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CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors
This paper presents a practical methodology of improving the efficiency of Genetic Algorithms through tuning the factors significantly affecting GA performance. This methodology is...
Andrei Petrovski, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A...
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Relationships between internal and external metrics in co-evolution
Co-evolutionary algorithms (CEAs) have been applied to optimization and machine learning problems with often mediocre results. One of the causes for the unfulfilled expectations i...
Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic niching in evolution strategies with covariance matrix adaptation
Abstract- Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have the tendency to converge quickly into a single solution in the search space. However, many complex search problems require the identi...
Ofer M. Shir, Thomas Bäck
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Sensorimotor experience and its metrics: informational geometry and the temporal horizon
Abstract- We introduce metrics on sensorimotor experience at various temporal scales based on informationtheory. Sensorimotor variables through which the experience of an agent fl...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A hybrid approach to parameter tuning in genetic algorithms
Abstract- Choosing the best parameter setting is a wellknown important and challenging task in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). As one of the earliest parameter tuning techniques, th...
Bo Yuan, Marcus Gallagher
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Theoretical comparisons of search dynamics of genetic algorithms and evolution strategies
Genetic algorithms (GAs) and evolution strategies (ESs) are two widely used evolutionary algorithms. The main differences between GAs and ESs lie in their representations and varia...
Tatsuya Okabe, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A quantitative approach for validating the building-block hypothesis
The building blocks are common structures of high-quality solutions. Genetic algorithms often assume the building-block hypothesis. It is hypothesized that the high-quality solutio...
Chatchawit Aporntewan, Prabhas Chongstitvatana
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Incorporating a Metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm
Abstract- Markov Random Field (MRF) modelling techniques have been recently proposed as a novel approach to probabilistic modelling for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs)...
Siddhartha Shakya, John A. W. McCall, Deryck F. Br...