Soft Computing, Volume 19

Volume 19, Number 1, January 2015

Special Issue on Topic Modeling in Multimedia: Algorithms and Applications

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  Lei Xie, Jia Zeng, Zhi-Qiang Liu:
  Topic modeling in multimedia: algorithms and applications. 1-2
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  Jianfeng Yan, Jia Zeng, Yang Gao, Zhi-Qiang Liu:
  Communication-efficient algorithms for parallel latent Dirichlet allocation. 3-11
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  Guoyu Tang, Yunqing Xia, Jun Sun, Min Zhang, Thomas Fang Zheng:
  Statistical word sense aware topic models. 13-27
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  Ruiji Fu, Bing Qin, Ting Liu:
  Open-categorical text classification based on multi-LDA models. 29-38
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  Chung-Hsien Wu, Chao-Hong Liu, Po-Hsun Su:
  Sentence extraction with topic modeling for question-answer pair generation. 39-46
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  Hongjie Chen, Lei Xie, Wei Feng, Lilei Zheng, Yanning Zhang:
  Topic segmentation on spoken documents using self-validated acoustic cuts. 47-59
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  Wei Feng, Xuefei Yin, Yifeng Zhang, Lei Xie:
  NestDE: generic parameters tuning for automatic story segmentation. 61-70
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  Chunping Liu, Hui Lin, Shengrong Gong, Yi Ji, Quan Liu:
  Learning topic of dynamic scene using belief propagation and weighted visual words approach. 71-84
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  Peng Zhang, Liang Wang, Wei Huang, Lei Xie, Guang Chen:
  Multiple pedestrian tracking based on couple-states Markov chain with semantic topic learning for video surveillance. 85-97
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  Soma Dutta, Mihir K. Chakraborty:
  Fuzzy relation and fuzzy function over fuzzy sets: a retrospective. 99-112
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  Duygu Içen, Sevil Bacanli:
  Hypothesis testing for the mean of inverse Gaussian distribution using α-cuts. 113-119
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  Julie Yu-Chih Liu, Juo-Chiang Hsieh:
  A hybrid selection algorithm for time series modeling. 121-131
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  Qinkun Xiao, Yi Wang, Haiyun Wang:
  Motion retrieval using weighted graph matching. 133-144
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  Michail Masikos, Konstantinos P. Demestichas, Evgenia F. Adamopoulou, Michael E. Theologou:
  Mesoscopic forecasting of vehicular consumption using neural networks. 145-156
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  Alvaro Rubio-Largo, Qingfu Zhang, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez:
  Multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition for 3-objective optimization problems with objectives in different scales. 157-166
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  Adem Karahoca, M. Alper Tunga:
  A polynomial based algorithm for detection of embolism. 167-177
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  R. Zarei, M. Amini, A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi:
  Fuzzy stochastic ordering for C-Fuzzy random variables and its applications. 179-188
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  Tarek Elguebaly, Nizar Bouguila:
  A hierarchical nonparametric Bayesian approach for medical images and gene expressions classification. 189-204
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  Reza Ghanbari, Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri:
  Fuzzy LR linear systems: quadratic and least squares models to characterize exact solutions and an algorithm to compute approximate solutions. 205-216
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  Ping Yang, Kehan Zeng, Chunquan Li, Jianming Yang, Shuting Wang:
  An improved hybrid immune algorithm for mechanism kinematic chain isomorphism identification in intelligent design. 217-223
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  Shaimaa Ahmed El-Said:
  Shadow aware license plate recognition system. 225-235
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  Masoomeh Moharrer, Hooman Tahayori, Lorenzo Livi, Alireza Sadeghian, Antonello Rizzi:
  Interval type-2 fuzzy sets to model linguistic label perception in online services satisfaction. 237-250
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  V. Viswanathan, Ilango Krishnamurthi:
  Finding relevant semantic association paths using semantic ant colony optimization algorithm. 251-260

