On the Importance of Information Speed in Structured Populations

A radius–based separation of selection and recombination spheres in diffusion model EAs is introduced, enabling a new taxonomy, oriented towards information flow analysis. It also contains parallel hillclimbers, panmictic EA and an unexplored area. Experiments are performed systematically on five complex binary and real coded problems in search of the best performing variants w.r.t. available optimization time. Additionally, information flow through recombination and selection is emulated by means of a simple model, that produces qualitative similar results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: PPSN
• Authors: Mike Preuss, Christian Lasarczyk
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Diffusion Model Eas, PPSN 2004, Real Coded Problems, Recombination Spheres