks via an Artificial Immune System-Inspired Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm.- Performance Evaluation of an Artificial Neural Network-Based Adaptive Antenna Array System.- Automatic Parameter Tuning with Metaheuristics of the AODV Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks.- WiMAX Network Planning Using Adaptive-Population-Size Genetic Algorithm.- Markov Chain Models for Genetic Algorithm Based Topology Control in MANETs.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Coverage Maximization and Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Efficient Load Balancing for a Resilient Packet Ring Using Artificial Bee Colony.- TCP Modification Robust to Packet Reordering in Ant Routing Networks.- Solving the Physical Impairment Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem in Optical WDM Networks Using a Tabu Search Based Hyper-Heuristic Approach.- A Generalized, Location-Based Model of Connections in Ad-Hoc Networks Improving the Performance of Ant Routing.- Using Code Bloat to Obfuscate Evolved Network Traffic.- ABC Supported Handoff Decision Scheme Based on Population Migration.- EvoENVIRONMENT Contributions.- A Hyper-Heuristic Approach for the Unit Commitment Problem.- Application of Genetic Programming Classification in an Industrial Process Resulting in Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions.- Influence of Topology and Payload on CO2 Optimised Vehicle Routing.- Start-Up Optimisation of a Combined Cycle Power Plant with Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms.- EvoFIN Contributions.- A Study of Nature-Inspired Methods for Financial Trend Reversal Detection.- Outperforming Buy-and-Hold with Evolved Technical Trading Rules: Daily, Weekly and Monthly Trading.- Evolutionary Multi-stage Financial Scenario Tree Generation.- Evolving Dynamic Trade Execution Strategies Using Grammatical Evolution.- Modesty Is the Best Policy: Automatic Discovery of Viable Forecasting Goals in Financial Data.- Threshold Recurrent Reinforcement Learning Model for Automated Trading.- Active Portfolio Management from a Fuzzy Multi-objective Programming Perspective.- Evolutionary Monte Carlo Based Techniques for First Passage Time Problems in Credit Risk and Other Applications in Finance.- Calibrating the Heston Model with Differential Evolution.- Evolving Trading Rule-Based Policies.- EvoMUSART Contributions.- Evolving Artistic Styles through Visual Dialogues.- Graph-Based Evolution of Visual Languages.- Refinement Techniques for Animated Evolutionary Photomosaics Using Limited Tile Collections.- Generative Art and Evolutionary Refinement.- Aesthetic Learning in an Interactive Evolutionary Art System.- Comparing Aesthetic Measures for Evolutionary Art.- The Problem with Evolutionary Art Is ...- Learning to Dance through Interactive Evolution.- Jive: A Generative, Interactive, Virtual, Evolutionary Music System.- A Neural Network for Bass Functional Harmonization.- Combining Musical Constraints with Markov Transition Probabilities to Improve the Generation of Creative Musical Structures.- Dynamic Musical Orchestration Using Genetic Algorithms and a Spectro-Temporal Description of Musical Instruments.- Evolutionary Sound Synthesis: Rendering Spectrograms from Cellular Automata Histograms.- Sound Agents.- From Evolutionary Composition to Robotic Sonification.- Musical Composer Identification through Probabilistic and Feedforward Neural Networks.- EvoTRANSLOG Contributions.- Using an Evolutionary Algorithm to Discover Low CO2 Tours within a Travelling Salesman Problem.- A Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery Using Depot Removal and Insertion Moves.- Fast Approximation Heuristics for Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems.- Particle Swarm Optimization and an Agent-Based Algorithm for a Problem of Staff Scheduling.- A Math-Heuristic for the Multi-Level Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Carryover.
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Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques are e?cient, nature-inspired me- ods based on the principles of natural evolution and genetics. Due to their - ciency and simple underlying principles, these methods can be used for a diverse rangeofactivitiesincludingproblemsolving, optimization, machinelearningand pattern recognition. A large and continuously increasing number of researchers and professionals make use of EC techniques in various application domains. This volume presents a careful selection of relevant EC examples combined with a thorough examination of the techniques used in EC. The papers in the volume illustrate the current state of the art in the application of EC and should help and inspire researchers and professionals to develop e?cient EC methods for design and problem solving. All papers in this book were presented during EvoApplications 2010, which included a range of events on application-oriented aspects of EC. Since 1998, EvoApplications - formerly known as EvoWorkshops - has provided a unique opportunity for EC researchers to meet and discuss application aspects of EC and has been an important link between EC research and its application in a variety of domains. During these 12 years, new events have arisen, some have disappeared, whileothershavematuredtobecomeconferencesoftheirown, such as EuroGP in 2000, EvoCOP in 2004, and EvoBIO in 2007. And from this year, EvoApplications has become a conference as well.
