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Using Neural Networks to improve classical Operating System Fingerprinting techniques
cs.CR
We present remote Operating System detection as an inference problem: given a set of observations (the target host responses to a set of tests), we want to infer the OS type which most probably generated these observations. Classical techniques used to perform this analysis present several limitations. To improve the a...
computer science
33,304
Evolutionary Computation Algorithms for Cryptanalysis: A Study
cs.CR
The cryptanalysis of various cipher problems can be formulated as NP-Hard combinatorial problem. Solving such problems requires time and/or memory requirement which increases with the size of the problem. Techniques for solving combinatorial problems fall into two broad groups - exact algorithms and Evolutionary Comput...
computer science
33,305
Web Page Categorization Using Artificial Neural Networks
cs.NE
Web page categorization is one of the challenging tasks in the world of ever increasing web technologies. There are many ways of categorization of web pages based on different approach and features. This paper proposes a new dimension in the way of categorization of web pages using artificial neural network (ANN) throu...
computer science
33,306
Non-Existence of Linear Universal Drift Functions
cs.NE
Drift analysis has become a powerful tool to prove bounds on the runtime of randomized search heuristics. It allows, for example, fairly simple proofs for the classical problem how the (1+1) Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) optimizes an arbitrary pseudo-Boolean linear function. The key idea of drift analysis is to measure t...
computer science
33,307
Evolving difficult SAT instances thanks to local search
cs.NE
We propose to use local search algorithms to produce SAT instances which are harder to solve than randomly generated k-CNF formulae. The first results, obtained with rudimentary search algorithms, show that the approach deserves further study. It could be used as a test of robustness for SAT solvers, and could help to ...
computer science
33,308
Testing of information condensation in a model reverberating spiking neural network
cs.NE
Information about external world is delivered to the brain in the form of structured in time spike trains. During further processing in higher areas, information is subjected to a certain condensation process, which results in formation of abstract conceptual images of external world, apparently, represented as certain...
computer science
33,309
Local Minima of a Quadratic Binary Functional with a Quasi-Hebbian Connection Matrix
cs.NE
The local minima of a quadratic functional depending on binary variables are discussed. An arbitrary connection matrix can be presented in the form of quasi-Hebbian expansion where each pattern is supplied with its own individual weight. For such matrices statistical physics methods allow one to derive an equation desc...
computer science
33,310
Stable Parallel Looped Systems -- A New Theoretical Framework for the Evolution of Order
cs.NE
The objective of the paper is to identify laws and mechanisms that allow the creation of more order from disorder using natural means i.e., without the help of conscious beings. While this is not possible for the collection of all dynamical systems as it violates the second law of thermodynamics, I show that this is po...
computer science
33,311
Diagonal Based Feature Extraction for Handwritten Alphabets Recognition System using Neural Network
stat.CO
An off-line handwritten alphabetical character recognition system using multilayer feed forward neural network is described in the paper. A new method, called, diagonal based feature extraction is introduced for extracting the features of the handwritten alphabets. Fifty data sets, each containing 26 alphabets written ...
computer science
33,312
Taking the redpill: Artificial Evolution in native x86 systems
cs.NE
In analogon to successful artificial evolution simulations as Tierra or avida, this text presents a way to perform artificial evolution in a native x86 system. The implementation of the artificial chemistry and first results of statistical experiments are presented.
computer science
33,313
Ethane: A Heterogeneous Parallel Search Algorithm for Heterogeneous Platforms
cs.NE
In this paper we present Ethane, a parallel search algorithm specifically designed for its execution on heterogeneous hardware environments. With Ethane we propose an algorithm inspired in the structure of the chemical compound of the same name, implementing a heterogeneous island model based in the structure of its ch...
computer science
33,314
Constructing Runge-Kutta Methods with the Use of Artificial Neural Networks
cs.NE
A methodology that can generate the optimal coefficients of a numerical method with the use of an artificial neural network is presented in this work. The network can be designed to produce a finite difference algorithm that solves a specific system of ordinary differential equations numerically. The case we are examin...
computer science
33,315
Effects of Compensation, Connectivity and Tau in a Computational Model of Alzheimer's Disease
cs.NE
This work updates an existing, simplistic computational model of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) to investigate the behaviour of synaptic compensatory mechanisms in neural networks with small-world connectivity, and varying methods of calculating compensation. It additionally introduces a method for simulating tau neurofibril...
