IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Taking a lead from the multi-faceted definitions and roles of the term "meme" in memetics, a plethora of potentially rich memetic computing methodologies, frameworks and operational memeinspired algorithms have been developed with considerable success in several realworld domains in the last two decades. This article showcase several successful deployments of memetic computing methodologies for so... View full abstract»

This paper presents novel area coverage algorithms that have been validated using Boeing VSTL hardware. Even though the multi-vehicle search area coverage problem is large and complex, several new memetic computing methods have been presented that decompose, allocate and optimize the exploration of a search area for multiple heterogeneous vehicles. These new methods were shown to have good perform... View full abstract»

Feature selection has become the focus of many real-world application oriented developments and applied research in recent years. With the rapid advancement of computer and database technologies, problems "with hundreds and thousands of variables or features are now ubiquitous in pattern recognition, data mining, and machine learning [1], [2]. In this article, we consider two real-world feature se... View full abstract»

This article deals with optimization problems to be solved in the absence of a full power computer device. The goal is to solve a complex optimization problem by using a control card related to portable devices, e.g. for the control of commercial robots. In order to handle this class of optimization problems, a novel Memetic Computing approach is presented. The proposed algorithm employs a Differe... View full abstract»

E-Learning systems have proven to be fundamental in several areas of tertiary education and in business companies. There are many significant advantages for people who learn online such as convenience, portability, flexibility and costs. However, the remarkable velocity and volatility of modern knowledge due to the exponential growth of the World Wide Web, requires novel learning methods that offe... View full abstract»

In order to solve the image segmentation problem which assigns a label to every pixel in an image such that pixels with the same label share certain visual characteristics more effectively, a novel approach based on memetic algorithm (MISA) is proposed. Watershed segmentation is applied to segment original images into non-overlap small regions before performing the portioning process by MISA. MISA... View full abstract»

A novel memetic algorithm that combines evolutionary algorithms, quadratic programming, and specially devised pruning heuristics is proposed for the selection of cardinality-constrained optimal portfolios. The framework used is the standard Markowitz mean-variance formulation for portfolio optimization with constraints of practical interest, such as minimum and maximum investments per asset and/or... View full abstract»