There has recently been a great deal of interest in search? based test data generation, with many local and global search algorithms being proposed. However, to date, there has be...
Mark Harman, Youssef Hassoun, Kiran Lakhotia, Phil...
We introduce the Spacing Memetic Algorithm (SMA), a formal evolutionary model devoted to a systematic control of spacing (distances) among individuals. SMA uses search space dista...
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz
We show that a resealed constrainedness parameter provides the basis for accurate numerical models of search cost for both backtracking and local search algorithms. In the past, t...
Ian P. Gent, Ewan MacIntyre, Patrick Prosser, Toby...
We consider the problem of finding small Golomb rulers, a hard combinatorial optimization task. This problem is here tackled by means of a hybrid evolutionary algorithm (EA). This...
Modularity is thought to improve the evolvability of biological systems [18, 22]. Recent studies in the field of evolutionary computation show that the use of modularity improves...