computer science
33,316
A Novel Approach for Authenticating Textual or Graphical Passwords Using Hopfield Neural Network
cs.CR
Password authentication using Hopfield Networks is presented in this paper. In this paper we discussed the Hopfield Network Scheme for Textual and graphical passwords, for which input Password will be converted in to probabilistic values. We observed how to get password authentication using Probabilistic values for Tex...
computer science
33,317
Imitation of Life: Advanced system for native Artificial Evolution
cs.NE
A model for artificial evolution in native x86 Windows systems has been developed at the end of 2010. In this text, further improvements and additional analogies to natural microbiologic processes are presented. Several experiments indicate the capability of the system - and raise the question of possible countermeasur...
computer science
33,318
Complex-Valued Autoencoders
cs.NE
Autoencoders are unsupervised machine learning circuits whose learning goal is to minimize a distortion measure between inputs and outputs. Linear autoencoders can be defined over any field and only real-valued linear autoencoder have been studied so far. Here we study complex-valued linear autoencoders where the compo...
computer science
33,319
Providing information can be a stable non-cooperative evolutionary strategy
cs.NE
Human language is still an embarrassment for evolutionary theory, as the speaker's benefit remains unclear. The willingness to communicate information is shown here to be an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS), even if acquiring original information from the environment involves significant cost and communicating it pro...
computer science
33,320
Distributed Evolutionary Graph Partitioning
cs.NE
We present a novel distributed evolutionary algorithm, KaFFPaE, to solve the Graph Partitioning Problem, which makes use of KaFFPa (Karlsruhe Fast Flow Partitioner). The use of our multilevel graph partitioner KaFFPa provides new effective crossover and mutation operators. By combining these with a scalable communicati...
computer science
33,321
A Novel Approach for Pass Word Authentication using Brain -State -In -A Box (BSB) Model
cs.CR
Authentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. This might involve confirming the identity of a person, tracing the origins of an artefact, ensuring that a product is what it's packaging and labelling claims to be, or assuring that a computer program is a trusted one. The authent...
computer science
33,322
A Probabilistic Approach for Authenticating Text or Graphical Passwords Using Back Propagation
cs.CR
Password authentication is a common approach to the system security and it is also a very important procedure to gain access to user resources. In the conventional password authentication methods a server has to authenticate the legitimate user. In our proposed method users can freely choose their passwords from a defi...
computer science
33,323
Detecting Collusive Cliques in Futures Markets Based on Trading Behaviors from Real Data
cs.NE
In financial markets, abnormal trading behaviors pose a serious challenge to market surveillance and risk management. What is worse, there is an increasing emergence of abnormal trading events that some experienced traders constitute a collusive clique and collaborate to manipulate some instruments, thus mislead other ...
computer science
33,324
Playing Mastermind With Constant-Size Memory
cs.DS
We analyze the classic board game of Mastermind with $n$ holes and a constant number of colors. A result of Chv\'atal (Combinatorica 3 (1983), 325-329) states that the codebreaker can find the secret code with $\Theta(n / \log n)$ questions. We show that this bound remains valid if the codebreaker may only store a cons...
computer science
33,325
User preference extraction using dynamic query sliders in conjunction with UPS-EMO algorithm
cs.NE
One drawback of evolutionary multiobjective optimization algorithms (EMOA) has traditionally been high computational cost to create an approximation of the Pareto front: number of required objective function evaluations usually grows high. On the other hand, for the decision maker (DM) it may be difficult to select one...
computer science
33,326
Ag-dependent (in silico) approach implies a deterministic kinetics for homeostatic memory cell turnover
cs.NE
Verhulst-like mathematical modeling has been used to investigate several complex biological issues, such as immune memory equilibrium and cell-mediated immunity in mammals. The regulation mechanisms of both these processes are still not sufficiently understood. In a recent paper, Choo et al. [J. Immunol., v. 185, pp. 3...
computer science
33,327
Evolving Chart Pattern Sensitive Neural Network Based Forex Trading Agents
cs.NE
Though machine learning has been applied to the foreign exchange market for algorithmic trading for quiet some time now, and neural networks(NN) have been shown to yield positive results, in most modern approaches the NN systems are optimized through traditional methods like the backpropagation algorithm for example, a...
