Recently, nature has stimulated many successful techniques, algorithms, and computational applications allowing conventionally difficult problems to be solved through novel computing systems. This book provides the latest findings in nature-inspired algorithms and their applications for...

"This book offers academians and practitioners an illustration of the importance of tacit knowledge to an organization, presenting a means to measure and track tacit knowledge in individuals and recommendations on firm attributes and their ideal utilization of the tacit knowledge...

"This book presents applications of evolutionary computation in the software engineering field, including how evolutionary algorithms are used to solve different search and optimization problems in the area of software engineering"--Provided by publisher.

Scatter search and path relinking: a tutorial on the linear arrangement problem / Rafael Martí ... [et al.] -- A complementary cyber swarm algorithm / Peng-Yeng Yin ... [et al.] -- Path relinking scheme for the max-cut problem within global equilibrium search / Volodymyr P. Shylo, Oleg V. Shylo...

"This book discusses the computation intelligence approaches, initiatives and applications in the engineering, science and business fields, highlighting that computational intelligence as no longer limited to computing-related disciplines and can be applied to any effort which handles complex...

Basics of graph theory / Payman Biukaghazadeh -- Matrices / Payman Biukaghazadeh -- Isomorphism / Payman Biukaghazadeh -- Connectivity / Mahtab Hosseininia, Faraz Dadgostari -- Trees / Seyed Abbas Hosseinijou, Farhad Kiya, Hamed Kalantari -- Planarity / Hossein Hojabri, Elnaz Miandoabchi --...

"This book examines related research in decision, management, and other behavioral sciences in order to exchange and collaborate on information among business, industry, and government, providing innovative theories and practices in operations research"--Provided by publisher.

"This book discusses current research analyzing how the collective behavior of decentralized systems in the natural world can be applied to intelligent system design and discussing the application of swarm principles, optimization techniques, and key algorithms being used in the field"--Provided...

"This book explores the latest development of optimization techniques. It shows the application of optimization in new fields such as big data, artificial intelligence, etc. The application of hybrid optimization techniques and stochastic optimization are explored"--

Provides an overview of worldwide research and development of environmental information systems (ENVIS). This book is the only topical documentation of the highly innovative approach of information systems for environmental protection. Issues are covered from the global and multinational level...