Introduction to the Special Section on Nature Inspired Methods in Industry Applications
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 2018
This special section of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics is dedicated to 'Nature Inspired Methods in Industry Applications.' This special section is focused on the development, adaptation, and application of the methods inspired by nature in real-life engineering applications. A total of 127 papers were submitted to our special section. Based on the reviewers' comments, eleven papers have been accepted for publication, while seven papers are still under review (as of January 2, 2018). These eleven accepted papers have been grouped into four thematic sections as follows: 1) Evolutionary algorithms (EA), 2) Swarm intelligence algorithms (SIA), 3) Hybridization of EA with SIA, and 4) Other nature-inspired methods. Section II of this Introduction presents the accepted papers related to the EA research topic. In Section III, the accepted papers related to SIA research topic are discussed. The accepted papers related to the research topic based on the hybridization of EA with SIA are briefly described in Section IV. In Section V, we present the accepted papers related to the research topic based on some other nature-inspired methods. In Section VI, the summary is given.