computer science
33,328
Perception of Motion and Architectural Form: Computational Relationships between Optical Flow and Perspective
cs.NE
Perceptual geometry refers to the interdisciplinary research whose objectives focuses on study of geometry from the perspective of visual perception, and in turn, applies such geometric findings to the ecological study of vision. Perceptual geometry attempts to answer fundamental questions in perception of form and rep...
computer science
33,329
Stability of Evolving Multi-Agent Systems
cs.MA
A Multi-Agent System is a distributed system where the agents or nodes perform complex functions that cannot be written down in analytic form. Multi-Agent Systems are highly connected, and the information they contain is mostly stored in the connections. When agents update their state, they take into account the state ...
computer science
33,330
An Amendment of Fast Subspace Tracking Methods
math.NA
Tuning stepsize between convergence rate and steady state error level or stability is a problem in some subspace tracking schemes. Methods in DPM and OJA class may show sparks in their steady state error sometimes, even with a rather small stepsize. By a study on the schemes' updating formula, it is found that the upda...
computer science
33,331
Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and hybrid ARMA/ANN model to predict global radiation
cs.NE
We propose in this paper an original technique to predict global radiation using a hybrid ARMA/ANN model and data issued from a numerical weather prediction model (ALADIN). We particularly look at the Multi-Layer Perceptron. After optimizing our architecture with ALADIN and endogenous data previously made stationary an...
computer science
33,332
Evolution of Ideas: A Novel Memetic Algorithm Based on Semantic Networks
cs.NE
This paper presents a new type of evolutionary algorithm (EA) based on the concept of "meme", where the individuals forming the population are represented by semantic networks and the fitness measure is defined as a function of the represented knowledge. Our work can be classified as a novel memetic algorithm (MA), giv...
computer science
33,333
Competition through selective inhibitory synchrony
cs.NE
Models of cortical neuronal circuits commonly depend on inhibitory feedback to control gain, provide signal normalization, and to selectively amplify signals using winner-take-all (WTA) dynamics. Such models generally assume that excitatory and inhibitory neurons are able to interact easily, because their axons and den...
computer science
33,334
A Comparative Study of Adaptive Crossover Operators for Genetic Algorithms to Resolve the Traveling Salesman Problem
cs.NE
Genetic algorithm includes some parameters that should be adjusting so that the algorithm can provide positive results. Crossover operators play very important role by constructing competitive Genetic Algorithms (GAs). In this paper, the basic conceptual features and specific characteristics of various crossover operat...
computer science
33,335
Analyzing the Performance of Mutation Operators to Solve the Travelling Salesman Problem
cs.NE
The genetic algorithm includes some parameters that should be adjusted, so as to get reliable results. Choosing a representation of the problem addressed, an initial population, a method of selection, a crossover operator, mutation operator, the probabilities of crossover and mutation, and the insertion method creates ...
computer science
33,336
A Study on the Behavior of a Neural Network for Grouping the Data
cs.NE
One of the frequently stated advantages of neural networks is that they can work effectively with non-normally distributed data. But optimal results are possible with normalized data.In this paper, how normality of the input affects the behaviour of a K-means fast learning artificial neural network(KFLANN) for grouping...
computer science
33,337
Automated Generation of Cross-Domain Analogies via Evolutionary Computation
cs.NE
Analogy plays an important role in creativity, and is extensively used in science as well as art. In this paper we introduce a technique for the automated generation of cross-domain analogies based on a novel evolutionary algorithm (EA). Unlike existing work in computational analogy-making restricted to creating analog...
computer science
33,338
Towards the Evolution of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines using Supershapes
cs.NE
We have recently presented an initial study of evolutionary algorithms used to design vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) wherein candidate prototypes are evaluated under approximated wind tunnel conditions after being physically instantiated by a 3D printer. That is, unlike other approaches such as computational fluid...
computer science
33,339
The conduciveness of CA-rule graphs
nlin.CG
Given two subsets A and B of nodes in a directed graph, the conduciveness of the graph from A to B is the ratio representing how many of the edges outgoing from nodes in A are incoming to nodes in B. When the graph's nodes stand for the possible solutions to certain problems of combinatorial optimization, choosing its ...
