Special Issue "Advances in Genetic Programming and Soft Computing"

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "Fuzzy Sets, Systems and Decision Making".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2024 | Viewed by 395

Special Issue Editors

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; computational intelligence; greedy algorithms; evolutionary computation; particle swarm optimization; genetic algorithms; fuzzy logic; artificial neural networks
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: genetic programming (GP); evolutionary algorithms; scheduling; soft computing, optimization; parallel programming; machine learning;

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, Genetic Programming (GP) and related soft computing methods have gained significant attention from the research community. They have been used to solve various real-world problems, such as problems related to scheduling, transportation, electrical engineering, and many other domains. The reason for their popularity lies in their flexibility and ability to obtain high-quality solutions to complex machine learning and optimization problems in a reasonable amount of time. Recent trends in this area include the study of multi-objective optimization, the application of hyper-heuristics for various combinatorial optimization problems, and solving large-scale and difficult real-world problems. Due to the wide range of applications, as well as the recent advances made in the field of genetic programming and soft computing, it is expected that this area of research will continue to attract the attention of the research community and lead to new significant advances. 

This Special Issue provides an opportunity for researchers to publish their new work in the field of genetic programming and soft computing. Relevant research should apply solution approaches that incorporate genetic programming and metaheuristics (evolutionary computation, local search methods) as well as soft computing techniques (neural networks, fuzzy systems). Submissions dealing with novel algorithms, improvements or hybridization of existing methods, application of relevant methods to various problems, and surveys of existing literature are welcome.

Dr. Marko Ðurasević
Prof. Dr. Domagoj Jakobović
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • genetic programming
  • hyper-heuristics
  • machine learning
  • optimization
  • soft computing
  • metaheuristics
  • neural networks
  • fuzzy systems
  • combinatorial optimization problems

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A Variable Neighborhood Search Method with a Tabu List and Local Search for Optimizing Routing in Trucks in Maritime Ports
Mathematics 2023, 11(17), 3740; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11173740 - 30 Aug 2023
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Logistics problems represent an important class of real-world problems where even small improvements in solution quality can lead to significant decreases in operational costs. However, these problems are usually NP-hard; thus, they are mostly solved using metaheuristic methods. To improve their performance, there [...] Read more.
Logistics problems represent an important class of real-world problems where even small improvements in solution quality can lead to significant decreases in operational costs. However, these problems are usually NP-hard; thus, they are mostly solved using metaheuristic methods. To improve their performance, there is substantial research on crafting new and refined metaheuristics to derive superior solutions. This paper considers a truck routing problem within a naval port, where the objective is to minimize the total distance traveled by all the vehicles to distribute a given set of containers. Due to the large volume of goods that are being transferred through ports, it is imperative to improve the operation times at such ports to improve the throughput. To achieve this goal, a novel variable neighborhood search method that integrates a tabu list, an iterative local search procedure, and parallelization of neighborhood generation is proposed and evaluated. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves similar results to the state of the art, but in a smaller amount of time. Full article
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