In this paper the performance of four well-known metaheuristics consisting of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Biogeographic Based Optimization (BBO), Harmony Search (HS) and Teaching Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) are investigated on optimal domain decomposition for parallel computing. A clique graph is used for transforming the connectivity of a finite element model (FEM) into that of the cor...

An Artificial Chemistry is an abstract model of a chemistry that can be used to model real chemical and biological processes, as well as any natural or artificial phenomena involving interactions among objects and their transformations. It can also be used to perform computations inspired by chemistry, including heuristic optimization algorithms akin to evolutionary algorithms, among other usag...

Recent advances in insulins, insulin pumps, continuous glucose-monitoring systems, and control algorithms have resulted in an acceleration of progress in the development of artificial pancreas devices. This review discusses progress in the development of external systems that are based on subcutaneous drug delivery and subcutaneous continuous glucose monitoring. There are two major system-level...

Machine learning is an important field of artificial intelligence in which models are generated by extracting rules and functions from large datasets. Machine learning includes a diversity of methods and algorithms such as decision trees, lazy learning, knearest neighbors, Bayesian methods, Gaussian processes, artificial neural networks, support vector machines, kernel algorithms, and artificia...

Grid computing is a new computing model; it’s performing bulk operations among the connected network. Since it is possible to run multiple applications simultaneously may require multiple resources but often do not have the resources that time scheduling system is essential for allocating resources. Scheduling algorithms must be designed for Maximize utilization of the resources and minimize th...

The importance of astrocytes, one part of the glial system, for information processing in the brain has recently been demonstrated. Regarding information processing in multilayer connectionist systems, it has been shown that systems which include artificial neurons and astrocytes (Artificial Neuron-Glia Networks) have well-known advantages over identical systems including only artificial neuron...

We review the integration between the genetic and evolutionary techniques with artificial neural networks. A Lamarckian model is proposed based on genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks. The genetic algorithm evolves the population while the artificial neural network performs the learning process. The direct encoding scheme was used. This model was submitted to several data sets and ...

Hidden Markov Models are widely used in speech recognition and bioinformatics systems. Conventional methods are usually used in the parameter estimation process of Hidden Markov Models (HMM). These methods are based on iterative procedure, like BaumWelch method, or gradient based methods. However, these methods can yield to local optimum parameter values. In this work, we use artificial techniq...

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been evolving very fast, turning into high performance programmable processors. Though GPUs have been designed to compute graphics algorithms, their power and flexibility makes them a very attractive platform for generalpurpose computing. In the last years they have been used to accelerate calculations in physics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, d...