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This book presents selected papers from the MENDEL conference that was held in Brno, Czech Republic in June 2017. Consisting of two parts, the book discusses recent advances in soft computing, including intelligent image processing: Part 1 addresses evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence, metaheuristics, and optimization; Part 2 then focuses on neural networks, machine learning, self-organization, fuzzy systems, and advanced statistics.

The MENDEL conference was established in 1995 and it bears the name of the scientist and Augustinian priest Gregor J. Mendel, who discovered the famous Laws of Heredity. The main aim of the conference was to create a regular opportunity for students, academics and researchers to exchange their ideas and novel research methods.

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Solving Sudoku´s by Evolutionary Algorithms with Preprocessing.- Weak Ties and How to Find Them.- Robustness and Evolutionary Dynamic Optimisation of Airport Security Schedules.- Enhanced Archive for SHADE.- Adaptation of Sport Training Plans by Swarm Intelligence.- On the Influence of Localisation and Communication Error on the Behaviour of a Swarm of AUVs.- Spam Detection Using Linear Genetic Programming.- Optimization of Protein Mixture Filtration.- Accelerated Genetic Programming.- Hybrid Multi-objective PSO for Filter-based Feature Selection.- Scalability of GPA-ES Algorithm.- Comparison of Three Novelty Approaches to Constants (Ks) Handling in Analytic Programming Powered by SHADE.- Proposal of a New Swarm Optimization Method Inspired in Bison Behaviour.- Stochastic Heuristics for Knapsack Problems.- Waste Processing Facility Location Problem by Stochastic Programming: Models and Solutions.- Randomization of Individuals Selection in Differential Evolution.- Grammatical Evolution for Classification into Multiple Classes.- A Spiking Model of Desert Ant Navigation Along a Habitual Route.- The Application Perspective of Izhikevich Spiking Neural Model - The Initial Experimental Study.- Fuzzy Granular Calculations for the Sematic Web Using Some Mathematical Morphology Methods.- Exploring the Map Equation: Community Structure Detection in Unweighted Undirected Networks.- One of the Possible Ways to Find Partial Dependencies in Multidimensional Data.- Emergent Phenomena in Complex Systems.- Utilization of Machine Learning in Vibrodiagnostics.- Deep Analytics Based on Triathlon Athletes Blogs and News.- Weighted Multilateration in Volumetry of CNC Machine Tools.- Numerical Solving Linear Systems of Stiff Delay Differential Equations with Constant Delays.- Dynamic Generalized Berge-Zhukovskii Equilibrium.- Fuzzy Logic Control Application for the Risk Quatification of Projects for Automation.

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