内容简介
Thisbookintroducesreaderstothebackgroundgeneralframework,mainoperators,andotherbasiccharacteristicsofbiogeography-basedoptimization(BBO),whichisanemergingbranchofbio-inspiredcomputation.Inparticular,thebookpresentstheauthors’recentworkonimprovedvariantsofBBO,hybridizationofBBOwithotheralgorthms,andtheapplicationofBBOtoavarietyofdomainsincludingtransporta-tion,imageprocessing,andneuralnetworklearning.ThecontentwillhelptoadvanceresearchandapplicationofnotonlyBBObuthetwholefieldofbio-inspiredcompu-tation.Thealgorithmsandapplicationsareorganizedinastep-by-stepmannerandclearlydescribedwiththehelpofpscudo-codesandflowcharts.ThereaderswilllearnnotonlythebasicconceptsofBBObutalsohowtoapplyandadaptthelagorithmstotheengineeringoptimizationproblemstheyactuallyencounter.