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Dr. Iyad Authors Chapter in Book Published by Elsevier

12th Mar 2023 | by the Department of PR & Marketing

Dr. Iyad Abu Doush, professor of computer science and information systems at AUK, authored, with a group of researchers, the “Metaheuristics for optimizing weights in neural networks” chapter in the book titled, “Comprehensive Metaheuristics: Algorithms and Applications.” 

Published by Elsevier, the book description reads as follows, “Comprehensive Metaheuristics: Algorithms and Applications presents the foundational underpinnings of metaheuristics and a broad scope of algorithms and real-world applications across a variety of research fields. The book starts with fundamentals, mathematical prerequisites, and conceptual approaches to provide readers with a solid foundation. After presenting multi-objective optimization, constrained optimization, and problem formation for metaheuristics, world-renowned authors give readers in-depth understanding of the full spectrum of algorithms and techniques. Scientists, researchers, academicians, and practitioners who are interested in optimizing a process or procedure to achieve a goal will benefit from the case studies of real-world applications from different domains. The book takes a much-needed holistic approach, putting the most widely used metaheuristic algorithms together with an in-depth treatise on multi-disciplinary applications of metaheuristics. Each algorithm is thoroughly analyzed to observe its behavior, providing a detailed tutorial on how to solve problems using metaheuristics. New case studies and research problem statements are also discussed, which will help researchers in their application of the concepts.” 

The chapter investigates the use of metaheuristic algorithms to improve the feedforward neural network multilayer perceptron performance by choosing promising values of weights and biases. This can improve the neural network prediction accuracy.

Dr. Iyad Abu Doush received his PhD from New Mexico State University in 2009. He joined AUK in 2016. In 2018, he joined the Dartmouth-AUK Fellowship Program; his research focused on optimizing algorithms for real-world problems. He also serves as the founding director of the Office of Research and Grants at AUK.

This accomplishment is a testament to AUK’s faculty and the standard of education that the University offers. Through publishing research in a book of this caliber, AUK’s faculty continue to promote academic excellence, instilling values of professionalism and lifelong learning in students.
 
 
 

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