J. Yaghob (Ed.): ITAT 2015 p. 2 Charles University in Prague, Prague, 2015 Evolutionary Algorithms — Selected Topics Ivan Zelinka Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science VŠB-TUO Abstract: This keynote is focused on mutual intersection of interesting fields of research: bio-inspired algorithms, deterministic chaos and complex systems. The first part will discuss main principles of bio- inspired methods, its historical background and its use on various examples including real world ones. Examples in- clude plasma reactor control, optimal signal routing in the network of portable meteorological stations, complex sys- tem design as antenna design, nonlinear system and con- trollers design and more. Also its use on deterministic chaos control with focusing on simple chaotic systems (lo- gistic, Hennon, . . . ) as well as CML systems exhibiting spatiotemporal chaos will be mentioned and explained. The second part will discuss use of deterministic chaos Prof. Zelinka is responsible supervisor of several instead of pseudo-random number generators inside evo- grant researches of Czech grant agency GAČR as for lutionary algorithms with application on well known evo- example Unconventional Control of Complex Systems, lutionary algorithms (differential evolution, PSO, SOMA, Security of Mobile Devices and Communication (bi- genetic algorithms, . . . ) and test functions. Mutual com- lateral project between Czech and Vietnam) and co- parison will be presented, based on our research. Also will supervisor of grant FRVŠ – Laboratory of parallel com- be discussed question whether evolutionary dynamics re- puting amongst the others. He was also working on nu- ally need pseudo- random numbers. merous grants and two EU projects as member of team At the end will be mentioned a novel approach joining (FP5 – RESTORM) and supervisor (FP7 – PROMOEVO) evolutionary dynamics, complex networks and CML sys- of the Czech team. He is also head of research team NAVY tems exhibiting chaotic behavior. Reported methodology http://navy.cs.vsb.cz/. and results are based on actual state of art (that is a part of Prof. Zelinka was awarded by Siemens Award this tutorial) as well as on our own research. for his Ph.D. thesis, as well as by journal Soft- ware news for his book about artificial intelligence. He is a member of the British Computer Society, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs – Ivan Zelinka (born in 1965, ivanzelinka.eu) is currently http://www.mirlabs.org/czech.php), IEEE (com- associated with the Technical University of Ostrava (VSB- mittee of Czech section of Computational Intelligence), TU), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci- a few international program committees of various con- ence. He graduated consequently at the Technical Univer- ferences, and three international journals. He is also the sity in Brno (1995 – MSc.), UTB in Zlin (2001 - Ph.D.) founder and editor-in-chief of a new book series entitled and again at Technical University in Brno (2004 – Assoc. Emergence, Complexity and Computation (Springer se- Prof.) and VSB-TU (2010 – Professor). ries 10624, see also www.ecc-book.eu).