TY - CHAP AU - Alberto Ochoa AU - Arturo Hernández AU - Laura Cruz AU - Julio Ponce AU - Fernando Montes AU - Liang Li AU - Lenka Janacek ED - Peter Korosec Y1 - 2010-02-01 PY - 2010 T1 - Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Using Ant Colony, Particle Swarm Optimization and Cultural Algorithms N2 - Evolutionary computation has been widely used in computer science for decades. Even though it started as far back as the 1960s with simulated evolution, the subject is still evolving. During this time, new metaheuristic optimization approaches, like evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, swarm intelligence, etc., were being developed and new fields of usage in artificial intelligence, machine learning, combinatorial and numerical optimization, etc., were being explored. However, even with so much work done, novel research into new techniques and new areas of usage is far from over. This book presents some new theoretical as well as practical aspects of evolutionary computation. This book will be of great value to undergraduates, graduate students, researchers in computer science, and anyone else with an interest in learning about the latest developments in evolutionary computation. BT - New Achievements in Evolutionary Computation SP - Ch. 13 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/8058 DO - 10.5772/8058 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-10 ER -