Hybrid Quantum Metaheuristics

The text discusses several hybrid quantum metaheuristics to efficiently analyses diverse engineering problems. It will be an ideal reference text for graduate students and professional in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, and computer science engineering.

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is currently working as a professor, department of computer science and engineering, CHRIST University Bangalore, India. His current research interest includes soft computing, pattern recognition, image processing, multimedia information retrieval, quantum-inspired soft computing, portfolio optimization and social networks. He is life fellow of Optical Society of India, Fellow of Institute for Engineering Research and Publication (IFERP) India, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India, a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) the USA and member of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) the UK. He has published several research papers in journals of national and international repute. Mario Köppen is presently working as a professor, graduate school of creative informatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He worked as a scientific assistant at the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processing in Berlin and from 1992 to 2006, he was working with the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology, Germany. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings, journals and books and was active in the organization of various conferences as a chair or member of the program committee, including the WSC online conference series on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, and the HIS conference series on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. He is a founding member of the World Federation of Soft Computing, and Associate Editor of the Applied Soft Computing journal. His current research interest includes image processing and pattern recognition, neural networks, evolutionary computation, fuzzy fusion, mathematical morphology, algorithm design and complexity, multi-objective and relational optimization, and digital content management. Elizabeth C. Behrman is currently working as a professor of physics and mathematics, Wichita State University, USA. She received masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the USA in 1981 and 1985 respectively. Her research interests and publications are broad, ranging from chemical kinetics and reaction pathways to ceramic superconductors to nuclear waste vitrification. She was the first to predict the stability of inorganic Buckyball's and buckytubes, and among the first to design and computationally test models for quantum neural networks. Her major focus interest includes theoretical quantum computing, quantum information, and quantum control, particularly quantum machine learning and quantum AI. She has taught courses including quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, solid-state physics, electricity and magnetism, computational physics, and theoretical physics. She has published several research papers in journals of national and international repute. Ivan Cruz Aceves is presently working as a researcher, Centre for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT), Mexico. He did his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico in 2014. His current research interest includes segmentation techniques and stochastic optimization methods for medical image processing and analysis. He has published research papers in the journal of national and international repute."

Preface Dedication Chapter 1 An Introductory Illustration to Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristics Sourav De, Cooch Behar Government Engineering College, Cooch Behar, India Sandip Dey, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Jalpaiguri, India Chapter 2 A Quantum-Inspired Approach to Collective Combine of Basic Classifiers in an Ensemble Bagging Sergey Gorbachev, National Research Tomsk State University, Russia Maxim Bobyr, Southwest State University, Russia Nadezhda Gorbacheva, National Research Tomsk State University, Russia Siddhartha. Bhattacharyya, Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, India Sandip Dey, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Jalpaiguri, India Debanjan Konar, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India Chapter 3 Function Optimization using IBM Q Soumyajit Goswami, IBM India Pvt. Ltd., India Chapter 4 Multipartite Adaptive Quantum-inspired Evolutionary Algorithm for Reduction in Power Losses of a Radial Distribution Network G. Manikanta, Amity University Noida, India Ashish Mani, Amity University Noida, India H. P. Singh, Amity University Noida, India D. K. Chaturvedi, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra, India Amlan Chatterjee, California State University, USA Chapter 5 Quantum Inspired Manta Ray Foraging Optimization Algorithm for Automatic Clustering of Colour Images Alokananda Dey, RCC Institute of Information Technology, India Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, India Sandip Dey, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Jalpaiguri, India Jan Platos, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Vaclav Snasel, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Chapter 6 Automatic Feature Selection for Coronary Stenosis Detection in X-Ray angiograms using Quantum Genetic Algorithms Miguel-Angel Gil-Rios, Universidad Tecnol-ogica de Le-on. Blvd., Mexico Maria-Dolores Juarez-Ramirez, Universidad Tecnol-ogica de Le-on. Blvd., Mexico Laura-Paulina Badillo-Canchola, Universidad Tecnol-ogica de Le-on. Blvd., Mexico Mar--a-del-Carmen Ruiz-Robledo, Universidad Tecnol-ogica de Le-on. Blvd., Mexico Martha Alicia Hernandez-Gonzalez, Unidad M-edica de Alta Especialidad (UMAE) - Hospital de, Mexico Sergio Eduardo Solorio-Meza, Universidad Tecnol-ogica de M-exico, Mexico Chapter 7 Quantum Preprocessing for DCNN in Atherosclerosis Detection Emmanuel Ovalle-Magallanes, University of Guanajuato, Mexico Dora Elisa Alvarado-Carrillo, Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT), A.C. , Mexico Juan Gabriel Avina-Cervantes, Juan Gabriel Avina-Cervantes, University of Guanajuato, Mexico Chapter 8 Multilevel Quantum Elephant Herd Algorithm for Automatic Clustering of Hyperspectral Images Tulika Dutta, Assam University, Silchar, India Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, India Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Assam University, Silchar, India Chapter 9 Towards Quantum-inspired SSA for Solving Multiobjective Optimization Problems Sanjai Pathak, Amity University Noida, India Ashish Mani, Amity University Noida, India Mayank Sharma, Amity University Noida, India Amlan Chatterjee, California State University, USA Chapter 10 Quantum Inspired Multi-Objective NSGA-II Algorithm for Automatic Clustering of Gray Scale Images Alokananda Dey, RCC Institute of Information Technology, India Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, India Sandip Dey, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Jalpaiguri, India Jan Platos, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Vaclav Snasel, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Chapter 11 Conclusion Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, India