Volume 19, Number 2, February 2015

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  Ivan Chajda, Radomír Halas:
  On varieties of basic algebras. 261-267
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  Wenjuan Chen, Wieslaw A. Dudek:
  The representation of square root quasi-pseudo-MV algebras. 269-282
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  Hamed Farahani, Sajjad Rahmany, Abdolali Basiri, Ali Abbasi Molai:
  Resolution of a system of fuzzy polynomial equations using eigenvalue method. 283-291
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  Omid Solaymani Fard, Tayebeh A. Bidgoli:
  Calculus of fuzzy functions on time scales (I). 293-305
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  Tofigh Allahviranloo, M. Chehlabi:
  Solving fuzzy differential equations based on the length function properties. 307-320
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  Chun-Wei Tsai, Ko-Wei Huang, Chu-Sing Yang, Ming-Chao Chiang:
  A fast particle swarm optimization for clustering. 321-338
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  V. R. Borges, Denise Guliato, Célia A. Zorzo Barcelos, Marcos Aurélio Batista:
  An iterative fuzzy region competition algorithm for multiphase image segmentation. 339-351
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  Yannis Marinakis, Magdalene Marinaki:
  Combinatorial neighborhood topology bumble bees mating optimization for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands. 353-373
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  Fatemeh Ramezani, Mehdi Nikoo, Mohammad Nikoo:
  Artificial neural network weights optimization based on social-based algorithm to realize sediment over the river. 375-387
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  Jian-qiang Wang, Dan-dan Wang, Hong-yu Zhang, Xiao-hong Chen:
  Multi-criteria group decision making method based on interval 2-tuple linguistic information and Choquet integral aggregation operators. 389-405
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  Ali Soleimani:
  Combine particle swarm optimization algorithm and canonical sign digit to design finite impulse response filter. 407-419
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  Sh. Sadigh Behzadi:
  A new study on first-order fuzzy Fredholm-Volterra integro-differential equations by Jacobi polynomials and collocation methods. 421-429
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  Xiaolei Liang, Wenfeng Li, Yu Zhang, MengChu Zhou:
  An adaptive particle swarm optimization method based on clustering. 431-448
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  Gözde Ulutagay, Fatih Ecer, Efendi N. Nasibov:
  Performance evaluation of industrial enterprises via fuzzy inference system approach: a case study. 449-458
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  Ching-Wen Huang, Kuo-Ping Lin, Ming-Chang Wu, Kuo-Chen Hung, Gia-Shie Liu, Chih-Hung Jen:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy $$c$$ c -means clustering algorithm with neighborhood attraction in segmenting medical image. 459-470
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  Yunyun Niu, Shuo Wang, Juanjuan He, Jianhua Xiao:
  A novel membrane algorithm for capacitated vehicle routing problem. 471-482
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  Li-Feng Wu, Sifeng Liu, Ligen Yao, Ruiting Xu, Xunping Lei:
  Using fractional order accumulation to reduce errors from inverse accumulated generating operator of grey model. 483-488
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  P. Karthikeyan, S. Baskar:
  Genetic algorithm with ensemble of immigrant strategies for multicast routing in Ad hoc networks. 489-498
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  Bo Yao, Hani Hagras, Mohammed J. Alhaddad, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi:
  A fuzzy logic-based system for the automation of human behavior recognition using machine vision in intelligent environments. 499-506
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  Jiangshu Wei, Jian Cheng Lv, Zhang Yi:
  Robust classifier using distance-based representation with square weights. 507-515

