Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Self-adaptive Ensemble Differential Evolution with Sampled Parameter Values for Unit Commitment

   • Nandar Lynn, Rammohan Mallipeddi, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

   Pages 1-16

3. Empirical Assessment of Human Learning Principles Inspired PSO Algorithms on Continuous Black-Box Optimization Testbed

   • M. R. Tanweer, Abdullah Al-Dujaili, S. Suresh

   Pages 17-28

4. Visual Cryptography Based Lossless Watermarking for Sensitive Images

   • Surekha Borra, Viswanadha Raju S., Lakshmi H.R.

   Pages 29-39

5. Cohort Intelligence and Genetic Algorithm Along with AHP to Recommend an Ice Cream to a Diabetic Patient

   • Suhas Machhindra Gaikwad, Rahul Raghvendra Joshi, Anand Jayant Kulkarni

   Pages 40-49

6. Design, Construction and Analysis of Model Dataset for Indian Road Network and Performing Classification to Estimate Accuracy of Different Classifier with Its Comparison Summary Evaluation

   • Suwarna Gothane, M. V. Sarode, K. Srujan Raju

   Pages 50-59

7. A Hybrid EMD-ANN Model for Stock Price Prediction

   • Dhanya Jothimani, Ravi Shankar, Surendra S. Yadav

   Pages 60-70

8. Development of Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) Model to Predict Combustion Parameters of Diesel Engine

   • M. Shailaja, A. V. Sita Rama Raju

   Pages 71-83

9. An Improved Quantum Inspired Immune Clone Optimization Algorithm

   • Annavarapu Chandra Sekhara Rao, Suresh Dara, Haider Banka

   Pages 84-91

10. Diagnosis of Parkinson Disease Patients Using Egyptian Vulture Optimization Algorithm

    • Aditya Dixit, Alok Sharma, Ankur Singh, Anupam Shukla

    Pages 92-103

11. Variance Based Particle Swarm Optimization for Function Optimization and Feature Selection

    • Yamuna Prasad, K. K. Biswas, M. Hanmandlu, Chakresh Kumar Jain

    Pages 104-115

12. Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Data of miRNA for the Prediction of Breast Cancer

    • Indrajit Saha, Shib Sankar Bhowmick, Filippo Geraci, Marco Pellegrini, Debotosh Bhattacharjee, Ujjwal Maulik et al.

    Pages 116-127

13. Genetic Algorithm Based Speed Control of Electric Vehicle with Electronic Differential

    • Nair R. Deepthi, J. L. Febin Daya

    Pages 128-142

14. An Ant Colony Optimization Approach for the Dominating Tree Problem

    • Shyam Sundar, Sachchida Nand Chaurasia, Alok Singh

    Pages 143-153

15. Multi-objective Power Dispatch Using Stochastic Fractal Search Algorithm and TOPSIS

    • Hari Mohan Dubey, Manjaree Pandit, B. K. Panigrahi, Tushar Tyagi

    Pages 154-166

16. Particle Swarm Optimization for the Deployment of Directional Sensors

    • Pankaj Singh, S. Mini, Ketan Sabale

    Pages 167-175

17. Region Based Multiple Features for an Effective Content Based Access Medical Image Retrieval an Integrated with Relevance Feedback Approach

    • B. Jyothi, Y. MadhaveeLatha, P. G. Krishna Mohan, V. S. K. Reddy

    Pages 176-187

18. Robot Workcell Layout Optimization Using Firefly Algorithm

    • Akif Muhtasim Alim, S. G. Ponnambalam, G. Kanagaraj

    Pages 188-200

19. Particle Swarm Optimization Based on the Winner’s Strategy

    • Shailendra S. Aote, M. M. Raghuwanshi, L. G. Malik

    Pages 201-213

20. Black Hole Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

    • Nirmala Sharma, Harish Sharma, Ajay Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal

    Pages 214-221

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing, SEMCCO 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015.


The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers cover a wide range of topics in swarm, evolutionary, memetic and other intelligent computing algorithms and their real world applications in problems selected from diverse domains of science and engineering.

• genetic algorithm
• global optimization
• meta-heuristic
• particle swarm optimization
• swarm intelligence
• ant colony optimization
• classification algorithm
• clustering
• combinatorial optimization
• compression ratio
• content based image retrieval
• feature extraction
• fractals
• function optimization
• heuristic
• large-scale optimization
• scheduling
• support vector machine
• time series
• wireless sensor networks

• IIT, New Dehli, India

  Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

  Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

  Swagatam Das

• Department of Computer Science Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam, India

  Suresh Chandra Satapathy

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