Name
Efrén Mezura-Montes
Organization Email Id
Position
Full-time Researcher
Department, Organization with Country
Artificial Intelligence Research Center, University of Veracruz, Sebastián Camacho 5, Centro,
Xalapa, Veracruz, 91000, MEXICO
Role of the editor
Section Editor
Research Expertise
Artificial Intelligence / Evolutionary Computing
Home page of the Editor (University/College Profile URL)
https://www.uv.mx/personal/emezura
Google Scholar URL
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9B56f0EAAAAJ&hl=es
Research Gate URL
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Efren_Mezura-Montes
Last 10-year publication details
2020
International Journals
- Aldo Márquez-Grajales, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Mario Graff, A multi-breakpoints approach for symbolic discretization of time series, Knowledge and Information Systems, 62(7):2795-2834, 2020, DOI:10.1007/s10115-020-01437-4.
- Vicente-Josué Aguilera-Rueda, Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Data-Driven Bayesian Network Learning: a Bi-Objective Approach to Address the Bias-Variance Decomposition, Mathematical and Computational Applications, 25(2), 37, 2020, DOI:10.3390/mca25020037.
- Gustavo-Adolfo Vargas-Hákim, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Edgar Galván, Evolutionary Multi-Objective Energy Production Optimization: An Empirical Comparison, Mathematical and Computational Applications, 25(2), 32, 2020, DOI:10.3390/mca25020032.
- Adriana Cervantes-Castillo and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Modified Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm with a Special Operator to Solve Constrained Optimization Problems, Applied Intelligence, 2020, DOI:10.1007/s10489-020-01763-8.
- Alejandro Rodríguez-Molina, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Miguel-Gabriel Villarreal-Cervantes and Mario Aldape-Pérez, Multi-objective meta-heuristic optimization in intelligent control: a survey on the controller tuning problem, Applied Soft Computing, (93) 106342, 2020, DOI:10.1016/j.asoc.2020.106342.
- Rafael Rivera-Lopez, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Juana Canul-Reich and Marco Antonio Cruz-Chávez, A permutational-based Differential Evolution algorithm for feature subset selection, Pattern Recognition Letters 133(86-93), 2020, DOI:10.1016/j.patrec.2020.02.021.
- Octavio Ramos-Figueroa, Marcela Quiroz-Castellanos, Efrén Mezura-Montes and OliverSchütze, Metaheuristics to solve grouping problems: A review and a case study, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Volume 53, 2020, 100643, DOI: 10.1016/j.swevo.2019.100643.
International Conferences
- Jesús-Adolfo Mejía-de-Dios and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Surrogate-Assisted Metaheuristic for Bilevel Optimization, in Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Cancun, México, ACM Press, 2020 (accepted).
- Saber Elsayed, Ruhul Sarker, Noha Hamza, Carlos Coello Coello and Efren Mezura-Montes, Enhancing Evolutionary Algorithms by Efficient Population Initialization for Constrained Problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Glasgow, UK, IEEE Press, 2020 (accepted).
- Sebastian-José De-la-Cruz-Martínez and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Boundary Constraint-Handling in Differential Evolution for Mechanical Design Optimization, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Glasgow, UK, IEEE Press, 2020 (accepted).
- Sebastián Hernández, Guillermo Leguizamón and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Evolución Diferencial para Problemas Restringidos Dinámicos, in Proceedings of the XXII Workshop de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación, Argentina, 2020 (in Spanish).
Book Chapters
- Viviana-Yarel Rosales-Morales, Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Laura-Nely Sánchez-Morales, Giner Alor-Hernández, Marcela Quiroz-Castellanos and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Towards a Quantitative Identification of Mobile Social Media UIDPs’ Visual Features Using a Combination of Digital Image Processing and Machine Learning Techniques, in Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melín and Janusz Kacprzyk, (Editors), Intuitionistic and Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Enhancements in Neural and Optimization Algorithms: Theory and Applications, pages 659-674, Springer, 2020, ISBN:978-3-030-35444-2.
