One of the fastest growing areas of evolutionary algorithm research is the enhancement of genetic algorithms by combination with local search methods or memes: often known otherwise as memetic algorithms. However there is often little theoretical basis on which to characterize the choice of memes that lead to successful memetic algorithm performance. In this paper, we investigate empirically th...

Internet memes are a pervasive phenomenon on the social Web. They typically consist of viral catch phrases, images, or videos that spread through instant messaging, (micro) blogs, forums, and social networking sites. Due to their popularity and proliferation, Internet memes attract interest in areas as diverse as marketing, sociology, or computer science and have been dubbed a new form of commu...

The article analyzes a new form of Internet communication - creolized text consisting two inhomogeneous parts – visual and verbal. object the research is memes, as most frequent cases texts.The meme single semantic entity, in which verbal are combined with each other different ways. Memes, part represented by Latin saying "money does not smell" (pecunia non olet), were selected for analysis. pu...

The paper aims at investigating verbal humor in some selected Egyptian web memes about Corona Virus. It also identifying the different strategies and techniques used by memes' producers to create humor. In order carry out these goals, Attardo's (2014) General Theory of Verbal Humor is as a methodology this research. Humour consists six knowledge resources which are called (KRs): a) script oppos...

Introduction The article considers the issue of increasing motivation technical university students to study a foreign language using English-language Internet memes, which are considered be significant material for teaching Generation Z students. purpose is theoretically substantiate and experimentally test memes’ effectiveness in building language. research’s scientific novelty identifying wa...

Memes are the fundamental unit of cultural evolution and have been left upon the periphery of cognitive neuroscience due to their inexact definition and the consequent presumption that they are impossible to measure. Here it is argued that although a precise definition of memes is rather difficult it does not preclude highly controlled experiments studying the neural substrates of their initiat...

Goatse is a blockchain-based incentivized voting system that supports the generation of dank memes. It implements cryptocurrency-based incentivisation for meme originators, with a primary goal of allowing the internet’s talented meme artists to achieve recognition and reward for their memetic work. Prioritisation of fresh memes is achieved through community based algorithms, which reward users ...

The advent of social media has provided data and insights about how people relate to information and culture. While information is composed by bits and its fundamental building bricks are relatively well understood, the same cannot be said for culture. The fundamental cultural unit has been defined as a “meme”. Memes are defined in literature as specific fundamental cultural traits, that are fl...

Multimemetic algorithms (MMAs) are a subclass of memetic algorithms in which memes are explicitly attached to genotypes and evolve alongside them. We analyze the propagation of memes in MMAs with a spatial structure. For this purpose we propose an idealized selecto-Lamarckian model that only features selection and local improvement, and study under which conditions good, high-potential memes ca...

Every day we are exposed to different ideas, or memes, competing with each other for our attention. Previous research explained popularity and persistence heterogeneity of memes by assuming them in competition for limited attention resources, distributed in a heterogeneous social network. Little has been said about what characteristics make a specific meme more likely to be successful. We propo...