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2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
ParaDisEO-Based Design of Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms
ParaDisEO is a framework dedicated to the design of parallel and distributed metaheuristics including local search methods and evolutionary algorithms. This paper focuses on the la...
Sébastien Cahon, Nordine Melab, El-Ghazali ...
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Study of Diversity in Multipopulation Genetic Programming
In this work we study how using multiple communicating populations instead of a single panmictic one may help in maintaining diversity during GP runs. After defining suitable geno...
Marco Tomassini, Leonardo Vanneschi, Francisco Fer...
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Clustering Based Niching EA for Multimodal Search Spaces
Abstract. We propose a new niching method for Evolutionary Algorithms which is able to identify and track global and local optima in a multimodal search space. To prevent the loss ...
Felix Streichert, Gunnar Stein, Holger Ulmer, Andr...
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Evolving a Cooperative Transport Behavior for Two Simple Robots
This paper addresses the problem of cooperative transport of an object by a group of two simple autonomous mobile robots called s-bots. S-bots are able to establish physical connec...
Roderich Groß, Marco Dorigo
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
From Royal Road to Epistatic Road for Variable Length Evolution Algorithm
Although there are some real world applications where the use of variable length representation (VLR) in Evolutionary Algorithm is natural and suitable, an academic framework is la...
Michael Defoin-Platel, Sébastien Vér...
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Modeling Selection Intensity for Linear Cellular Evolutionary Algorithms
We present quantitative models for the selection pressure on cellular evolutionary algorithms structured as a ring of cells. We obtain results for synchronous and asynchronous cell...
Mario Giacobini, Marco Tomassini, Andrea Tettamanz...
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Co-evolution in Artificial Ecosystems: Competition and Cooperation Using Allellopathy
This paper presents simulations of long-term co-evolution in simple artificial ecosystems composed of different plant species. Artificial plants and plant communities, evolving in ...
Claude Lattaud
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Optimising Graph Partitions Using Parallel Evolution
Abstract. The graph partitioning problem consists of dividing the vertices of a graph into a set of balanced parts, such that the number of edges connecting vertices in different ...
Raul Baños, Consolación Gil, Julio O...
AE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
An Agent Model for First Price and Second Price Private Value Auctions
The aim of this research is to develop an adaptive agent based model of auction scenarios commonly used in auction theory to help understand how competitors in auctions reach equil...
Anthony J. Bagnall, Iain Toft