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• Applications of Evolutionary Computation
• Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications
• Computational Intelligence for Sustainability
• Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing
• Evolutionary Machine Learning
• Machine Learning and AI in Digital Healthcare and Personalized Medicine
• Resilient Bio-Inspired Algorithms
• Soft Computing applied to Games
• Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimisation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2023, held as part of Evo*2023, in April 2023, co-located with the Evo*2023 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART. The EuroGP focused on the technique of genetic programming, EvoCOP targeted evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization, and EvoMUSART was dedicated to evolved and bio-inspired music, sound, art, and design. The EvoApplications 2023 presents papers on the different areas: Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications, Applications of Bio-inspired Techniques on Social Networks, Evolutionary Computation in Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing, Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing, and Pattern Recognition and others.

• Networks and Complex systems
• Collaborative learning over Cellular Automata
• An agent-based model for crowd simulation
• Chemical Neural Networks and Semantic Information investigated through Synthetic Cells
• Spread of perturbations in supply chain networks: the effect of the bow-tie organization on the resilience of the global automotive system
• An efficient implementation of Flux Variability Analysis for metabolic networks
• Exploring the solution space of cancer evolution inference frameworks for single-cell sequencing data
• Computational investigation of the clustering of droplets in widening pipe geometries
• Network Creation During Agglomeration Processes of Polydisperse and Monodisperse Systems of Droplets
• Artificial Chemistry Performed in an Agglomeration of Droplets with Restricted Molecule Transfer
• Modelling wet-dry cycles in the binary polymer model
• On the growth of chemical diversity
• Kernel-based early fusion of structure and attribute information for detecting communities in attributed networks
• Cultural Innovation Triggers Inequality in a Sharing Economy
• Metaheuristics, robotics, and machine learning
• Online adaptation of robots controlled by nanowire networks: A preliminary study
• The role of dynamical regimes of online adaptive BN-robots in noisy environments
• A novel evolutionary approach for Neural Architecture Search
• Single and Multi-objective Genetic Programming Methods for Prediction Intervals
• Green design of Single Frequency Networks by Multiband Robustness and a hybrid metaheuristic
• WanDa: A Mobile Application to Prevent Wandering
• Magnetic Devices Behavioral Modeling based on Genetic Programming and Neural Networks
• Evolutionary Stitching of Plot Units with Character Threads
• Impact of Morphology Variations on Evolved Neural Controllers for Modular Robots
• EGSGP: an Ensemble System Based on Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming
• Real-time monitoring tool for SNN hardware architecture.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2022, held in Gaeta, Italy, during September 14-16, 2022. The 21 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: answer set programming; networks and complex systems, metaheuristics, robotics, and machine learning.

