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GECCO
2006
Springer
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Multiobjective genetic algorithms for multiscaling excited state direct dynamics in photochemistry
This paper studies the effectiveness of multiobjective genetic and evolutionary algorithms in multiscaling excited state direct dynamics in photochemistry via rapid reparameteriza...
Kumara Sastry, D. D. Johnson, Alexis L. Thompson, ...
GECCO
2006
Springer
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Analysis of the difficulty of learning goal-scoring behaviour for robot soccer
Learning goal-scoring behaviour from scratch for simulated robot soccer is considered to be a very difficult problem, and is often achieved by endowing players with an innate set ...
Jeff Riley, Victor Ciesielski
GECCO
2006
Springer
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Selecting for evolvable representations
Evolutionary algorithms tend to produce solutions that are not evolvable: Although current fitness may be high, further search is impeded as the effects of mutation and crossover ...
Joseph Reisinger, Risto Miikkulainen
GECCO
2006
Springer
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Distributed genetic algorithm for energy-efficient resource management in sensor networks
In this work we consider energy-efficient resource management in an environment monitoring and hazard detection sensor network. Our goal is to allocate different detection methods...
Qinru Qiu, Qing Wu, Daniel J. Burns, Douglas Holzh...
GECCO
2006
Springer
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The effects of interaction frequency on the optimization performance of cooperative coevolution
Cooperative coevolution is often used to solve difficult optimization problems by means of problem decomposition. Its performance on this task is influenced by many design decisio...
Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong
GECCO
2006
Springer
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Genetic programming: optimal population sizes for varying complexity problems
The population size in evolutionary computation is a significant parameter affecting computational effort and the ability to successfully evolve solutions. We find that population...
Alan Piszcz, Terence Soule
GECCO
2006
Springer
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A survey of mutation techniques in genetic programming
The importance of mutation varies across evolutionary computation domains including: genetic programming, evolution strategies, and genetic algorithms. In the genetic programming ...
Alan Piszcz, Terence Soule
GECCO
2006
Springer
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An artificial immune system and its integration into an organic middleware for self-protection
Our human body is well protected by antibodies from our biological immune system. This protection system matured over millions of years and has proven its functionality. In our re...
Andreas Pietzowski, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer
GECCO
2006
Springer
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How an optimal observer can collapse the search space
Many metaheuristics have difficulty exploring their search space comprehensively. Exploration time and efficiency are highly dependent on the size and the ruggedness of the search...
Christophe Philemotte, Hugues Bersini
GECCO
2006
Springer
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Optimising cancer chemotherapy using an estimation of distribution algorithm and genetic algorithms
This paper presents a methodology for using heuristic search methods to optimise cancer chemotherapy. Specifically, two evolutionary algorithms - Population Based Incremental Lear...
Andrei Petrovski, Siddhartha Shakya, John A. W. Mc...