- Kanhu Charan-Gouda Santosh Kumar-Das, Om Prakash-Dubey and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A GA-Based Intelligent Traffic Management Technique forWireless Body Area Sensor Networks, in D. De, A. Mukherjee, S. Kumar Das, and Dey, N. (Editors), Nature Inspired Computing for Wireless Sensor Networks, pages: 57-75, Springer, 2020, ISBN: 978-981-15-2124-9.
2019
International Journals
- Adan Aguilar-Justo and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Local Cooperative Approach to Solve Large-Scale Constrained Optimization Problems, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Volume 51, December 2019, 100577, DOI:10.1016/j.swevo.2019.100577.
- Efrén Juárez-Castillo, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Adaptive boundary constraint-handling scheme for constrained optimization, Soft Computing 23(17): 8247-8280, 2019, DOI:10.1007/s00500-018-3459-4.
- Erik Cuevas, Margarita-Arimatea Díaz-Cortés and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Corner detection of intensity images with cellular neural networks (CNN) and evolutionary techniques, Neurocomputing, 347:82-93, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2019.03.014.
- Alejandro Rodríguez-Molina, Miguel-Gabriel Villarreal Cervantes, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Mario Aldape-Pérez, Adaptive Controller Tuning Method Based on Online Multi-objective Optimization: A Case Study of the Four-bar Mechanism, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (early access), 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2019.2903491.
International Conferences
- Sebastián Hernández, Guillermo Leguizamón and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Differential evolution with Random Vector based Mutatiton for High Dimensional Problems, in Proceedings of the Argentine Congress on Computer Science (CACIC), 2019 (accepted).
- Saúl Domínguez-Isidro, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Cora-Beatriz Excelente-Toledo, Variants of the Epsilon Constrained Method in a Memetic Differential Evolution: A Comparative Study, in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC) IEEE Press, 2019 (accepted).
- Jesús-Adolfo Mejía-de-Dios and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Metaheuristic for Bilevel Optimization Using Tykhonov Regularization and the Quasi-Newton Method, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 3134-3141, IEEE Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2019.8790097.
- José-Yair Guzmán-Gaspar and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Robust Optimization Over Time with Differential Evolution using an Average Time Approach, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1548-1555, IEEE Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2019.8789998.
- José-Yaír Guzmán-Gaspar and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Differential Evolution Variants in Robust Optimization Over Time, in Proceedings of the IEEE 29th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (CONIELECOMP), pages 164-169, IEEE Press, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2019.8673120.
Book Chapters
- Octavio Ramos-Figueroa, María-Margarita Reyes-Sierra and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Deterministic parameter control in differential evolution with combined variants for constrained search spaces, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 785, pages 3-28, Springer, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96104-0_1.
2018
International Journals
- Eric Santiago-Valentín, Edgar Alfredo Portilla-Flores, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Eduardo Vega-Alvarado, Maria Bárbara Calva-Yáñez, Martín Pedroza-Villalba, A Graph-Theory Based Method for Topological and Dimensional Representation of Planar Mechanisms as a Computational Tool for Engineering Design, IEEE Access, 7(1):587-596, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2885563.
- Mariana-Edith Miranda-Varela and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Constraint-Handling Techniques in Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimization. An empirical Study, Applied Soft Computing, 73:215-229, December, 2018, DOI:10.1016/j.asoc.2018.08.016.
- Miguel G. Villarreal-Cervantes, Efrén Mezura-Montes and José-Yair Guzmán-Gaspar, Differential evolution based adaptation for the direct current motor velocity control parameters, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 150:122-141, August, 2018, DOI10.1016/j.matcom.2018.03.007.
- Saúl Domínguez-Isidro and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Cost-Benefit Local Search Coordination in Multimeme Differential Evolution for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, April, 2018, DOI;10.1016/j.swevo.2017.10.006 .
- María-Guadalupe Martínez-Peñaloza and Efrén Mezura-Montes,Immune Generalized Differential Evolution for Dynamic Multi-Objective Environments: An empirical study, Knowledge-Based Systems, 142:192-219, February, 2018, DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2017.11.037.