computer science
33,340
Initial Version of State Transition Algorithm
math.OC
In terms of the concepts of state and state transition, a new algorithm-State Transition Algorithm (STA) is proposed in order to probe into classical and intelligent optimization algorithms. On the basis of state and state transition, it becomes much simpler and easier to understand. As for continuous function optimiza...
computer science
33,341
Artificial Neural Network Based Prediction of Optimal Pseudo-Damping and Meta-Damping in Oscillatory Fractional Order Dynamical Systems
cs.SY
This paper investigates typical behaviors like damped oscillations in fractional order (FO) dynamical systems. Such response occurs due to the presence of, what is conceived as, pseudo-damping and meta-damping in some special class of FO systems. Here, approximation of such damped oscillation in FO systems with the con...
computer science
33,342
A hybrid artificial immune system and Self Organising Map for network intrusion detection
cs.NE
Network intrusion detection is the problem of detecting unauthorised use of, or access to, computer systems over a network. Two broad approaches exist to tackle this problem: anomaly detection and misuse detection. An anomaly detection system is trained only on examples of normal connections, and thus has the potential...
computer science
33,343
Energy Efficient Wireless Communication using Genetic Algorithm Guided Faster Light Weight Digital Signature Algorithm (GADSA)
cs.CR
In this paper GA based light weight faster version of Digital Signature Algorithm (GADSA) in wireless communication has been proposed. Various genetic operators like crossover and mutation are used to optimizing amount of modular multiplication. Roulette Wheel selection mechanism helps to select best chromosome which i...
computer science
33,344
Agent-based Exploration of Wirings of Biological Neural Networks: Position Paper
cs.NE
The understanding of human central nervous system depends on knowledge of its wiring. However, there are still gaps in our understanding of its wiring due to technical difficulties. While some information is coming out from human experiments, medical research is lacking of simulation models to put current findings toge...
computer science
33,345
Network Routing Optimization Using Swarm Intelligence
cs.NE
The aim of this paper is to highlight and explore a traditional problem, which is the minimum spanning tree, and finding the shortest-path in network routing, by using Swarm Intelligence. This work to be considered as an investigation topic with combination between operations research, discrete mathematics, and evoluti...
computer science
33,346
copulaedas: An R Package for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Based on Copulas
cs.NE
The use of copula-based models in EDAs (estimation of distribution algorithms) is currently an active area of research. In this context, the copulaedas package for R provides a platform where EDAs based on copulas can be implemented and studied. The package offers complete implementations of various EDAs based on copul...
computer science
33,347
Comparative Studies on Decentralized Multiloop PID Controller Design Using Evolutionary Algorithms
cs.SY
Decentralized PID controllers have been designed in this paper for simultaneous tracking of individual process variables in multivariable systems under step reference input. The controller design framework takes into account the minimization of a weighted sum of Integral of Time multiplied Squared Error (ITSE) and Inte...
computer science
33,348
Computational Intelligence for Deepwater Reservoir Depositional Environments Interpretation
cs.NE
Predicting oil recovery efficiency of a deepwater reservoir is a challenging task. One approach to characterize a deepwater reservoir and to predict its producibility is by analyzing its depositional information. This research proposes a deposition-based stratigraphic interpretation framework for deepwater reservoir ch...
computer science
33,349
Audio Classical Composer Identification by Deep Neural Network
cs.NE
Audio Classical Composer Identification (ACC) is an important problem in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) which aims at identifying the composer for audio classical music clips. The famous annual competition, Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX), also takes it as one of the four training&testing tas...
computer science
33,350
Evolutionary Algorithms and Dynamic Programming
cs.NE
Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled by evolutionary algorithms that use a representation which enables them to construct solutions in a dynamic programming fashion. We take a g...
computer science
33,351
Constructing Low Star Discrepancy Point Sets with Genetic Algorithms
cs.NE
Geometric discrepancies are standard measures to quantify the irregularity of distributions. They are an important notion in numerical integration. One of the most important discrepancy notions is the so-called \emph{star discrepancy}. Roughly speaking, a point set of low star discrepancy value allows for a small appro...
