A tournament sequence is an increasing sequence of positive integers (t1, t2, . . .) such that t1 = 1 and ti+1 2ti. A Meeussen sequence is an increasing sequence of positive inte...
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...
We study the problem of producing a global ranking of items given pairwise ranking information, when the items to be ranked arrive in an online fashion. We study both the maximizat...
In two-class score-based problems the combination of scores from an ensemble of experts is generally used to obtain distributions for positive and negative patterns that exhibit a ...
Abstract. Although it is known from GA literature that proportionate selection is subject to many pitfalls, the LCS community somewhat adhered to proportionate selection. Also in t...