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EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Evolutionary Game-Theoretical Approach to Particle Swarm Optimisation
Abstract. This work merges ideas from two very different areas: Particle Swarm Optimisation and Evolutionary Game Theory. In particular, we are looking to integrate strategies from...
Cecilia Di Chio, Paolo Di Chio, Mario Giacobini
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Implicit Fitness Functions for Evolving a Drawing Robot
We describe an approach to artificially evolving a drawing robot using implicit fitness functions, which are designed to minimise any direct reference to the line patterns made by ...
Jon Bird, Phil Husbands, Martin Perris, Bill Bigge...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Invention of Fitness Functions with Application to Scene Generation
We investigate the automatic construction of visual scenes via a hybrid evolutionary/hill-climbing approach using a correlationbased fitness function. This forms part of The Painti...
Simon Colton
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Memory Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Scheduling Problems
Abstract. This paper describes a memory enhanced evolutionary algorithm (EA) approach to the dynamic job shop scheduling problem. Memory enhanced EAs have been widely investigated ...
Gregory J. Barlow, Stephen F. Smith
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Analogue Circuit Control through Gene Expression
Abstract. Software configurable analogue arrays offer an intriguing platform for automated design by evolutionary algorithms. Like previous evolvable hardware experiments, these pl...
Kester Clegg, Susan Stepney
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Local Search Limitation Strategies for Vehicle Routing Problems
In this paper we examine five different strategies for limiting the local search neighborhoods in the context of vehicle routing problems. The vehicle routing problem deals with th...
Yuichi Nagata, Olli Bräysy
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Hybrid Metaheuristic for the Prize Collecting Travelling Salesman Problem
The Prize Collecting Traveling Salesman Problem (PCTSP) can be associated to a salesman that collects a prize in each city visited and pays a penalty for each city not visited, wit...
Antonio Augusto Chaves, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lore...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Enhancing Parameter Estimation of Biochemical Networks by Exponentially Scaled Search Steps
A fundamental problem of modelling in Systems Biology is to precisely characterise quantitative parameters, which are hard to measure experimentally. For this reason, it is common ...
Hendrik Rohn, Bashar Ibrahim, Thorsten Lenser, Tho...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
DEEPER: A Full Parsing Based Approach to Protein Relation Extraction
Abstract. Lexical variance in biomedical texts poses a challenge to automatic protein relation mining. We therefore propose a new approach that relies only on more general language...
Timur Fayruzov, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis, V...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Metaheuristics for the Bi-objective Ring Star Problem
The bi-objective ring star problem aims to locate a cycle through a subset of nodes of a graph while optimizing two types of cost. The first criterion is to minimize a ring cost, r...
Arnaud Liefooghe, Laetitia Jourdan, Matthieu Basse...