- María-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Dynamic Differential Evolution with Combined Variants and a Repair Method to Solve Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems. An empirical study, Soft Computing, 22(2):541-570, January, 2018, DOI:10.1007/s00500-016-2353-1.
- Vega-Alvarado, E.A. Portilla-Flores, G.A. Muñoz-Hernández, E. Mezura-Montes, G. Sepúlveda-Cervantes and P. Bautista-Camino, A memetic algorithm based on Artificial Bee Colony for optimal synthesis of mechanisms, Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería (RIMNI), 34(1),1-18 2018, DOI: 10.23967/j.rimni.2017.5.002 .
International Conferences
- Jesús-Adolfo Mejía-de-Dios and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Physics-Inspired Algorithm for Bilevel Optimization, in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC), pages 1-6, IEEE Press, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/ROPEC.2018.8661368.
- Luis-Enrique Contreras-Varela and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Diversity Promotion Study in Constrained Optimization, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2018), pages 1-8, IEEE Press, 2018, DOI:10.1109/CEC.2018.8477877.
- Maria-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin, Maryam Hasani-Shoreh, Wilson Blaikie, Frank Neumann and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Comparison of Constraint Handling Techniques for Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2018), pages 1-8, IEEE Press, 2018, DOI:10.1109/CEC.2018.8477750.
National Journals
- Jesús Flores-Contreras, Héctor Durán-Limón and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Evaluating the use of Artificial Neural Networks for Platform-independent Performance
Prediction of Distributed Applications, Vinculatégica EFAN 3:693-700, June 2017 – July 2018, ISSN: 2448-5101.
2017
International Journals
- Héctor Cervantes-Culebro, Carlos A. Cruz-Villar, María-Guadalupe Martínez-Peñaloza, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Constraint-Handling Techniques for the Concurrent Design of a Five-Bar Parallel Robot, IEEE Access, 5(1):23010-23021, 2017, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2764883.
- María-Guadalupe Martínez-Peñaloza, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Homero-Vladimir Ríos-Figueroa, Improved multi-objective clustering with automatic determination of the number of clusters, Neural Computing and Applications, 28(8):2255–2275, 2017, DOI:10.1007/s00521-016-2191-1.
- Efrén Juárez-Castillo, Nancy Pérez-Castro and Efrén Mezura-Montes, An improved centroid-based boundary constraint-handling method in differential evolution for constrained optimization, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 31(11), 2017 DOI: 10.1142/S0218001417590236.
International Conferences
- Rafael Zamudio-Reyes, Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Multivariate Discretization Algorithm Based on Multiobjective Optimization, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), IEEE Press, (accepted) 2017.
- Jesús Adolfo-Mejía-De-Dios and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A New EvolutionaryOptimization Method Based on Center of Mass, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Operations Research and Statistics (RTORS), Springer (accepted), 2017.
- Adriana Cervantes-Castillo, Guillermo Leguizamon; Efrén Mezura-Montes, Exploring boundary constraints using the modified brain storm optimization algorithm and a boundary search operator: MBSO-BS, in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC), pages 1-6, 2017.
- Aldo Márquez-Grajales, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa and Efrén Mezura-Montes, An adaptive symbolic discretization scheme for the classification of temporal datasets using NSGA-II, in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC), pages 1-8, 2017.
- Saúl Dominguez-Isidro and Efrén Mezura-Montes, The Baldwin Effect on a Memetic Differential Evolution for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), pages: 203 – 204, ACM Press, 2017.
- Efrén Juarez-Castillo, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Empirical Study of Bound Constraint-Handling Methods in Particle Swarm Optimization for Constrained Search Spaces, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017), pages: 604 – 611, IEEE Press, 2017.
- Nancy Pérez-Castro, Aldo Márquez-Grajales, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Algorithm/Model Selection Issues in Temporal Data: A Brief Review, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017), pages: 2451 – 2457, IEEE Press, 2017.