computer science
33,352
Solving Linear Equations by Classical Jacobi-SR Based Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm with Uniform Adaptation Technique
cs.NE
Solving a set of simultaneous linear equations is probably the most important topic in numerical methods. For solving linear equations, iterative methods are preferred over the direct methods especially when the coefficient matrix is sparse. The rate of convergence of iteration method is increased by using Successive R...
computer science
33,353
Synaptic Scaling Balances Learning in a Spiking Model of Neocortex
cs.NE
Learning in the brain requires complementary mechanisms: potentiation and activity-dependent homeostatic scaling. We introduce synaptic scaling to a biologically-realistic spiking model of neocortex which can learn changes in oscillatory rhythms using STDP, and show that scaling is necessary to balance both positive an...
computer science
33,354
For Solving Linear Equations Recombination is a Needless Operation in Time-Variant Adaptive Hybrid Algorithms
cs.NE
Recently hybrid evolutionary computation (EC) techniques are successfully implemented for solving large sets of linear equations. All the recently developed hybrid evolutionary algorithms, for solving linear equations, contain both the recombination and the mutation operations. In this paper, two modified hybrid evolut...
computer science
33,355
An Approach to Solve Linear Equations Using a Time-Variant Adaptation Based Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm
cs.NE
For small number of equations, systems of linear (and sometimes nonlinear) equations can be solved by simple classical techniques. However, for large number of systems of linear (or nonlinear) equations, solutions using classical method become arduous. On the other hand evolutionary algorithms have mostly been used to ...
computer science
33,356
Coordinating metaheuristic agents with swarm intelligence
cs.MA
Coordination of multi agent systems remains as a problem since there is no prominent method to completely solve this problem. Metaheuristic agents are specific implementations of multi-agent systems, which imposes working together to solve optimisation problems with metaheuristic algorithms. The idea borrowed from swar...
computer science
33,357
Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking
cs.NE
Interactive evolution has shown the potential to create amazing and complex forms in both 2-D and 3-D settings. However, the algorithm is slow and users quickly become fatigued. We propose that the use of eye tracking for interactive evolution systems will both reduce user fatigue and improve evolutionary success. We d...
computer science
33,358
Synthesis of neural networks for spatio-temporal spike pattern recognition and processing
cs.NE
The advent of large scale neural computational platforms has highlighted the lack of algorithms for synthesis of neural structures to perform predefined cognitive tasks. The Neural Engineering Framework offers one such synthesis, but it is most effective for a spike rate representation of neural information, and it req...
computer science
33,359
Digenes: genetic algorithms to discover conjectures about directed and undirected graphs
cs.DM
We present Digenes, a new discovery system that aims to help researchers in graph theory. While its main task is to find extremal graphs for a given (function of) invariants, it also provides some basic support in proof conception. This has already been proved to be very useful to find new conjectures since the AutoGra...
computer science
33,360
Finding Numerical Solutions of Diophantine Equations using Ant Colony Optimization
cs.NE
The paper attempts to find numerical solutions of Diophantine equations, a challenging problem as there are no general methods to find solutions of such equations. It uses the metaphor of foraging habits of real ants. The ant colony optimization based procedure starts with randomly assigned locations to a fixed number ...
computer science
33,361
The Ripple Pond: Enabling Spiking Networks to See
cs.NE
In this paper we present the biologically inspired Ripple Pond Network (RPN), a simply connected spiking neural network that, operating together with recently proposed PolyChronous Networks (PCN), enables rapid, unsupervised, scale and rotation invariant object recognition using efficient spatio-temporal spike coding. ...
computer science
33,362
Evolving Boolean Regulatory Networks with Epigenetic Control
cs.NE
The significant role of epigenetic mechanisms within natural systems has become increasingly clear. This paper uses a recently presented abstract, tunable Boolean genetic regulatory network model to explore aspects of epigenetics. It is shown how dynamically controlling transcription via a DNA methylation-inspired mech...
computer science
33,363
The adaptability of physiological systems optimizes performance: new directions in augmentation
cs.HC
This paper contributes to the human-machine interface community in two ways: as a critique of the closed-loop AC (augmented cognition) approach, and as a way to introduce concepts from complex systems and systems physiology into the field. Of particular relevance is a comparison of the inverted-U (or Gaussian) model of...
