This paper aims to prove the efficiency of an adapted computationally intelligence-based behavior of cats called the cat swarm optimization algorithm, that solves the open shop scheduling problem, classified as NP-hard which its importance appears in several industrial and manufacturing applications. The cat swarm optimization algorithm was applied to solve some benchmark instances from the lit...

Swarm Microrobotics aims to apply Swarm Intelligence algorithms and strategies to a large number of fabricated miniaturized autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, allowing collective, decentralized and self-organizing behaviors of the robots. The ability to establish basic information networking is fundamental in such swarm systems, where inter-robot communication is the base of emergent behavio...

For the project, you will have to provide: • Your code in digital format (i.e., text files), so we can test it. Send it by e-mail to the people responsible for your project (see contacts at the end of the document); • A short document (6-8 pages, single spaced, font size 12) written in English that describes your work. You have to explain both the idea and the implementation of your solution, f...

For the project, you will have to provide: • Your code in digital format (i.e., text files), so we can test it. Send it by e-mail to the people responsible for your project (see contacts at the end of the document); • A short document (6-8 pages, single spaced, font size 12) written in English that describes your work. You have to explain both the idea and the implementation of your solution, f...

This paper describes a Swarm Granulator, a new application of particle swarms to sound synthesis. Granulation, an established technique in sound synthesis, depends on many parameters which are non-intuitive and hard to control from a human perspective. It is proposed here that a particle swarm can organize these parameters and produce musically interesting and novel timbres. A crucial element o...

This study proposes a modified version of cultural algorithms (CAs) which benefits from rule-based system for influence function. This rule-based system selects and applies the suitable knowledge source according to the distribution of the solutions. This is important to use appropriate influence function to apply to a specific individual, regarding to its role in the search process. This rule ...

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