This paper presents a simple mathematical analysis of some features of the Harmony Search algorithm (HS). HS is a recently developed derivative-free optimization algorithm, which ...
Disseminating a piece of information, or updates for a piece of information, has been shown to benefit greatly from simple randomized procedures, sometimes referred to as gossipi...
Augustin Chaintreau, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Nikodin ...
Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...
Shin et al [19] and McKay et al [15] previously applied tree compression and semantics-based simplification to study the distribution of building blocks in evolving Genetic Progr...
Robert I. McKay, Xuan Hoai Nguyen, James R. Cheney...
Background: Discovering the genetic basis of common genetic diseases in the human genome represents a public health issue. However, the dimensionality of the genetic data (up to 1...
Raphael Mourad, Christine Sinoquet, Philippe Leray