computer science
33,364
Codebook Design Method for Noise Robust Speaker Identification based on Genetic Algorithm
cs.SD
In this paper, a novel method of designing a codebook for noise robust speaker identification purpose utilizing Genetic Algorithm has been proposed. Wiener filter has been used to remove the background noises from the source speech utterances. Speech features have been extracted using standard speech parameterization m...
computer science
33,365
A Hybrid Multi Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Method to Discover Biclusters in Microarray Data
cs.CE
In recent years, with the development of microarray technique, discovery of useful knowledge from microarray data has become very important. Biclustering is a very useful data mining technique for discovering genes which have similar behavior. In microarray data, several objectives have to be optimized simultaneously a...
computer science
33,366
Digital Ecosystems
cs.MA
We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems, which are considered to be robust, self-organising and scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems. So, this work is concerned with the creation, investigation, and optimisation of Digital Ecosystems, e...
computer science
33,367
Enhanced Genetic Algorithm approach for Solving Dynamic Shortest Path Routing Problems using Immigrants and Memory Schemes
cs.NE
In Internet Routing, the static shortest path (SP) problem has been addressed using well known intelligent optimization techniques like artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms (GAs) and particle swarm optimization. Advancement in wireless communication lead more and more mobile wireless networks, such as mobile ...
computer science
33,368
What can we learn from slow self-avoiding adaptive walks by an infinite radius search algorithm?
cs.NE
Slow self-avoiding adaptive walks by an infinite radius search algorithm (Limax) are analyzed as themselves, and as the network they form. The study is conducted on several NK problems and two HIFF problems. We find that examination of such "slacker" walks and networks can indicate relative search difficulty within a f...
computer science
33,369
Finite Element Model Updating Using Fish School Search Optimization Method
cs.CE
A recent nature inspired optimization algorithm, Fish School Search (FSS) is applied to the finite element model (FEM) updating problem. This method is tested on a GARTEUR SM-AG19 aeroplane structure. The results of this algorithm are compared with two other metaheuristic algorithms; Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle...
computer science
33,370
An efficient ant based qos aware intelligent temporally ordered routing algorithm for manets
cs.NI
A Mobile Ad hoc network (MANET) is a self configurable network connected by wireless links. This type of network is only suitable for temporary communication links as it is infrastructure-less and there is no centralised control. Providing QoS aware routing is a challenging task in this type of network due to dynamic t...
computer science
33,371
Complete stability analysis of a heuristic ADP control design
cs.NE
This paper provides new stability results for Action-Dependent Heuristic Dynamic Programming (ADHDP), using a control algorithm that iteratively improves an internal model of the external world in the autonomous system based on its continuous interaction with the environment. We extend previous results by ADHDP control...
computer science
33,372
Guiding Designs of Self-Organizing Swarms: Interactive and Automated Approaches
cs.NE
Self-organization of heterogeneous particle swarms is rich in its dynamics but hard to design in a traditional top-down manner, especially when many types of kinetically distinct particles are involved. In this chapter, we discuss how we have been addressing this problem by (1) utilizing and enhancing interactive evolu...
computer science
33,373
Complexity of evolutionary equilibria in static fitness landscapes
cs.NE
A fitness landscape is a genetic space -- with two genotypes adjacent if they differ in a single locus -- and a fitness function. Evolutionary dynamics produce a flow on this landscape from lower fitness to higher; reaching equilibrium only if a local fitness peak is found. I use computational complexity to question th...
computer science
33,374
Artificial Immune Systems (INTROS 2)
cs.NE
The biological immune system is a robust, complex, adaptive system that defends the body from foreign pathogens. It is able to categorize all cells (or molecules) within the body as self or non-self substances. It does this with the help of a distributed task force that has the intelligence to take action from a local ...
computer science
33,375
Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Facility Location Problem in Wireless Mesh Networks
cs.NI
Wireless mesh networks have seen a real progress due of their implementation at a low cost. They present one of Next Generation Networks technologies and can serve as home, companies and universities networks. In this paper, we propose and discuss a new multi-objective model for nodes deployment optimization in Multi-R...
computer science
33,376
Universal Approximation Using Shuffled Linear Models
math.DS
This paper proposes a specific type of Local Linear Model, the Shuffled Linear Model (SLM), that can be used as a universal approximator. Local operating points are chosen randomly and linear models are used to approximate a function or system around these points. The model can also be interpreted as an extension to Ex...
