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FSS: Fish School SearchSearch problems are sometimes hard to compute. This is mainly due to the high dimensionality of some search spaces. Unless suitable approaches are used, search processes can be time-consuming and ineffective. Nature has evolved many complex systems able to deal with such difficulties. Fish schools, for instance, benefit greatly from the large number of constituent individuals in order to increase mutual survivability. Website of FSS
IRWA: Intelligent Routing and Wavelength Assignment
The IRWA project aims at developing new routing algorithms for communications networks. Many scenarios are studied such as All-Optical Networks, Computer networks and Wireless networks. ML-Venn: Multi-layer Venn neural networks Venn networks are computational intelligent architectures (i.e. a type of artificial neural network), proposed by the Buarque, which have the ability to mimic some brain function at the same time their internal activity resemble what is seen in functional imaging of the brain.
ODM: Objective Dialectical MethodThe ODM Project aims at developing a new paradigm (and applications) of computational intelligence that is entirely based on Philosophy. The Objective Dialectical Method (ODM) is mainly inspired in the Materialistic Method of philosophical inquiry of the reality and in the dynamics of its contradictions. Initial results of ODM, tackling real world problems, are already very encouraging.
WPA: Wolf Pack Approximation WPA is a scientific research project that aims at developing a novel function approximation algorithm inspired on wolf-pack tactics. The algorithm is intelligent, that is, it is able to learn by its own functioning. PSS - Particle Swarm Optimization Simulation ShellMultiEvolutionary Sytems (mEvoSys)mEvoSys is a research project that aims at studying and developing innovative systems that incorporate multiple simultaneous evolutionary processes of different nature, e.g. symbolic or subsimbolic. We plan to put together aspects of multiagent systems (i.e. memetic abilities such as communication and coordination) and aspects of conventional evolutionary systems (i.e. genetic abilities such as crossover and mutation). Theoretic aspects to be investigated are: (i) communication; (II) social behaviors; (III) semantics of individual actions; (IV) structural elements of environment and society; (v) how genetics may better influence memetics; (vi) how memetics may influence genetics; (vii) emergency of individual behaviors; and (viii) emergency of social behaviors. Pragmatical aspects to be investigated are how to tackle: (i) surroundings; (II) objectives and goals; (III) actions of the agents; (IV) representation of structural elements of the environment and the society; and, (v) how to represent social/individual behaviors. The expected results aim at applications in Sociology as well as in Economics. |