With the tightening of environmental regulations, the need to identify tools that foster the development of sustainable systems is growing. The shift toward closed-loop, bio-like systems promotes the creation of nature-inspired systems. However, the...
This article introduces BioZero, a nature-inspired near-zero building proposed for Quay St, Brooklyn, New York. The building is designed for the maximum use of daylight and natural ventilation. This is the result of its shallow plan depth and the inn...
This article explores the growing prominence of nature-inspired design philosophies in the context of sustainability and human well-being within the built environment and focuses on their application within laboratory buildings. Biomimicry and biophi...
This paper presents an investigation of natural inspired intelligent computing and its corresponding application towards visual information processing systems for viticulture. The paper has three contributions: (1) a review of visual information proc...
Although it is a well-researched topic, the complexity, time for process stabilization, and economic factors related to anaerobic digestion call for simulation of the process offline with the help of computer models. Nature-inspired techniques are a...
This paper reviews a majority of the nature-inspired algorithms, including heuristic and meta-heuristic bio-inspired and non-bio-inspired algorithms, focusing on their source of inspiration and studying their potential applications in drones. About 3...
Text clustering is one of the efficient unsupervised learning techniques used to partition a huge number of text documents into a subset of clusters. In which, each cluster contains similar documents and the clusters contain dissimilar text documents...
There are several drawbacks with the current commercially available ultraviolet (UV) filters used in sunscreen formulations, namely deleterious human and ecotoxic effects. As a result of the drawbacks, a current research interest is in identifying an...
Decoupling capacitors are fundamental keys for the reduction of transient noise in power delivery networks; their arrangement and values are crucial for reaching this goal. This work deals with the optimization of the decoupling capacitors of a power...
The quality of machine learning models can suffer when inappropriate data is used, which is especially prevalent in high-dimensional and imbalanced data sets. Data preparation and preprocessing can mitigate some problems and can thus result in better...
In the study of person-environment interaction, a well-established research field provided evidence on the power of natural environments and natural built spaces to improve human well-being. However, urban life or certain health conditions may make a...
The new paradigm of nature-inspired cybersecurity can establish a robust defense by utilizing well-established nature-inspired computing algorithms to analyze networks and act quickly. The existing research focuses primarily on the efficient selectio...
The development of automated image registration (IR) methods is a well-known issue within the computer vision (CV) field and it has been largely addressed from multiple viewpoints. IR has been applied to a high number of real-world scenarios ranging...
There are a great variety of joint types used in nature which can inspire engineering joints. In order to design such biomimetic joints, it is at first important to understand how biological joints work. A comprehensive literature review, considering...
With the significant growth of the cyber environment over recent years, defensive mechanisms against adversaries have become an important step in maintaining online safety. The adaptive defense mechanism is an evolving approach that, when combined wi...
Clustering constitutes a well-known problem of division of unlabelled dataset into disjoint groups of data elements. It can be tackled with standard statistical methods but also with metaheuristics, which offer more flexibility and decent performance...
The global push for sustainable development has intensified the need for innovative tools to assess and enhance sustainability in the built environment. This study explores the role of materials efficiency (ME) within a nature-inspired sustainability...
Nowadays, it is crucial to have effective road traffic signal timing, especially in an ideal traffic light cycle. This problem can be resolved with modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud and crowd computing. We hereby present a fu...
Supramolecular chemistry, a relatively newly grown field, has emerged as a useful tool to fabricate novel smart materials with multiple uses. Adhesives find numerous uses, from heavy engineering to biomedical science. Adhesives are available in natur...
This paper uses a nature-inspired optimization algorithm to discuss the automatic selection of control structure parameters. The commonly used quality indicators are presented and analyzed for the optimization process of the control system. Moreover,...
The increasing challenges of urbanization and environmental degradation have led to a greater need for built environments that minimize ecological consequences while actively contributing to ecosystem services (ES). Bio-Inspired Design (BID) is a pro...
In the era of healthcare and its related research fields, the dimensionality problem of high-dimensional data is a massive challenge as it is crucial to identify significant genes while conducting research on diseases like cancer. As a result, studyi...
Over previous decades, many nature-inspired optimization algorithms (NIOAs) have been proposed and applied due to their importance and significance. Some survey studies have also been made to investigate NIOAs and their variants and applications. How...
The increasing number, frequency, and sophistication of phishing website-based attacks necessitate the development of robust solutions for detecting phishing websites to enhance the overall security of cyberspace. Drawing inspiration from natural pro...
In numerous scientific disciplines and practical applications, addressing optimization challenges is a common imperative. Nature-inspired optimization algorithms represent a highly valuable and pragmatic approach to tackling these complexities. This...
