Evolutionary Computation

Session Organizers

  • Dr. Tad Gonsalves Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Description

Evolutionary Computation (EC) deals with a class of algorithms that mimic natural phenomena and/or social animals with their prey-hunting or predator-avoiding instincts. Starting with a random population of individuals, the algorithms use a fitness function to select individuals based on their performance to give rise to fitter offspring in succeeding generations. Being domain-independent, robust and suited to ill-defined problems of any arbitrary size, they are rapidly widening their areas of application.

This session welcomes the application of EC techniques to real-world applications where optimization needs to be performed in a complex and uncertain environment.

Topics for this session include but are not limited to:

  • Evolutionary, Nature-inspired and Swarm Intelligence Algorithms
  • Genetic Algorithm
  • Differential Evolution
  • Particle Swarm Optimization
  • Ant Colony Optimization
  • Harmony Search
  • Firefly Algorithm
  • Fireworks Algorithm
  • Gravitational Search Algorithm
  • Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Applications of EC
  • Single Objective Optimization Problems (SOPs)
  • Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (MOPs)
  • Machine learning and data mining
  • Game playing
  • Optimization scenarios in engineering, business, education, bio-informatics, etc.