Volume 19, Number 3, March 2015

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  Anatolij Dvurecenskij:
  On a new construction of pseudo effect algebras. 517-529
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  Rodolfo Ertola, Francesc Esteva, Tommaso Flaminio, Lluis Godo, Carles Noguera:
  Paraconsistency properties in degree-preserving fuzzy logics. 531-546
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  Tao Zhu, Wenjian Luo, Lihua Yue:
  Dynamic optimization facilitated by the memory tree. 547-566
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  Chun Liu, Andreas Kroll:
  Memetic algorithms for optimal task allocation in multi-robot systems for inspection problems with cooperative tasks. 567-584
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  Wang Yong:
  Hybrid Max-Min ant system with four vertices and three lines inequality for traveling salesman problem. 585-596
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  Xinbin Li, Lu Lu, Lei Liu, Guoqiang Li, Xinping Guan:
  Cooperative spectrum sensing based on an efficient adaptive artificial bee colony algorithm. 597-607
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  Mahyar Omidvar, Reza Kashiry Fard, Hamed Sohrabpoor, Reza Teimouri:
  Selection of laser bending process parameters for maximal deformation angle through neural network and teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm. 609-620
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  Dun-Wei Gong, Jian Chen, Xiaoyan Sun, Jing Sun:
  Evaluating individuals in interactive genetic algorithms using variational granularity. 621-635
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  Souvik Kundu, Swagatam Das, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Subhodip Biswas:
  A modified differential evolution-based combined routing and sleep scheduling scheme for lifetime maximization of wireless sensor networks. 637-659
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  María de los Angeles Hernandez M., Patricia Melin, Gerardo M. Mendez, Oscar Castillo, Ismael López-Juarez:
  A hybrid learning method composed by the orthogonal least-squares and the back-propagation learning algorithms for interval A2-C1 type-1 non-singleton type-2 TSK fuzzy logic systems. 661-678
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  Shih-Hui Liao, Jer-Guang Hsieh, Jyh-Yeong Chang, Chin-Teng Lin:
  Training neural networks via simplified hybrid algorithm mixing Nelder-Mead and particle swarm optimization methods. 679-689
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  Amirhossein Amiri, S. T. A. Niaki, Alireza Taheri Moghadam:
  A probabilistic artificial neural network-based procedure for variance change point estimation. 691-700
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  Wu Deng, Huimin Zhao, Jingjing Liu, Xiaolin Yan, Yuanyuan Li, Lifeng Yin, Chuanhua Ding:
  An improved CACO algorithm based on adaptive method and multi-variant strategies. 701-713
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  Ligang Zhou, Zhifu Tao, Huayou Chen, Jinpei Liu:
  Generalized ordered weighted logarithmic harmonic averaging operators and their applications to group decision making. 715-730
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  Fakhroddin Noorbehbahani, Sayyed Rasoul Mousavi, Abdolreza Mirzaei:
  An incremental mixed data clustering method using a new distance measure. 731-743
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  Debao Chen, Feng Zou, Jiangtao Wang, Wujie Yuan:
  A teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm with producer-scrounger model for global optimization. 745-762
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  Yang Chen, Lei Cheng, Huaiyu Wu, Xingang Zhao, Jianda Han:
  Knowledge-driven path planning for mobile robots: relative state tree. 763-773
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  Dengya Jiao, Kai Yao:
  An interest rate model in uncertain environment. 775-780
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  Li Zhang, Weida Zhou:
  Time series prediction using sparse regression ensemble based on ℓ₂-ℓ₁ problem. 781-792
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  Mansour Aminian, Reza Teimouri:
  Application of soft computing techniques for modeling and analysis of MRR and taper in laser machining process as well as weld strength and weld width in laser welding process. 793-810
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  Mansour Aminian, Reza Teimouri:
  Erratum to: Application of soft computing techniques for modeling and analysis of MRR and taper in laser machining process as well as weld strength and weld width in laser welding process. 811

