Abstract Effective exploration is key to a successful search process. The recently proposed negatively correlated (NCS) tries achieve this by coordinated parallel exploration, where set of processes are driven be so that different promising areas the space can visited simultaneously. Despite applications NCS, behaviors were mostly devised intuition, while deeper (e.g., mathematical) understandi...

A classic question in cognitive psychology concerns the nature of memory search in short-term recognition. Despite its long history of investigation, however, there is still no consensus on whether memory search takes place serially or in parallel or is based on global access. In the present investigation, we formalize a variety of models designed to account for detailed response time distribut...

The Charged System Search (CSS) is combined to chaos to solve mathematical global optimization problems. The CSS is a recently developed meta-heuristic optimization technique inspired by the governing laws of physics and mechanics. The present study introduces chaos into the CSS in order to increase its global search mobility for a better global optimization. Nine chaos-based CSS (CCSS) methods...