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PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Analyzing Recombination Operators in Evolutionary Search
Recombination (also called crossover) operators are widely used in EAs to generate offspring solutions. Although the usefulness of recombination has been well recognized, theoretic...
Yang Yu, Chao Qian, Zhi-Hua Zhou
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Negative Drift in Populations
An important step in gaining a better understanding of the stochastic dynamics of evolving populations, is the development of appropriate analytical tools. We present a new drift t...
Per Kristian Lehre
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Comparison-Based Optimizers Need Comparison-Based Surrogates
Abstract. Taking inspiration from approximate ranking, this paper investigates the use of rank-based Support Vector Machine as surrogate model within CMA-ES, enforcing the invarian...
Ilya Loshchilov, Marc Schoenauer, Michèle S...
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Globally Induced Model Trees: An Evolutionary Approach
In the paper we propose a new evolutionary algorithm for induction of univariate regression trees that associate leaves with simple linear regression models. In contrast to typical...
Marcin Czajkowski, Marek Kretowski
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Analysis of the XOR Dynamic Problem Generator Based on the Dynamical System
In this paper, we use the exact model (or dynamical system approach) to describe the standard evolutionary algorithm (EA) as a discrete dynamical system for dynamic optimization pr...
Renato Tinós, Shengxiang Yang
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Tight Bounds for the Approximation Ratio of the Hypervolume Indicator
The hypervolume indicator is widely used to guide the search and to evaluate the performance of evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms. It measures the volume of the ...
Karl Bringmann, Tobias Friedrich
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Threshold Selection, Mitosis and Dual Mutation in Cooperative Co-evolution: Application to Medical 3D Tomography
Abstract. We present and analyse the behaviour of specialised operators designed for cooperative coevolution strategy in the framework of 3D tomographic PET reconstruction. The bas...
Franck Patrick Vidal, Evelyne Lutton, Jean Louchet...
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
First-Improvement vs. Best-Improvement Local Optima Networks of NK Landscapes
Abstract. This paper extends a recently proposed model for combinatorial landscapes: Local Optima Networks (LON), to incorporate a first-improvement (greedyascent) hill-climbing a...
Gabriela Ochoa, Sébastien Vérel, Mar...
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem Using Generalized Partition Crossover
We present a hybrid Genetic Algorithm that incorporates the Generalized Partition Crossover (GPX) operator to produce an algorithm that is competitive with the state of the art for...
Darrell Whitley, Doug Hains, Adele E. Howe
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimisation and Generalisation: Footprints in Instance Space
Abstract. The chief purpose of research in optimisation is to understand how to design (or choose) the most suitable algorithm for a given distribution of problem instances. Ideall...
David W. Corne, Alan P. Reynolds