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GEM
2007
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Initial Population for Genetic Algorithms: A Metric Approach
- Besides the difficulty of the application problem to be solved with Genetic Algorithms (GAs), an additional difficulty arises because the quality of the solution found, or the ...
Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez, Dean F. Hougen
FOGA
2007
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Neighborhood Graphs and Symmetric Genetic Operators
In the case where the search space has a group structure, classical genetic operators (mutation and two-parent crossover) which respect the group action are completely characterize...
Jonathan E. Rowe, Michael D. Vose, Alden H. Wright
FOGA
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Inbreeding Properties of Geometric Crossover and Non-geometric Recombinations
Geometric crossover is a representation-independent generalization of traditional crossover for binary strings. It is defined using the distance associated to the search space in ...
Alberto Moraglio, Riccardo Poli
FOGA
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Saddles and Barrier in Landscapes of Generalized Search Operators
Barrier trees are a convenient way of representing the structure of complex combinatorial landscapes over graphs. Here we generalize the concept of barrier trees to landscapes de...
Christoph Flamm, Ivo L. Hofacker, Bärbel M. R...
ESANN
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to play Tetris applying reinforcement learning methods
In this paper the application of reinforcement learning to Tetris is investigated, particulary the idea of temporal difference learning is applied to estimate the state value funct...
Alexander Groß, Jan Friedland, Friedhelm Sch...
DAGSTUHL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Grand Challenges and Myths of Neural-Symbolic Computation
The construction of computational cognitive models integrating the connectionist and symbolic paradigms of artificial intelligence is a standing research issue in the field. The co...
Luís C. Lamb