The activated sludge process (ASP) is the most widely used biological wastewater treatment system. Advances in research have led to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular, Nature-Inspired Algorithm (NIA) techniques such as Geneti...
The growing energy demand around the world has increased the usage of renewable energy sources (RES) such as photovoltaic and wind energies. The combination of traditional power systems and RESs has generated diverse problems due especially to the st...
In recent years, optimization problems have been intriguing in the field of computation and engineering due to various conflicting objectives. The complexity of the optimization problem also dramatically increases with respect to a complex search spa...
In this work, a new Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system with a novel shape inspired by nature is proposed for Fifth-Generation (5G) communication systems. The antenna is designed on a Rogers 5880. The dielectric constant of the subst...
This special issue of Algorithms is devoted to the study of Computational Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Real-World Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition. The special issue considered both theoretical contributions able to advance t...
In electrical engineering problems, bio- and nature-inspired optimization techniques are valuable ways to minimize or maximize an objective function. We use the root tree algorithm (RTO), inspired by the random movement of roots, to search for the gl...
K-means clustering algorithm is a partitional clustering algorithm that has been used widely in many applications for traditional clustering due to its simplicity and low computational complexity. This clustering technique depends on the user specifi...
Optimization is an important and fundamental challenge to solve optimization problems in different scientific disciplines. In this paper, a new stochastic nature-inspired optimization algorithm called Pelican Optimization Algorithm (POA) is introduce...
Dew point temperature (DPT) is known to fluctuate in space and time regardless of the climatic zone considered. The accurate estimation of the DPT is highly significant for various applications of hydro and agro–climatological researches. The current...
PV generating sources are one of the most promising power generation systems in today’s power scenario. The inherent potential barrier that PV possesses with respect to irradiation and temperature is its nonlinear power output characteristics....
Environmental challenges, high safety risks and operational inefficiencies are some of the issues facing the mining sector. The paper offers an integrated viewpoint to address these issues by combining swarm robotics, nature-inspired algorithms (NIAs...
Whether it is a plant- or animal-based bio-inspiration design, it has always been able to address one or more product/component optimisation issues. Today’s scientists or engineers look to nature for an optimal, economically viable, long-term s...
In this paper, a novel heuristic search algorithm called Smart Root Search (SRS) is proposed. SRS employs intelligent foraging behavior of immature, mature and hair roots of plants to explore and exploit the problem search space simultaneously. SRS d...
This paper presents Rain-Cloud Condensation Optimizer (RCCO), a nature-inspired metaheuristic that maps cloud microphysics to population-based search. Candidate solutions (“droplets”) evolve under a dual-attractor dynamic toward both a gl...
One of the most challenging problems that are still open in the field of materials science is the 3D reconstruction of porous media using information from a single 2D thin image of the original material. Such a reconstruction is only feasible subject...
The building sector is a pivotal driver of global resource depletion and environmental deterioration, being responsible for 40% of raw material consumption, 16% of water usage, 25% of timber utilization, and 40% of total energy demand. It also accoun...
Despite the ability of Low-Power Wide-Area Networks to offer extended range, they encounter challenges with coverage blind spots in the network. This article proposes an innovative energy-efficient and nature-inspired relay selection algorithm for Lo...
This survey is an effort to provide a research repository and a useful reference for researchers to guide them when planning to develop new Nature-inspired Algorithms tailored to solve Feature Selection problems (NIAs-FS). We identified and performed...
Microgrids have been popularized in the past decade because of their ability to add distributed generation into the classic distribution systems. Protection problems are among several other problems that need solutions in order to extract the full ca...
This paper introduces a novel nature-inspired optimization algorithm called the Grizzly Bear Fat Increase Optimizer (GBFIO). The GBFIO algorithm mimics the natural behavior of grizzly bears as they accumulate body fat in preparation for winter, drawi...
Solar desalination is a promising method for producing drinkable water, but salt accumulation on the evaporator surface leads to reduced light absorption. This study presents a nature-inspired self-driven salt-resistant material (NI-SRM) for a salt-f...
The magnitude and scale of the challenges ahead require fundamental sustainability transitions towards sustainable societies on an unprecedented level in human history. This paper argues that reflecting on the philosophical underpinnings of sustainab...
Nature-inspired metaheuristics have proven effective for addressing complex structural optimization challenges where traditional deterministic or gradient-based methods often fall short. This study investigates the feasibility and benefits of embeddi...
Current technology still does not allow the use of quantum computers for broader and individual uses; however, it is possible to simulate some of its potentialities through quantum computing. Quantum computing can be integrated with nature-inspired a...
Humanity has consumed large amounts of energy in recent decades. Energy requirements increase continuously, and fossil fuel overuse pollutes the environment extremely. The researchers turned their attention to alternative solutions, such as renewable...
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