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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has played an important role in the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), and community prevention has become the most essential part in reducing the risk of spread and protecting public health. However, most communities use a unified TCM prevention program for all residents, which violates the "treatment based on syndrome differentiation"

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Computational intelligence has been used in many applications in the fields of health sciences and epidemiology. In particular, owing to the sudden and massive spread of COVID-19, many researchers around the globe have devoted intensive efforts into the development of computational intelligence methods and systems for combating the pandemic. Although there have been more than 200,000 scholarly articles

Epidemic models play a key role in understanding and responding to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. Widely used compartmental models are static and are of limited use to evaluate intervention strategies of combatting the pandemic. Applying the technology of data assimilation, we propose a Bayesian updating approach for estimating epidemiological parameters using observable information to assess the

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has been ever increasing worldwide since its outbreak in Wuhan, China. As such, many researchers have sought to predict the dynamics of the virus spread in different parts of the globe. In this paper, a novel systematic platform for prediction of the future number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is proposed, based on several factors such as transmission rate

With the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services (MIDAS) platform quickly demonstrates its value, relevance and transferability to this new global crisis. The MIDAS platform enables the connection of a large number of isolated heterogeneous data sources, and combines rich datasets including open and social data, ingesting and preparing

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Dataset shifts are present in many real-world applications, since data generation is not always fully controlled and is subject to noise, degradation, and other natural variations. In machine learning, the lack of regularity in data can degrade performance by breaching error constraints. Different methods have been proposed to solve shifting problems; however, shifts in off-line learning mode are not

The success of any machine learning technique depends on the correct setting of its parameters and, when it comes to large-scale datasets, hand-tuning these parameters becomes impractical. However, very large-datasets can be pre-processed in order to distil information that could help in appropriately setting various systems parameters. In turn, this makes sophisticated machine learning methods easier

Depression is considered a serious medical condition and a large number of people around the world are suffering from it. Within this context, a lot of studies have been proposed to estimate the degree of depression based on different features and modalities, specific to depression. Supported by medical studies that show how depression is a disorder of impaired emotion regulation, we propose a different

This paper proposes an approach to strength adjustment and assessment for Monte-Carlo tree search based game-playing programs. We modify an existing softmax policy with a strength index to choose moves. The most important modification is a mechanism which filters low-quality moves by excluding those that have a lower simulation count than a pre-defined threshold ratio of the maximum simulation count

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This paper defines a new combinatorial optimization problem, namely General Combinatorial Optimization Problem (GCOP), whose decision variables are a set of parametric algorithmic components, i.e. algorithm design decisions. The solutions of GCOP, i.e. compositions of algorithmic components, thus represent different generic search algorithms. The objective of GCOP is to find the optimal algorithmic

The aim of network structural balance is to find proper partitions of nodes that guarantee equilibrium in the system, which has attracted considerable attention in recent decades. Most of existing studies focus on reducing imbalanced components in complex networks without considering the tolerance of these balanced networks against attacks and failures. However, as indicated by some recent studies

To represent a many-objective Pareto-optimal front having four or more dimensions of the objective space, a large number of points are necessary. However, for choosing a single preferred point from a large set is problematic and time-consuming, as they provide a large cognitive burden on the part of the decision-makers (DMs). Hence, many-objective optimization and decision-making researchers and practitioners

Recent years have witnessed remarkable successes of machine learning in various applications. However, machine learning models suffer from a potential risk of leaking private information contained in training data, which have attracted increasing research attention. As one of the mainstream privacy- preserving techniques, differential privacy provides a promising way to prevent the leaking of individual-level

Being able to extract effective features from different images is very important for image classification, but it is challenging due to high variations across images. By integrating existing well-developed feature descriptors into learning algorithms, it is possible to automatically extract informative high-level features for image classification. As a learning algorithm with a flexible representation

Owing to the continual growth of multimodal data (or feature spaces), we have seen a rising interest in multimedia applications (e.g., object classification and searching) over these heterogeneous data. However, the accuracy of classification and searching tasks is highly dependent on the distance estimation between data samples, and simple Euclidean (EU) distance has been proven to be inadequate.

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Wireless big data contain valuable information on users' behaviors and preferences, which can drive the design and optimization for wireless systems. The fundamental issue is how to mine mobile intelligence and further incorporate them into wireless systems. To this end, this article discusses two challenges on big data based wireless system design and optimization, and proposes a unified framework

With the exponential expansion of the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, many state-of-the-art communication technologies are being developed to use the lowerpower but extensively deployed devices. Due to the limits of pure channel characteristics, most protocols cannot allow an IoT network to be simultaneously large-scale and energy-efficient, especially in hybrid architectures. However,

Ant colony optimization is a swarm intelligence metaheuristic inspired by the foraging behavior of some ant species. Ant colony optimization has been successfully applied to challenging optimization problems. This article investigates existing ant colony optimization algorithms specifically designed for combinatorial optimization problems with a dynamic environment. The investigated algorithms are

The explosive growth of wireless devices motivates the development of the internet-of-things (IoT), which is capable of interconnecting massive and diverse "things" via wireless communications. This is also called massive machine type communications (mMTC) as a part of the undergoing fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. It is envisioned that more sophisticated devices would be connected to form a

Fuzzy Sets and Systems is an area of computational intelligence, pioneered by Lotfi Zadeh over 50 years ago in a seminal paper in Information and Control. Fuzzy Sets (FSs) deal with uncertainty in our knowledge of a particular situation. Research and applications in FSs have grown steadily over 50 years. More recently, we have seen a growth in Type-2 Fuzzy Set (T2 FS) related papers, where T2 FSs are

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This special issue focuses on the research challenges of computational intelligence technologies toward trustworthy IoT in the Big Data Era.