Applied Nature-Inspired Computing: Algorithms and Case Studies
暫譯: 應用自然啟發計算：演算法與案例研究

本書介紹了自然啟發計算（Nature-Inspired Computing, NIC）領域中的前沿研究程序，以及其與現實工程應用中計算智能領域的聯繫。它向讀者介紹了一系列廣泛的演算法，例如遺傳演算法、粒子群優化、螢火蟲演算法、花朵授粉演算法、基於碰撞的優化演算法、蝙蝠演算法、螞蟻群優化以及多代理系統。接著，它提供了元啟發式演算法的概述，並比較了每種演算法的優缺點。

此外，本書簡要概述了自然啟發計算技術與各種計算智能範式的整合，並強調了自然啟發計算技術在多種應用中的重要性，包括：進化機器人、運動訓練規劃、水分配系統評估、洪水模擬與預測、交通控制、基因表達分析、天線陣列設計，以及排程/動態資源管理。

Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2015.

He has authored/edited more than 50 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, an Associated Editor of IEEE Access and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer Nature, the Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier and the Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Analysis, CRC.

His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Data Mining, etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) - Young ICT Group. Recently, he has been awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India (2015-17).

Amira S. Ashour is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Department-EEC, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt, since 2016. She has been the Vice Chair of Computer Engineering Department, Computers and Information Technology College, Taif University, KSA for one year from 2015. She has been the Vice Chair of CS Department, CIT College, Taif University, KSA for 5 years. Her research interests are Smart antenna, Direction of arrival estimation, Targets tracking, Image processing, Medical imaging, Machine learning, Signal/image/video processing, Image analysis, Computer vision, and Optimization. She has 9 books and about 70 published journal papers. She is an Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), IGI Global, US and a Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (AUSAH), Elsevier (Book Series). She is an Associate Editor for the IJRSDA, IGI Global, US as well as the IJACI, IGI Global, US. She is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), Inderscience.

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is currently the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is also serving as the Professor of Computer Application and Dean (Research and Development and Academic Affairs) of the institute. He is a Co-Authorco-author of 4 books and the Co-Editorco-editor of 8 books and has more than 185 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got a patent on intelligent colorimeter technology. He was the convener of the AICTE-IEEE National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (CoCoSys-09) in 2009. He is the Membermember of the editorial board of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, B. V. He is serving as the Series Editor of the IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM) from January 01, 2017. He is also Series Editor of the De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI)from April 27, 2017. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, hybrid intelligence and quantum computing. Dr. Bhattacharyya is a fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India.

尼蘭詹·德伊是印度加爾各答Techno India College of Technology資訊科技系的助理教授。他是英國雷丁大學的訪問研究員。2012年至2015年間，他曾擔任美國加州Global Biomedical Technologies Inc.的榮譽訪問科學家。他於2015年獲得加爾各答大學的博士學位。

他與Elsevier、Wiley、CRC Press和Springer合作撰寫或編輯了超過50本書籍，並發表了超過300篇論文。他是《國際環境計算與智能期刊》（International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global）的主編，IEEE Access和《國際資訊科技期刊》（International Journal of Information Technology, Springer）的副編輯。他是Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing系列的共同編輯，Elsevier的《醫療保健的普遍感知應用進展》（Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare）系列的共同編輯，以及CRC的《工程問題解決中的計算智能與智能信號處理和數據分析》（Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Analysis）系列的編輯。

他的主要研究興趣包括醫學影像、機器學習、電腦輔助診斷、數據挖掘等。他是國際資訊處理聯合會（IFIP）-年輕ICT小組的印度大使。最近，他被評選為2015年至2017年印度計算機科學領域發表論文最多的前10位學者之一。

阿米拉·S·阿什爾自2016年以來擔任埃及坦塔大學工程學院電子工程系的助理教授及系主任。她曾於2015年擔任沙烏地阿拉伯塔伊夫大學計算機工程系的副主任一年。她在塔伊夫大學計算機與資訊科技學院的計算機科學系擔任副主任5年。她的研究興趣包括智能天線、到達方向估計、目標追蹤、影像處理、醫學影像、機器學習、信號/影像/視頻處理、影像分析、計算機視覺和優化。她出版了9本書籍和約70篇期刊論文。她是《合成情感國際期刊》（International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, IJSE, IGI Global）的主編，以及Elsevier的《醫療保健的普遍感知應用進展》（Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, AUSAH）系列的共同編輯。她還是IJRSDA和IJACI的副編輯，均為IGI Global出版。她是《影像挖掘國際期刊》（International Journal of Image Mining, IJIM）的編輯委員會成員，該期刊由Inderscience出版。

希達爾塔·巴塔查里亞於1995年、1998年和2000年分別在印度加爾各答大學獲得物理學學士、光學與光電學學士及光學與光電學碩士學位。他於2008年在加爾各答大學獲得計算機科學與工程博士學位。他因其碩士學位獲得加爾各答大學的金獎。他目前是印度加爾各答RCC資訊科技學院的院長。此外，他還擔任該學院的計算機應用教授及研究與發展及學術事務院長。他是4本書的共同作者，8本書的共同編輯，並在國際期刊和會議論文集中發表了超過185篇研究論文。他擁有智能比色計技術的專利。他於2009年擔任AICTE-IEEE計算與通信系統全國會議（CoCoSys-09）的召集人。他是Elsevier的《應用軟體計算期刊》（Applied Soft Computing）的編輯委員會成員。他自2017年1月1日起擔任IGI Global書系列《資訊品質與管理進展》（Advances in Information Quality and Management, AIQM）的系列編輯。自2017年4月27日起，他也是De Gruyter書系列《計算智能前沿》（Frontiers in Computational Intelligence, FCI）的系列編輯。他的研究興趣包括軟計算、模式識別、多媒體數據處理、混合智能和量子計算。巴塔查里亞博士是印度電子與電信工程師學會（IETE）的院士。