Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Signals are the media that we use to interact with systems or observe them. We define a signal as any function associated with a phenomenon from which it carries some kind of information. Signal processing is an engineering area that deals with the analysis, synthesis, and transforming of signals with the inserting/recovering of information in mind. Many of the techniques used are nonlinear. Among them, neural networks are very special.

A neural network is fundamentally different from other signal processing systems. In this context, the aim of this Special Issue is to present recent advances in the areas of signals processing in evolutionary computation and neural networks as well as to provide applications for real-world problems. Additionally, it is my pleasure to invite you to submit to this Special Issue on “Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks in Signal Processing” of the reputable MDPI journal Signals.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Deep neural networks;
• Genetic algorithms;
• Particle swarm optimization;
• Grammatical evolution and applications;
• Applications of neural networks in classification problems, such as binary classification, multiclass classification, and multilabel classification;
• Variants of differential evolution;
• Parallel evolutionary computation;
• Evolution of neural networks;
• Ant colony optimization;
• Software specialized to neural networks;
• Neuroevolution;
• Memetic algorithms;
• Applications of neural networks to pattern recognition and data mining;
• Signal processing using neural networks and evolutionary computation;
• Cryptography and coding for signals using genetic algorithms;
• Pattern mining using neural networks;
• Applications of neural networks to data collected from various sensors;
• Activity recognition using neural networks.

Dr. Ioannis G. Tsoulos
Guest Editor

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