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CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Natural Evolution Strategies
— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...
Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Jan Peters, Jürgen...
ALIFE
2002
13 years 10 months ago
Evolvable Self-Replicating Molecules in an Artificial Chemistry
This paper gives details of Squirm3, a new artificial environment based on a simple physics and chemistry that supports self-replicating molecules somewhat similar to DNA. The sel...
Tim J. Hutton
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
Whole genome association mapping by incompatibilities and local perfect phylogenies
Background: With current technology, vast amounts of data can be cheaply and efficiently produced in association studies, and to prevent data analysis to become the bottleneck of ...
Thomas Mailund, Søren Besenbacher, Mikkel H...
AAAI
2004
14 years 7 days ago
A Comparison of Techniques for Scheduling Earth Observing Satellites
Scheduling observations by coordinated fleets of Earth Observing Satellites (EOS) involves large search spaces, complex constraints and poorly understood bottlenecks; conditions w...
Al Globus, James Crawford, Jason D. Lohn, Anna Pry...
GECCO
2007
Springer
183views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Distribution replacement: how survival of the worst can out perform survival of the fittest
A new family of "Distribution Replacement” operators for use in steady state genetic algorithms is presented. Distribution replacement enforces the members of the populatio...
Howard Tripp, Phil Palmer