• Evolutionary Computation & Swarm Intelligence
• Surrogate Model-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms for Parameter Identification of Electrochemical Model of Lithium-Ion Battery: A Comparison Study
• Research on Multi-modal Multi-Objective Path Planning by Improved Ant Colony Algorithm
• Local Path Planning Algorithm Designed for Unmanned Surface Vessel Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm
• A Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Algorithm Based on a Preference Strategy
• An Improved Harris Hawk Optimization Algorithm Based on Spiral Search and Neighborhood Perturbation
• S-Plane Controller Parameter Tuning Based on IAFSA for UUV
• A Reinforcement-Learning-Driven Bees Algorithm for Large-Scale Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling
• Optimal Formation of UUV Groups Based on Shape Theory and Improved Ant Colony Algorithm Under Communication Delay
• Global Path Planning for Unmanned Ships Based on Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm
• A Self-Adaptive Single-objective Multitasking Optimization Algorithm
• Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm by Multi-mechanism Fusion
• Multi-stage Objective Function Optimized Hand-Eye Self-calibration of Robot in Autonomous Environment
• An Improved Chaos-based Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
• Task Location Distribution based Genetic Algorithm for UAV Mobile Crowd Sensing
• The Utilities of Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for Neural Architecture Search An Empirical Perspective
• Research on Unmanned Ship Collision Avoidance Algorithm based on Improved Particle Swarm Pptimization Algorithm
• Solving Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Problems with Passive Archiving Mechanism
• A Comparison of Large-scale MOEAs with Informed Initialization for Voltage Transformer Ratio Error Estimation
• Enabling Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning via Policy Embedding
• An Improved MPCA Algorithm with Weight Matrix Based on Many-objective Optimization
• Machine Learning & Deep Learning
• Research on Helmet Wearing Detection Based on Improved YOLOv4 Algorithm
• Research on Target Detection Algorithm of Unmanned Surface Vehicle Based on Deep Learning
• A Review On Bio-inspired Fluid Mechanics Via Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Memristor-Based Neural Network Circuit of Operant Conditioning with Overshadowing
• Continual Learning with a Memory of Non-similar Samples
• Research on Soil Moisture Prediction Based on LSTM-Transformer Model
• Graph Contrastive Learning with Intrinsic Augmentations
• Research on Global Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Unmanned Ship Based on Improved Artificial Potential Field Algorithm
• OCET: One-dimensional Convolution Embedding Transformer for Stock Trend Prediction
• A Rapid, Precise Spiking Neural Network Approach for Image Recognition
• Research on Improved Image Dehazing Algorithm Based on Dark Channel Prior
• Reinforcement Learning Based Vertical Scaling for Hybrid Deployment in Cloud Computing
• Swing-up and Balance Control of Cart-pole Based on Reinforcement Learning DDPG
• Yolov5 Outdoor Dynamic Object Detection Based on Multi-scale Feature Fusion
• Intelligent Control & Simulation
• Multi-UUV Formation Cooperative Full-area Coverage Search Method
• Multi-scale Simulations of Flow in the Upper Open Area of a Luxury Cruise Ship
• Research on Course Control Algorithm of Unmanned Craft based on Model Predictive Control
• Multi-UUV Underwater Target Cooperative Detection Task Planning and Assignment
• Multi-UUV Cooperative Navigation and Positioning Algorithm under Communication Delay
• The Research of the Consistency Control under The Condition of Time-lag of Isomerism AUV Group Communication
• Non-uniform Deformation Behavior of Magneto-sensitive Elastomer Containing Uniform Sphere Particles with V Arrangement
• Study on the Influence of Exit Width Change on Heterogeneous Passengers Evacuation based on the Social Force Model
• A Review of Longitudinal Vibration and Vibration Reduction Technology of Propulsion Shafting
• Design and Simulation of Heading Controller for Unmanned Boat Based on Fuzzy Neural PID
• Flexible Formation Control of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles based on Artificial Potential Field Method
• Local Path Planning Combined with the Motion State of Dynamic Obstacles
• Simulation of Airflow Characteristics of a Seabird Following a Ship Based on Steady States
• Numerical Simulation of Bionic Undulating Fin Surface Drag Reduction Structure
• Molecular Computing & Nanotechnology
• Integrated Design and Absorbing Performance Analysis for Periodic Wave Absorbing and Bearing Structures
• Diffusion Optimization Algorithm Based on Membrane Calculation
• Tuning Geometric Conformations of Curved DNA Structures by Controlling Positions of Nicks
• A Sensitive Nanothermometer Based on DNA Triplex Structure
• Microwave Absorption Properties of Double-layer Absorbing Material Based on Carbonyl Iron and Graphene Composites
• Reconfigurable Nanobook Structure Driven by Polymerase-triggered DNA Strand Displacement
• An Analysis for Thermal Conductivity of Graphene/polymer Nanocomposites
• Simulation of Aflatoxin B1 Detection Model Based on Hybridization Chain Reaction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2022, held in Wuhan, China, during December 1618, 2022. The 56 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence; machine learning and deep learning; intelligent control and simulation and molecular computing and nanotechnology.

• Fairer comparisons for Travelling Salesman Problem solutions using Hash Functions
• Application of Adapt-CMSA to the Two-Echelon Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Deliveries
• Real-World Vehicle Routing using Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search
• A Multilevel Optimization Approach for Large Scale Battery Exchange Station Location Planning
• A memetic algorithm for deinterleaving pulse trains
• Application of Negative Learning Ant Colony Optimization to the Far From Most String Problem
• Monte Carlo Tree Search with Adaptive Simulation: a Case Study on Weighted Vertex Coloring
• Evolutionary Strategies for the Design of Binary Linear Codes
• A Policy-Based Learning Beam Search for Combinatorial Optimization
• Cooperative Coevolutionary Genetic Programming Hyper Heuristic for Budget Constrained Dynamic Multi-workflow Scheduling in Cloud Computing
• OneMax is not the Easiest Function for Fitness Improvements
• The Cost of Randomness in Evolutionary Algorithms: Crossover Can Save Random Bits
• Multi-objectivization Relaxes Multi-funnel Structures in Singleobjective NK-landscapes
• Decision/Objective Space Trajectory Networks for Multi-objective Combinatorial Optimisation
• On the e_ect of solution representation and neighborhood definition in AutoML Fitness Landscapes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2023, held as part of Evo*2023, in Brno, Czech Republic in April 2023, co-located with the Evo*2023 events: EvoMUSART, EvoApplications, and EuroGP. The 15 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They present recent theoretical and experimental advances in combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and related research fields.

