An Improved Artificial Immune Algorithm with a Dynamic Threshold

An improved artificial immune algorithm with a dynamic threshold is presented. The calculation for the affinity function in the real-valued coding artificial immune algorithm is modified through considering the antibody＇s fitness and setting the dynamic threshold value. Numerical experiments show that compared with the genetic algorithm and the originally real-valued coding artificial immune algorithm, the improved algorithm possesses high speed of convergence and good performance for preventing premature convergence.

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE ALGORITHM OF MULTICELLULAR GROUP AND ITS CONVERGENCE

Objective To find out more extrema simultaneously including global optimum and multiple local optima existed in multi-modal functions. Methods Germinal center is the generator and selector of high-affinity B cells, a multicellular group's artificial immune algorithm was proposed based on the germinal center reaction mechanism of natural immune systems. Main steps of the algorithm were given, including hyper-mutation, selection, memory, similarity suppression and recruitment of B cells and the convergence of it was proved. Results The algorithm has been tested to optimize various multi-modal functions, and the simulation results show that the artificial immune algorithm proposed here can find multiple extremum of these functions with lower computational cost. Conclusion The algorithm is valid and can converge on the satisfactory solution set D with probability 1 and approach to global solution and many local optimal solutions existed.

Fault diagnosis of railway point machines based on wavelet transform and artificial immune algorithm

Aiming at the current problems of high failure rate and low diagnostic efficiency of railway point machines(RPMs)in the railway industry,a short-time method of fault diagnosis is proposed.Considering the effect of noise on power signals in the data acquisition process of the railway centralized signaling monitoring(CSM)system,this study utilizes wavelet threshold denoising to eliminate interference.The results show that the accuracy of fault diagnosis can be improved by 4.4% after denoising the power signals.Then in order to attain a lighter weight and shorten the running time of the diagnosis model,Mallat wavelet decomposition and artificial immune algorithm are applied to RPM fault diagnosis.Finally,voluminous experiments using veritable power signals collected from CSM are introduced,which show that combining these methods can procure higher precision of RPMs and curtail fault diagnosis time.This substantiates the validity and feasibility of the presented approach.

An Effective Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

Capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem. However, it is quite difficult to achieve an optimal solution with the traditional optimization methods owing to the high computational complexity. A hybrid algorithm was developed to solve the problem, in which an artificial immune clonal algorithm (AICA) makes use of the global search ability to search the optimal results and simulated annealing (SA) algorithm employs certain probability to avoid becoming trapped in a local optimum. The results obtained from the computational study show that the proposed algorithm is a feasible and effective method for capacitated vehicle routing problem.

Hazard prediction of coal and gas outburst based on the Hamming distance artificial intelligence algorithm (HDAIA)

Currently,coal mining faces the uncertainty of the risk of coal and gas outbursts and inaccurate prediction results.Owing to this,an artificial immune algorithm(AIA)was developed for coal and gas outburst prediction based on the Hamming distance(HD)calculation method of antibody and antigen affinity called the Hamming distance artificial intelligence algorithm(HDAIA).The correlation matrix of coal and gas outburst indicators was constructed using the interpolation function in the algorithm.The HD algorithm was used to obtain the affinity between the antibody and antigen,and the minimum HD was screened to obtain the prediction result.The collected dynamic data of the drilling cuttings gas desorption index Ki and the drilling cuttings weight S during the excavation process of the 11,192-working face of a coal mine in Guizhou Province,China,were used as prediction indices.The results indicate that the prediction result of the HDAIA for the risk of coal and gas outbursts is consistent with the actual risk of outbursts,and it has a good prediction of the risk of coal and gas outbursts.The HDAIA can be used as a novel method for predicting the risk of coal and gas outbursts.

Hybrid anti-prematuration optimization algorithm

Heuristic optimization methods provide a robust and efficient approach to solving complex optimization problems.This paper presents a hybrid optimization technique combining two heuristic optimization methods,artificial immune system（AIS） and particle swarm optimization（PSO）,together in searching for the global optima of nonlinear functions.The proposed algorithm,namely hybrid anti-prematuration optimization method,contains four significant operators,i.e.swarm operator,cloning operator,suppression operator,and receptor editing operator.The swarm operator is inspired by the particle swarm intelligence,and the clone operator,suppression operator,and receptor editing operator are gleaned by the artificial immune system.The simulation results of three representative nonlinear test functions demonstrate the superiority of the hybrid optimization algorithm over the conventional methods with regard to both the solution quality and convergence rate.It is also employed to cope with a real-world optimization problem.

An Inception Module CNN Classifiers Fusion Method on Pulmonary Nodule Diagnosis by Signs

A "sign" on a lung CT image refers to a radiologic finding that suggests a pathological progression of some specific disease. Analysis of CT signs is helpful to understand the pathological origin of the lesion. In-depth study of lung nodules classification with different CT signs will help to distinguish benign and malignant nodules more clearly and accurately. To this end, we propose an Inception module-based ensemble classification method for pulmonary nodule diagnosis with different nodule signs. We first construct a Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) classifier adopting Inception modules and pre-train it on ImageNet. We then fine-tune this pre-trained classifier on 10 different lung nodule sign sample sets, and fuse these 10 classifiers with an artificial immune ensemble algorithm. The overall sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of our proposed Artificial Immune Algorithm-based Inception Networks Fusion(AIA-INF) algorithm are 82.22%, 93.17%, and 88.67%, respectively, which are significantly higher than those of the alternative Bagging and Boosting methods. The experimental results show that our Inception-based ensemble classifier offers promising performance, and compared with other CADx systems, this scheme can offer a more detailed reference for diagnosis, and can be valuable for junior radiologist training.