A. Şima Etaner-Uyar - Böcker

This book is a collection of various methodologies that make it possible for metaheuristics and hyper-heuristics to solve problems that occur in the real world. The researchers used several stochastic optimization methods in this book, including evolutionary algorithms and Swarm-based algorithms.

This book is a collection of various methodologies that make it possible for metaheuristics and hyper-heuristics to solve problems that occur in the real world. The researchers used several stochastic optimization methods in this book, including evolutionary algorithms and Swarm-based algorithms.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013 co-located with the Evo* 2013 events, EvoMUSART, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and EvoApplications. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 5 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field, including different genres of GP (tree-based, linear, grammar-based, Cartesian), theory, novel operators, and applications.

The present volume provides a comprehensive resource for practitioners and researchers alike-both those new to the field as well as those who already have some experience. The work covers Social Network Analysis theory and methods with a focus on current applications and case studies applied in various domains such as mobile networks, security, machine learning and health. With the increasing popularity of Web 2.0, social media has become a widely used communication platform. Parallel to this development, Social Network Analysis gained in importance as a research field, while opening up many opportunities in different application domains. Forming a bridge between theory and applications makes this work appealing to both academics and practitioners as well as graduate students.