- Saku Kukkonen and Efrén Mezura-Montes, An Experimental Comparison of Two Constraint Handling Approaches Used with Differential Evolution, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017), pages: 2691 – 2697, IEEE Press, 2017.
- Saúl Dominguez-Isidro and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Study of Direct Local Search Operators Impact in Memetic Differential Evolution for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE 27th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (CONIELECOMP 2017), pages: 1 – 8, IEEE Press, 2017.
National Journals
- Maury-Faney Zapata-Zapata, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Edgar-Alfredo Portilla-Flores, Evolución diferencial con memoria de parámetros para la optimización de mecanismos de cuatro barras, Research in Computing Science, 134:9-22, ISSN 1870-4069, 2017.
- Luis-Enrique Contreras-Varela and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Comparativo empírico de medidas de diversidad en problemas de optimización evolutiva con restricciones,Research in Computing Science,134:69-83, ISSN 1870-4069, 2017.
2016
International Journals
- Martha Avendaño-Garrido, J.R. Gabriel-Argüelles, L. Quintana-Torres, E. Mezura-Montes, A metaheuristic for a numerical approximation to the Mass Transfer problem, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 26, No. 4, pages 757-766,DOI: 10.1515/amcs-2016-0053, 2016.
- José Alfredo Jiménez-García, Javier Yáñez Mendiola-García, José Martín Medina-Flores, Efrén Mezura-Montes and José Antonio Vázquez-López, Reducing losses due to lack of supply in a manufacturing company using a mixed-integer linear programming model, International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, 7(2):3–12, May-Aug, 2016.
- Eduardo Vega-Alvarado, Edgar-Alfredo Portilla-Flores, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Leticia Flores-Pulido and María-Bárbara Calva-Yáñez, A memetic algorithm applied to the optimal design of a planar mechanism for trajectory tracking, POLIBITS, Vol. 53, pages 83-90, 2016, DOI:10.17562/PB-53-9.
- Betania Hernández Ocaña, Pilar Pozos-Parra, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Edgar-Alfredo Portilla-Flores, Eduardo Vega-Alvarado and María-Bárbara Calva-Yañez, Two swim operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Vol. 2016, Article ID 4525294, 18 pages, 2016, DOI:10.1155/2016/4525294.
- Betania Hernández-Ocaña, María-del-Pilar Pozos-Parra and Efrén Mezura-Montes,Improved Modified Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm to solve constrained numerical optimization problems, Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences,Vol. 10, No. 2, pages: 607-622, 2016, DOI:10.18576/amis/100220.
Book Chapters
- Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Efrén Mezura-Montes, María-del-Pilar Pozos-Parra, Evolutionary Bacterial Foraging Algorithm to solve constrained numerical optimization problems, in Mauricio Osorio Galindo et al. (Editors), New Tendencies in Logic, Languages, Algorithms, and New Methods of Reasoning, pages: 29-42, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Dirección de Fomento Editorial, 2016.
International Conferences
- Adan-Enrique Aguilar-Justo, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Saber-Mohamed Elsayed and Ruhul A. Sarker, Decomposition of large-scale constrained problems using a genetic-based search, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC 2016), pages: 1 – 6, IEEE Press, 2016.
- Vicente-Josué Aguilera-Rueda, María-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Particle Swarm Optimization with Feasibility Rules in Constrained Numerical Optimization. A Brief Review, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC 2016), pages: 1 – 6, IEEE Press, 2016.
- Nancy Pérez-Castro, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Hugo-Jair Escalante, Multi-objective Full Model Selection in Temporal Databases: Optimizing Time and Performance, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC 2016), pages: 1 – 6, IEEE Press, 2016.
- Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Efren Mezura-Montes, Del Pilar Pozos-Parra, Evolutionary bacterial foraging algorithm to solve constraint numerical optimization problems, in Proceedings of the Tenth Latin American Workshop on Logic/Languages, Algorithms and New Methods of Reasoning, pages 58-65, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2016.
