Selection methods in Evolutionary Algorithms, including Genetic Algorithms, Evolution Strategies ES and Evolutionary Programming, EP are compared by observing the rate of converge...
This paper proposes a new niching method named hierarchical niching, which combines spatial niching in search space and a continuous temporal niching concept. The method is natural...
The XCS Learning Classifier System has traditionally used roulette wheel selection within its genetic algorithm component. Recently, tournament selection has been suggested as prov...
Tournament selection is the most frequently used form of selection in genetic programming (GP). Tournament selection chooses individuals uniformly at random from the population. A...