Discrete and Continuous Aspects of Nature Inspired Methods (original) (raw)

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In nature, industry, medicine, social environment, simply everywhere we find a lot of data that bear certain information. A dictionary defines data as facts or figures from which conclusions may be drawn. Data can be classified as either numeric or nonnumeric. The structure and nature of data greatly affects the choice of analysis method. Under the term structure we understand the facts that the data might be not a single number but n-tuples of measurements. Structure is also very closely linked to the reason of data collection and method of measurement. The paper describes the similarities and differences of nature inspired methods and their natural counterparts in light of continuous and discrete properties. Different examples of nature inspired methods are inspected in terms of data, problem domains and inner structure and principles.

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  1. Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic
    Martin Macaš, Miroslav Burša & Lenka Lhotská

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  1. Martin Macaš
  2. Miroslav Burša
  3. Lenka Lhotská

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK
    Bogdan Gabrys
  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK
    Robert J. Howlett
  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, SA, 5095, Mawson Lakes, Australia
    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Macaš, M., Burša, M., Lhotská, L. (2006). Discrete and Continuous Aspects of Nature Inspired Methods. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893004\_53

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