- Edgar Galván-López, , Efrén Mezura-Montes, Ouassim Ait ElHara, and Marc Schoenauer, On the Use of Semantics in Multi-Objective Genetic Programming, in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), pages: 353-363, Springer, 2016.
- Adriana Cervantes-Castillo and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Study of Constraint-Handling Techniques in Brain Storm Optimization, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages:3740 – 3746, IEEE Press, 2016.
- Adan-Enrique Aguilar-Justo and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Towards an Improvement of Variable Interaction Identification for Large-Scale Constrained Problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages:4167 – 4174, IEEE Press, 2016.
- Aldo Márquez-Grajales, Hector-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Rodolfo Hernandez-Jimenez, Cervical Image Segmentation Using Active Contours and Evolutionary Programming Over Temporary Acetowhite Patterns, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages:3863 – 3870, IEEE Press, 2016.
- Aldo Márquez-Grajales and Efrén Mezura-Montes, micro-JADE-varepsilon: Micro adaptive differential evolution to solve constrained optimization problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages:4183 – 4190, IEEE Press, 2016.
- Carolina Maldonado, Homero Ríos, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Antonio Marín, Feature selection to detect fallen pose using depth images, in Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, pages: 94-100, IEEE Press, 2016.
2015
International Journals
- Saúl Domínguez-Isidro, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Luis-Guillermo Osorio-Hernández,Evolutionary Programming for the Length Minimization of Addition Chains, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 37, pages 125–134, January 2015.
International Conferences
- Efrén Mezura-Montes, Edgar-Alfredo Portilla-Flores and Edith Capistran-Gumersindo, Dynamic Parameter Control in Differential Evolution with Combined Variants to Optimize a Three-Finger End Effector, in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC 2015), pages: 1- 6, IEEE Press, 2015.
- Nancy Perez-Castro, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Nicandro Cruz-Ramirez, Towards the Full Model Selection in Temporal Databases by Using Micro-Differential Evolution. An Empirical Study, in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC 2015), pages:1- 6,IEEE Press, 2015.
- Martha-Lorena Avedaño-Garrido, José-Rigoberto Gabriel-Argüelles, L. Quintana-Flores and Efrén Mezura-Montes, An efficient Numerical Approximation for the Monge-Kantorovich Mass Transfer Problem, in First International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data (MOD 2015), Taormina, Sicily, Italy, pages: 233 – 239, Springer, 2015.
- Mariana-Edith Miranda-Varela and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Surrogate-assisted differential evolution with an adaptive evolution control based on feasibility to solve constrained optimization problems, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, (SocProsS 2015), Sharanpur, India, pages: 809-822, Springer, 2015.
- Jesús Flores-Contreras, Carlos Ruiz, Pablo Salazar, Héctor A. Durán-Limón, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Nicandro Cruz-Ramirez and Hector-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, A Performance Prediction Model for Database Environments: A Preliminary Analysis, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC 2015), pages: 1707-1712, IEEE Press, 2015.
- María-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, A Repair Method for Differential Evolution with Combined Variants to Solve Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM Press, Madrid, Spain, pages: 241- 248, July, 2015.
- María-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Differential Evolution with a Repair Method to Solve Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems, in Companion Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM Press, Madrid, Spain, pages: 1169- 1172, July, 2015.
- Efrén Juarez-Castillo, Nancy Perez-Castro and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A Novel Boundary Constraint-Handling Technique for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages: 2034-2041, IEEE Press, 2015.
- María-Guadalupe Martínez-Peñaloza and Efrén Mezura-Montes,Immune Generalized Differential Evolution for Multiobjective Dynamic Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages: 1918-1925, IEEE Press, 2015.
2014
International Journals
- Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Héctor Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Alejandro Guerra-Hernández, Guillermo de Jesús Hoyos-Rivera, Rocío Erandi Barrientos-Martínez, Karina Gutiérrez-Fragoso, Luis Alonso Nava-Fernández, Patricia González-Gaspar, Elva María Novoa-Del-Toro, Vicente Josué Aguilera-Rueda, María Yaneli Ameca-Alducin, How Good Is Crude MDL for Solving the Bias-Variance Dilemma? An Empirical Investigation Based on Bayesian Networks, PLoS ONE,9(3):e92866. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0092866, March 2014.
- Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Fernando Rechy-Ramírez, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, and Rodolfo Hernández-Jiménez, Application of Time Series Discretization Using Evolutionary Programming for Classification of Precancerous Cervical Lesions, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol 49, pages:73-83, 2014 .
- Saber Elsayed, Ruhul Sarker and Efren Mezura-Montes, Self-Adaptive Mix of Particle Swarm Methodologies for Constrained Optimization, Information Sciences, Vol. 277, pages 216–233. September 2014..
- María-Gisela Dorzán, Mario-Guillermo Leguizamón, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Gregorio Hernández-Peñalver, Approximated algorithms for the Minimum Dilation Triangulation Problem, Journal of Heuristics, 20 (2):189-209, 2014.
- José Alfredo Jiménez-García, José Martín Medina-Flores, Javier Yáñez-Mendiola and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Reducción del desperdicio espera en líneas de ensamble mediante el uso de heurísticas y escenarios de simulación, DYNA Ingeniería e Industria (DYNA ACELERADO), Vol. 89. No. 1, pages:50-60, DOI:10.6036/5833, January 2014.
- Efrén Mezura-Montes, Edgar Alfredo Portilla-Flores and Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Optimum Synthesis of a Four-Bar Mechanism Using the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm,International Journal of Systems Science, 45 (5):1080-1100, 2014.
International Conferences
- Saúl Domínguez-Isidro, Efrén Mezura-Montes, and Guillermo Leguizamón,Performance Comparison of Local Search Operators in Differential Evolution for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE), IEEE Press, pages:17-24, 2014.
- Adriana Cervantes-Castillo, Efrén Mezura-Montes, and Carlos A. Coello Coello, An Empirical Comparison of Two Crossover Operators in Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC), pages:1-5, IEEE Press, 2014 .
- Adán-Enrique Aguilar-Justo, Efrén Mezura-Montes, and Carlos A. Coello Coello, Memetic Modified Artificial Bee Colony for Constrained Optimization, in Proceedings of the International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC), pages: 1-6, IEEE Press, 2014.
- Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Pilar Pozos-Parra and Efrén Mezura-Montes,Stepsize Control on the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for Constrained Numerical Optimization, in Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), pages: 25-32, ACM Press, 2014.
- María-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Differential Evolution with Combined Variants for Dynamic Constrained Optimization, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’ 2014), Beijing, China, pages: 975 – 982, IEEE Press, June, 2014, Print ISBN:978-1-4799-6626-4.
- Sánchez-Márquez, E. Vega-Alvarado, E.A. Portilla-Flores, E. Mezura-Montes,Synthesis of a planar four-bar mechanism for position control using the harmony search algorithm, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE 2014), Cd. del Carmen, Campeche, MEXICO, IEEE Press, DOI: 10.1109/ICEEE.2014.6978286, 2014.
2013
International Journals
- Sebastián Alejandro Hernández, Guillermo Leguizamón and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Hybridization of Differential Evolution using Hill Climbing to solve Constrained Optimization Problems, Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial «IBERAMIA», 16(52):3-15, 2013.
- Efrén Mezura-Montes, Héctor Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Darío-del-Sinaí Ramírez-Garcés, Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez and Rodolfo Hernández-Jiménez, An image registration method for colposcopic images, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Vol. 2013, Article ID: 285962, DOI: 10.1155/2013/285962, September 2013.
- Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Efrén Mezura-Montes, María Yaneli Ameca Alducin, Enrique Martin Del Campo Mena, Héctor Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Nancy Pérez Castro, Alejandro Guerra Hernández, Guillermo Hoyos Rivera and Rocio Erandi Barrientos Martínez, Evaluation of the diagnostic power of thermography in breast cancer using Bayesian network classifiers,Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, vol. 2013, DOI: 10.1155/2013/264246, April 2013.
