This book provides the reader with a broad coverage of the concepts, themes and instrumentalities of this important and evolving area of optimization. In doing so, the editors hope to encourage an even wider adoption of metaheuristic methods for assisting in problem solving, and to stimulate...

"[This book] is an essential source for the latest scholarly research on applications of nature-inspired computing and soft computational systems. Featuring comprehensive coverage on a range of topics and perspectives such as swarm intelligence, speech recognition, and electromagnetic problem...

In this article, we describe a new software for modeling correlated binary data based on orthogonalized residuals (Zink and Qaqish, 2009), a recently developed estimating equations approach that includes, as a special case, alternating logistic regressions (Carey et al., 1993). The software is...

Deletion diagnostics are introduced for the regression analysis of clustered binary outcomes estimated with alternating logistic regressions, an implementation of generalized estimating equations (GEE) that estimates regression coefficients in a marginal mean model and in a model for the...