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Advances in Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2015) in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, held December 01-03, 2015

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  • Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired
  • Computing (NaBIC2015) in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, held December 01-03,
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  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC, volume 419)

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. An Ensemble of Neuro-Fuzzy Model for Assessing Risk in Cloud Computing Environment

    • Nada Ahmed, Varun Kumar Ojha, Ajith Abraham
    Pages 27-36
  3. k-MM: A Hybrid Clustering Algorithm Based on k-Means and k-Medoids

    • Habiba Drias, Nadjib Fodil Cherif, Amine Kechid
    Pages 37-48
  4. A Semantic Reasoning Method Towards Ontological Model for Automated Learning Analysis

    • Kingsley Okoye, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil, Usman Naeem, Elyes Lamine
    Pages 49-60
  5. Cooperation Evolution in Structured Populations by Using Discrete PSO Algorithm

    • Xiaoyang Wang, Lei Zhang, Xiaorong Du, Yunlin Sun
    Pages 61-72
  6. Memetic and Opposition-Based Learning Genetic Algorithms for Sorting Unsigned Genomes by Translocations

    • Lucas A. da Silveira, José L. Soncco-Álvarez, Thaynara A. de Lima, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón
    Pages 73-85
  7. Aesthetic Differential Evolution Algorithm for Solving Computationally Expensive Optimization Problems

    • Ajeet Singh Poonia, Tarun Kumar Sharma, Shweta Sharma, Jitendra Rajpurohit
    Pages 87-96
  8. EEG Signals of Motor Imagery Classification Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System

    • Shereen A. El-aal, Rabie A. Ramadan, Neveen I. Ghali
    Pages 105-116
  9. Modeling Insurance Fraud Detection Using Imbalanced Data Classification

    • Amira Kamil Ibrahim Hassan, Ajith Abraham
    Pages 117-127
  10. Using Standard Components in Evolutionary Robotics to Produce an Inexpensive Robot Arm

    • Michael W. Louwrens, Mathys C. du Plessis, Jean H. Greyling
    Pages 129-139
  11. Sinuosity Coefficients for Leaf Shape Characterisation

    • Jules R. Kala, Serestina Viriri, Deshendran Moodley
    Pages 141-150
  12. Bioinspired Tabu Search for Geographic Partitioning

    • María Beatríz Bernábe-Loranca, Rogelio González Velazquez, Martín Estrada Analco, Jorge Ruíz-Vanoye, Alejandro Fuentes Penna, Abraham Sánchez
    Pages 189-199
  13. A Hyper-Heuristic Approach to Solving the Ski-Lodge Problem

    • Ahmed Hassan, Nelishia Pillay
    Pages 201-210
  14. Real-Time Vehicle Emission Monitoring and Location Tracking Framework

    • Eyob Shiferaw Abera, Ayalew Belay, Ajith Abraham
    Pages 211-221

About this book

World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC) is organized to discuss the state-of-the-art as well as to address various issues with respect to Nurturing Intelligent Computing Towards Advancement of Machine Intelligence. This Volume contains the papers presented in the Seventh World Congress (NaBIC’15) held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa during December 01-03, 2015. The 39 papers presented in this Volume were carefully reviewed and selected. The Volume would be a valuable reference to researchers, students and practitioners in the computational intelligence field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Mathematics, Statistics and CS, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

    Nelishia Pillay

  • Sch of IT, Dept of CS, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Andries P. Engelbrecht

  • Sci N/w for Innova and Research Exc, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Auburn, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  • Department of Computing Sciences,, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

    Mathys C. du Plessis

  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Václav Snášel

  • Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikas, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Durian Tunggal, Malaysia

    Azah Kamilah Muda

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2015) in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, held December 01-03, 2015

  • Editors: Nelishia Pillay, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Ajith Abraham, Mathys C. du Plessis, Václav Snášel, Azah Kamilah Muda

  • Series Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27400-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27399-0Published: 02 December 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27400-3Published: 01 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2194-5357

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-5365

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 452

  • Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence

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