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This book contains a collection of the papers accepted in the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2014), which was held in Singapore from 10-12th November 2014. The papers contained in this book demonstrate notable intelligent systems with good analytical and/or empirical results.

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´Impact of stubborn individuals on a spread of infectious disease under voluntary vaccination policy.- Cognitive Bias, ABM and Emergence of China Stock Market.- Collective behavior in cascade model depend on turn of choice.- Improved performance of a cooperative genetic algorithm when solutions were presented as cartoon faces.- Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Using Message Passing Interface.- An Automatic Clustering Algorithm Based on a Competition Model of Probabilistic PCA.- Bayesian Inference to Sustain Evolvability in Genetic Programming.- Synthesis of Clock Signal from Genetic Oscillator.- A Multi-agent System for Smartphone Intrusion Detection Framework.- A Risk-Averse Inventory Cost Model using CVaR.- Multi-objective Heterogeneous Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery for Urban Last Mile Logistics.- Orthogonal Predictive Differential Evolution.- Content-Adaptive Analysis and Filtering of Microblogs Traffic for Event-Monitoring Applications.- A New Supervised Learning Algorithm for Spiking Neurons.- An optimization method of SNNs for shortest path problem.- C2: Adaptive Load Balancing for Metadata Server Cluster in Cloud-scale Storage Systems.- A Multi-Agent Simulation Framework to Support Agent Interactions under Different Domains.-Automatic Ultrasound Image Segmentation Framework based on Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization.-Chinese Text Similarity Computation via the 1D-PW CNN.- A New Approach for Product Design by Integrating Assembly and Disassembly Sequence Structure Planning.- Community Detection from Signed Social Networks using a Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm.- Solving Multimode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems using an Organizational Evolutionary Algorithm.- Cyber-Physical Systems: the Next Generation of Evolvable Hardware Research and Applications.- Searching for agents´ best risk profiles.- MA-Net: A reliable memetic algorithm for community detection by modularity optimization.- Identifying the High-Value Social Audience from Twitter through Text-Mining Methods.- Understanding the Behavior of Solid State Disk.- Supply Chain Risk Mitigation and the Application Potential of Complex Systems Approaches.- An Adaptive Clustering and Re-clustering based Crowding Differential Evolution for Continuous Multi-modal Optimization.- A Network Connectivity Embedded Clustering Approach for Supply Chain Risk Assessment.- Proposal and Evaluation of a Robust Pheromone-based Algorithm for the Patrolling Problem with Various Graph Structure.- A Choreographer leads the Pareto efficient equilibrium in the three-person network externality games: Experimental Evidence.- Figure Pattern Creation Support for Escher-Like Tiling by Interacitive Genetic Algorithms.- Angle-based Outlier Detection Algorithm with More Stable Relationships.- An Opposition-based Self-adaptive Hybridized Differential Evolution Algorithm for Multi-objective Optimization (OSADE).- Agent-based Modeling of Economic Volatility and Risk Propagation on Evolving Networks.- Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Power Flow.- constrained differential evolution algorithm with a novel local search operator for constrained optimization problems.- Structurization of Design Space for Launch Vehicle with Hybrid Rocket Engine Using Stratum-Type Association Analysis.- Evolving the Parameters of Differential Evolution using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Individual-based Cooperative Coevolution Local Search for Large Scale Optimization.- Action Recognition Using Hierarchical Independent Subspace Analysis with Trajectory.- A Spiking Neural Network Model for Associative Memory Using Temporal Codes.- A novel adaptive -constrained method for constrained problem.- Sensitivity Analysis of Fuzzy Signatures Using Minkowski´s Inequality.- Large strategy adaptation neighborhood bolsters network reciprocity in pr

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