International Conferences
- Miguel Gabriel Villarreal- Cervantes y Efrén Mezura-Montes, Control adaptable basado en evolución diferencial para un motor de CD, en Memorias del Congreso Nacional de Control Automático (AMCA 2013), Octubre 2013 (aceptado).
- Alejandro Sosa, Víctor Zamudio, Rosario Baltazar, Vic Callaghan and Efrén Mezura, Genetic Algorithms and Differential Evolution Algorithms Applied to Cyclic Instability Problem in Intelligent Environments with Nomadics Agents,Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments , pages 222-231, ISBN: 978-1-61499-285-1, 2013.
- Saber Elsayed, Ruhul Sarker and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Particle swarm optimizer for constrained optimization, in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, México, pages: 2703–2711, IEEE Press, June, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-0451-8.
- Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Pilar Pozos-Parra, A review of the bacterial foraging algorithm in constrained numerical optimization, inProceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, México, pages: 2695–2702, IEEE Press, June, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-0451-8.
- Janez Brest, Borko Boskovic, Ales Zamuda, Iztok Fister and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Real Parameter Single Objective Optimization using Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm with more Strategies, inProceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, México, pages: 377–383, IEEE Press, June, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-0451-8.
- Ales Zamuda, Janez Brest and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Structured Population Size Reduction Differential Evolution with Multiple Mutation Strategies on CEC 2013 Real Parameter Optimization,in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, México, pages: 1925-1931, IEEE Press, June, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-0451-8.
- Saúl Dominguez-Isidro, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Guillermo Leguizamón, Memetic Differential Evolution for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, México, pages: 2996–3003, IEEE Press, June, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-0451-8.
- Sebastián Hernández, Guillermo Leguizamón and Efrén Mezura-Montes,A hybrid version of differential evolution with two differential mutation operators applied by stages, in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Cancun, México, pages: 2895–2901, IEEE Press, June, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-0451-8.
- María Yaneli Ameca-Alducín, Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Enrique Martín-del Campo-Mena, Nancy Pérez-Castro and Héctor Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Assessment of the Thermography as a potential tool for the pre-diagnosis of breast cancer, in Proceedings of the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2012), pages 419–431, LNAI Vol. 7629, Springer-Verlag, 2013.
- Víctor Ricardo Cruz-Álvarez, Fernando Montes-González, Efrén Mezura-Montes and José Santos,Robotic Behavior Implementation Using Two Differential Evolution Approaches, in Proceedings of the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2012), pages 216–226, LNAI Vol. 7629, Springer-Verlag, 2013.
2012
International Journals
- Alfredo Arias-Montaño, Carlos A. Coello Coello and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering,IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 16(5):662–694, October, 2012.
- Leoncio Romero, Víctor Zamudio, Rosario Baltazar, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Marco Sotelo and Vic Callaghan, A comparison between metaheuristics as strategies for minimizing cyclic instability in Ambient Intelligence, Sensors, 12(8):10990–11012, August 2012.
- Efrén Mezura-Montes and Omar Cetina-Domínguez, Empirical analysis of a modified Artificial Bee Colony for constrained numerical optimization, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 218(22): 10943–10973, July, 2012.
- Francisco Viveros-Jiménez, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Alexander Gelbukh, Empirical Analysis of a micro-evolutionary algorithm for numerical optimization, International Journal of Physical Sciences, 7(8):1235–1258, February, 2012.
International Conferences
- Luis Alfredo Gordián-Rivera and Efrén Mezura-Montes, A combination of specialized differential evolution variants for constrained optimization, in Proceedings of the Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2012), LNAI Vol. 7637, pages 261–270, Springer, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-642-34653-8.
- Leoncio Romero, Víctor Zamudio, Rosario Baltazar, Marco Sotelo, Carlos Lino, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Vic Callaghan, A Comparative Study of Intelligent Bio-Inspired Algorithms Applied to Minimizing Cyclic Instability in Intelligent Environments, in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence, Guanajuato, México, June 2012.