• Intro
• Preface
• Organization
• Contents
• Applications of Evolutionary Computation
• An Enhanced Opposition-Based Evolutionary Feature Selection Approach
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Moth Flame Optimization
• 2.1 Binary Moth Flame Optimization
• 2.2 Binary Moth Flame Optimization for Feature Selection
• 3 The Proposed Approach
• 3.1 Initialization Using Opposition-Based Method
• 3.2 Retiring Flame
• 4 Experimental Setup and Results
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• A Methodology for Determining Ion Channels from Membrane Potential Neuronal Recordings
• 1 Introduction

• 2 Conductance-Based Model Description
• 3 Defining a Benchmark with Known Types of Ion Channels
• 4 Methodology and Experimental Setup
• 5 Experimental Results
• 6 Conclusions
• A Mathematical Description of the Models
• B Experimental Setup and Parameter Ranges
• References
• Swarm Optimised Few-View Binary Tomography
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Binary Tomographic Reconstruction
• 3 Swarm Optimisation
• 4 Constrained Search in High Dimensions
• 5 Reconstructions
• 6 Results
• 7 Discussion
• 8 Conclusions
• References

• Comparing Basin Hopping with Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Metaheuristics Studied
• 2.1 Basin Hopping
• 2.2 Differential Evolution
• 2.3 Particle Swarm Optimization
• 3 The Benchmarking Environment
• 4 Experimental Setup
• 5 Experimental Results
• 6 Conclusions
• References
• Combining the Properties of Random Forest with Grammatical Evolution to Construct Ensemble Models
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methodology
• 2.1 Structured Grammatical Evolution
• 2.2 Random Structured Grammatical Evolution for Symbolic Regression Problems

• 3 Experimental Setup
• 3.1 Study Problems
• 3.2 Configuration of the Algorithms
• 4 Results
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• EvoCC: An Open-Source Classification-Based Nature-Inspired Optimization Clustering Framework in Python
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Works
• 3 Methodology
• 4 Framework Overview
• 4.1 Parameters
• 4.2 Datasets
• 4.3 Clustering with EvoCluster
• 4.4 Classification
• 4.5 Evaluation Measures
• 4.6 Results Management
• 5 Experiments and Visualizations
• 6 Conclusion and Future Works
• References
• Evolution of Acoustic Logic Gates in Granular Metamaterials

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Problem Statement
• 3 Simulation Setup
• 3.1 2D Granular Simulator
• 3.2 Optimization Method
• 4 Results and Discussion
• 4.1 Evolution of an Acoustic Band Gap
• 4.2 Evolving an AND Gate
• 4.3 Evolving an XOR Gate
• 5 Conclusion and Future Work
• References
• Public-Private Partnership: Evolutionary Algorithms as a Solution to Information Asymmetry
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Problem
• 3 Proposed Approach
• 3.1 The Model
• 3.2 Data
• 3.3 Adversarial Optimization
• 3.4 Operator (EA1)
• 3.5 Public Administration (EA2)
• 4 Experimental Evaluation