computer science
33,377
Simulation Optimization of the Crossdock Door Assignment Problem
cs.NE
The purpose of this report is to present the Crossdock Door Assignment Problem, which involves assigning destinations to outbound dock doors of Crossdock centres such that travel distance by material handling equipment is minimized. We propose a two fold solution; simulation and optimization of the simulation model sim...
computer science
33,378
Using Intelligent Agents to understand organisational behaviour
cs.NE
This paper introduces two ongoing research projects which seek to apply computer modelling techniques in order to simulate human behaviour within organisations. Previous research in other disciplines has suggested that complex social behaviours are governed by relatively simple rules which, when identified, can be used...
computer science
33,379
Genetic-Algorithm Seeding Of Idiotypic Networks For Mobile-Robot Navigation
cs.NE
Robot-control designers have begun to exploit the properties of the human immune system in order to produce dynamic systems that can adapt to complex, varying, real-world tasks. Jernes idiotypic-network theory has proved the most popular artificial-immune-system (AIS) method for incorporation into behaviour-based robot...
computer science
33,380
Investigating a Hybrid Metaheuristic For Job Shop Rescheduling
cs.NE
Previous research has shown that artificial immune systems can be used to produce robust schedules in a manufacturing environment. The main goal is to develop building blocks (antibodies) of partial schedules that can be used to construct backup solutions (antigens) when disturbances occur during production. The buildi...
computer science
33,381
An Investigation of the Sequential Sampling Method for Crossdocking Simulation Output Variance Reduction
cs.NE
This paper investigates the reduction of variance associated with a simulation output performance measure, using the Sequential Sampling method while applying minimum simulation replications, for a class of JIT (Just in Time) warehousing system called crossdocking. We initially used the Sequential Sampling method to at...
computer science
33,382
Improved Squeaky Wheel Optimisation for Driver Scheduling
cs.NE
This paper presents a technique called Improved Squeaky Wheel Optimisation for driver scheduling problems. It improves the original Squeaky Wheel Optimisations effectiveness and execution speed by incorporating two additional steps of Selection and Mutation which implement evolution within a single solution. In the ISW...
computer science
33,383
The Application of Bayesian Optimization and Classifier Systems in Nurse Scheduling
cs.NE
Two ideas taken from Bayesian optimization and classifier systems are presented for personnel scheduling based on choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for each persons assignment. Unlike our previous work of using genetic algorithms whose learning is implicit, the learning in both approaches is explicit, i.e....
computer science
33,384
Digital Ecosystems: Self-Organisation of Evolving Agent Populations
cs.NE
A primary motivation for our research in Digital Ecosystems is the desire to exploit the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems. Ecosystems are thought to be robust, scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems. Self-organisation is perhaps one of the most desirable feature...
computer science
33,385
Enhanced Direct and Indirect Genetic Algorithm Approaches for a Mall Layout and Tenant Selection Problem
cs.NE
During our earlier research, it was recognised that in order to be successful with an indirect genetic algorithm approach using a decoder, the decoder has to strike a balance between being an optimiser in its own right and finding feasible solutions. Previously this balance was achieved manually. Here we extend this by...
computer science
33,386
Building Better Nurse Scheduling Algorithms
cs.NE
The aim of this research is twofold: Firstly, to model and solve a complex nurse scheduling problem with an integer programming formulation and evolutionary algorithms. Secondly, to detail a novel statistical method of comparing and hence building better scheduling algorithms by identifying successful algorithm modific...
computer science
33,387
An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
cs.NE
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for similar problems in the past, they always had to overcome the limitations of the classical Genetic Algorithms paradigm in handling the conflict ...
computer science
33,388
Rule Generalisation in Intrusion Detection Systems using Snort
cs.NE
Intrusion Detection Systems (ids)provide an important layer of security for computer systems and networks, and are becoming more and more necessary as reliance on Internet services increases and systems with sensitive data are more commonly open to Internet access. An ids responsibility is to detect suspicious or unacc...