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• Theory.- Extremal Optimization Dynamics in Neutral Landscapes: The Royal Road Case.- Improving the Scalability of EA Techniques: A Case Study in Clustering.- Ant Colony Optimization.- MC-ANT: A Multi-Colony Ant Algorithm.- Applications.- Artificial Evolution for 3D PET Reconstruction.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm/Variable Neighborhood Search Approach to Maximizing Residual Bandwidth of Links for Route Planning.- Parallelization of an Evolutionary Algorithm on a Platform with Multi-core Processors.- On the Difficulty of Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks: A Study of the Fitness Landscape Generated by Relative Squared Error.- Combinatorial Optimization.- Memetic Algorithms for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Strength Three.- A Priori Knowledge Integration in Evolutionary Optimization.- Robotics.- On-Line, On-Board Evolution of Robot Controllers.- The Transfer of Evolved Artificial Immune System Behaviours between Small and Large Scale Robotic Platforms.- Multi-objective Optimization.- An Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP.- Alternative Fitness Assignment Methods for Many-Objective Optimization Problems.- Genetic Programming.- Evolving Efficient List Search Algorithms.- Semantic Similarity Based Crossover in GP: The Case for Real-Valued Function Regression.- Genetic-Programming Based Prediction of Data Compression Saving.- Machine Learning.- On the Characteristics of Sequential Decision Problems and Their Impact on Evolutionary Computation and Reinforcement Learning.
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This LNCS volume contains the best papers presented at the 9th Conference on 1 Arti?cial Evolution, EA 2009, held in Strasbourg (France). Previous EA events took place in Tours (2007, LNCS 4926), Lille (2005, LNCS 3871), Marseille (2003, LNCS 2936), Le Creusot (2001, LNCS 2310), Dunkerque (1999, LNCS 1829), Nimes (1997, LNCS 1363), Brest (1995, LNCS 1063) and Toulouse (1994, LNCS 1063). For this ninth edition, authors were invited to present their originalwork r- evantto arti?cialevolution, including, butnotlimitedto:evolutionarycompu- tion, evolutionaryoptimization, co-evolution, arti?ciallife, populationdynamics, theory, algorithmicsand modeling, implementations, application of evolutionary paradigmstotherealworld(industry, biosciences, ...), otherbiologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, arti?cial ants, arti?cial immune systems, ...), memetic al- rithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint handling, parallel algorithms, dynamic optimization, machine learning and hybridization with other soft c- puting techniques. Submitted papers were reviewed by at least four members of the Inter- tional ProgramCommittee, which selected 23 papers to be presented during the conference out of 43 submissions. However, only 17 papers were included in the present volume, resulting in a 39.5% acceptance rate. We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their conscientious work, the authors for their greatly appreciated contributions, but also the members of the Organizing Committee who, once more, managed to put together a really enjoyable conference in Strasbourg. Finally, ?nancial and material support coming from ENSPS, Universit'ede Strasbourg, CNRS, R' egion Alsace and the EA association contributed to the success of the conference and helped to keep registration fees very low.
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• Diffusion of Shapes (R S Shaw & N H Packard)
• FDC-Based Particle Swarm Optimization (A Azzini et al.)
• Predictive Neural Networks in the Design of Experiments (D De March et al.)
• Prefrontal Cortex and Action Sequences: A Review on Neural Computational Models (I Gaudiello et al.)
• Bio-Inspired ICT for Evolutionary Emotional Intelligence (M Villamira & P Cipresso)
• Cooperation in Corvids: A Simulative Study with Evolved Robots (O Miglino et al.)
• Distributed Processes in a Agent-Based Model of Innovation (L Ansaloni et al.)
• Imaginary or Actual Artificial Worlds Using a New Tool in the ABM Perspective (P Terna)
• Dynamics of Interconnected Boolean Networks with Scale-Free Topology (C Damiani et al.)
• Semi-Synthetical Minimal Cells (P Stano & P L Luisi)
• and Other Papers.
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The Italian community in Artificial Life and Evolutionary computation has grown remarkably in recent years, and this book is the first broad collection of its major interests and achievements (including contributions from foreign countries). The contributions in Artificial Life as well as in Evolutionary Computation allow one to see the deep connections between the two fields. The topics addressed are extremely relevant for present day research in Artificial Life and in Evolutionary Computation, which include important contributions from very well-known researchers. The volume provides a very broad picture of the Italian activities in this field.
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