Hossein Abedi

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What are the cons and pros of Fitness Sharing vs Crowding Distance?

In the field of multiobjective evolutionary optimization and solving multimodal problems there many algorithms are introduced up until now but some like NSGA-I, NSGA-II,SPEA-I and SPEA-II are...

13 December 2014 6,666 5 View

Global best experience (GBest) in multi-objective PSO?

In multi-objective context using the pareto optimality it is desirable to generated all the non dominated solutions on the pareto front. PSO is a very popular evolutionary algorithm that uses...

06 December 2014 6,461 9 View

How do you choose an evolutionary/nature inspired algorithm for a set of optimization problems?

I decided to take part in the CEC 2015 competition, CEC (stands for Congress on Evolutionary Computation) is sponsored by IEEE and is held each year. Each year a set of benchmark functions for...

20 November 2014 9,973 10 View

What metric can I use to compare the similarity of two social network users?

I have a data set of social network users represented by some features. I want to know what kind of similarity metric/measure I could use to compare similarity of 2 users. Thanks in advance.

03 November 2014 7,592 8 View

Mandelbrotian vs Gaussian ?

In engineering/economic practices I encounter many applications that gaussian distribution is used to model the probability of events. I know that distributions like gaussian distribution have a...

29 August 2014 3,611 8 View

What is the difference between cause/effect and feature vector/label?

I participated in a contest a while ago and the goal was to determine the cause of an effect from a training set of causes and effects and finding the regularity between them and then using it to...

14 July 2014 5,347 4 View

Why the trends are towards multi-objective optimization?

I mean if you browse the issues of some famous journals on evolutionary computation such as IEEE Transaction on EC, you'll find that most of the papers are on subject of multi-criteria...

22 June 2014 9,465 6 View

What is a good book/paper/source on varieties of local search?

I'm using an evolutionary algorithm with powerful exploration for solving some optimization and I want to add some local search for the sake of better exploitation to the EA. I'm looking for a...

22 June 2014 1,098 10 View

What is the significance of the theory of Germ Plasm in evolutionary biology?

I read a book on evolutionary biology and I encountered the perception of Germ Plasm. I'd like to know if the theory of Germ Plasm is an important theory in evolutionary biology, and if it is why?

19 June 2014 1,605 3 View

What are some good function approximation methods using fuzzy sets and logic such as fuzzy expert systems, fuzzy SVR, etc.?

I have a project on function approximation by fuzzy decision trees and I want to compare my results with some other methods improved by fuzzy logic.

11 June 2014 2,046 4 View