- Efrén Mezura-Montes and Elyar A. López-Davila, Adaptation and Local Search in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for Constrained Optimization, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2012, pages: 497–504, IEEE Press, June 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1508-1.
- Alfredo Arias-Montano, Carlos A. Coello Coello and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Multi-Objective Airfoil Shape Optimization Using a Multiple-Surrogate Approach, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2012, pages 1188–1195, IEEE Press, June 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1508-1.
Conferences in Spanish
- Sebastián Hernández, Guillermo Leguizamón y Efrén Mezura-Montes, Hibridación de Evolución Diferencial utilizando Hill-Climbing para resolver problemas de optimización con restricciones, en Memorias del XIII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2012)VIII WASI, pp:60–69, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, Octubre 2012, ISBN: 978-987-1648-34-4.
- José Alfredo Jiménez-García, José Martín Medina-Flores, Javier Yáñez-Mendiola and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Diagnóstico del Desperdicio en el Surtimiento de Materiales en Líneas de Ensamble de Flechas de Velocidad Constante Utilizando Promodel, en Memorias del Congreso Internacional de Investigación e Innovación 2012, Guanajuato, México, Abril 2012, ISBN: 978-607-95636.
2011
Book Chapters
- Alfredo Arias Montaño, Carlos A. Coello Coello and Efrén Mezura-Montes, Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Multi-Objective Aerodynamic Shape Optimization, in Slawomir Koziel and Xin-She Yang (editors), Computational Optimization, Methods and Algorithms, Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence Vol. 356, pages: 211–240, 2011.
International Journals
- Efrén Mezura-Montes and Carlos A. Coello Coello, Constraint-Handling in Nature-Inspired Numerical Optimization: Past, Present and Future, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 1(4):173–194, 2011.
- Edgar Alfredo Portilla-Flores, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Jaime Álvarez Gallegos, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Carlos A. Cruz-Villar and Miguel G. Villareal-Cervantes, Parametric Reconfiguration Improvement in Non-Iterative Concurrent Mechatronic Design Using an Evolutionary-Based Approach, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 24(5):757-771, 2011.
International Conferences
- Fernando Rechy-Ramírez, Hector-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez, Time Series Discretization Using Evolutionary Programming, in Proccedings of the 10th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2011), pages 225–234, LNAI Vol. 7095, Springer, 2011.
- Efrén Mezura-Montes, Edgar A. Portilla-Flores and Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Optimization of a Mechanical Design Problem with the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm, in Proccedings of the XVII Argentine Congress on Computer Sciences (CACIC 2011), La Plata, Argentina, pages 171-180, ISBN 978-950-30-0756-1, October, 2011.
- Saúl Domínguez-Isidro, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Luis Guillermo Osorio-Hernández, Addition Chain Length Minimization Using Evolutionary Programming, in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2011, Dublin, Ireland, pages 59–60, ACM Press, July, 2011.
- Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Efrén Mezura-Montes and Edgar Alfredo Portilla Flores, Mechatronic Multi-Objective Optimization Using a Modified Bacterial Foraging Optimizer, in Proceedings of the I Congreso Internacional de Electrónica, Instrumentación y Computación, Minatitlán, Veracruz, June 2011.
- Saúl Domínguez-Isidro and Efrén Mezura-Montes, An Evolutionary Programming Algorithm to find Minimal Addition Chains, in Proceedings of the I Congreso Internacional de Electrónica, Instrumentación y Computación, Minatitlán, Veracruz, June 2011.
Conferences in Spanish
- Cuauhtémoc Morales-Cruz, Rosaura A. Suárez-Santillán, Betania Hernández-Ocaña, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Edgar A. Portilla-Flores, Miguel G. Villarreal-Cervantes, Optimización del mecanismo de entrada de una Transmisión de Variación Continua comparando Evolución Diferencial y Forrajeo de Bacterias Modificado, en Memorias del 10o Congreso Nacional de Mecatrónica, Puerto Vallarta, México, pp. 61-65, ISBN: 978-607-95347-6-9, Noviembre 2011.