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2022, held as part of Evo*2022, in April 2022, co-located with the Evo*2022 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART. The 46 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. .
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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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• Networks
• Dynamical criticality in growing networks
• Effective Resistance based Weight Thresholding for Community Detection
• An Oracle for the Optimization of Underconstrained Compositions of Neural Networks - The Tick Hazard Use Case
• Droplets, Fluids, and Synthetic Biology
• Obstacles on the Pathway towards Chemical Programmability using Agglomerations of Droplets
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: droplet recognition by a "shootout"-heuristics
• Exploring the three-dimensional arrangement of droplets
• Geometric restrictions to the agglomeration of spherical particles
• Effectiveness of Dynamic Load Balancing in Parallel Execution of a Subsurface Flow Cellular Automata Model
• Two possible AI-related paths for bottom-up synthetic cell research
• Robot Systems
• A hybrid control system architecture for a mobile robot to provide an energy-efficient and fast data processing
• On the evolution of mechanisms for collective decision making in a swarm of robots
• A novel online adaptation mechanism in artificial systems provides phenotypic plasticity
• Computer Vision and Computational Creativity
• Exploration of Genetic Algorithms and CNN for Melanoma Classification
• Using Genetic Algorithms to optimize a deep learning based system for the prediction of cognitive impairments
• Autonomous inspections of power towers with an UAV
• Self-organizing Maps of Artificial Neural Classifiers - a Brain like Pin Factory
• Evolutionary Music: Statistical Learning and Novelty for automatic improvisation
• Semantic Search
• ARISE: Artificial Intelligence Semantic Search Engine
• Artificial Medicine and Pharmacy
• Influence of the Antigen Pattern Vector on the Dynamics in a Perceptron-based Artificial Immune - Tumour-Ecosystem during and after Radiation Therapy
• Two-level detection of dynamic organization in cancer evolution models
• Artificial chemical neural network for drug discovery applications
• Trade and Finance
• Information Flow Simulations in Multi-Dimensional and Dynamic Systems
• Investigation of the Ramsey-Pierce-Bowman Model
• Ethics in Computational Modelling
• Ethical Aspects of Computational Modelling in Science, Decision Support and Communication.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2021, held in Winterthur, Switzerland, in September 2022. The 14 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Networks; Droplets, Fluids, and Synthetic Biology; Robot Systems; Computer Vision and Computational Creativity; Semantic Search; Artificial Medicine and Pharmacy; Trade and Finance; Ethics in Computational Modelling.

