Memetic Computing is a novel computing paradigm that improves the performance of artificial systems in the search and optimization domain using memes^[1].

The term Memetic Computing is often unassumingly taken to mean the same thing as memetic algorithms in a synonymous manner. Clearly, such a narrow and restrictive notion or perception of Memetic computing does not do justice to the expanse of this research discipline. Memetic computing thus offers a much broader scope, perpetuating the idea of memes into concepts that capture the richness of algorithms that defines a new generation of computational methodologies. It is defined as a paradigm that uses the notion of meme(s) as units of information encoded in computational representations for the purpose of problem solving.

=Methods

Handcrafted memes

machine crafted memes

Applications

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Recent research work has also shown that the concept of "meme" dispersal and selection can be exploited in, for example, robotics engineering, multi-agent systems, robotics, optimization, software engineering, and the social sciences.

^ Gupta, A., Ong, Y. S., & Feng, L. (2018). Insights on transfer optimization: Because experience is the best teacher. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2(1), 51-64.

[TO-1] Gupta, A., Ong, Y. S., & Feng, L. (2018). Insights on transfer optimization: Because experience is the best teacher. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2(1), 51-64.

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