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Esparcia-Alcázar 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aBerlin, Heidelberg :$cSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :$cImprint: Springer,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (XXVIII, 639 p. 210 illus.) 225 1 $aTheoretical Computer Science and General Issues,$x2512-2029 ;$v7835 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a3-642-37191-4 327 $aAn Evolutionary Framework for Routing Protocol Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Routing Low-Speed Traffic Requests onto High-Speed Lightpaths by Using a Multiobjective Firefly Algorithm -- Pareto-optimal Glowworm Swarms Optimization for Smart Grids Management -- An Overlay Approach for Optimising Small-World Properties in VANETs -- Impact of the Number of Beacons in PSO-Based Auto-localization in UWB Networks -- Load Balancing in Distributed Applications Based on Extremal Optimization -- A Framework for Modeling Automatic Offloading of Mobile Applications Using Genetic Programming -- Solving the Location Areas Scheme in Realistic Networks by Using a Multi-objective Algorithm -- The Small-World Phenomenon Applied to a Self-adaptive Resources Selection Model -- Partial Imitation Hinders Emergence of Cooperation in the Iterated Prisoner?s Dilemma with Direct Reciprocity -- A Memetic Approach to Bayesian Network Structure Learning -- Multiobjective Evolutionary Strategy for Finding Neighbourhoods of Pareto-optimal Solutions -- Genetic Programming-Based Model Output Statistics for Short-Range Temperature Prediction -- Evolutionary Multi-Agent System in Hard Benchmark Continuous Optimisation -- Domestic Load Scheduling Using Genetic Algorithms -- Evolutionary Algorithm Based Control Policies for Flexible Optimal Power Flow over Time -- Using a Genetic Algorithm for the Determination of Power Load Profiles -- Comparing Ensemble-Based Forecasting Methods for Smart-Metering Data -- Evolving Non-Intrusive Load -- On the Utility of Trading Criteria Based Retraining in Forex Markets -- Identifying Market Price Levels Using Differential Evolution -- Evolving Hierarchical Temporal Memory-Based Trading Models -- Robust Estimation of Vector Autoregression (VAR) Models Using Genetic Algorithms -- Usage Patterns of Trading Rules in Stock Market Trading Strategies Optimized with Evolutionary Methods -- Combining Technical Analysis and Grammatical Evolution in a Trading System -- A Card Game Description Language -- Generating Map Sketches for Strategy Games -- A Procedural Balanced Map Generator with Self-adaptive Complexity for the Real-Time Strategy Game Planet Wars -- Mechanic Miner: Reflection-Driven Game Mechanic Discovery and Level Design -- Generating Artificial Neural Networks for Value Function Approximation in a Domain Requiring a Shifting Strategy -- Comparing Evolutionary Algorithms to Solve the Game of MasterMind -- A Genetic Algorithm for Color Image Segmentation -- Multiobjective Projection Pursuit for Semisupervised Feature Extraction -- Land Cover/Land Use Multiclass Classification Using GP with Geometric Semantic Operators -- Adding Chaos to Differential Evolution for Range Image Registration -- Genetic Programming for Automatic Construction of Variant Features in Edge Detection -- Automatic Construction of Gaussian-Based Edge Detectors Using Genetic Programming -- Implicit Fitness Sharing for Evolutionary Synthesis of License Plate Detectors -- Feedback-Based Image Retrieval Using Probabilistic Hypergraph Ranking Augmented by Ant Colony Algorithm -- An Evolutionary Approach for Automatic Seedpoint Setting in Brain Fiber Tracking -- Prediction of Forest Aboveground Biomass: An Exercise on Avoiding Overfitting -- Human Action Recognition from Multi-Sensor Stream Data by Genetic Programming -- Novel Initialisation and Updating Mechanisms in PSO for Feature Selection in Classification -- CodeMonkey; a GUI Driven Platform for Swift Synthesis of Evolutionary Algorithms in Java -- Multi-Objective Optimizations of Structural Parameter Determination for Serpentine Channel Heat Sink -- Towards Non-linear ConstraintEstimation for Expensive Optimization Repair Methods for Box Constraints Revisited -- Scalability of Population-Based Search Heuristics for Many-Objective Optimization -- On GPU Based Fitness Evaluation with Decoupled Training Partition Cardinality.-EvoSpace: A Distributed Evolutionary Platform Based on the Tuple Space Model -- Cloud Driven Design of a Distributed Genetic Programming Platform -- Cloud Scale Distributed Evolutionary Strategies for High Dimensional Problems -- Evolving Gaits for Physical Robots with the HyperNEAT Generative Encoding: The Benefits of Simulation -- Co-evolutionary Approach to Design of Robotic Gait -- A Comparison between Different Encoding Strategies for Snake-Like Robot Controllers -- Virtual Spatiality in Agent Controllers: Encoding Compartmentalization -- Evolving Counter-Propagation Neuro-controllers for Multi-objective Robot Navigation -- Toward Automatic Gait Generation for Quadruped Robots Using Cartesian Genetic Programming -- Adapting the Pheromone Evaporation Rate in Dynamic Routing Problems -- Finding Robust Solutions to Dynamic Optimization Problems -- An Ant-Based Selection Hyper heuristic for Dynamic Environments. 330 $aThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013, colocated with the Evo* 2013 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and EvoMUSART. 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Poverty and Social Development in the Context of Millennium Development Goals; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Defining Poverty; 3.2.1 Social workers' definition of poverty; 3.3.2 Manifestations of poverty in Kenya; 3.3 Programmes for Poverty Reduction in Kenya; 3.4 Major Actors in Poverty Reduction; 3.5 Social Work and Social Development 327 $a3.6 Programme Linkages to the MDGs3.6.1 Social work practice and MDGs; 3.6.2 Programmes to realize MDGs; 4. 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