• 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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• A Novel Ant Colony Optimization Strategy for the Quantum Circuit Compilation Problem.- Hybridization of Racing Methods with Evolutionary Operators for Simulation Optimization of Traffic Lights Programs.- Decomposition-based Multi-objective Landscape Features and Automated Algorithm Selection.- MATE: A Model-Based Algorithm Tuning Engine.- An Improvement Heuristic Based on Variable Neighborhood Search for a Dynamic Orienteering Problem.- Runtime Analysis of the (mu+1)-EA on the Dynamic BinVal Function.- Tabu-Driven Quantum Neighborhood Samplers.- On Hybrid Heuristics for Steiner Trees on the Plane with Obstacles.- Flowshop NEH-Based Heuristic Recommendation.- Stagnation Detection with Randomized Local Search.- An Artificial Immune System for Black Box Test Case Selection.- Symmetry Breaking for Voting Mechanisms.- A Heuristic Algorithm for School Bus Routing with Bus Stop Selection.- Hybrid Heuristic and Metaheuristic for Solving Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Problem.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2021, held as part of Evo*2021, as Virtual Event, in April 2021, co-located with the Evo*2021 events: EvoMUSART, EvoApplications, and EuroGP. The 14 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from the foundations of evolutionary algorithms and other search heuristics to their accurate design and application to combinatorial optimization problems. Fundamental and methodological aspects deal with runtime analysis, the structural properties of fitness landscapes, the study of core components of metaheuristics, the clever design of their search principles, and their careful selection and configuration. Applications cover problem domains such as scheduling, routing, search-based software engineering and general graph problems. The range of topics covered in this volume reflects the current state of research in the fields of evolutionary computation and combinatorial optimization.
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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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• Theory.- It Is Hard to Distinguish Between Dominance Resistant Solutions and Extremely Convex Pareto Optimal Solutions.- On Analysis of Irregular Pareto Front Shapes.- On Statistical Analysis of MOEAs with Multiple Performance Indicators.- Algorithms.- Population Sizing of Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization.- Kernel Density Estimation for Reliable Biobjective Solution of Stochastic Problems.- Approximating Pareto Fronts in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization with Large Population Size.- Multitask Feature Selection for Objective Reduction.- Embedding a Repair Operator in Evolutionary Single and Multi-Objective Algorithms - An Exploitation-Exploration Perspective.- Combining User Knowledge and Online Innovization for Faster Solution to Multi-Objective Design Optimization Problems.- Improving the Efficiency of R2HCA-EMOA.- Pareto Front Estimation Using Unit Hyperplane.- Towards Multi-Objective Co-Evolutionary Problem Solving.- MOEA/D for Multiple Multi-Objective Optimization.- Using a Genetic Algorithm-Based Hyper-heuristic to Tune MOEA/D for a Set of Benchmark Test Problems.- Diversity-Driven Selection Operator for Combinatorial Optimization.- Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization.- An Online Machine Learning-Based Prediction Strategy for Dynamic Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization.- Generalized Test Suite for Continuous Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization.- A Special Point and Transfer Component Analysis based Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm.- Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization.- An Improved Two-Archive Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization.- An Improved Epsilon Method with M2M for Solving Imbalanced CMOPs with Simultaneous Convergence-Hard and Diversity-Hard Constraints.- Constrained Bi-objective Surrogate-Assisted Optimization of Problems with Heterogeneous Evaluation Times: Expensive Objectives and Inexpensive Constraints.- SAMO-COBRA: A Fast Surrogate Assisted Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm.- A Fast Converging Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Multiobjective Portfolio Optimization.- Manifold Learning Inspired Mating Restriction for Evolutionary Constrained Multiobjective Optimization.- Multi-Modal Optimization.- Mult
• i3: Optimizing Multimodal Single-Objective Continuous Problems in the Multi-Objective Space by Means of Multiobjectivization.- Niching Diversity Estimation for Multi-modal Multi-Objective Optimization.- Using Neighborhood-Based Density Measures for Multimodal Multi-Objective Optimization.- Many-Objective Optimization.- The (M-1)+1 Framework of Relaxed Pareto Dominance for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization.- Handling Priority Levels in Mixed Pareto-Lexicographic Many-Objective Optimization Problems.- Many-Objective Pathfinding based on Frechet Similarity Metric.- The Influence of Swarm Topologies in Many-Objective Optimization Problems.- Performance Evaluations and Empirical Studies.- An Overview of Pair-Potential Functions for Multi-Objective Optimization.- On the Parameter Setting of the Penalty-Based Boundary Intersection Method in MOEA/D.- A Comparison Study of Evolutionary Algorithms on Large-Scale Sparse Multi-Objective Optimization Problems.- EMO and Machine Learning.- Discounted Sampling Policy Gradient for Robot Multi-Objective Visual Control.- Lexicographic Constrained Multicriteria Ordered Clustering.- Local Search is a Remarkably Strong Baseline for Neural Architecture Search.- A Study on Realtime Task Selection based on Credit Information Updating in Evolutionary Multitasking.- Multi-Objective Neural Architecture Search with Almost No Training.- On the Interaction Between Distance Functions and Clustering Criteria in Multi-objective Clustering.- Surrogate Modeling and Expensive Optimization.- Investigating normalization bounds for hypervolume-based infill criterion for expensive multiobjective optimization.- Pareto-Based Bi-indicator Infill Sampling Criterion for Expensive Multiobjective Optimization.- MOEA/D with Gradient-Enhanced Kriging for Multiobjective Optimization.- Exploring Constraint Handling Techniques in Real-world Problems on MOEA/D with Limited Budget of Evaluations.- Dimension Dropout for Evolutionary High-Dimensional Expensive Multiobjective Optimization.- Multiobjective Optimization with Fuzzy Classification-assisted Environmental Selection.- Surrogate-Assisted Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Building Energy Saving Design.- Solving Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization via Probabilistic Prediction Model.- MCDM and Interactive EMO.- An Artificial Decision Maker for Comparing Reference Point Based Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Methods.- To Boldly Show What No One Has Seen Before: A Dashboard for Visualizing Multi-objective Landscapes.- Interpretable Self-Organizing Maps (iSOM) for Visualization of Pareto Front in Multiple Objective Optimization.- Applications.- An Investigation of Decomposition-based Metaheuristics for Resource-Constrained Multi-objective Feature Selection in Software Product Lines.- Operator-Adapted Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization for Voltage Transformer Ratio Error Estimation.- Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning based Multi-Microgrid System Optimisation Problem.- Pareto Optimization for Influence Maximization in Social Networks.- Parallel Algorithms for Multiobjective Virtual Network Function Placement Problem.- Using Multi-Objective Grammar-based Genetic Programming to Integrate Multiple Social Theories in Agent-based Modeling.- Change Detection in SAR Images based on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization and Superpixel Segmentation.- Multi-Objective Emergency Resource Dispatch Based on Coevolutionary Multiswarm Particle Swarm Optimization.- Prediction of Blast Furnace Temperature Based on Evolutionary Optimization.- Multiobjective Optimization Design of Broadband Dual-Polarized Base Station Antenna.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2021 held in Shenzhen, China, in March 2021.The 47 full papers and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: theory; algorithms; dynamic multi-objective optimization; constrained multi-objective optimization; multi-modal optimization; many-objective optimization; performance evaluations and empirical studies; EMO and machine learning; surrogate modeling and expensive optimization; MCDM and interactive EMO; and applications.
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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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