computer science
33,389
An Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for Nurse Scheduling
cs.NE
Schedules can be built in a similar way to a human scheduler by using a set of rules that involve domain knowledge. This paper presents an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (eda) for the nurse scheduling problem, which involves choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for the assignment of each nurse. Unlike p...
computer science
33,390
Towards a human eye behavior model by applying Data Mining Techniques on Gaze Information from IEC
cs.HC
In this paper, we firstly present what is Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) and rapidly how we have combined this artificial intelligence technique with an eye-tracker for visual optimization. Next, in order to correctly parameterize our application, we present results from applying data mining techniques on g...
computer science
33,391
Cluster Approach to the Domains Formation
cs.NE
As a rule, a quadratic functional depending on a great number of binary variables has a lot of local minima. One of approaches allowing one to find in averaged deeper local minima is aggregation of binary variables into larger blocks/domains. To minimize the functional one has to change the states of aggregated variabl...
computer science
33,392
A Component Based Heuristic Search method with Adaptive Perturbations for Hospital Personnel Scheduling
cs.NE
Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with adaptive perturbations, for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. The main idea behind this technique is to decompose a schedu...
computer science
33,393
Introduction to Multi-Agent Simulation
cs.NE
When designing systems that are complex, dynamic and stochastic in nature, simulation is generally recognised as one of the best design support technologies, and a valuable aid in the strategic and tactical decision making process. A simulation model consists of a set of rules that define how a system changes over time...
computer science
33,394
A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on Utility Grids
cs.DC
The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for resources and sub-optimal schedules. Meta-scheduling in grids aims to address this scheduling problem, which is NP hard due to its combina...
computer science
33,395
Distributed Fault Detection in Sensor Networks using a Recurrent Neural Network
cs.NE
In long-term deployments of sensor networks, monitoring the quality of gathered data is a critical issue. Over the time of deployment, sensors are exposed to harsh conditions, causing some of them to fail or to deliver less accurate data. If such a degradation remains undetected, the usefulness of a sensor network can ...
computer science
33,396
Forecasting Model for Crude Oil Price Using Artificial Neural Networks and Commodity Futures Prices
cs.NE
This paper presents a model based on multilayer feedforward neural network to forecast crude oil spot price direction in the short-term, up to three days ahead. A great deal of attention was paid on finding the optimal ANN model structure. In addition, several methods of data pre-processing were tested. Our approach is...
computer science
33,397
An Evolved Neural Controller for Bipdedal Walking with Dynamic Balance
cs.NE
We successfully evolved a neural network controller that produces dynamic walking in a simulated bipedal robot with compliant actuators, a difficult control problem. The evolutionary evaluation uses a detailed software simulation of a physical robot. We describe: 1) a novel theoretical method to encourage populations t...
computer science
33,398
A Mathematical Unification of Geometric Crossovers Defined on Phenotype Space
cs.NE
Geometric crossover is a representation-independent definition of crossover based on the distance of the search space interpreted as a metric space. It generalizes the traditional crossover for binary strings and other important recombination operators for the most frequently used representations. Using a distance tail...
computer science
33,399
Mathematical Interpretation between Genotype and Phenotype Spaces and Induced Geometric Crossovers
cs.NE
In this paper, we present that genotype-phenotype mapping can be theoretically interpreted using the concept of quotient space in mathematics. Quotient space can be considered as mathematically-defined phenotype space in the evolutionary computation theory. The quotient geometric crossover has the effect of reducing th...
computer science
33,400
Computing of Applied Digital Ecosystems
cs.NE
A primary motivation for our research in digital ecosystems is the desire to exploit the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems. Ecosystems are thought to be robust, scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems. However, the computing technologies that contribute to these p...
computer science
33,401
Password Based a Generalize Robust Security System Design Using Neural Network
cs.CR
Among the various means of available resource protection including biometrics, password based system is most simple, user friendly, cost effective and commonly used. But this method having high sensitivity with attacks. Most of the advanced methods for authentication based on password encrypt the contents of password b...
computer science
33,402
A Framework For Intelligent Multi Agent System Based Neural Network Classification Model
cs.NE
TIntelligent multi agent systems have great potentials to use in different purposes and research areas. One of the important issues to apply intelligent multi agent systems in real world and virtual environment is to develop a framework that support machine learning model to reflect the whole complexity of the real wor...
computer science