Increasing demands upon current computer systems, along with technological changes,
create a need for more flexible and adaptable systems. Natural systems provide many …

Telecommunications networks are interconnected by routers, and network protocols must
find a path to connect them. Each router has a routeing table, which specifies the next node …

Genetic algorithms provide a powerful range of methods for solving complex engineering
search and optimization algorithms. Their power can also lead to difficulty for new …

Clustering is a hard combinatorial problem and is defined as the unsupervised classification
of patterns. The formation of clusters is based on the principle of maximizing the similarity …

Wilson (chapter 1) introduces the idea that detailed simulations lead to analytical
intractability and that, although detailed simulations are useful for biological realism …

We present two approaches to the individual-based modeling (IbM) of bacterial ecologies
and evolution using computational tools. The IbM approach is introduced, and its important …

Mobile Agent systems have attracted considerable attention as means of exploring and
manipulating distributed information sources. However, many existing multi-agent platforms …

We investigate applying an evolutionary algorithm (EA) to the design of a passive optical
network (PON). We use three techniques to improve the performance. Firstly, to reduce the …

Designing teams which have a task to execute in a very dynamic environment is a complex
problem. Determining the relevant organization of these teams by using group or role …

Abstract The Heuristic Search Framework (HSF) is aJava object-oriented framework
allowing to easily implement single solution algorithms such as Local Search, population …