A morphable model for the synthesis of 3D faces

Swarm intelligence (SI) is briefly defined as the collective behaviour of decentralized and self-organized swarms. The well known examples for these swarms are bird flocks, fish schools and the colony of social insects such as termites, ants and bees. In 1990s, especially two approaches based on ant colony and on fish schooling/bird flocking introduced have highly attracted the interest of researchers. Although the self-organization features are required by SI are strongly and clearly seen in honey bee colonies, unfortunately the researchers have recently started to be interested in the behaviour of these swarm systems to describe new intelligent approaches, especially from the beginning of 2000s. During a decade, several algorithms have been developed depending on different intelligent behaviours of honey bee swarms. Among those, artificial bee colony (ABC) is the one which has been most widely studied on and applied to solve the real world problems, so far. Day by day the number of researchers being interested in ABC algorithm increases rapidly. This work presents a comprehensive survey of the advances with ABC and its applications. It is hoped that this survey would be very beneficial for the researchers studying on SI, particularly ABC algorithm.

A comprehensive survey: artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm and applications

Probability and Measure

Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms provides a systematic introduction to all major nature-inspired algorithms for optimization. The book's unified approach, balancing algorithm introduction, theoretical background and practical implementation, complements extensive literature with well-chosen case studies to illustrate how these algorithms work. Topics include particle swarm optimization, ant and bee algorithms, simulated annealing, cuckoo search, firefly algorithm, bat algorithm, flower algorithm, harmony search, algorithm analysis, constraint handling, hybrid methods, parameter tuning and control, as well as multi-objective optimization. This book can serve as an introductory book for graduates, doctoral students and lecturers in computer science, engineering and natural sciences. It can also serve a source of inspiration for new applications. Researchers and engineers as well as experienced experts will also find it a handy reference.Discusses and summarizes the latest developments in nature-inspired algorithms with comprehensive, timely literatureProvides a theoretical understanding as well as practical implementation hintsProvides a step-by-step introduction to each algorithm

Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms

We develop a novel maximum neighborhood margin discriminant projection (MNMDP) technique for dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data. It utilizes both the local information and class information to model the intraclass and interclass neighborhood scatters. By maximizing the margin between intraclass and interclass neighborhoods of all points, MNMDP cannot only detect the true intrinsic manifold structure of the data but also strengthen the pattern discrimination among different classes. To verify the classification performance of the proposed MNMDP, it is applied to the PolyU HRF and FKP databases, the AR face database, and the UCI Musk database, in comparison with the competing methods such as PCA and LDA. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our MNMDP in pattern classification.

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Maximum neighborhood margin discriminant projection for classification

Symbiotic Organism Search (SOS) algorithm is highly praised by researchers for its excellent convergence performance, global optimization ability and simplicity in solving various continuous practical problems. However, in the real world, there are many binary problems, which can only take values of 0 and 1, that still need to be solved. Since the original SOS algorithm cannot directly solve the binary problem, the original ASOS Binary SOS (BSOS) algorithm has the disadvantage of premature convergence. In order to improve the limitations of the ASBSOS algorithm, we propose an Improved BSOS (IBSOS) algorithm. As we all know, the transfer function is very important in the binarization of continuous optimization algorithms. Therefore, we used 9 transfer functions in the IBSOS algorithm to binarize the continuous SOS algorithm and analyzed the impact of each transfer function on the performance of the BSOS algorithm. Moreover, we use the same three biological symbiosis strategies as the continuous SOS algorithm in our proposed IBSOS algorithm to binarize the SOS algorithm to improve The diversity of the algorithm execution process and the ability to balance algorithm exploration and development. In order to verify the performance of IBSOS using different transfer functions, we use 13 benchmark functions to show the global optimization capability and convergence speed of the BSOS algorithm. Finally, we apply the algorithm to feature selection in the ten data sets of UCI. The experimental results with low classification error and few features further verify the excellent performance of the IBSOS algorithm.

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Improved Binary Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm With Transfer Functions for Feature Selection

An Improvement of Flower Pollination Algorithm for Node Localization Optimization in WSN.

In this study, we propose an ACS with flip-flop search strategy to find the route from source node to destination node in an Ad hoc network topology. A flip-flop search strategy is to alternate the search direction towards either high pheromone area or low pheromone area iteratively in the evolution process. The proposed Flip-Flop search strategy effectively solves the pheromone-excess problem in ACS. The ants are allowed to select reverse path to avoid the ants affected by the high pheromone concentration and disable the ability of discover new search area in routing phase. In simulations, the proposed Flip-Flop Ant Colony System (FFACS) is compared with Traditional Ant Colony System in conditions of various deployment densities and topologies of wireless sensor network. The results show that the FFACS has promising ability of discover new search area to reach the better optimal solution than the TACS has. In addition, the robustness and the stability of FFACS are better than TACS.

A new scheme of ant colony system algorithm to discovery optimal solution with flip-flop search

A new scheme for texture segmentation based on Ant Colony Systems (ACS) is proposed in this paper. Texture segmentation is one of the important branches in image pattern recognition, which provides usefulness in many applications. Until now, how to find an effective way for accomplishing texture segmentation in practical applications is still a major task. In this paper, we employ wavelet coefficients and characteristics of different subbands to serve as the basis of characteristic vectors, and we use three feature-extraction elements, namely, the extrema, entropy, and energy, to compose the characteristic vector. To alleviate segmentation fragments caused from the information in high frequency bands of texture images, we integrate the fourth element, the mean variance, into the characteristic vector. Finally, we use ACS to find a trade-off between texture segmentation and fragments. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed algorithm.

Image Texture Segmentation with Ant Colony Systems

Aiming at the problem of fault detection in data collection in wireless sensor networks, this paper combines evolutionary computing and machine learning to propose a productive technical solution. ...

Shu-Chuan Chu

Papers

Improved Binary Symbiotic Organism Search Algorithm With Transfer Functions for Feature Selection

An Improvement of Flower Pollination Algorithm for Node Localization Optimization in WSN.

A new scheme of ant colony system algorithm to discovery optimal solution with flip-flop search

Image Texture Segmentation with Ant Colony Systems

An optimized machine learning technology scheme and its application in fault detection in wireless sensor networks