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most citedA Tutorial on the Design, Experimentation and Application of Metaheuristic Algorithms to Real-World Optimization Problems

407 citations · 1k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.NE2025★ 1 cited

The Paradox of Success in Evolutionary and Bioinspired Optimization: Revisiting Critical Issues, Key Studies, and Methodological Pathways

Daniel Molina, Javier Del Ser, Javier Poyatos +1

Evolutionary and bioinspired computation are crucial for efficiently addressing complex optimization problems across diverse application domains. By mimicking processes observed in…

cs.NE2024★ 407 cited

A Tutorial on the Design, Experimentation and Application of Metaheuristic Algorithms to Real-World Optimization Problems

Eneko Osaba, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Javier Del Ser +6

In the last few years, the formulation of real-world optimization problems and their efficient solution via metaheuristic algorithms has been a catalyst for a myriad of research st…

cs.NE2024★ 1 cited

Evolutionary Computation for the Design and Enrichment of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems: Survey and Prospects

Javier Poyatos, Javier Del Ser, Salvador Garcia +6

In Artificial Intelligence, there is an increasing demand for adaptive models capable of dealing with a diverse spectrum of learning tasks, surpassing the limitations of systems de…

cs.AI2023★ 86 cited

General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems (GPAIS): Properties, Definition, Taxonomy, Societal Implications and Responsible Governance

Isaac Triguero, Daniel Molina, Javier Poyatos +2

Most applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are designed for a confined and specific task. However, there are many scenarios that call for a more general AI, capable of solvi…

cs.CY2023★ 35 cited

Connecting the Dots in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: From AI Principles, Ethics, and Key Requirements to Responsible AI Systems and Regulation

Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser, Mark Coeckelbergh +3

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) is based on seven technical requirements sustained over three main pillars that should be met throughout the system's entire life cycle: it…

cs.NE2023★ 18 cited

Multiobjective Evolutionary Pruning of Deep Neural Networks with Transfer Learning for improving their Performance and Robustness

Javier Poyatos, Daniel Molina, Aitor Martínez +2

Evolutionary Computation algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems in relation with architectural, hyper-parameter or training configuration, forging the field known…

eess.IV2022★ 4 cited

Fuzzy Attention Neural Network to Tackle Discontinuity in Airway Segmentation

Yang Nan, Javier Del Ser, Zeyu Tang +7

Airway segmentation is crucial for the examination, diagnosis, and prognosis of lung diseases, while its manual delineation is unduly burdensome. To alleviate this time-consuming a…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Exploring the Trade-off between Plausibility, Change Intensity and Adversarial Power in Counterfactual Explanations using Multi-objective Optimization

Javier Del Ser, Alejandro Barredo-Arrieta, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez +2

There is a broad consensus on the importance of deep learning models in tasks involving complex data. Often, an adequate understanding of these models is required when focusing on…

cs.NE2022★ 53 cited

EvoPruneDeepTL: An Evolutionary Pruning Model for Transfer Learning based Deep Neural Networks

Javier Poyatos, Daniel Molina, Aritz. D. Martinez +2

In recent years, Deep Learning models have shown a great performance in complex optimization problems. They generally require large training datasets, which is a limitation in most…

cs.AI2022

Data Harmonisation for Information Fusion in Digital Healthcare: A State-of-the-Art Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Future Research Directions

Yang Nan, Javier Del Ser, Simon Walsh +23

Removing the bias and variance of multicentre data has always been a challenge in large scale digital healthcare studies, which requires the ability to integrate clinical features…

cs.NE2020

AT-MFCGA: An Adaptive Transfer-guided Multifactorial Cellular Genetic Algorithm for Evolutionary Multitasking

Eneko Osaba, Javier Del Ser, Aritz D. Martinez +2

Transfer Optimization is an incipient research area dedicated to solving multiple optimization tasks simultaneously. Among the different approaches that can address this problem ef…

cs.LG2020

CURIE: A Cellular Automaton for Concept Drift Detection

Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser, Eneko Osaba +2

Data stream mining extracts information from large quantities of data flowing fast and continuously (data streams). They are usually affected by changes in the data distribution, g…

cs.NE2020

Lights and Shadows in Evolutionary Deep Learning: Taxonomy, Critical Methodological Analysis, Cases of Study, Learned Lessons, Recommendations and Challenges

Aritz D. Martinez, Javier Del Ser, Esther Villar-Rodriguez +5

Much has been said about the fusion of bio-inspired optimization algorithms and Deep Learning models for several purposes: from the discovery of network topologies and hyper-parame…

cs.NE2020★ 186 cited

A Prescription of Methodological Guidelines for Comparing Bio-inspired Optimization Algorithms

Antonio LaTorre, Daniel Molina, Eneko Osaba +2

Bio-inspired optimization (including Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence) is a growing research topic with many competitive bio-inspired algorithms being proposed every…

cs.NE2020

Multifactorial Cellular Genetic Algorithm (MFCGA): Algorithmic Design, Performance Comparison and Genetic Transferability Analysis

Eneko Osaba, Aritz D. Martinez, Jesus L. Lobo +2

Multitasking optimization is an incipient research area which is lately gaining a notable research momentum. Unlike traditional optimization paradigm that focuses on solving a sing…

cs.LG2020

Simultaneously Evolving Deep Reinforcement Learning Models using Multifactorial Optimization

Aritz D. Martinez, Eneko Osaba, Javier Del Ser +1

In recent years, Multifactorial Optimization (MFO) has gained a notable momentum in the research community. MFO is known for its inherent capability to efficiently address multiple…

cs.LG2020

LUNAR: Cellular Automata for Drifting Data Streams

Jesus L. Lobo, Javier Del Ser, Francisco Herrera

With the advent of huges volumes of data produced in the form of fast streams, real-time machine learning has become a challenge of relevance emerging in a plethora of real-world a…

cs.AI2020★ 201 cited

Comprehensive Taxonomies of Nature- and Bio-inspired Optimization: Inspiration versus Algorithmic Behavior, Critical Analysis and Recommendations (from 2020 to 2024)

Daniel Molina, Javier Poyatos, Javier Del Ser +3

In recent years, bio-inspired optimization methods, which mimic biological processes to solve complex problems, have gained popularity in recent literature. The proliferation of pr…

cs.AI2019★ 39 cited

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, Taxonomies, Opportunities and Challenges toward Responsible AI

Alejandro Barredo Arrieta, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser +9

In the last years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved a notable momentum that may deliver the best of expectations over many application sectors across the field. For this t…