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ALIFE
2000
13 years 7 months ago
Pattern Formation and Optimization in Army Ant Raids
Army ant colonies display complex foraging raid patterns involving thousands of individuals communicating through chemical trails. In this article we explore, by means of a simple ...
Ricard V. Solé, Eric Bonabeau, Jordi Delgad...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive relevance feedback in information retrieval
Relevance Feedback has proven very effective for improving retrieval accuracy. A difficult yet important problem in all relevance feedback methods is how to optimally balance the...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
ICGA
1997
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13 years 9 months ago
Local Search Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Highly Reliable Communications Networks
This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) with specialized encoding, initialization and local search genetic operators to optimize communication network topologies. This NPhard...
Berna Dengiz, Fulya Altiparmak, Alice E. Smith
GECCO
2010
Springer
148views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
14 years 12 days ago
Guarding against premature convergence while accelerating evolutionary search
The fundamental dichotomy in evolutionary algorithms is that between exploration and exploitation. Recently, several algorithms [8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 20] have been introduced that gu...
Josh C. Bongard, Gregory S. Hornby
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Online exploration in least-squares policy iteration
One of the key problems in reinforcement learning is balancing exploration and exploitation. Another is learning and acting in large or even continuous Markov decision processes (...
Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman, Christopher R. Mans...