Table of Contents:
  • General Heuristics
  • From Evolution to Immune to Swarm to ...? A Simple Introduction to Modern Heuristics / Hussein A. Abbass
  • Approximating Proximity for Fast and Robust Distance-Based Clustering / Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Michael Houle
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • On the Use of Evolutionary Algorithms in Data Mining / Erick Cantu-Paz, Chandrika Kamath
  • The discovery of interesting nuggets using heuristic techniques / Beatriz de la Iglesia, Victor J. Rayward-Smith
  • Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Feature Subset Selection in Large Dimensionality Domains / Inaki Inza, Pedro Larranaga, Basilio Sierra
  • Towards the Cross-Fertilization of Multiple Heuristics: Evolving Teams of Local Bayesian Learners / Jorge Muruzabal
  • Evolution of Spatial Data Templates for Object Classification / Neil Dunstan, Michael de Raadt
  • Genetic Programming
  • Genetic Programming as a Data-Mining Tool / Peter W.H. Smith
  • A Building Block Approach to Genetic Programming for Rule Discovery / A.P. Engelbrecht, Sonja Rouwhorst, L. Schoeman
  • Ant Colony Optimization and Immune Systems
  • An Ant Colony Algorithm for Classification Rule Discovery / Rafael S. Parpinelli, Heitor S. Lopes, Alex A. Freitas
  • Artificial Immune Systems: Using the Immune System as Inspiration for Data Mining / Jon Timmis, Thomas Knight
  • aiNet: An Artificial Immune Network for Data Analysis / Leandro Nunes de Castro, Fernando J. Von Zuben
  • Parallel Data Mining
  • Parallel Data Mining / David Taniar, J. Wenny Rahayu.