Talk:Imperialist competitive algorithm
Copyright Issue
There are some copyright problems about the article Imperialist Competitive Algorithm reported by user Dougweller. The reported copyright issues are as following.
- Reported by Dougweller (talk): "Imperialist competitive algorithm is a newly created article by a new user. A quick search turns up a large number of copyvios (interestingly enough, writers of journal articles in this field appear to be guilty of the same). Thus [1] is the (or a) source of "modeled by picking some (usually one) of one of the colonies of the weakest empire and making a competition among all empires to possess these (this) colonies." and " The total power of an empire depends on both the power of the imperialist country and the power of its colonies." and almost all of the section on pseudocode. Another source is [2], A search on "starts with an initial population. Each individual of the population is called a country" and other excerpts turns up this article [3] although you can only see it with a google search as the snippets show it but you can't read the article itself. Dougweller (talk) 07:03, 25 November 2010 (UTC)"
In my talk page ((talk)), in response to the reported problems by Dougweller, I explained why some parts of the article are detected as the violation of copyright. As I stated there, this method was presented in 2007 in the following paper which is referred in the first line of the article.
- Atashpaz-Gargari, E.; Lucas, C (2007). "Imperialist Competitive Algorithm: An algorithm for optimization inspired by imperialistic competition". IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 7. pp. 4661–4666.
Then in other papers which are the new applications and/or variants of this method, the basic part, which is the algorithm itself is remained unchanged by referring to the first (above mentioned) article. This why you see that some parts of this article appear in many papers and many websites. For example the pseudocode of this algorithm is the known and standard steps of this algorithm and it is really hard (or maybe impossible) to express these steps in terms other than what is currently published in the papers.
Also most of the famous papers about this algorithm are listed in the references section of the article, including the 3 articles, indicated as the copyright issue sample. I modified the article to address the reference papers in more detail. For each paragraph I added references. The algorithm structure and its steps are published in many papers and websites. Then regarding the recently provided references for each of the short paragraphs of suspected sections and also public access to most of the contents of these sections in many papers, I don't think that Algorithm and specially pseudocode sections are the violation of copyright.
Following the above explanation and modification, if the copyright issue is still remained, one idea is to shorten this article and publish without the suspected sections.