Meta-Heuristics and Machine Learning in Modelling, Developing and Optimising Complex Systems
A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). This special issue belongs to the section "Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 2745
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Interests: data science; machine learning; optimization algorithms; evolutionary algorithms; swarm intelligence
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Interests: computational intelligence; evolutionary algorithms; computer vision; optical metrology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, complex systems have been applied in much of real life, such as studying self-organisation and critical phenomena from physics, spontaneous order from the social sciences, chaos from mathematics, adaptation from biology, and many others. Complex systems are, therefore, often used as a broad term encompassing a research approach to problems in many diverse disciplines, including statistical physics, information theory, nonlinear dynamics, computer science, meteorology, anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology, and biology. A metaheuristic is an advanced program that proposes a set of procedures or strategies to design heuristic optimisation algorithms. Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on using data and algorithms to imitate how humans learn, gradually improving its accuracy. Advanced machine learning and optimisation algorithms have been rapidly expanding to solve various aspects of complex systems.
This Special Issue is devoted to showing the application of classic, hybrid, combinatorial, and novel metaheuristics and machine learning in the modelling, development, and optimisation of complex systems. Review and survey articles on the following topics are also encouraged for submission.
Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:
- Rethinking and application of the classic optimisation and machine learning algorithms for complex systems;
- Hybridisation insights into optimisation and machine learning algorithms for solving complex systems;
- Machine-learning-based predictive modelling in modelling complex systems;
- Advanced metaheuristics and machine learning algorithms in complex systems optimisation challenges;
- Adversarial machine learning (ML) applications for complex systems modelling;
- The application of modern optimisation and machine learning algorithms handling nonlinearity, spontaneous order, and adaptation in complex systems.
Dr. Mehdi Neshat
Dr. Francisco Cuevas De La Rosa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- complex systems
- meta-heuristics
- machine learning
- deep learning
- transfer learning
- optimisation
- evolutionary algorithms
- swarm intelligence
- genetic algorithms
- mathematical optimization
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