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This book includes state-of-the-art discussions on various issues and aspects of the implementation, testing, validation, and application of big data in the context of healthcare.

This book includes state-of-the-art discussions on various issues and aspects of the implementation, testing, validation, and application of big data in the context of healthcare.

This book offers several new GP approaches to feature learning for image classification. This book shows how different techniques, e.g., image operators, ensembles, and surrogate, are proposed and employed to improve the accuracy and/or computational efficiency of GP for image classification.

This book offers several new GP approaches to feature learning for image classification. This book shows how different techniques, e.g., image operators, ensembles, and surrogate, are proposed and employed to improve the accuracy and/or computational efficiency of GP for image classification.

This book systematically narrates the fundamentals, methods, and recent advances of evolutionary deep neural architecture search chapter by chapter. This will provide the target readers with sufficient details learning from scratch. In particular, the method parts are devoted to the architecture search of unsupervised and supervised deep neural networks. The people, who would like to use deep neural networks but have no/limited expertise in manually designing the optimal deep architectures, will be the main audience. This may include the researchers who focus on developing novel evolutionary deep architecture search methods for general tasks, the students who would like to study the knowledge related to evolutionary deep neural architecture search and perform related research in the future, and the practitioners from the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and others where the deep neural networks have been successfully and largely used in their respective fields.

This book systematically narrates the fundamentals, methods, and recent advances of evolutionary deep neural architecture search chapter by chapter. This will provide the target readers with sufficient details learning from scratch. In particular, the method parts are devoted to the architecture search of unsupervised and supervised deep neural networks. The people, who would like to use deep neural networks but have no/limited expertise in manually designing the optimal deep architectures, will be the main audience. This may include the researchers who focus on developing novel evolutionary deep architecture search methods for general tasks, the students who would like to study the knowledge related to evolutionary deep neural architecture search and perform related research in the future, and the practitioners from the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and others where the deep neural networks have been successfully and largely used in their respective fields.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2012, held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in December 2014. The 42 full papers and 29 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evolutionary optimization; evolutionary multi-objective optimization; evolutionary machine learning; theoretical developments; evolutionary feature reduction; evolutionary scheduling and combinatorial optimization; real world applications and evolutionary image analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2017, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2017. They were organized in topical sections named: evolutionary optimisation; evolutionary multiobjective optimisation; evolutionary machine learning;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2018, held in Parma, Italy, in April 2018, co-located with the Evo* 2018 events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications.The 11 revised full papers presented together with 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field. Thus, we see topics and applications including analysis of feature importance for metabolomics, semantic methods, evolution of boolean networks, generation of redundant features, ensembles of GP models, automatic design of grammatical representations, GP and neuroevolution, visual reinforcement learning, evolution of deep neural networks, evolution of graphs, and scheduling in heterogeneous networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2008. The 42 revised full papers and 21 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation, constraints, planning, grammar and language processing, statistical learning, machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, soft computing, vision and image processing, and AI applications.

This LNCS volume contains the papers presented at SEAL 2008, the 7th Int- nationalConference on Simulated Evolutionand Learning,held December 7–10, 2008, in Melbourne, Australia. SEAL is a prestigious international conference series in evolutionary computation and learning. This biennial event was ?rst held in Seoul, Korea, in 1996, and then in Canberra, Australia (1998), Nagoya, Japan (2000), Singapore (2002), Busan, Korea (2004), and Hefei, China (2006). SEAL 2008 received 140 paper submissions from more than 30 countries. After a rigorous peer-review process involving at least 3 reviews for each paper (i.e., over 420 reviews in total), the best 65 papers were selected to be presented at the conference and included in this volume, resulting in an acceptance rate of about 46%. The papers included in this volume cover a wide range of topics in simulated evolution and learning: from evolutionarylearning to evolutionary optimization, from hybrid systems to adaptive systems, from theoretical issues to real-world applications. They represent some of the latest and best research in simulated evolution and learning in the world.

This book introduces readers to an evolutionary learning approach, specifically genetic programming (GP), for production scheduling. In Part I, it provides an introduction to production scheduling, existing solution methods, and the GP approach to production scheduling.

This book introduces readers to an evolutionary learning approach, specifically genetic programming (GP), for production scheduling. In Part I, it provides an introduction to production scheduling, existing solution methods, and the GP approach to production scheduling.

This book explores the emerging role of performance predictors in evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS), highlighting representative methods and practical applications that make this field both timely and impactful. By bridging performance prediction with evolutionary optimization, it addresses one of the most pressing challenges in deep learning: how to efficiently design and evaluate neural architectures without incurring prohibitive computational costs.The book provides a systematic overview of predictor-driven approaches across diverse neural network model families, including graph neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and fuzzy neural networks. It introduces accuracy predictors as well as rank-aware predictors, illustrating how these methods enhance the efficiency, scalability, and generalizability of neural architecture search. In addition to results on widely used benchmark datasets, the book emphasizes practical applications such as defect detection and medical image segmentation, showcasing how predictor-guided ENAS delivers both research insights and real-world impact.By engaging with this book, readers will gain a clear understanding of how performance predictors accelerate ENAS, discover both classical techniques and recent advances, and appreciate the methodological and applied value of predictor-guided architecture design. The book equips its audience with frameworks to evaluate and extend predictor-based methods, positioning them at the intersection of evolutionary computation, performance prediction, and neural architecture search. Additionally, the code related to the book will be available as open source.This volume is intended for researchers, graduate students, and professionals seeking to deepen their expertise in evolutionary computation, neural networks, and neural architecture search. A foundational background in these areas will facilitate full engagement with the material and enable readers to leverage the presented concepts for both academic inquiry and applied innovation.

This book, written by leading international researchers of evolutionary approaches to machine learning, explores various ways evolution can address machine learning problems and improve current methods of machine learning.