Volume 182, Number 1, January 2012

Special Section on Nature-Inspired Collective Intelligence in Theory and Practice

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  Dariusz Król, Heitor Silvério Lopes: Nature-inspired collective intelligence in theory and practice. 1-2
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  Tzung-Pei Hong, Ya-Fang Tung, Shyue-Liang Wang, Yu-Lung Wu, Min-Thai Wu: A multi-level ant-colony mining algorithm for membership functions. 3-14
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  Zhi-Gang Ren, Zu-ren Feng, Ai-min Zhang: Fusing ant colony optimization with Lagrangian relaxation for the multiple-choice multidimensional knapsack problem. 15-29
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  Jason J. Jung: Evolutionary approach for semantic-based query sampling in large-scale information sources. 30-39
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  Erik Cuevas, Diego Oliva, Daniel Zaldivar, Marco A. Pérez Cisneros, Humberto Sossa: Circle detection using electro-magnetism optimization. 40-55
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  Akemi Gálvez, Andrés Iglesias, Jaime Puig-Pey: Iterative two-step genetic-algorithm-based method for efficient polynomial B-spline surface reconstruction. 56-76
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  Iva Bojic, Vedran Podobnik, Igor Ljubi, Gordan Jezic, Mario Kusek: A self-optimizing mobile network: Auto-tuning the network with firefly-synchronized agents. 77-92
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  Jun Sun, Xiaojun Wu, Wei Fang, Yanrui Ding, Haixia Long, Wenbo Xu: Multiple sequence alignment using the Hidden Markov Model trained by an improved quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization. 93-114
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  Nitin Sharma, Anand Kamat Tarcar, Varghese Antony Thomas, K. R. Anupama: On the use of particle swarm optimization for adaptive resource allocation in orthogonal frequency division multiple access systems with proportional rate constraints. 115-124
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  Han Huang, Hu Qin, Zhifeng Hao, Andrew Lim: Example-based learning particle swarm optimization for continuous optimization. 125-138
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  Lili Liu, Shengxiang Yang, Dingwei Wang: Force-imitated particle swarm optimization using the near-neighbor effect for locating multiple optima. 139-155
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  Sayan Ghosh, Swagatam Das, Debarati Kundu, Kaushik Suresh, Ajith Abraham: Inter-particle communication and search-dynamics of lbest particle swarm optimizers: An analysis. 156-168
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  Abbas Ahmadi, Fakhri Karray, Mohamed S. Kamel: Model order selection for multiple cooperative swarms clustering using stability analysis. 169-183
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  Claus de Castro Aranha, Carlos R. B. Azevedo, Hitoshi Iba: Money in trees: How memes, trees, and isolation can optimize financial portfolios. 184-198

Regular Papers

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  Saurav Ghosh, Swagatam Das, Subhrajit Roy, Sk. Minhazul Islam, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan: A Differential Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm for real parameter optimization. 199-219
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  Ke Li, Sam Kwong, Jingjing Cao, Miqing Li, Jinhua Zheng, Ruimin Shen: Achieving balance between proximity and diversity in multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. 220-242
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  Mohammed El-Abd: Performance assessment of foraging algorithms vs. evolutionary algorithms. 243-263