Co-evolutionary arms races have provided clear evidence for evolutionary change, especially in host-parasite systems. The evolution of host-specific races in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), however, is also an example where sexual conflict influences the outcome. Cuckoo females benefit from better adaptation to overcome host defences, whereas cuckoo males face a trade-off between the benef...

Natural selection penalizes individuals that provide costly parental care to non-relatives. However, feedings to brood-parasitic fledglings by individuals other than their foster parents, although anecdotic, have been commonly observed, also in the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)--magpie (Pica pica) system, but this behaviour has never been studied in depth. In a first experiment, we...

Gene clustering is a familiar step in the exploratory analysis of high dimensional biological data. It is the process of grouping genes of similar patterns in the same cluster and aims at analyzing the functions of gene that leads to the development of drugs and early diagnosis of diseases. In the recent years, much research has been proposed using nature inspired meta-heuristic algorithms. Cuc...

Multi-party set reconciliation is a key component in distributed and networking systems. It naturally contains two dimensions, i.e., representation protocol. However, existing sketch data structures are insufficient to satisfy the new needs brought by multi-party scenario simultaneously, including space-efficiency, mergeability, completeness. The current protocols, on other hand, fail achieve g...

With the breakthrough of edge intelligence, we are witnessing a booming increase in distributed applications on nodes. These need to apply novel data representation algorithm support data-information exchanging and based decision among different As most efficient compact algorithm, Counting Bloom Filter (CBF) is an extension filter, which enables updating as well inserting into representation. ...

Herein, a new methodology using a 3D Electromagnetic (EM) simulator-based Support Vector Regression Machine (SVRM) models of base elements is presented for band-pass filter (BPF) design. SVRM models of elements, which are as fast as analytical equations and as accurate as a 3D EM simulator, are employed in a simple and efficient Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) to optimize an ultrawideband (UWB) m...

Hosts of obligate avian brood parasites use visual cues to distinguish between their own eggs and those of the parasite. Despite major differences between human and bird vision, most previous studies on cuckoo egg mimicry estimated color matching based on human color vision. Undetected by humans, ultraviolet reflectance (UVR) may play a previously ignored role for rejection behavior in avian br...

Cuckoo Search is gaining a lot of attention as a new soft computing technique inspired by nature,in this research the application of Cuckoo Search for solving the problem of estimating the parameters of a nonlinear model is investigated from both aspects of efficiency and robustness. Using a case study of estimation of parameters of a nonlinear model for the cutting tool temperature in an indus...

In this paper, Hybridization of Cuckoo Search algorithm with Powell Search (HCSPS) is used to solve optimal reactive power problem. Cuckoo search (CS) has been recently projected as a population-based optimization algorithm and it is has so far been efficaciously applied in a variety of fields. The inertia weight of Levy flights is presented to balance the capability of global and local search....

Cuckoo search (CS) has been recently proposed as a population-based optimization algorithm and it is has so far been successfully applied in a variety of fields. An efficient hybrid cuckoo search algorithm (HCSA) based on Powell direct search method is proposed for solving constrained engineering design optimization problems. The inertia weight of Levy flights is introduced to balance the abili...