A combined approach for the analysis of support groups on Facebook - the case of patients of hidradenitis suppurativa

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS), also known as Acne Inversa, is a chronic, underdiagnosed, often debilitating and painful disease that affects the folds of the...     

Evolving binary classifiers through parallel computation of multiple fitness cases.

This paper describes two versions of a novel approach to developing binary classifiers, based on two evolutionary computation paradigms: cellular programming and genetic programming. Such an approach achieves high computation efficiency both during evolution and at runtime. Evolution speed is optimized by allowing multiple solutions to be computed in parallel. Runtime performance is optimized explicitly using parallel computation in the case of cellular programming or implicitly taking advantage of the intrinsic parallelism of bitwise operators on standard sequential architectures in the case of genetic programming. The approach was tested on a digit recognition problem and compared with a reference classifier.