Natural computing is a terminology introduced to encompass three classes of methods:(1)
those that take inspiration from nature for the development of novel problem-solving …

The use of artificial immune systems in intrusion detection is an appealing concept for two
reasons. First, the human immune system provides the human body with a high level of …

After an introduction that includes a discussion of the classic random walk, this paper
presents a step-by-step development of the differential evolution (DE) global numerical …

Natural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational
tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in computers; and to …

Clearly, nature has been very effective in creating organisms that are capable of protecting
themselves against a wide variety of pathogens such as bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The …

A general weapon-target assignment (WTA) problem is to find a proper assignment of
weapons to targets with the objective of minimizing the expected damage of own-force …

In this paper, an immunity-based ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm for solving
weapon–target assignment (WTA) problems is proposed. The WTA problem, known as a NP …

Community-based observing networks (CBONs) use a set of human observers connected
via a network to provide comprehensive data, through observations of a range of …

The natural immune system is a subject of great research interest because of its powerful
information processing capabilities. From an informationprocessing perspective, the immune …

Much of the research on operations scheduling problems has either ignored setup times or
assumed that setup times on each machine are independent of the job sequence. This …