Volume 19, Number 4, April 2015

Special Issue on Advanced Intelligent Systems

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  Jin-Woo Jung, Hiroshi Wakuya, Byoung-Tak Zhang:
  Preface. 813-814
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  Jinwoo Jeong, Yoonhee Jang:
  Max-min hand cropping method for robust hand region extraction in the image-based hand gesture recognition. 815-818
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  Yusra Ghafoor, Yo-Ping Huang, Shen-Ing Liu:
  An intelligent approach to discovering common symptoms among depressed patients. 819-827
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  Young-Seob Jeong, Ho-Jin Choi:
  Overlapped latent Dirichlet allocation for efficient image segmentation. 829-838
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  Taeho Jo:
  Normalized table-matching algorithm as approach to text categorization. 839-849
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  Hyo-seok Kang, Yongho Lee, Chang-Ho Hyun, Heejin Lee, Mignon Park:
  Design of sliding-mode control based on fuzzy disturbance observer for minimization of switching gain and chattering. 851-858
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  Kao-Yi Shen, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng:
  A decision rule-based soft computing model for supporting financial performance improvement of the banking industry. 859-874
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  Hsu-Chih Huang, Huan-Shiuan Hsu:
  Biologically inspired deoxyribonucleic acid soft computing for inverse kinematics solver of five-DOF robotic manipulators. 875-881
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  Woo-Joo Lee, Hye Young Jung, Jin Hee Yoon, Seung-Hoe Choi:
  The statistical inferences of fuzzy regression based on bootstrap techniques. 883-890
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  Yasumasa Tamura, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Masahito Yamamoto, Masashi Furukawa:
  Application of local clustering organization to reactive job-shop scheduling. 891-899
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  Jae Hoon Cho, Yong-Tae Kim:
  Optimal design of electromagnet for Maglev vehicles using hybrid optimization algorithm. 901-907
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  Mahshid Namdari, Jin Hee Yoon, Alireza Abadi, S. Mahmoud Taheri, Seung-Hoe Choi:
  Fuzzy logistic regression with least absolute deviations estimators. 909-917
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  Hiroaki Yamane, Masafumi Hagiwara:
  Oxymoron generation using an association word corpus and a large-scale N-gram corpus. 919-927
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  Herbert R. do N. Costa, Alessandro La Neve:
  Study on application of a neuro-fuzzy models in air conditioning systems. 929-937
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  Lavinia Corina Ciungu:
  Internal states on equality algebras. 939-953
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  Ivan Chajda, José Gil-Férez, Roberto Giuntini, Miroslav Kolarík, Antonio Ledda, Francesco Paoli:
  On some properties of directoids. 955-964
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  Yousry M. AbdulAzeem, Ali I. El-Desouky, Hesham A. Ali, Mofreh M. Salem:
  Ranking distributed database in tuple-level uncertainty. 965-980
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  Nathan Fortier, John W. Sheppard, Shane Strasser:
  Abductive inference in Bayesian networks using distributed overlapping swarm intelligence. 981-1001
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  Rami Al-Hmouz, Witold Pedrycz, Abdullah Saeed Balamash, Ali Morfeq:
  Description and classification of granular time series. 1003-1017
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  Mohammed J. Alhaddad, Ahmed Mohamed, Mahmoud Kamel, Hani Hagras:
  A genetic interval type-2 fuzzy logic-based approach for generating interpretable linguistic models for the brain P300 phenomena recorded via brain-computer interfaces. 1019-1035
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  Holman Bolívar Barón, Rubén González Crespo, Jordán Pascual Espada, Oscar Sanjuán Martínez:
  Assessment of learning in environments interactive through fuzzy cognitive maps. 1037-1050
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  Ali Ahmadian, Soheil Salahshour, Chee Seng Chan:
  A Runge-Kutta method with reduced number of function evaluations to solve hybrid fuzzy differential equations. 1051-1062
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  M. A. Fariborzi Araghi, Gh. Kazemi Gelian:
  Solving fuzzy Fredholm linear integral equations using Sinc method and double exponential transformation. 1063-1070
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  Dolores Barrios Rolanía, José María Font, Daniel Manrique:
  Bacterially inspired evolution of intelligent systems under constantly changing environments. 1071-1083
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  Hu-Chen Liu, Jian-Xin You, Meng-Meng Shan, Lu-Ning Shao:
  Failure mode and effects analysis using intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid TOPSIS approach. 1085-1098
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  Aziz Ouaarab, Belaïd Ahiod, Xin-She Yang:
  Random-key cuckoo search for the travelling salesman problem. 1099-1106
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  Duygu Bayram, Serhat Seker:
  Anfis model for vibration signals based on aging process in electric motors. 1107-1114
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  Ahmad Taher Azar, Aboul Ella Hassanien:
  Dimensionality reduction of medical big data using neural-fuzzy classifier. 1115-1127

