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CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 10 months ago
2011
IEEE
EC
2000
13 years 10 months ago
2000
Building blocks are a ubiquitous feature at all levels of human understanding, from perception through science and innovation. Genetic algorithms are designed to exploit this prev...
GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
A fundamental aspect of many evolutionary approaches to synthesis of complex systems is the need to compose atomic elements into useful higher-level building blocks. However, the ...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
Skepticism of the building block hypothesis has previously been expressed on account of the weak theoretical foundations of this hypothesis and anomalies in the empirical record o...
GECCO
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
In the classical binary genetic algorithm, although crossover within a building block (BB) does not always cause a decrease in fitness, any decrease in fitness results from the ...