Computational Intelligence for Network Structure Analytics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

This book presents the latest research advances in complex network structure analytics based on computational intelligence (CI) approaches, particularly evolutionary optimization. Most if not all network issues are actually optimization problems, which are mostly NP-hard and challenge conventional optimization techniques. To effectively and efficiently solve these hard optimization problems, CI based network structure analytics offer significant advantages over conventional network analytics techniques.  Meanwhile, using CI techniques may facilitate smart decision making by providing multiple options to choose from, while conventional methods can only offer a decision maker a single suggestion. In addition, CI based network structure analytics can greatly facilitate network modeling and analysis. And employing CI techniques to resolve network issues is likely to inspire other fields of study such as recommender systems, system biology, etc., which will in turn expand CI?s scope and applications.

As a comprehensive text, the book covers a range of key topics, including network community discovery, evolutionary optimization, network structure balance analytics, network robustness analytics, community-based personalized recommendation, influence maximization, and biological network alignment.

Offering a rich blend of theory and practice, the book is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners interested in network analytics and computational intelligence, both as a textbook and as a reference work.

Dr. Maoguo Gong received his B. Eng degree and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University. Since 2006, he has been teaching at Xidian University. He was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Dr. Gong’s research interests are broadly in the area of computational intelligence, with applications to optimization, learning, data mining and image understanding. He has published over one hundred papers in journals and conferences, and holds fifteen patents as the first inventor. He is currently leading or has completed over ten projects as Principal Investigator, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) of China and others. He has been distinguished with the prestigious National Program Award for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals (selected by the Central Organization Department of China), the Excellent Young Scientist Foundation Award (selected by the National Natural Science Foundation of China), the New Century Excellent Talent in University Award (selected by the Ministry of Education of China), the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Young Teacher Award, the Shaanxi Province Young Scientist Award, the Shaanxi Province New Scientific and Technological Star Award, the Elsevier SCOPUS Young Researcher Award of China, and the National Natural Science Award of China. He is the Executive Committee Member of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Senior Member of IEEE and Chinese Computer Federation, Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for five journals including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Memetic Computing.

Dr. Qing Cai received his B. Eng. degree in electronic information engineering from Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, China, in 2010. Since then he was pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems at the School of Electronic Engineering, Xidia