Volume 19, Number 5, May 2015

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  Ivan Chajda, Helmut Länger:
  Commutative basic algebras and coupled near semirings. 1129-1134
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  Aili Yang, Yongjian Xie:
  Prelattice-generalized pseudo-effect algebras. 1135-1141
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  Elham Hosseinzadeh, Hassan Hassanpour, Mohsen Arefi:
  A weighted goal programming approach to fuzzy linear regression with crisp inputs and type-2 fuzzy outputs. 1143-1151
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  Genggeng Liu, Wenzhong Guo, Yuzhen Niu, Guolong Chen, Xing Huang:
  A PSO-based timing-driven Octilinear Steiner tree algorithm for VLSI routing considering bend reduction. 1153-1169
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  Wenjun Hu, Shitong Wang, Fu-Lai Chung, Yong Liu, Wenhao Ying:
  Privacy preserving and fast decision for novelty detection using support vector data description. 1171-1186
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  Fangjun Kuang, Siyang Zhang, Zhong Jin, Weihong Xu:
  A novel SVM by combining kernel principal component analysis and improved chaotic particle swarm optimization for intrusion detection. 1187-1199
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  Zhifu Tao, Huayou Chen, Ligang Zhou, Jinpei Liu:
  2-Tuple linguistic soft set and its application to group decision making. 1201-1213
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  Xiaofang Yuan, Xiangshan Dai, Liang-Hong Wu:
  A mutative-scale pseudo-parallel chaos optimization algorithm. 1215-1227
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  Jiahai Wang, Yiqiao Cai:
  Multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for frequency assignment problem in satellite communications. 1229-1253
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  Li Tan, Jifeng Sun, Xueke Tong:
  A hybrid particle swarm optimization based memetic algorithm for DNA sequence compression. 1255-1268
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  Zong-Yao Chen, Chih-Fong Tsai, William Eberle, Wei-Chao Lin, Shih-Wen Ke:
  Instance selection by genetic-based biological algorithm. 1269-1282
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  Mortaza Aliasghary, Ibrahim Eksin, Müjde Güzelkaya, Tufan Kumbasar:
  General derivation and analysis for input-output relations in interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems. 1283-1293
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  Andrea Villagra, Guillermo Leguizamón, Enrique Alba:
  Active components of metaheuristics in cellular genetic algorithms. 1295-1309
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  Yi Liu, Caihong Mu, Weidong Kou, Jing Liu:
  Modified particle swarm optimization-based multilevel thresholding for image segmentation. 1311-1327
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  Caihong Mu, Licheng Jiao, Yi Liu, Yangyang Li:
  Multiobjective nondominated neighbor coevolutionary algorithm with elite population. 1329-1349
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  Lei Guo, Jun Ma, Zhumin Chen, Huan Zhong:
  Learning to recommend with social contextual information from implicit feedback. 1351-1362
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  Qinqin Fan, Xuefeng Yan:
  Differential evolution algorithm with self-adaptive strategy and control parameters for P-xylene oxidation process optimization. 1363-1391
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  Pei-Chann Chang, Jheng-Long Wu:
  A critical feature extraction by kernel PCA in stock trading model. 1393-1408
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  Zhi-Zhong Liu, Zong-pu Jia, Xiao Xue, Ji Yu An:
  Reliable Web service composition based on QoS dynamic prediction. 1409-1425
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  Yanling Jin, Yongsheng Ding, Kuangrong Hao, Yaochu Jin:
  An endocrine-based intelligent distributed cooperative algorithm for target tracking in wireless sensor networks. 1427-1441

Volume 19, Number 6, June 2015

Special Issue on UKCI 2013

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  Yaochu Jin:
  Special issue on UKCI 2013. 1443-1444
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  Jonathan E. Fieldsend:
  Using an adaptive collection of local evolutionary algorithms for multi-modal problems. 1445-1460
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  Chaoli Sun, Yaochu Jin, Jianchao Zeng, Yang Yu:
  A two-layer surrogate-assisted particle swarm optimization algorithm. 1461-1475
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  Dunwei Gong, Gengxing Wang, Xiaoyan Sun, Yuyan Han:
  A set-based genetic algorithm for solving the many-objective optimization problem. 1477-1495
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  T. P. Martin:
  The X-mu representation of fuzzy sets. 1497-1509
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  Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang:
  Training neural networks with ant colony optimization algorithms for pattern classification. 1511-1522
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  Tao Zhang, Yaochu Jin, Yongsheng Ding, Kuangrong Hao:
  A cytokine network-inspired cooperative control system for multi-stage stretching processes in fiber production. 1523-1540
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  Hugo Hutt, Richard Everson, Murray Grant, John Love, George Littlejohn:
  How clumpy is my image? 1541-1552
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  Ping Ling, Xiangsheng Rong, Yongquan Dong, Guosheng Hao:
  Double-phase locality-sensitive hashing of neighborhood development for multi-relational data. 1553-1565
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  Ling Zheng, Ren Diao, Qiang Shen:
  Self-adjusting harmony search-based feature selection. 1567-1579
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  Claire E. Gerrard, John A. W. McCall, Christopher MacLeod, George M. Coghill:
  Applications and design of cooperative multi-agent ARN-based systems. 1581-1594
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  Zujian Wu, Wei Pang, George M. Coghill:
  An integrative top-down and bottom-up qualitative model construction framework for exploration of biochemical systems. 1595-1610
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  Xin Du, Youcong Ni, Datong Xie, Xin Yao, Peng Ye, Ruliang Xiao:
  The time complexity analysis of a class of gene expression programming. 1611-1625
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  Hamzeh Agahi, Radko Mesiar:
  On Cauchy-Schwarz's inequality for Choquet-like integrals without the comonotonicity condition. 1627-1634
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  S. Sudha, S. Baskar, S. Miruna Joe Amali, S. Krishnaswamy:
  Protein structure prediction using diversity controlled self-adaptive differential evolution with local search. 1635-1646
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  Oliver Kramer:
  Unsupervised nearest neighbor regression for dimensionality reduction. 1647-1661
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  Hafida Bouziane, Belhadri Messabih, Abdallah Chouarfia:
  Effect of simple ensemble methods on protein secondary structure prediction. 1663-1678
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