Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2013): Learning, Optimization and Interdisciplinary Applications [Paperback]

Biological and other natural processes have always been a source of inspiration for computer science and information technology. Many emerging problem solving techniques integrate advanced evolution and cooperation strategies, encompassing a range of spatio-temporal scales for visionary conceptualization of evolutionary computation.

This book is a collection of research works presented in the VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO) held in Canterbury, UK. Previous editions of NICSO were held in Granada, Spain (2006 & 2010), Acireale, Italy (2007), Tenerife, Spain (2008), and Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2011). NICSO 2013 and this book provides a place where state-of-the-art research, latest ideas and emerging areas of nature inspired cooperative strategies for problem solving are vigorously discussed and exchanged among the scientific community. The breadth and variety of articles in this book report on nature inspired methods and applications such as Swarm Intelligence, Hyper-heuristics, Evolutionary Algorithms, Cellular Automata, Artificial Bee Colony, Dynamic Optimization, Support Vector Machines, Multi-Agent Systems, Ant Clustering, Evolutionary Design Optimisation, Game Theory and other several Cooperation Models.

Extending the ABC-Miner Bayesian Classification Algorithm.- A Multiple Pheromone Ant Clustering Algorithm.- An Island Memetic Differential Evolution Algorithm for the Feature Selection Problem.- Using a Scouting Predator-Prey Optimizer to Train Support Vector Machines with non PSD Kernels.- Response Surfaces with Discounted Information for Global Optima Tracking in Dynamic Environments.- Fitness based Self Adaptive Differential.- Adaptation schemes and dynamic optimization problems: a basic study on the Adaptive Hill Climbing Memetic Algorithm.- Using base position errors in an entropy-based evaluation function for the study of genetic code adaptability.- An Adaló'