Patent ID: 8825562

Claim:
A method for indexing, ranking, and clustering multimedia documents by optimizing parameter sets consisting of object parameters comprising the steps of: creating an initial population of a plurality of individual parameter sets based on the multimedia documents, the parameter sets comprising information sharing system object parameters for describing a model, structure, shape, design, process, search query set, and dynamic search space to be optimized; setting the initial population as a population of memes, transmitting by the population of memes, cultural information resulting from an educational process; transmitting cultural information comprises formulating the population of memes into nearest neighbor clusters by one of the steps consisting of random nearest neighbor, multiple neighborhoods, or overlapping neighborhoods wherein: random nearest neighbor clustering comprises randomly selecting a first meme, and selecting a second meme by increasing an ID of the first meme, thereby mimicking the ring communication pattern based on the rank in order to determine adjacent memes; multiple neighborhood clustering comprises a single meme that is a nearest neighbor of two non-overlapping nearest neighbor clusters where the single meme is selected as a nearest neighbor using proportional fitness selection; overlapping neighborhood clustering comprises two or more nearest neighbor clusters where the selection of one of the nearest neighbor clusters is selected by roulette wheel selection or tournament selection; generating nearest neighbor clusters until no nearest neighbor clusters of two or more memes are found; and repeating all steps until achieving a periodic optimal multimedia document clusters.