Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Engineering Applications of Memetic Computing

Some papers and technical correspondence based on engineering application of memetic computing (MC) selected for publication in the IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics, are discussed. Li et al. presented a quantum memetic algorithm (QMA) that integrates the principles of quantum computing with the notions of the cultural evolution. Sakai et al. deal with a method using multivalued decision diagrams (MDDs) to obtain motion representation of humanoid robots. A paper by Al-Betar et al. addresses a challenging combinatorial optimization problem of university course timetabling. Shim et al. present a multiobjective memetic optimizer which is based on the estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) and decomposition scheme where the algorithm is not required to differentiate between the dominated and non-dominated solutions.