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Nazmul Siddique, Hojjat Adeli
This paper presents an overview of significant advances made in the emerging field of nature-inspired computing (NIC) with a focus on the physics- and biology-based approaches and algorithms. A parallel development in the past two decades has been the emergence of the field of computational intelligence (CI) consisting…
Steve O'Hagan, Joshua Knowles, Douglas B. Kell, Josh Bongard
Comparatively few studies have addressed directly the question of quantifying the benefits to be had from using molecular genetic markers in experimental breeding programmes (e.g. for improved crops and livestock), nor the question of which organisms should be mated with each other to best effect. We argue that this…
A. E. Eiben, S. Kernbach, Evert Haasdijk
Evolution is one of the major omnipresent powers in the universe that has been studied for about two centuries. Recent scientific and technical developments make it possible to make the transition from passively understanding to actively using evolutionary processes. Today this is possible in Evolutionary Computing…
Douglas B Kell
A considerable number of areas of bioscience, including gene and drug discovery, metabolic engineering for the biotechnological improvement of organisms, and the processes of natural and directed evolution, are best viewed in terms of a ‘landscape’ representing a large search space of possible solutions or experiments…
Bérénice Batut, David P Parsons, Stephan Fischer, Guillaume Beslon + 1 more
'Carole Knibbe'] Comparative genomics has revealed that some species have exceptional genomes, compared to their closest relatives. For instance, some species have undergone a strong reduction of their genome with a drastic reduction of their genic repertoire. Deciphering the causes of these atypical trajectories can…
Alexander Lalejini, Emily Dolson, Anya E Vostinar, Luis Zaman + 2 more
'C Brandon Ogbunugafor' 'Christian R Landry'] Directed microbial evolution harnesses evolutionary processes in the laboratory to construct microorganisms with enhanced or novel functional traits. Attempting to direct evolutionary processes for applied goals is fundamental to evolutionary computation, which harnesses…
Olga Speck, Thomas Speck, Sabine Baur, Michael Herdy + 3 more
'Laith Abualigah' 'Xuewen Xia'] With a focus on education and teaching, we provide general background information on bioinspired optimization methods by comparing the concept of optimization and the search for an optimum in engineering and biology. We introduce both the principles of Darwinian evolution and the basic…
Hygor Piaget M. Melo, Alexander Franks, André A. Moreira, Daniel Diermeier + 3 more
'Daniel Diermeier' 'José S. Andrade Jr' 'Luís A. N. u. n. e. s. Amaral' 'Maria Anisimova'] Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been used to find efficient solutions to numerous fundamental and applied problems. While GAs are a robust and flexible approach to solve complex problems, there are some situations under which they…
Licheng Jiao, Jiaxuan Zhao, Chao Wang, Xu Liu + 6 more
'Lingling Li' 'Ronghua Shang' 'Yangyang Li' 'Wenping Ma' 'Shuyuan Yang'] Nature, with its numerous surprising rules, serves as a rich source of creativity for the development of artificial intelligence, inspiring researchers to create several nature-inspired intelligent computing paradigms based on natural mechanisms.…
Uri Yerushalmi, Mina Teicher, Dawn N. Albertson
Recent studies have suggested that some neural computational mechanisms are based on the fine temporal structure of spiking activity. However, less effort has been devoted to investigating the evolutionary aspects of such mechanisms. In this paper we explore the issue of temporal neural computation from an evolutionary…
Virginia Yannibelli, Matías Hirsch, Juan Toloza, Tim A. Majchrzak + 3 more
'Alejandro Zunino' 'Cristian Mateos' 'Charith Perera'] Dew computing aims to minimize the dependency on remote clouds by exploiting nearby nodes for solving non-trivial computational tasks, e.g., AI inferences. Nowadays, smartphones are good candidates for computing nodes; hence, smartphone clusters have been proposed…
Sudhir Kumar
Molecular evolutionary analyses require computationally intensive steps such as aligning multiple sequences, optimizing substitution models, inferring evolutionary trees, testing phylogenies by bootstrap analysis, and estimating divergence times. With the rise of large genomic data sets, phylogenomics is imposing a big…
Quan Zou, Shixiang Wan, Xiangxiang Zeng, Zhanshan Sam Ma
Background Building the evolutionary trees for massive unaligned DNA sequences is challenging and crucial. However, reconstructing evolutionary tree for ultra-large sequences is hard. Massive multiple sequence alignment is also challenging and time/space consuming. Hadoop and Spark are developed recently, which bring…
Mehmet Karakose, Ugur Cigdem
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) computing that is a new computation model based on DNA molecules for information storage has been increasingly used for optimization and data analysis in recent years. However, DNA computing algorithm has some limitations in terms of convergence speed, adaptability, and effectiveness. In…