IntechOpen Book Series Artificial Intelligence Volume 2

Prof. Dr. Javier Del Ser received his first PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Navarra, Spain, and his second PhD in Computational Intelligence from the University of Alcala, Spain. Currently he is a Research Professor in Artificial Intelligence and the leading scientist of the OPTIMA (Optimization, Modeling and Analytics) research area at TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (www.tecnalia.com). He is also an

adjunct professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), an invited research fellow at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), and a senior AI advisor at the technological startup SHERPA.AI. He is also the coordinator of a Joint Research Lab. His research interests include the use of Artificial Intelligence methods for data mining and optimization. He has published more than 280 scientific articles, co-supervised 8 PhD theses (+ 9 ongoing), edited 6 books, co-authored 9 patents, and participated/led more than 40 research projects. He has also been involved in the organization of various national and international conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a recipient of the Bizkaia Talent prize for his research career.

Dr. Esther Villar holds a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies (2015) from the University of Alcalá (Spain). She achieved her Computer Scientist degree (2010) from the University of Deusto, and her MSc (2012) in Computer Languages and Systems from the UNED (National University of Distance Education). Her areas of interest and knowledge include Natural Language Processing (NLP), detection of impersonation in so-

cial networks, semantic web and machine learning. She has made several contributions at conferences and has published in various journals in those fields. Currently, she is working within the OPTIMA (Optimization Modeling & Analytics) business of Tecnalia's ICT Division as a data scientist in projects related to the prediction and optimization of management and industrial processes: resource planning, energy efficiency, etc.

Dr. Eneko Osaba works at TECNALIA as a researcher in the ICT/ OPTIMA area. He obtained his Ph.D. degree on Artificial Intelligence in 2015 from the University of Deusto. He has participated in the proposal, development, and justification of more than 20 local and European research projects, and in the publication of more than 100 scientific papers (including more than 20 Q1). He has performed several fellowships at universities in the United

Kingdom, Italy, and Malta. Eneko has served as the program committee member in more than 30 international conferences and participated in organizing activities in more than 7 international conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Data in Brief and the Journal of Advanced Transportation, and guest editor in the journals Journal of Computational Science, Neurocomputing, Logic Journal of IGPL, Advances in Mechanical Engineering Journal, and the IEEE ITS Magazine.

Contents

Perspectives, and Applications

Problems *by Hiroshi Sho*

Engineering Problems

*by Sibel Arslan and Celal Ozturk*

Functions Using Cuckoo Search

Programming

*by Francis Oloo*

*by Huey-Yang Horng*

*by Eneko Osaba, Esther Villar and Javier Del Ser*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 101**

Introductory Chapter: Swarm Intelligence - Recent Advances, New

Use of Particle Multi-Swarm Optimization for Handling Tracking

Particle Swarm Optimization: A Powerful Technique for Solving

Feature Selection for Classification with Artificial Bee Colony

Design of the Second-Order Controller by Time-Domain Objective

*by Bruno Seixas Gomes de Almeida and Victor Coppo Leite*

Sensor-Driven, Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Models

**Editors of Volume 2: Javier Del Ser**  TECNALIA Research & Innovation. 48160 Derio, Bizkaia. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48013, Bilbao, Bizkaia

**Esther Villar**  TECNALIA Research & Innovation. 48160 Derio, Bizkaia

**Eneko Osaba** TECNALIA Research & Innovation. 48160 Derio, Bizkaia

## **Book Series Editor: Marco A. Aceves-Fernandez**

Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico

## Scope of the Series

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing multidisciplinary research area that aims to solve increasingly complex problems. In today´s highly integrated world, AI promises to become a robust and powerful mean for obtaining solutions to previously unsolvable problems. This book series is intended for researchers and students alike, as well as all those interested in this fascinating field and its applications, in particular in areas related to the topics on which it is focused.

## Contents


Preface

Swarm Intelligence has emerged as one of the most studied artificial intelligence branches during the last decade, constituting today the fastest growing stream in the bio-inspired computation community. A clear trend can be deduced analyzing some of the most renowned scientific databases available, showing that the interest aroused by this branch has increased at a notable pace in the last years. Undoubtedly, the main influences behind the conception of this stream are the classical Ant Colony Optimization and Particle Swarm Optimization. These algorithms started the interest in this field, being the origin and main inspiration for subsequent research. Today, a myriad of novel methods has been proposed, considering many different inspirational sources, such as the behavioral patterns of animals such as bats, fireflies, bees, or cuckoos; social and political behaviors such as the imperialism or hierarchical societies; or physical processes such as optics systems, electromagnetic theory, or gravitational dynamics. This book focuses on the prominent theories and recent developments of Swarm Intelligence methods, and their application in all fields covered by engineering. This material unleashes a great opportunity for researchers, lecturers, and practitioners interested in Swarm

Intelligence, optimization problems, and artificial intelligence.

**Javier Del Ser** 

Derio, Bizkaia

Bilbao, Bizkaia

Derio, Bizkaia

TECNALIA Research and Innovation,

**Esther Villar and Eneko Osaba**  TECNALIA Research and Innovation,

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU),
