Advances of Evolutionary Computation: Methods and Operators

• Main Authors: Cuevas, Erik (Author), Díaz Cortés, Margarita Arimatea (Author), Oliva Navarro, Diego Alberto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 629
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

The goal of this book is to present advances that discuss alternative Evolutionary Computation (EC) developments and non-conventional operators which have proved to be effective in the solution of several complex problems. The book has been structured so that each chapter can be read independently fr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A Swarm Global Optimization Algorithm Inspired in the Behavior of the Social-spider.-A States of Matter Algorithm for Global Optimization
• An Algorithm for Global Optimization Inspired by Collective Animal Behavior
• A Bio-inspired Evolutionary Algorithm: Allostatic Optimization
• Optimization Based on the Behavior of Locust Swarms. .