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GECCO
2008
Springer
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Collective intelligence and bush fire spotting
Bush fires cause major damage each year in many areas of the world and the earlier that they can be detected the easier it is to minimize this damage. This paper describes a coll...
David Howden, Tim Hendtlass
GECCO
2008
Springer
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Allocation of local and global search capabilities of particle in canonical PSO
This paper analyzes theoretically the exact sampling distribution of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) without any assumption imposed by all current analyses. The distribution...
Junqi Zhang, Kun Liu, Ying Tan, Xingui He
GECCO
2008
Springer
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Runtime analysis of binary PSO
We investigate the runtime of the Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm introduced by Kennedy and Eberhart (1997). The Binary PSO maintains a global best solution and...
Dirk Sudholt, Carsten Witt
GECCO
2008
Springer
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Searching for liveness property violations in concurrent systems with ACO
Liveness properties in concurrent systems are, informally, those properties that stipulate that something good eventually happens during execution. In order to prove that a given ...
Enrique Alba, J. Francisco Chicano
GECCO
2008
Springer
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An evolutionary design technique for collective communications on optimal diameter-degree networks
Scheduling collective communications (CC) in networks based on optimal graphs and digraphs has been done with the use of the evolutionary techniques. Inter-node communication patt...
Jirí Jaros, Vaclav Dvorak
GECCO
2008
Springer
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The micro-genetic operator in the search of global trends
This work studies the mGA operator (Micro Genetic Algorithm), that has been proposed in literature as a “local search” operator for optimization with Genetic Algorithm. A new ...
Flávio V. C. Martins, Eduardo G. Carrano, E...
GECCO
2008
Springer
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Evolutionary design of dynamic SwarmScapes
This paper discusses interactive evolutionary algorithms and their application in swarm-based image generation. From an artist’s perspective, the computer-generated patterns o...
Namrata Khemka, Scott Novakowski, Gerald Hushlak, ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
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GP age-layer and crossover effects in bid-offer spread prediction
The bid-offer spread on equity options is a key source of profits for market makers, and a key cost for those trading in the options. Spreads are influenced by dynamic market f...
Amy Willis, Suneer Patel, Christopher D. Clack